motters

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by motters 13y ago
Needs some work, but that makes quite a difference. Thanks.
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by motters 13y ago
The particular editor isn't all that important. You could just use nano or vi. I don't think any of the instructions contain anything really Emacs specific. I happen to use Emacs and the source for the site is an org-mode documen
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by motters 13y ago
Anyone with better web page design skills is welcome to make changes or forks via the Github site. https://github.com/fuzzgun/freedombone Presentation and clear readability is certainly an important factor.
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by motters 13y ago
Pull requests for corrections or installation sequences are welcome.
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by motters 13y ago
Yes, that's the intention. Anyone with minimal skills should be able to follow the instructions in a straightforward way. Until such time as FreedomBox or maybe ArkOS are in a more developed condition this is about the best I can mana
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by motters 13y ago
These instructions have been put together recently - mostly in January this year. It's an ongoing effort to include as much useful communications software as possible.
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by motters 13y ago
I think the solution to this has to be on multiple fronts. It would be a good idea to push for laws which forbid certain kinds of surveillance. In the US the situation with the constitutionality of the NSA activity needs to be clarified.
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by motters 13y ago
My little fight back are some instructions on how to provide your own internet services, including encryption. http://freedombone.uk.to/ It's not ideal, of course, but in the short term since there seems to be no polit
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by motters 13y ago
Looks like just a wrapper around a rather limited Google service. Not much improvement on WA.
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by motters 13y ago
Google glass has its problems, but barring any major catastrophes I expect augmented reality eyeglasses to be very popular perhaps by the end of this decade or the beginning of the next. I see Google glass as the ZX-80 of augmented reality.
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The NSA, Snowden, and Surveillance(youtube.com)
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by motters 13y ago
This analysis is flawed because it assumes that there is work for the poor to do - that there are "good jobs" for them to go to. The idea that the poor are "consuming leisure" is also a myth, and shows that the writer h
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by motters 13y ago
I think my methods were good. They were based on data mining company information for all companies registered with Companies House, such as changes in numbers of employees, net worth, main products and the like. I tried to apply scientific
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by motters 13y ago
At least within the area of the UK which I lived in until recently the idea that there are lots of unadvertised jobs is a myth. When I was unemployed I did the experiment of applying both via "the usual channels" and also specula
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by motters 13y ago
Also see "Apocalyptic AI" by Robert M. Geraci http://thelawsofrobotics2013.iankerr.ca/files/2013/09/15-Apo...
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by motters 13y ago
The article doesn't say who these AI researchers are, and I suspect that the statement is utterly baseless and intended to add drama to the article. At most it's possible that Hugo deGaris plausibly might have a "bug out&quot
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by motters 13y ago
Some counter-points on this narrative, with which I'm very familiar. 1. Philosophers and AI theoreticians have a hard time defining what they mean by the term "intelligence". Talking about systems millions of times more inte
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by motters 13y ago
If this is closed source (and the source seems to be only implementing API calls to a closed system) then it's fair to assume that this application is probably insecure or has backdoors. Also if the private key is stored in the cloud t
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by motters 13y ago
I've tweeted and blogged against the surveillance state many times, so I guess I must also be on whatever list this guy is on.
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by motters 13y ago
Sounds pretty much like Google
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by motters 13y ago
Having been in the welfare system at various points in my life I can easily imagine that the bureaucracy must be expensive to upkeep. There are numerous complex rules, all of which need to be checked and double checked at regular intervals
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by motters 13y ago
Artwork, design and translations are often needed aspects of open source software which don't require programming knowledge.
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by motters 13y ago
Personally I think that orgmode is more useful than WYSIWYG
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by motters 13y ago
I think Google will do what Google wants to do and that there are other agendas in play. The reasonable thing would be to give people the option of uniting their different accounts for purposes of convenience, or not as they so choose.
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by motters 13y ago
If you want to take a more systematic approach then you could look at the ratios of intellectual to manual labour over time (they're not strict categories, but approximations would do) then you could also make an estimate of the rates
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by motters 13y ago
"Even though it might be obvious, during my travels I found out the hard way that creative, meaningful work, requires some routine. Changing your location once a week, working from benches, hammocks, cafes, bars and hostel floors is a
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by motters 13y ago
I assume that if things keep going the way that they have been in the last five years then food stamps will also be coming to the UK. As I see it it's a method used by politicians to prevent the poor from participating in the wider ec
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by motters 13y ago
Also see "who is not an adversary?" https://soundcloud.com/madiha-1/students-question-the-nsa-at
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by motters 13y ago
You can't just have individualists roaming freely around doing whatever the heck they like. Where would it end?
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by motters 13y ago
I may have misread. Did Bruce Schnier just admit that he has Snowden documents on an air gapped computer, likely sited at his place of residence? If he is a "US person reasonably believed to be inside the US" then I imagine that

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