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We're pleased to announce that Zoë Kooyman has been appointed as the FSF's new executive director. Thanks to John S. for nineteen years of service with the org, and read our announcement here: u.fsf.org/3i7

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To help people get started quickly with Briar, we wrote a new quick start guide: briarproject.org/quick-start/

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Unimpressed by the planning of the current winter for several reasons:

- Major mistake #1: hosted in a dictatorship
- Major mistake #2: hosted on dates colliding with

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#quoteoftheday generated by #Fortune
« Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. »
SPOCK

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The root problem is that of incentives. First-parties want to monetize without charging users. Current answer to this is ads. Personalized ads pay better, hence tracking exists. If resisted, FPs will retain server-side tracking and worse, bring in-content, unblockable ads.

Can we make non-personalized ads more profitable than personalized ads or in-content ads for first-parties? Should we? I have my preferences ("No ads of any kind, even if this means less content"). But is that the best?

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Jag gav just en person ett medlemskap i dfri.se i julklapp! Gör det du också för att skapa en mer digitalt fridfull #dfrijul med @dfri.

dfri.se/bli-medlem/

Ha en god jul med ökat privatliv och integritet! Mindre #Hackad och mer #dfrijul!

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Encryption helps protect the privacy of people you communicate with, and makes life difficult for bulk surveillance systems. Learn how with our Email Self Defense guide: u.fsf.org/1df

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@rumo @eliasr @matrix Sorry to wade in late, but I Have Thoughts.™️

The answer is easy: put the original on peertube or wherever, and put a shorter version or a teaser on youtube, with a link to the rest. Give people a path toward discovering the approach to video sharing that doesn't take advantage of them.

Don't be satisfied slouching to youtube if you are supposed to be an organization with a vision! Give people what they want, reach them, and push things in the right direction! #privacy

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The #nobelprize winners have been announced this week. And here is Nobel Prize official #linkeddata web site that I built this spring in cooperation with @metasolutions: data.nobelprize.org/#esc_year=

In Swedish, E-identification, FOSS 

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Using #FreeSoftware everyday from OSes (for desktop and mobile) to a music player, I've realized the value of freedom of software and the reason why free software is not the matter of price (gratis).

Basically this is the matter of rights, responsibility, and ethics of the civil society. See "Mutual recognition of freedom" by Hegel.

It is unfortunate that free software has been mainly the topic of computer geeks and established thinkers around the world have not thought about that quite much.

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Vill du bidra till att Sverige får ordentliga e-legitimationer som alternativ till #BankID och #FrejaID? Missade du förra veckans projektmöte 15/9?

Läs mer om det nystartade projektet här: dfri.se/projekt/e-legitimation

#FrejaEID #eID #EIDAS #mydata #eleg #elegitimation

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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