Elias @eliasr@librem.one
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Human being. Programmer, sailor, researcher, teacher, student, parent, child, etc. Free/libre and open-source software (FOSS/FLOSS) enthusiast. Likes human rights, including digital rights such as privacy of communication. Casual hacker. On Mastodon since about 2020. Lives in Stockholm. He/him. No DMs.
Joined Jun 2020
@neil I think that when it comes to Microsoft and the other GAFAM companies, they are just far too big at this point. For them, there is not that much incentive to make good stuff, instead it's all about vendor lock-in, trying to keep up the illusion that there is no alternative, and squeezing out more money from their huge pool of already existing customers. It doesn't really matter much to Microsoft if they have big outages, their customers will stay anyway because they are tightly locked in.
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@samuel I don't know about fedicheck specifically but I am skeptical of auto-blocking things. Think about the poor person (or instance) who ends up on such a blocklist while having done nothing wrong, suddenly they are blocked by everyone without knowing why. Maybe they ask someone (which they cannot even do because they are blocked), who just says "don't know, it's the automatic system that does this".
Lots of power ends up in the hands of whoever is in charge of the "automated" blocking.
@hyc I read that there are two types of detectors: optical (which I think is what I have) and heat detectors that simply react to changes in heat. Maybe that's what you have and it gets triggered just because the steam is hot. According to this theory, switching to an optical detector could help.
@hyc from my experience at home it seems they can distinguish them, it never started beeping from the bathroom or from boiling lots of water in the kitchen. But it does beep when a frying pan is left for too long on the stove (real smoke) which happened a few times.
I think it's because the thing detects smoke particles, which are much larger than water molecules.
@SmudgeTheInsultCat I bet she preferred #SoftwareFreedom with #MobileLinux
In Swedish, E-identification, FOSS
@stadsplanering oh I see it now. oj oj
@stadsplanering are you joking now?
Are you following me on Mastodon?
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Fri och öppen e-legitimation https://play.dfri.se/videos/watch/cb75f2ed-11c6-4213-9439-3d5342003b05
@dko@infosec.exchange hmm, yes, I think there may be one or two examples in history where societies have changed as a result of the use of other channels, not the channels considered proper by those in power.
@karlemilnikka they are not yet recommending to wipe the systems clean and start over with a GNU/Linux or other #FreeSoftware operating system? 😉
Öppet möte om hur vi kan bygga en decentraliserad lösning för fri och öppen e-legitimation, måndag 22 juli klockan 18:
Fri och öppen programvara, öppen specifikation, tillgänglighet, decentralisering.
Alla är välkomna att vara med och hjälpa till!
Läs mer om projektet här: https://www.dfri.se/projekt/e-legitimation/
Projektet var med på konferensen #SamNet nyligen: https://play.dfri.se/w/r8cNMd4LmYaxqnYaUUJ2Mx
#DFRI #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #eID #EIDAS #MyData #eleg #elegitimation #demokrati @dfri
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I'm very thankful to #Microsoft and #Crowdstrike for this timely demonstration to make it clear, that the budget cuts to the #NGI by the @EUCommission endanger Europe's #digitalsovereignty
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/17/foss_funding_vanishes_from_eus/
@pthane @praest76 @Walrus I expect the problem with smugness to be most concentrated among Linux users. After all, Apple users have little reason to be smug since they are owned just as much as Windows users, it's just that they are owned by Apple instead of Microsoft. There is no significant difference between them.
About the #CrowdStrike thing:
"the company is “deeply sorry for impact that we’ve caused to customers”"
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"Kurtz said there had been a “negative interaction” between the update and Microsoft’s operating system"
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I wonder if it might turn out to be possible to come up with some joke where someone explains they are “deeply sorry" for the "negative interaction between ________ and ________".
- My web page
- https://eliasrudberg.se/
Human being. Programmer, sailor, researcher, teacher, student, parent, child, etc. Free/libre and open-source software (FOSS/FLOSS) enthusiast. Likes human rights, including digital rights such as privacy of communication. Casual hacker. On Mastodon since about 2020. Lives in Stockholm. He/him. No DMs.
Joined Jun 2020
