Elias @eliasr@librem.one

Got this ridiculous notice from a web page earlier today.

It's like something from Kafka's Der Prozess. If Josef K. had a computer, I bet it would have shown him messages like this. 🙂

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.

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