Marina Hyde continues:
"If you give a minister a brief that encompasses the entire media, the UK’s data strategy, regulating big tech, 5G rollout, cyber-security, the charity sector, the whole of sport and the £100bn-plus creative industries, and they spend so much as ONE NANOSECOND fanning up some culture war nonsense about panto, that isn’t so much playing with the box as taking a shit in it. And nobody, other than fellow infants, wants to see that."
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Marina Hyde in The Guardian is sharp and funny, as usual.
"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 😎
You say "#Apple stop spying on us!"
I say "People, stop buying apple hardware and software!"
This is interesting, about #Bitcoin and #China and so on:
"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”."
Happy 32nd birthday to GNU Bash! We're proud to have played a role in its long-running history, and to celebrate it on its birthday.. bash! https://gnu.org/s/bash
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.
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! 🙂
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
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