Elias @eliasr@librem.one
- 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
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@organicmaps amazing move, congrats! Still drafting plans on our end to move away from GitHub and Microsoft nightmare. forgejo@floss.social
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GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (@forgejo).
Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us:
- 54k commits
- 9.5k issues
- 4.3k pull requests
- 100k comments
Everything moved. Nothing left behind.
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I was hoping I wouldn't have to do the "the police are not your friends" talk this early to my kids.
Does Sweden have a right to silence? When can my kids simply walk away from a police officer who wants to ask them questions?
I chose to move to Sweden in part because I enjoyed not being watched police surveillance cameras (big minus for the UK).
Now they are setting up recording cameras on the main square. I don't know what they record, or my rights to object or delete data.
"Virtue or Vice? A First Look at Paragon’s Proliferating Spyware Operations"
https://citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-first-look-at-paragons-proliferating-spyware-operations/
"This report is a first step towards understanding the scope and scale of potential Paragon spyware abuses. The 90-some targets notified by WhatsApp likely represent a fraction of the total number of Paragon cases. Yet, in the cases already investigated, there is a troubling and familiar pattern of targeting human rights groups, government critics, and journalists."
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"Den svenske reportern Joakim Medin var på plats för att skildra det stora politiska skeendet. Att Erdogans hårdföra regim inte uppskattar det är tydligt.
Den svenska regeringen måste sätta stark press på Turkiet så att den svenske journalisten kan åka hem."
ETCs Joakim Medin försvunnen i Turkiet
Swedish police want to dismantle human rights. They want to change the laws to allow secret state surveillance of all children.
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/polisen-vill-slopa-aldersgransen-for-preventiva-tvangsmedel
This is wrong in so many ways. What pisses me off most is that the police don't understand their own role in society. OK clearly they don't like human rights but it's anyway not their job to design laws. The police should not lobby to change laws, they should apply the law that exists. The parliament makes laws.
Grrrrr 😠
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Frankrike röstar nej till att kräva bakdörrar i totalsträckskrypterade appar
"They listened—not only to French digital rights organizations and technologists, but also to basic principles of cybersecurity and civil liberties. They understood that encryption protects everyone, not just activists and dissidents, but also journalists, medical professionals, abuse survivors, and ordinary citizens trying to live private lives in an increasingly surveilled world."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/win-encryption-france-rejects-backdoor-mandate
@bagder welcome back!
Quick summary of recent developments: decline continues, the world is more insane than ever. I'm sorry.
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Öppet möte om hur vi kan bygga en decentraliserad lösning för fri och öppen e-legitimation, måndag 24/3 klockan 18:
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 2024: https://play.dfri.se/w/r8cNMd4LmYaxqnYaUUJ2Mx
(SamNet 2025: https://samnet.se/)
#DFRI #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #eID #EIDAS #MyData #eleg #elegitimation #demokrati
> Has everyone in the US realised that because of
> Republican voters, their country has just
> lost all the international stature and credibility
I think many of them have not yet realised that, no.
I'm afraid also that many of them don't care, which is rather frightening.
It's really difficult to understand what is happening in the world right now, but I think you're right that the US has lost all credibility and it will not be able to recover. 😕
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Has everyone in the US realised that because of Republican voters, their country has just lost all the international stature and credibility it has amassed since their ancestors entered World War I? It doesn't matter who wins the next presidential election. The one after that may still deliver another insane Republican populist who is fun to watch on TV. We simply can't trust that country's citizens any more.
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@eliasr
The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline. 🤣
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"Life. Don't talk to me about life"
-- Marvin the Paranoid Android
Photo is from from SmallSpace, a SciFi modeling show that meets anually
@Natasha_Jay I love Marvin!
"Come on," he droned, "I’ve been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? ’Cos I don’t."
It's funny how they later forget him on some planet and he then waits there until the end of the universe, and then of course complains bitterly about it. 😆
@jajo ja, somliga menar till och med att tid är den enda tillgången som spelar roll egentligen.
Missa inte SamNet-konferensen som arrangeras av DFRI tillsammans med ISOC-SE och SNUS, det finns fortfarande platser kvar: https://www.dfri.se/inbjudan-till-konferens-samnet-3-2025/
Datum och tid: torsdag, 1 april 2024, 09:00 – 17:00 (följt av kvällsmingel)
Plats: Internetstiftelsens lokaler, Hammarby Kaj 10D, 120 32 Stockholm
Mer info: https://samnet.se/
Anmälan med gratis biljett för DFRI-medlemmar: https://pretix.eu/dfri/samnet-3/
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Nu är anmälan öppen till SamNet-konferensen -- missa inte!
SamNet är en heldagskonferens om teknik, internet, integritet och decentralisering som är grunden för digitaliseringen av vårt samhälle. Massor av spännande föredrag.
Gratis för medlemmar i föreningarna Föreningen för Digitala Fri- och Rättigheter (DFRI), svenska Internet Society (ISOC-SE) och Swedish Network Users' Society (SNUS). Inte medlem i någon av dem ännu? Bli medlem!
- 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
