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
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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!
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What are the good #offensive/#redteam #course (s) out there focused on #Linux? Please boost for more reach.
Ebba Grön
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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.
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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
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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
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@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
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@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/)
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“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
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Fikasugen? På onsdag kväll är det dags för Linuxfika igen. Välkommen till Cafe Linne klockan 19.
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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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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- 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
