Elias @eliasr@librem.one

Johan Linåker: "Report: Public Sector Open Source Program Offices - Archetypes for how to Grow (Common) Institutional Capabilities": https://www.linaker.se/blog/public-sector-open-source-program-offices/

"One of the main challenges is the limited knowledge within the public sector in terms of both what open source is, but also how it can be leveraged [...]"
We need to change that!

Found along with other interesting stuff in the latest #NOSAD (Network Open Source and Data) newsletter (in Swedish): https://nosad.se/news_jun_2024

@KeithDJohnson this reminds me of something Brother Mouzone said in The Wire. Paraphrasing a bit here:

"What's the most dangerous thing in America? A citizen with a library card"

@bart as I understand it, based on what they wrote here https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-optional-subscription-added-to-advance-development/ where it says "PureOS will continue to be freely available for all, there is no product difference for subscribers or non-subscribers", I guess it's really just a monthly donation system, they just call it "subscription" instead of "donation".

@linmob when you subscribed, did you get anything, anything (a secret code or whatever) that you now have which non-subscribers do not have?

@Taler this sounds very interesting, but is youtube (google) really an appropriate place to publish that?

IMO, for anything related to #privacy you should avoid google. Involving google hurts your credibility.

I would like to watch that recording but not at the price of going to a google site and accepting their terms and whatever. I don't like google, I don't want google's tracking.

Can your recording be found somewhere else, or is youtube (google) the only place?

Maybe use #PeerTube ?

@petergleick does the system allow for any way for the Supreme Court to go back and correct a mistake they made?

@ejnro vad var det för problem med den?

@hehemrin mycket bra film.

Om man ska jämföra med nutiden är det värt att tänka på att på den tiden filmen handlar om behövde Stasi lägga ner avsevärt jobb för att genomföra övervakningen av en enda person, de skickar ju ett team som planterar mikrofoner på plats och så har de folk som sitter och lyssnar, Stasi lägger massor av arbetstid på det. Nuförtiden kan man övervaka många fler med mindre arbetsinsats. Massövervakning är alltså mycket lättare att göra idag.

@kallekn @karlemilnikka

@kuprijanko jag har för mig att SVT står för SchVveiz Television

ping @fsfe @fsf @conservancy @edri @dfri @karlemilnikka @blog @Jeremiah @jxself @ainali

More about this here: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/new-open-source-law-switzerland

and here https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2023/682/de#art_9

Recommending this #FOSDEM talk:

The new Swiss Open Source Law: "Public Money Public Code" by default
Matthias Stürmer, Rika Koch

Recording available here: https://media.fsfe.org/w/aQs7EbEUQGt4DP13SsqAJ7 - starting at about 2:31 in that video.

This is very good news: Switzerland has a new law that takes effect starting this year, saying that the Swiss public sector at national level shall publish source code for the software it develops or pays others to develop.

#FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Switzerland

@hehemrin obs jag menar inte att det verkligen är så i Norge, har ingen aning.

Jag vet inte heller om det stämmer att norrmän alltid har pyjamas på sig när de kör motorcykel, eller att de alltid har en bildörr med sig när de vandrar i öknen. 🙂

@hehemrin jag tror den stora fördelen (jämfört med en vanlig korsning) är att alla tvingas köra långsamt, plus kanske att ganska många kommer ihåg att de inne i rondellen har företräde.

Har vagt minne av en Norge-historia som gick ut på att i Norge är det tvärtom så att de utanför, alltså de trafikanter som är på väg in i rondellen, har företräde. Vilket inte blir så bra. Typiskt norrmän 🙂

@iron_bug

> only users of proprietary crap do like this.
> this sounds total madness

Total madness, yes, but unfortunately also the behavior of a majority of people. So I think it is a plausible explanation for how the malware could have gotten installed on many (not all) users' machines.

@cnx

@cnx @iron_bug another possibility is that the ISP already had some proprietary software installed on users' computers, like their own proprietary VPN client or "antivirus" program or "broadband helper program" or whatever that is supposed to "improve user experience" etc. Then they can later sneak in whatever other malware they want via automatic updates of that program.