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I finally deleted my Google account today and didn't instantly die. Perhaps this will be easier than I thought?
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Elena Kostyuchenko writing about Russia: theguardian.com/commentisfree/

"[...] she calls me and says: “I don’t understand what this war is for.” I say nothing. Mama says: “On TV, they’re always saying ‘victory, we need victory’, but what is victory? Even if we conquer Ukraine, all we’ll get is a country in ruins and a people who hate us. Ukrainians know how to hate, we’ve taught them.” I say nothing. Mama says: “Fine. What am I to do about it, then?” And I say: “Mama, that’s a really good question.”"

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This time we had better productivity in the mapping party. 169 changes were done by 6 contributors (changeset image thanks to @Vonter ) followed by a hearty lunch at Indian Coffee House. Place suggest for next mapping party welcome.

#osm #osmindia #osmdelhi #delhi #india

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@lascapi
My understanding is it can't use a database because it needs to be distributed and not hosted on any particular server.
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In Swedish, E-identification, FOSS 

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Hej hej! Dags för Linuxfika igen på onsdag. VI ses på Cafe Linne klockan 19!

ulug.se/page/linuxfika/

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As I've often said - "better" programming languages are mostly irrelevant. What actually matters are better programmers. mastodon.social/@tiraniddo@inf

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10 February 1940 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Gabor Neumann, was born in Békéscsaba.

In June 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #Germany #otd #Hungary #boy #children

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Why aren't Israel's friends in the international community doing more to guarantee #PressFreedom? Why aren't the US, EU (including Sweden) and UK governments doing more to pressure Israel, Egypt and Hamas to allow international media to operate and report freely in #Gaza?

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Today came news of a local politician for that party having an "Adolf" tatoo: sverigesradio.se/artikel/sd-po

I'm disgusted by this, and also amazed: how can the current government fail to see that the whole thing looks really, really bad?

I mean, just the optics of it. Even if you want to throw away human rights and establish an authoritarian state, surely you must see that it looks bad to do it together with nazis? It's so wrong and so ugly.

How do these people think?

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Now, in Sweden, we have similar proposals from the current government, backed by the "Sweden democrats", a party founded by nazis and other fascist-leaning people.

The government is proposing increased surveillance, violating citizens' right to privacy, and letting the police stop and search people for "looking suspicious" or wearing the wrong kind of clothes.

All cheered on by the founded-by-nazis "Sweden democrats" party.

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About the Reichstag fire in 1933: "Only the morning after did I read about the fire in the parliament building, and not until noon did I hear about the arrests [people sent to concentration camps]. Around that time came the order abolishing the freedom of opinion and the secrecy of correspondence for private citizens and giving the police unlimited rights to [search, arrest, etc]"

Those were obvious steps for the nazis then, in 1933, when establishing their dictatorship.

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Reading "A German man's history" (Geschichte eines Deutschen) or "Defying Hitler", written by Sebastian Haffner in 1939 about the decades leading up to the Nazis coming to power.

Made me think about current Swedish politics.

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With an associate membership, you can start a Jitsi room and invite whoever you please, whether or not they have an FSF account. You're not handing over your credentials to Apple or Google by proxy Unlike the flagship server, ours does not require a third-party login. It does not use nonfree JavaScript, and it does not recommend nonfree software or browser extensions. u.fsf.org/41x u.fsf.org/jitsi

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Good morning #SOOCon24! @ainali and I are ready to discuss all things public sector open source - come tell us about your project, or pick up a Standard for Public Code or Governance Game. See you soon!
#StateOfOpenCon #PublicCode

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You know you can just post music mp3s on Mastodon? It's basically Napster.

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