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Aral Balkan  

Freedom in technology must include freedom from technology.

We must not create a societies where the price of admission is owning a device controlled by one of two trillion-dollar US corporations.

We must safeguard people’s access to public services and the everyday necessities of life via alternate methods.

Technology should always be a progressive enhancement.

Do not let Silicon Valley privatise your access to modern life.

#technology #society #access #humanRights

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Elias  

@neil I think that definition misses something important.

I think the main thing that people in practice mean with or infer from the term "AI" is that it's a system that does something more or less clever and we, humans, do not understand how the system does it. If we can look inside and say "look, here is how it works, this is precisely why it gives this particular result" then it no longer gets to be called "AI". If we can understand it, then it's just another machine, not "AI".

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@NicklasV bra serie, Borgen!

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Bread and Circuses  

Please read this opinion piece by Johan Hansson, a theoretical physicist at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. Here are a few excerpts...
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I find it tragic that the world is governed exclusively by economists and is driven by economics, which is not a natural science, but just a human invention. There are physical limits to continuous economic expansion – a fact that most economists do not seem to understand.

In my view it is crazy to think that uncontrolled technological “development” and exploitation driven by unbridled and increasingly unequal capitalism will save us. It is what has plunged us into today’s crisis in the first place.

After all, if you are sitting on a tree branch that you are sawing off, and the ground underneath is burning, the solution is not to switch to a better saw – it is to stop sawing.

Role models like climate activist Greta Thunberg are trying to save those who, for some reason, have not yet understood how serious the situation actually is. To reach the climate pledge of limiting global warming below 1.5°C, the use of fossil fuels must completely cease by 2035, with zero deforestation and a drastic reduction in other greenhouse gas emissions. Yet according to the International Energy Agency, about 80% of the world’s energy today still comes from fossil fuels.

There is one option to reverse the current trend and that is to abide by Earth’s natural limits. Governments need to realize that rich countries must adapt their production and consumption to bring it below what is sustainable for the Earth-system as a whole. The only alternative to a planned and controlled downsizing is a forced and catastrophic global collapse.

Only degrowth can save us.
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FULL ARTICLE -- physicsworld.com/a/the-climate

#Economics #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Degrowth

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Henrik Hemrin  

Today is my first pod episode for Hacker Public Radio aired!

It is about how I migrated to digiKam software for my photo catalog, from Photoshop Elements or Lightroom. Episode hpr4071.

hackerpublicradio.org/

@hpr

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Elias  

@marcusosterberg mm kanske vi borde privatisera Skolverket också, för effektivare granskning av skolorna. En marknad där olika privata skolverk kan tävla om att locka till sig skolor. Varje friskola får välja vilket av de privata skolverken de vill bli granskade av!

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Elias  

@meraord jag håller med!

Nu tar vi fram "Samlade skaldeförsök" av Anna Maria Lenngren:

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Pojkarna

Jag minns den ljufva tiden,
Jag minns den som i går,

[...]

Uppå min mun var löjet,
Och hälsan i mitt blod,
I själen bodde nöjet,
Hvar människa var god,
Hvar pojke, glad och yster,
Var strax min hulda bror;
Hvar flicka var min syster,
Hvar gumma var min mor.

[...]
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Skrivet för drygt 200 år sedan tror jag. Det var på nåt vis lite mer elegant språk på den tiden. 🙂

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Elias  

@JRepin @AV @EDPS @EDPS_supervisor @EU_Commission @nextcloud I agree, the EU must stop using Microsoft/Google solutions, as long as that goes on any talk of digital sovereignty is pointless. There is no sovereignty as long as EU keeps using Microsoft/Google stuff. Getting rid of Microsoft/Google dependencies should be a high priority for the EU.

Using solutions is much better, much more democratic and makes true digital possible while strengthening .

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Jure Repinc :linux: :kde:  

@AV @EDPS @EDPS_supervisor @EU_Commission @nextcloud Yes, using libre and opensource solutions is the only way to go to preserve freedom, privacy and digital sovereignty. Also remember the principle Public Money, Public code: publiccode.eu/

#Privacy #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #DataProtection #GDPR #PublicMoneyPublicCode #Transparency #Accountability #Freedom #Sovereignty

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Arno Vanderbeke  

@EDPS @EDPS_supervisor @EU_Commission
A switch to @nextcloud seems like the way to go? Some French, German and Swiss government agencies already use Nextcloud (nextcloud.com/government/)

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Elias  

@nikolar @fiaewald jag läste det som "Värdelös AI-app blir försenad" -- måste varit en sån där freudiansk fel-läsning 🙂

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NGI Zero open source funding  

“Email is a minuscule text file that you transmit across the internet. To claim that you don’t have the competence to arrange that yourself is a sign of administrative incompetence”, says Michiel Leenaars in an interview on Radio 1. He’s is responding to a recent report of Clingendael Institute warning the Dutch government has squandered cloud sovereignty by outsourcing storing vital & sensitive information to American providers. Listen to the interview here [In Dutch] nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/spraak

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Uppsala Linux User Group  

Fikasugen? På onsdag kväll är det dags för Linuxfika igen. Välkommen till Cafe Linne klockan 19.

ulug.se/page/linuxfika/

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Elias  

@malveus just det, det är som i den filmen! Skylten säger plötsligt något helt annat 🙂

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Elias  

Those who live around northern Stockholm might know this sign, it's pretty big, you see it if you follow Norrtäljevägen into the city, just before you reach Roslagstull. It's below the old Roslagstulls sjukhus and Albanova, next to the new part of KTH called Albano campus.

It usually shows ads aimed at all the people in their cars heading into the city. This particular morning however, all the people in their cars got a special message about the badness of Microsoft and Google instead. 😄

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Elias  

Walked past this on my way to work the other day. It's like that The Sound of Silence song

"and the sign flashed out its warning..."

but wait, the sign did not say anything about the words of the prophets, instead it said "oops" and "Microsoft" and "your computer is low on memory, close Google Chrome" 😄

Okay, let's heed the warning from this sign: never use Microsoft or Google products, for anything, ever. Don't let them fool you. Don't but their "AI" bullshit either.

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Elias  

@neil not too late to start! I think you should at least have this one static.fsf.org/nosvn/stickers/

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Elias  

@neil none of them

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Elias  

@anderslindberg jag tycker det är väldigt fel att skicka vapen samtidigt som Sverige fortsätter importera rysk gas. Det betyder att Sverige aktivt pumpar in resurser till båda sidor i kriget. Det borde Sverige inte göra.

"Rysk gas används i Nynäshamn – två år efter krigsutbrottet"
sverigesradio.se/artikel/har-a

"Ett år efter kriget startade – Sveriges gasimport från Ryssland fortsätter"
greenpeace.org/sweden/pressmed

"EU imports record volumes of liquefied natural gas from Russia"
ft.com/content/1e70ff72-52d8-4

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Elias  

@vkc I think you did this one perfectly 🙂

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