Elias @eliasr@librem.one

Shit happens.
"Some Icelanders have found themselves accidentally running to be the country's president."
https://www.ruv.is/english/2024-03-25-madam-president-wont-try-for-bessastadir-408534

Krönika: Google förstör – men du kan söka bättre | Samuels bitar
https://samuels.bitar.se/soka-battre/?utm_source=pocket_mylist

Hello #FLOSS community!
We are finally here. We look forward to engaging in discussions, contributing, sharing and learning from the wealth of knowledge within this community. Cheers, #GNU Taler team #GoTaler #DigitalPayments #Privacy #OnlinePayments #GNU_Taler

We’re seeking input from #FOSS maintainers as we design a fellowship program pilot. We want to test a support mechanism that addresses structural issues in the FOSS ecosystem, and support maintainers who work on open digital infrastructure in the public interest.

If you maintain open source projects, we would be very grateful if you could take ten minutes to respond to the survey:
https://survey.sovereigntechfund.de/968766

Please also repost and share with FOSS maintainers you know. Thanks!

What are the good #offensive/#redteam #course (s) out there focused on #Linux? Please boost for more reach.

Proud to be a supporting member of @Codeberg . Free/Libre software development should be as far away as possible from the big tech domain.

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Freedom in technology must include freedom from technology.

We must not create a societies where the price of admission is owning a device controlled by one of two trillion-dollar US corporations.

We must safeguard people’s access to public services and the everyday necessities of life via alternate methods.

Technology should always be a progressive enhancement.

Do not let Silicon Valley privatise your access to modern life.

#technology #society #access #humanRights

Please read this opinion piece by Johan Hansson, a theoretical physicist at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. Here are a few excerpts...
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I find it tragic that the world is governed exclusively by economists and is driven by economics, which is not a natural science, but just a human invention. There are physical limits to continuous economic expansion – a fact that most economists do not seem to understand.

In my view it is crazy to think that uncontrolled technological “development” and exploitation driven by unbridled and increasingly unequal capitalism will save us. It is what has plunged us into today’s crisis in the first place.

After all, if you are sitting on a tree branch that you are sawing off, and the ground underneath is burning, the solution is not to switch to a better saw – it is to stop sawing.

Role models like climate activist Greta Thunberg are trying to save those who, for some reason, have not yet understood how serious the situation actually is. To reach the climate pledge of limiting global warming below 1.5°C, the use of fossil fuels must completely cease by 2035, with zero deforestation and a drastic reduction in other greenhouse gas emissions. Yet according to the International Energy Agency, about 80% of the world’s energy today still comes from fossil fuels.

There is one option to reverse the current trend and that is to abide by Earth’s natural limits. Governments need to realize that rich countries must adapt their production and consumption to bring it below what is sustainable for the Earth-system as a whole. The only alternative to a planned and controlled downsizing is a forced and catastrophic global collapse.

Only degrowth can save us.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://physicsworld.com/a/the-climate-is-doomed-if-we-continue-to-be-fixated-by-economic-growth/

#Economics #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Degrowth

Today is my first pod episode for Hacker Public Radio aired!

It is about how I migrated to digiKam software for my photo catalog, from Photoshop Elements or Lightroom. Episode hpr4071.

https://hackerpublicradio.org/

#photo #photography #digiKam #PhotoshopElements #lightroom #pod #hpr #HackerPublicRadio #opensource #foss @hpr

@AV @EDPS @EDPS_supervisor @EU_Commission @nextcloud Yes, using libre and opensource solutions is the only way to go to preserve freedom, privacy and digital sovereignty. Also remember the principle Public Money, Public code: https://publiccode.eu/

#Privacy #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #DataProtection #GDPR #PublicMoneyPublicCode #Transparency #Accountability #Freedom #Sovereignty

@EDPS @EDPS_supervisor @EU_Commission
A switch to @nextcloud seems like the way to go? Some French, German and Swiss government agencies already use Nextcloud (https://nextcloud.com/government/)

“Email is a minuscule text file that you transmit across the internet. To claim that you don’t have the competence to arrange that yourself is a sign of administrative incompetence”, says Michiel Leenaars in an interview on Radio 1. He’s is responding to a recent report of Clingendael Institute warning the Dutch government has squandered cloud sovereignty by outsourcing storing vital & sensitive information to American providers. Listen to the interview here [In Dutch] https://www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/spraakmakers/643d3e2d-6056-4d44-bdb9-ab3df4ad90d4/2024-03-11-michiel-leenaars-we-zijn-slaven-van-bedrijven-als-google-en-microsoft

Fikasugen? På onsdag kväll är det dags för Linuxfika igen. Välkommen till Cafe Linne klockan 19.

https://ulug.se/page/linuxfika/