Elias @eliasr@librem.one

@ulfbjereld jag kan rekommendera låten "Ingenmansland" av Vladimir Vysotskij, finns inspelning på svenska med Fria Proteatern

Första versen:

"På vår gräns till Pakistan, eller till Turkiet,
finns en smal remsa jord, ett ingenmansland,
och på våran sida finns betong och taggtråd,
På deras sida finns det taggtråd och sand.
Men på det land de kallar ingenmans,
växer blommor, överallt."

@leighelse I don't know anything about that issue but if it really is a monopoly as you say, then yes, I think it would be better to have the government run it instead, and then break it up.

As monopolies go, I suspect that a private corporation-owned monopoly will always, always be bad for society. With a government-run monopoly there is at least a possibility that it could be good, or at least not terribly bad. And, at least in theory, people could have influence on it via politics.

@hyc @bagder this got me thinking about what would be an appropriate relationship between the length of source code and the length of the corresponding man page. Having thought about that for a minute I now think there is no answer really, it all depends on the kind of tool the program tries to be. In some cases it would be laudable to have a short man page, "do one thing well" and so on, but I think in other cases it could be perfectly fine to have a man page even longer than the source code.

@perkoch 20ish years ago I was in Vanuatu and needed papers to go from there to Australia. So I went to the place in Vanuatu where such papers could be applied for, and there was a long line of people and very long and complicated forms that everyone was trying to fill out, so I also tried to fill out such a form. It had lots of detailed questions, as if wanting to go to Australia was very suspicious. Then it turned out that because I had a Swedish passport, I did not need to fill out any form.

@mike wow. så himla fina djur är det.

@mike oj, tog du den bilden själv alltså?

@lingon I think the issue of freedom vs authoritarianism fundamentally has nothing to do with computers or internet, the issue has existed since before electrocity was discovered and the issue is basically still the same as hundreds of years ago.

The difference now is that people use tech ina way that makes it much easier for a fascist to take and keep control. Because people behave like the first two little pigs in the story. We should not make things so easy for the fascist.

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@lingon as I see it, it's not that free software will save us completely but the fascist will need to physically enforce their oppression, as in physically taking my computer away from me. As opposed to the situation we have today, where 99% of people give away their freedom voluntarily. Free software makes it possible to make things more difficult for the fascist, as difficult as it should be.

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@karolina@biblioverse.online

Från sidan 15:

"we must not be intimidated by the limits set by the corporate information infrastructure or fetishising technology and technological progress in a way that shrouds the various systems we live by in such mystery that studying and controlling what they do and refusing them becomes the privilege of a minority"

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The first two pigs then fled to the third little pig's house, where the Big Blonde Fascist was unable to get in.

"Please let us in!", they said. "We are fucked! We will pay you anything you ask, just please let us in!"

"Welcome inside", the third little pig said. "You don't need to pay anything. The tools used to build this house are all #FreeSoftware, you can use those tools any time you want."

And they lived happily ever after, all enjoying the same freedom as the third little pig.

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Then, one day, came the Big Blonde Fascist.

The Big Blonde Fascist went to the first little pig's house and said: "I don't even need to huff or puff here, I'll just ask Apple to hand over the keys". Apple made a rational business decision and handed over the keys after about two seconds. The first little pig was kicked out.

Then the Big Blonde Fascist went to the second little pig's house and similarly got the keys from Google, so the second little pig was also left without a house.

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The third little pig tried another angle: "But when someone else controls your house you are not free, you cannot say and do what you want because they are always watching! Freedom and democratic ideals are important", she said.

The other little pigs were unconvinced: "we don't care about freedom or democratic ideals, the important thing for us is convenience! Besides, Apple and Google are great and they are our friends, they would never betray us."

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The third little pig tried to explain: "But you are now owned by those companies, your house should be a place where you can feel safe. How can you feel safe when those companies have full control over your house?", she said.

The other little pigs did not seem to understand: "What do you mean? These are our houses, they are great, and so very convenient!"

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Here is the story about the three little pigs and the Big Blonde Fascist.

The first little pig built her house on Apple products.

The second little pig built his house on Google products.

The third little pig built her house on #FreeSoftware and thus ensured she was in control of her own house.

The first two pigs made fun of the third pig: "why do you bother?" they said. "It's so much easier to do like us! It's so quick and so convenient!"

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Sammanfattning av öppet möte nr 10 om att bygga egen e-leg-lösning, 5 jan 2024:

https://mailman.dfri.se/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/eleg-projekt@lists.dfri.se/thread/IFU4ZR55KP7LF6MIY2SAZLT2FJRPTDOE/

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

Mer om projektet: https://www.dfri.se/projekt/e-legitimation/

Nästa möte är 2024-01-15 klockan 19. Välkomna att vara med då!

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

@dfri @fps_gbg

@andrea ipv4?? what a disgrace

Konferensen SamNet 2 kommer att ta upp ämnen som digitala ID-lösningar, Internet privacy, fri och öppen källkod inom offentlig förvaltning, digital infrastruktur.

Datum och tid: torsdag, 18 januari 2024, 09:00 – 17:00

Plats: Internetstiftelsens lokaler, Hammarby kaj 10d: https://osm.org/go/0bCztVAc--?m=

Anmälan och mer info här: https://samnet.se/

Missa inte, @carl är med!

@dfri

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Missa inte konferensen SamNet 2 som sker torsdagen 18:e januari 2024!

https://samnet.se/

Konferensen arrangeras av de fyra föreningarna DFRI, ISOC-SE, SNUS och Dataskydd.net gemensamt.

SamNet är en fysisk heldagskonferens om #teknik, #internet, #integritet och #decentralisering som är grunden för digitaliseringen av vårt samhälle. SamNet fokuserar på detta från den vanliga samhällsmedborgarens perspektiv, inte från ett kommersiellt eller myndighetsperspektiv.

@dfri

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