Elias @eliasr@librem.one

@Gina "Microsoft Office: Deinstallation in progress"
Those few words elicit so much joy.

I'm at the coolest network meeting for EU gov #OSPO's in Brussels today 🔥🔥

I had an opportunity to talk with Dirk Schrödter, Minister for Digitalization of Schleswig-Holstein (SH), and currently listening to SH CIO Sven Thomson's presentation.

SH is so far ahead!! They're implementing #Linux desktops, They're already using #Nextcloud and #LibreOffice, and end of this month all their gov email will be migrated from Microsoft Exchange to #OpenXChange.

#opensource #digitalsovereignty

"Mobile-zombie-free zone" sign spotted at a playground in #Rålambshovsparken in #Stockholm recently.

Ironically that made me pick up my own phone to take this photo, acting like another of those infamous zombies. In my defense I did not actually enter the playground, so strictly speaking I did not violate the sanctity of the mobile-zombie-free zone. Also, the phone (#Librem5 yay!) was back in pocket directly without further zombie-like behaviour. 🙂 #ShotOnLibrem5

We're happy to announce three projects will be funded to contribute to the TALER secure electronic payment system based on open standards, free software, and advanced cryptography.

The three projects are:
Libre Payments in Ruby, a GNU Taler Integration for ethical trade.
Taler in Liberapay, an implementation of Taler as payment provider in Liberapay.
And Taler OpenAPI specification, a JSON/YAML OpenAPI for key GNU Taler API's.

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250901-New-projects-NGI-Taler.html

@NGI_TALER

#NGI #FOSS #TALER

31 August 1892 | A German Sinti, Anton Guttenberger, was born in Markgröningen.

In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 18 March 1943.
No. Z-4166
He perished in the camp on 26 July 1943.

#Debian #GNU #Hurd 2025 released!

https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2025-08-10-debian_gnu_hurd_2025.html

Details: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2025-08/msg00008.html

- completed 64 bit support
- all disk drivers running in userland (⇒ you can live-debug a disk driver with gdb)
- Rust support
- working disk and CD-ROM via USB (this actually is a big deal)
- SMP (multiprocessing) is finally working well
- custom keyboard layouts on the console via xkb

❤️ 🐃

#FreeSoftware #kernel

If anyone's bored this weekend, I'm hosting an #XFiles watch party on my #Owncast server. Feel free to share!

https://owncast.n8fq.org

Fick höra från Hanna Gedin, som är EU-parlamentariker för Vänsterpartiet och motståndare till Chat Control, att de har fått tusentals mail om Chat Control senaste månaderna.

Så fortsätt maila!

V, C, MP och SD har tidigare sagt de är mot Chat Control. Det borde vara lätt att få svar där. (En centerpartist har svarat nu att hon motsätter sig.)

M och L däremot har snackat stort och brett i EU-parlamentet om att de är mot Chat Control men agerar inkonsekvent.

Maila dem!

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

Media coverage of my Monday keynote: https://thenewstack.io/the-world-runs-20-billion-instances-of-curl-wheres-the-support/

Hävdade nyss i Godmorgon världen att kampen mot brottsligheten är på väg att bli systemhotande när den stora inspärrningen pågår, att test i medborgarskap omöjligen funkar både på en akademiker och en analfabet samt att antisemitismanklagelser ibland blir till ett urskillningslöst vapen för att skymma ett pågående folkmord.

@ChrisWere we really disused that railway

GNU Taler is a privacy-preserving payment system.

Digital coins correspond to existing currency such as the Euro.

CUSTOMERS

Deposit currency into exchange.
Withdraw coins into digital wallet.
Pay anonymously via coins.
Receive proof of payment.

MERCHANTS

Receive payment via coins.
Deposit coins into exchange.
Exchange deposits currency into bank account.

Thank you! @nlnet @NGIZero

Website: https://www.taler.net
Mastodon: @Taler

#GNU #Taler #FreeSoftware #Privacy #CyberSecurity #InfoSec

Bra debatt i DN om övervakning och lagändringar som försvagar individens skydd och rätt till integritet.
https://www.dn.se/debatt/vem-vagar-protestera-mot-en-kamera-rakt-in-i-sovrummet/

Efter kritik från mig, Emanuel Karlsten och många därtill nyanserar Polisen rikspolischefen Petra Lundhs befängda uttalande om Signal.

https://www.tv4.se/artikel/3SFX15URbIpuIgTK6lLc7C/journalisten-rasar-mot-rikspolischefens-signal-uttalande-bara-knaeppt

#Signal

Återvänder ytterligare en kväll till föräldrahemmet för att skriva ut fler zines!! En oväntat god åtgång har det varit på dem!

@eliasr the Rust compiler adds bloat to the process of bootstrapping the OS, making the Linux ecosystem less convenient for new architectures or source based distributions like Gentoo and Linux from Scratch

"LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think"

https://www.xda-developers.com/libreoffice-is-right-about-microsoft/

#libreoffice #microsoft #xml #opensource #lockin #vendorlockin #privacy #privacymatters #foss #oss