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Bread and Circuses  

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 -- physicsworld.com/a/the-climate

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

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Henrik Hemrin  

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.

hackerpublicradio.org/

@hpr

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Jure Repinc :linux: :kde:  

@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: publiccode.eu/

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

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Arno Vanderbeke  

@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 (nextcloud.com/government/)

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NGI Zero open source funding  

“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] nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/spraak

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Uppsala Linux User Group  

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

ulug.se/page/linuxfika/

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Elias  

Those who live around northern Stockholm might know this sign, it's pretty big, you see it if you follow Norrtäljevägen into the city, just before you reach Roslagstull. It's below the old Roslagstulls sjukhus and Albanova, next to the new part of KTH called Albano campus.

It usually shows ads aimed at all the people in their cars heading into the city. This particular morning however, all the people in their cars got a special message about the badness of Microsoft and Google instead. 😄

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Walked past this on my way to work the other day. It's like that The Sound of Silence song

"and the sign flashed out its warning..."

but wait, the sign did not say anything about the words of the prophets, instead it said "oops" and "Microsoft" and "your computer is low on memory, close Google Chrome" 😄

Okay, let's heed the warning from this sign: never use Microsoft or Google products, for anything, ever. Don't let them fool you. Don't but their "AI" bullshit either.

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The research fairy  

I'm at the point of begging my fellow academics:

Don't be so fucking gullible when it comes to tech companies and don't do their PR work for them

Your seminar on "using AI responsibly" is just volunteer PR work for a tech company

Your partnership with Meta is just volunteer PR work for a tech company

They are lying to you and manipulating you and it's embarrassing how bad you are at spotting this

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Parsingphase  

Bouncing Bunnies spectra.video/videos/watch/def

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Faintdreams  

It's World book day*!

What's your favourite source of legal and free ebooks?

Mine are:
1 - Gutenberg Books
2 - Libby (library App)
3 - Archive.org
4 - Libvox
5 - Smashwords
6 - Wikibooks
7 -Tech Books For Free
8 - Complete Works of William Shakespeare
9 - Baen books
10 - Local Library

[* Due to holiday scheduling it's on diff dates in the UK & Ireland to than the rest of the world - still Book Day ! ]

Links to all (except local library hopefully you have one!) are below.

#books #FreeEbooks

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jonarvid 🇸🇪  

Rikspolischef Petra Lundh:
"Tidigare så har jag absolut tyckt att det är bra med offentlighetprincipen och annat ... ".

Citatet från den f.d. domaren och riksåklagaren är autentiskt om än avhugget. Det handlar om huruvida förundersökningar ska bli offentlig handling.

Ska ganskande journalister behöva förlita sig på godtyckliga läckor istället?

Nej, i kampen mot de kriminella gängen går vi alldeles för långt i att montera ned rättssäkerhet och medborgerliga rättigheter. Bevara demokratin!

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Elias  

Look, I'm famous! Mentioned in this great talk by @dos fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event (at 15:40 into that) where he mentions me and says "...one vital observation... " - I made a vital observation! 🎉 Proudly adding this to my list of things to brag about.

Much of my life may have been pointless but not all of it: let it be known that I did spend a significant amount of time with trial-and-error to find the exact time delay needed for the USB connection to the modem to break down. 😄

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The Tor Project  

If you run a #Tor #relay be sure to join tomorrow's relay operator meeetup. You can find and add to the agenda here 🗓️ forum.torproject.org/t/tor-rel

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Elias  

Just found out that it's possible to donate to Phosh here: liberapay.com/Phosh/

Donations there go to the developers @agx and @devrtz

If, like me, you appreciate that awesome project and rely on it everyday for your device, you know what to do! 😉

@phosh

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nolan .  

google rant:

a little website i shepherd for a friend has a contact form. it uses php mail() via sendmail. ive done all the things: fail2ban, recaptcha, spf, dkim, reject dmarc policy; the config is just as tight as my personal mail server, and few to no illegitimate form submissions ever make it as far as the mta.

gmail happily sends a daily dmarc report congratulating me for successful spf and dkim tests, yet refuses to deliver any messages to a gmail inbox. at the same time, the target gmail inbox is stacked full of spam, all from gmail.com addresses.

google is a bully and a tyrant and hostile to the open internet. msft does the same shit.

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Elias  

In Swedish, E-identification, FOSS 

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Erik de la Reguera  

Agree with these colleagues. 👇🏼 #Gaza #journalism #freepress standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebri

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Arman Borghem  

På konferensen samnet.se idag och lyssnar på bl.a. Erik Enocksson från #eSam, Carl Heath om det demokratiska samtalet i en digital tid, och Maria Dalhage om #NOSAD. Mycket bra!

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Elias  

NOSADs nyhetsbrev feb 2024 

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