Elias @eliasr@librem.one

Dimma och norrsken ikväll.

I know there's a general "cause fatigue" with the current state of the world, and I feel it too.

But in my years working in privacy,
I don't think I've seen anything as terrifying as this European Chat Control proposal. And I'm not even European.

Everyone needs to pay
much more attention and be much more worried and outraged about this.

This proposal is the most dystopian glimpse into a horrible authoritarian future I have seen so far in the West.

It looks dismal, but we can still stop it
if we all work TOGETHER NOW ✊

There isn't much time left though,
so don't put it to next week.

Democracy dies in silence.

Everyone: Learn more here
Everyone: Spread the word on social media
Europeans: Contact your local media NOW
Europeans: Contact your MEPs NOW

The final vote in on October 14th,
but media and representatives need to receive your messages NOW, so they have enough time to act on it.

#ChatControl #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #StopScanningMe #EUpol #UKpol #USpol #CanPoli

We had a great time at #IndiaFOSS 2025 this weekend. Thanks @fossunited

#FreeSoftware

Decentralisation is the biggest enemy of authoritarianism. So #SelfHost. Buy solar and batteries. Heat pumps. Get an electric car. Electric bicycles. Use #OpenSource and #FreeSoftware. Store your data at home. Get a Canon Selphy to print the pictures you take. Buy books. Vinyl or CDs. Join your local library. Do. Don’t discuss. And help your neighbours to do the same things. Sharing is caring. Avoid getting lost in discussions about what’s best. Do. Fail. Share. Learn. Repeat.

Det råder en viss förvirring om vad som faktiskt pågår i USA just nu. Det är uppenbart att Trump kommer utnyttja mordet på Kirk för att försöka tysta alla inhemska kritiker. Samtidigt håller högerradikala miljardärer som Larry Ellison på att köpa upp dussintals medieföretag, vilket kan förvandla det amerikanska medielandskapet till en homogen Maga-megafon.
https://www.dn.se/kultur/martin-gelin-trump-vill-anvanda-mordet-pa-kirk-for-att-tysta-alla-kritiker/

For those struggling with English:

Don’t - do not
Won’t - wo not

Linux phones are more important now than ever

Link: https://feddit.org/post/18353777
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45256651

I'm new to the fediverse. How can I connect with fellow poets?

#PoetryCommunity #poetry

Blir tokig! Varför kommunicerar svenska flygvapnet på X???????!!!11!!

davfs mounts stopped working on laptop after some package upgrade recently -- "ls: reading directory 'mountpoint': Invalid argument", ie EINVAL.

FUSE_READDIR => "RET: Invalid argument" while FUSE_READ, FUSE_LOOKUP and more kept working fine.

Showed to be kernel changes in 6.16 causing this and that setting buf_size 64 in davfs2.conf is fixing the issue.

Cf. https://github.com/alisarctl/davfs2/issues/22

The second (and in my opinion, much more insidious and dangerous) task that LLMs are optimized to perform is to give the user the _impression_ of being useful.

A lot of times it does this by actually being useful, but that's purely accidental and incidental. It's only goal is to make you *think* it did something useful, and by any means.

That's why ChatGPT "hallucinates" facts; truth is irrelevant, only the _appearance_ of truth matters. A simulacrum of truth can be just as convincing.

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People like to talk about LLMs as if they are a dramatic deviation from previous "AI" systems like AlphaGo. Those so-called "expert systems" have been trained and optimized to perform a single (or a few) well-defined tasks, while something like ChatGPT can "do anything". But that's a lie. ChatGPT and similar systems are just as focused and optimized on specific tasks.

The most obvious is to use language in a way that's as indistinguishable from a human as possible. To talk like a person.

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@CollaboraOffice and on #peertube https://friprogramvarusyndikatet.tv/w/ar69xhKuQRMyiZDANn9meU

Ni är kanske trötta på att höra mig tjata om farorna med massövervakningsförslaget Chat Control 2.0, så passa på att läsa det här dagsfärska brevet där akademin (500 doktorer och professorer) förklarar varför förslaget är farligt. https://csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

#ChatControl