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. Lives in Stockholm. He/him. No DMs.
Joined Jun 2020
Support Software Freedom Conservancy @conservancy
https://sfconservancy.org/
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Depressing thought, privacy, free speech, etc
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My first CCC congress, such an impressive event! Come and meet us at the EDRi stand at the Bits & Bäume assembly and check out the work of the many @edri members here at #37c3 @digitalcourage @Freiheitsrechte @epicenter_works @LaQuadrature @wikimediaDE
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Collaboration!
I am engaged in a bug report as an end user for a free and open source software that started half a year ago. A couple of days ago one of the developers needed som further investigation to nail down the root cause. I have submitted some test results, it was testing that required beyond my comfortable knowledge level. I could do a small contribution to make the software better. Openness and collaboration; strengths of open source! #openSource #FOSS #collaboration
Trying out my new #Tor project tshirt. What do you think?
@torproject #privacy #PrivacyMatters #encryption #freedom #TorNetwork #DigitalRights #InternetFreedom #selfie #ShotOnLibrem5
The 37th Chaos Communication Congress (37C3) is ongoing right now. I'm not there unfortunately but luckily there are some videos available here: https://media.ccc.de/b/congress/2023
37C3 is about "information technology and generally a critical-creative attitude towards technology and the discussion about the effects of technological advances on society": https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/infos/index.html
For those who are there, which are your favourite talks so far?
I liked this one: https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12004-please_identify_yourself
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NGI TALER — Privacy-preserving digital payments: https://nlnet.nl/taler/
If that can preserve the properties of #GNU Taler, that may become awesome!
#GNU_Taler actually does digital payments right — digital cash: no blockchain, no tax-evasion, but full privacy for buyers and minimal cost.
They’ve been working on it for years and years and now the #EU enables to scale that up to full EU- and Swiss-level payments!
Huge thanks to @NGIZero !
Reading this today: "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau, first published in 1849.
Thoreau was interested in right and wrong. He considered slavery to be wrong. Slavery was legal in the society he lived in (USA 1849).
"Under a government which imprisons anyone unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."
If you lived in a society upholding something as appalling as slavery, would you still support that state by paying taxes?
A relevant question, then and now.
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In Swedish, E-identification, FOSS
Reading "On Revolution" by Hannah Arendt.
There's something charming about a footnote taking up almost the whole page 206. 🙂
That footnote is about the source of authority when a new form of government is formed.
Old: "authority comes from god".
New: authority comes from mutual agreement between groups of people.
That assumption about the source of authority is a key part in the US Declaration of Independence, but existed earlier.
Anyway, I warmly recommend this book.
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Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is PDF Arranger
You can use it to merge or split PDFs, and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages.
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In Swedish, E-identification, FOSS
In Swedish, E-identification, FOSS
Renewed FSF membership.
#FSF #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #ISupportFreeSoftware
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What’s sad is realising you live in a world where every exaggerated analogy you used to make a point is actually happening:
Having Google in schools is like having McDonalds in nutrition class. (I find out that McDonalds does, in fact, sponsor nutrition classes in US schools.)
Having a surveillance capitalist sponsor a conference on free and open source/human rights is like having an oil company sponsor a climate conference. (Forget sponsoring, turns out head of #Cop28 runs an oil firm.)
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Just make chatGPT CEO of Open AI. It shares a lot of qualities with your average CEO:
- Steals other people's ideas
- Valued by the market at much more than it's worth
- Doesn't remember things it previously said
- Says patently absurd things with absolute confidence
- Doesn't know what it's doing
- Doesn't really believe in facts so much as what it feels is probably right
- 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. Lives in Stockholm. He/him. No DMs.
Joined Jun 2020
