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MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Sunday, 28-Feb-2016 15:23:40 EST 
MMN-o ✅⃠
@hikerus I think you should probably read what @bobjonkman2 writes again, perhaps try to think of it from a different perspective. He's not actually saying anything that opposes your statements. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2)'s status on Sunday, 28-Feb-2016 15:24:04 EST 
Bob Jonkman
@hikerus So the TL;DR is: ToS or not, "censorship code" or not, people will do what they like. Now that's freedom. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2)'s status on Sunday, 28-Feb-2016 15:23:04 EST
Bob Jonkman
@hikerus The Terms of Service may provide justification for an admin banning a user, but another instance with different ToS may not be compatible with my instance's ToS, and any federated messages originating on one instance may violate the ToS of another instance. Never mind that most people don't read the ToS anyway, so even a local user on my instance can post content contrar… -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2)'s status on Sunday, 28-Feb-2016 14:54:17 EST
Bob Jonkman
@hikerus The point of my !FreeSoftware message is that applying a technical means to enforce a moral standard will not work. If an admin objects to offensive content in the timeline they can write "censorship code" to keep it out. If someone objects to "censorship code" in the software, they can just remove it, and run their instance without it. Censorship will happen, whether ou… -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2)'s status on Sunday, 28-Feb-2016 13:15:20 EST
Bob Jonkman
I agree, the IETF's forte is not writing copyright licenses. IMHO they'd be better off adopting one of the existing standard licenses such as GFDL or CC. Those have been carefully crafted by professionals skilled in copyright licensing precisely to avoid the ambiguity of applying copyright in order to grant FAIF distribution licenses. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2)'s status on Sunday, 28-Feb-2016 13:03:43 EST
Bob Jonkman
!GNUsocial is !FreeSoftware. If the current contributors don't bake in the ability to block users/groups/tags/instances then someone else will fork the code and do it. And as long as it stays Free Software someone else can fork that code and remove it again. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2)'s status on Sunday, 28-Feb-2016 12:59:15 EST
Bob Jonkman
Nope, the IETF seems to understand copyright perfectly well. They are laying claim to authorship, which in most countries also confers copyright, and reserving all rights. In addition they're using one of their reserved rights to issue a license for unlimited distribution. Because they've reserved all rights they can revoke that license for distribution at any time, although that… -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2)'s status on Saturday, 27-Feb-2016 18:49:34 EST
Bob Jonkman
Laces are the boot helper keepey onny thingies. @jezra wants the anti-keepey onny thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_jack -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2)'s status on Saturday, 27-Feb-2016 14:08:08 EST
Bob Jonkman
!TIL about the Memory Hole Standard to protect e-mail headers with #GnuPG https://modernpgp.org/memoryhole/ -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2)'s status on Saturday, 27-Feb-2016 12:25:07 EST
Bob Jonkman
Ask the librarian about a Local Historical Society. We had one here, and they used to offer walking tours of the area to point out historical local features. Sadly, there was no money to maintain their collection so it was merged with the larger Regional Museum's collection. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2)'s status on Saturday, 27-Feb-2016 12:20:22 EST
Bob Jonkman
That looks lie a glow-in-the-dark decal to put on @JezraJr's bedroom ceiling, but considering the stone in the foreground it's probably a shuriken ready for use -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2)'s status on Saturday, 27-Feb-2016 12:15:46 EST
Bob Jonkman
You need a new handle. I suggest @nystagmus -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2)'s status on Saturday, 27-Feb-2016 12:14:46 EST
Bob Jonkman
If there was any truth in naming, DRM would be knows as "User Restriction Software" or "Customer Data Access Prevention" -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2)'s status on Saturday, 27-Feb-2016 04:52:18 EST
Bob Jonkman
Hmmm. The name makes me think "Would you like fries with that?" -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2)'s status on Saturday, 27-Feb-2016 04:50:07 EST
Bob Jonkman
That's in the style of "Triplets of Belleville" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286244/ Good movie, worth watching. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2)'s status on Saturday, 27-Feb-2016 04:39:52 EST
Bob Jonkman
The big objection I can see to the FBI's demand that Apple create a version of iOS without password-guessing protections is that the government is "compelling speech". While I'm not sure of the U.S. legal/constitutional principles behind it, one of the ways that warrant canaries work is that the government cannot compel speech, ie. the government cannot force you to say something… -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2)'s status on Saturday, 27-Feb-2016 04:31:21 EST
Bob Jonkman
!GNUsocial #FeatureRequest: Automatically join new users to certain groups, similar to the way new users can automatically be subscribed to a user on an instance... -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2)'s status on Saturday, 27-Feb-2016 04:26:59 EST
Bob Jonkman
I don't think Apple has a master key. The FBI is asking Apple to create an iOS that doesn't have any of the "10 bad passkey attempts bricks the phone" protections so that they can then brute-force guess the passkey. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2)'s status on Friday, 26-Feb-2016 14:48:37 EST
Bob Jonkman
See if you have any of my missing socks in there... -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2)'s status on Friday, 26-Feb-2016 14:46:48 EST
Bob Jonkman
"Clothes horse" is also a mildly derogatory term for someone who is obsessed with wearing fancy clothes -- "Bob is such a clothes horse, with his fancy tie and new suit."
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