Elias @eliasr@librem.one

Are you in Stockholm? Come by at the sec-t community day (September 11th, 2pm) and listen to our talk about how to verify TKey and supply chain security.

https://tillitis.se/blog/2024/09/10/sec-t-community-day/

dnip, the top Schweizer (Swiss) magazine for tech journalism, published my article about the EU’s proposed chat control regulation in Deutsch (German).

@marcel not only translated, but contributed back to the original English version.

Deutsch is the second most-known language in the EU and one of the 3 official procedural languages. I am still searching for a French publication to do a translation to get all 3.

https://dnip.ch/2024/09/10/depeschen-aus-der-zukunft-rueckblick-auf-das-erste-jahr-chatkontrolle/

Like, it bears repeating:

Windows 11, by default, takes regular screenshots of your computer. These are analysed for advertisement purposes, you can be sure of it.

Windows Recall blacks out copyrighted material from those screenshots, but not passwords or other sensitive information, including account numbers, TANs, etc.

This is not an issue for my bank.

Mandating spyware-ladden corporate operating systems should be grounds for getting their banking licence revoked.

Seriously though: I want (okay, demand) a version of Firefox with the "AI chatbot" functionality removed. Not disabled. Removed. I want all code which is specifically designed to connect to OpenAI removed from my computer completely. I do not care if the vampires have promised not to suck my blood. I do not want the vampires in my house in the first place. https://mk.nyaa.place/notes/9xvolkux40ok0n1m

Öppet möte om hur vi kan bygga en decentraliserad lösning för fri och öppen e-legitimation, måndag 9 sept klockan 18:

https://mailman.dfri.se/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/eleg-projekt@lists.dfri.se/thread/65OPZTN6FJT3IQMRADRUI7MF2FMO54N3/

Alla är välkomna!

Fri och öppen programvara, öppen specifikation, tillgänglighet, decentralisering.

Läs mer om projektet här https://www.dfri.se/projekt/e-legitimation/

Projektet var med på konferensen #SamNet i vintras: https://play.dfri.se/w/r8cNMd4LmYaxqnYaUUJ2Mx

#DFRI #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #eID #EIDAS #MyData #eleg #elegitimation #demokrati

@dfri

The next #Tor relay operator meetup is this Saturday,
September 7 at 19UTC! For the agenda and more info, check out the Tor Forum.
https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-next-tor-relay-operator-meetup-september-7th-2024-at-19utc/14203

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Here is a link announcing a new report on open source in public services, by our colleagues at the Open Source Observatory:

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/new-publication-progress-and-trends-oss-policies

Really @ngisargasso, do I have to subscribe to your news letter through LinkedIn. What about #DigitalSovereignty?

https://ngisargasso.eu/news/

See there:

That's a headline of the day right there.

#mastodaoine #cork

Note on #AI - "Artificial" doesn't mean "human substitute" - it *always* means "Fake"

I'm using a #Librem5 as my daily phone. Yesterday, I discovered that in the #Railway #GNOME app for public transportation planning, you can set #transitous as the routing engine. This works pretty well in the #Netherlands. Highly recommended. Of course you can install it also on your regular Linux computer.

https://apps.gnome.org/DieBahn/

#FOSS #OpenSource #mobilelinux #linux #phone

When he’s not busy being one of our best fiction writers, Ted Chiang has become our best critic of generative AI:

“The programmer Simon Willison has described the training for large language models as ‘money laundering for copyrighted data,’ which I find a useful way to think about the appeal of generative-A.I. programs: they let you engage in something like plagiarism, but there’s no guilt associated with it because it’s not clear even to you that you’re copying.”

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art

Last night of Sweden summer #sweden #summer #lastnightofsummer #August

The #Transitous integration in #GNOME maps is just great. Instantly turned maps from being unusable here in Vancouver BC to my preferred maps app!

Jag har insett att jag kommer att behöva någon form av #RSS-läsare om jag ska klara av att sluta använda Facebook. Tror att #CommaFeed eller #Feedbin kan vara vettiga alternativ, någon som har provat dessa som har något att säga? Eller har ni kanske andra tips? Tar emot allt jag kan få, har inte använt RSS-läsare på väldigt väldigt länge.