Elias @eliasr@librem.one

Marina Hyde in The Guardian is sharp and funny, as usual.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/17/herpes-boris-johnson-ministers-cabinet-reshuffle

"Even so, I had to balk at the Spectator’s suggestion that Nadine “will oversee a more punchy attitude to the culture war aspect of her brief”. Sorry, but what culture war aspect of her brief?! Psychologists say that if you give a child a present and they end up playing with the box, then the toy you gave them was too complicated for them."

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Linux From Scratch (LFS) version 11.0 released!

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/news.html

#LinuxFromScratch #LFS #FOSS #FLOSS #GNU #Linux

Thanks @lfsfr

Just went through the Email Self-Defense guide at https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/ and things seem to work.

Feel free to send me encrypted email to mail@eliasrudberg.se -- my public key fingerprint is D177 C791 04F9 661D 0018 7085 1B65 055E 70A2 3D81 😎

#email #encryption #pgp #gpg

#fire #shotonlibrem5

Night sky over the lake, a few minutes before #sunset yesterday evening. #shotonlibrem5

@dfri @mattiasaxell @hejnicke @stemid

Skickat nyss till DFRI-listan:

Projekt-förslag: Driv på för fri och öppen lösning för svensk e-legitimation (alternativ till BankID)

"Jag skulle vilja starta ett DFRI-projekt som handlar om hur en fri och öppen lösning för svensk e-legitimation kan bli verklighet. Här nedanför försöker jag förklara tanken med detta. Tacksam för all sorts återkoppling, särskilt om du kan tänka dig att vara med och delta i projektet. [...]"

https://lists.dfri.se/listan/msg01875.html

#GNU #shotonlibrem5

This is interesting, about #Bitcoin and #China and so on:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/09/currency-and-control-why-china-wants-to-undermine-bitcoin

"The threat of an unregulated alternative monetary system emerging from blockchain technology is a clear and present danger to the Communist party, according to observers."

"Jim Cramer, a former hedge fund manager and CNN business expert, said the government in Beijing “believe it’s a direct threat to the regime because … it is outside their control”."

The number of signatures on the anti-#RMS open letter on github is down from 3009 to 3004.

Jag blev precis medlem i DFRI: Föreningen för Digitala Fri- och Rättigheter

https://www.dfri.se/

Bli medlem du också!

Några andra tips:

Uppsala Linux User Group: https://www.ulug.se/

Civic Tech Sweden: https://civictech.se/
@civictechse

Om du känner till andra föreningar eller organisationer i Sverige som jobbar med såna här saker, vilka är det?

FSF har mejllistan "libreplanet-se": https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-se/

Har FSFE någon svensk avdelning eller liknande?

Microsoft blocks Bing from showing image results for Tiananmen ‘tank man’

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/04/microsoft-bing-tiananmen-tank-man-results

For the software developers out there: let's remember that #Microsoft owns #github so if you rely on some code hosted on github then this is your problem as well. Don't think that you are not involved. We are all involved.

#Microsoft and other big tech companies have too much power in the world. Work towards reducing their power and empower individuals instead.

#tiananmen #freedom #freespeech

Part of #Brunnsviken north of Stockholm #shotonlibrem5 using the #megapixels #camera app from https://source.puri.sm/dorota.czaplejewicz/megapixels with default settings in #PureOS byzantium. The image file ended up as a 2463552 bytes .tiff file in ~/Pictures/ which I then made into a .jpg file using the "convert" program. Maybe @dos knows tricks to get better image quality? 🙂 (One issue seems to be that bright areas get too bright.) #librem5 #freesoftware @purism @martijnbraam

Just discovered that there is a "libreplanet-se" mailing list, for free/libre software discussions specific to #Sweden: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-se/2021-05/threads.html

I subscribed and started a few threads:

- The Swedish Riksbank's new digital currency, "e-krona" -- could it use #GNU Taler?

- FLOSS at Swedish schools and universities?

"Free/libre alternatives to BankID and Swish?"

If you live in and/or care about Sweden, join the mailing list you too. Let's change the world starting here! 🙂

#freesoftware

Receiving MMS messages on the #librem5 is getting closer to working by default. In #PureOS byzantium the needed #libqmi and #ModemManager fixes are already there now, we just need to add #mmsd and purple-mm-sms manually: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/issues/30#note_157487 Thanks to Chris T and @craftyguy #GNU #Linux #chatty #freesoftware @purism

"Restoring democracy, in the US and many other countries, is the overarching political struggle of our time, and it extends into many areas of life. Campaigning to eliminate unjust digital systems is one aspect of that struggle."

From chapter 5, page 60, in the new book "System Override". It has chapters independently written by Nadine Strossen, Pia Mancini, Brittany Kaiser, Richard Stallman, Hannah Wolfman-Jones, and Santiago SIri. Chapter 5 is written by Stallman.

https://www.wetheweb.org/post/about-the-book

That's the spirit! Let's keep moving forward.