topics for a meeting some time? Is it hard to figure out how to make a simple online forum that is behind a login wall on the internet, possibly on a server one has oneself, instead of someone/ other sites server? Similarly, some of the... alternative social media... like mastodon, diaspora... are supposedly designed... partly open sourced... and so people can ... host their own... kind of 'servers', that they can control... including shared files etc, connect with their own associates with... but also still have some accessibility to others and other of that social media service servers that others are on and hosting... so they can kind of communicate between... servers... does anyone know much about this, or is willing to do some talks about this? Also, things to do with changes in Canadian laws to do with... freedom, information... gathering, rights, disclosure, ie anyone with a podcast now has to register with the Canadian government, facebook not letting people share Canadian news over their social media, stuff with Julian Assange (it was said supposedly online that he may have gotten released to go back to Australia or something? Can anyone confirm this?) ... anything Mgeist Michael Geist has been writing about in articles about canadian laws technology etc changes etc freedom... the possibly... making so everyone's health info from ANY health provider... currently in Nova Scotia started so all of this needs to be available to the Canadian government, supposedly to make sure people aren't defrauding people with their treatments etc, as well as... potentially sensitive mental health info being... in 'supposedly secure' online databases that... clandestine elements will definitely have and make sure to use their unofficial access to ...as might have further implications related to project like... well google and darpa etc behaviour etc prediction projects (and monitoring) and via cambridge analytica etc ... profiling people, manipulating, controlling, maybe partly mind control but so unbelievably advance with so much processing power and data that people will probably almost never be able to tell its happeing, let alone... protect themselves or see it's happening and prove it or stop it etc... for most people I would say... walmart and other corporations literally... do some of this sort of processing for their own financial and corporate interests... let alone... suffice it to say this is not necessarily limited to extreme cases of national security that are being carefully vetted by judges and or other human beings on a case by case basis at this point, but being automated to be distributed everywhere and only... transparent and accountable (to the extent interest decide they prefer to do this at all) to very select interests, possibly with a lot of national etc bias... and then how some of this relates to... mainstreaming things like... MAID 'Medical Assistance in Dying', the potential of climate change and huge economic... crises... including some that may be intentionally generated with plausible deniabiility while interfering with reasonable actions by the public to mitigate and make changes to reduce the harms in order to cause... crises which justify... disenfranchising many, removing/ shifting the social net significantly, etc (potentially) ie can't help poor or disable or old people as much in a supposed crisis so a massive purge during crisis with the crisis being... covertly... kept from being managed collectively effectively by less ... centrally integrated and finanical and power brokers in order to do things... a little bit like how the pandemic destroyed small businesses all over the world and allowed bigger businesses, if they decided to keep certain services or products available, to basically buy them up excessively cheaply etc (...'some people are in a position to massively profit from potentially crises if they just watch this webinar and do the thing x that serves the status quo of certain currently powerful people etc... ' ads etc eheheh :/ ) I know some of this is reaching outside of technical linux focus... freedom of communications, and maintaining secure communications over the 'open internet' in an age of unimaginably powerful AI running around by various interests... and maybe alternately... securing ... not on the open internet community intranets (and keeping them 'off' the public open internet, if people prefer'?) for those who might not want to buy into starlink, etc... are there any ... retro communications that... people might still like in a crisis or something? are there like hand held radios or devices like phones that can run on some kind of free open source linux through just local band radio that would be allowable, practical, cheap, legal, effective for some communications if people wanted (or believed they needed) to do this? Does just mentioning these where they may be... put on the public internet and archived and available to be harvested by the powers that be... put any... adaptive measures to... corrupt concentration of power and destroying peoples' personal freedoms... does it potentially... undermined the potential to do anything about these things by talking about them this way... so that... measure to ... countermeasures to any possible privacy or security people might try to make are likely to be implemented etc, and their... and peoples' potential dissent, let alone resistance... to various... agenda of powerful, including taking away some essential freedoms, rights and coopting / messing with legal systems and structures meant to protect against this, etc? that peoples' intent, whether on places like this forum, or through their own personal digital communications, being in proximity of devices, possibly belonging to someone else... will cause this information to be in a 'profile' about them that will have... 'consequences' etc? Is it ok that I put these... questions and thoughts plaintext in this email? Blessings, thank you for allowing me to continue to be connected to this group and explore some ideas around open source, free accessible... technologies to empower people... especially the linux open source operating system... Michael Goguen ps are any folks here fans of national capital freenet nonprofit internet service provider here in Ottawa? Do any folks from here... value the idea of partnering with the or like collaborating etc sometimes... on various projects? For instance, making wifi more available in some low income areas, or like cheap devices like phones etc, or even... connecting with the Ottawa Library and similar public resources in order to... support various programs to ...help various public who are interested in... certain low budget sort of 'communal' resource sharing for like enabling... especially less affluent folks to ... help themselves and others on a low budget/ minimal means and training etc? ok sorry maybe I'm rambling a bit here now. thanks in advance. Michael On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 7:12 PM Katherine Mcmillan via linux < linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote: > Hi All, > > There is such an emphasis on bilingualism at the Government of Canada that > I am putting all of my spare time into learning French so won't be able to > attend this meeting (but have started to attend the Linux-Meetup Aux > Quebec <https://www.meetup.com/linux-montreal/>, which I would highly > recommend). > <https://www.meetup.com/linux-montreal/> > Linux-Meetup au Québec | Meetup <https://www.meetup.com/linux-montreal/> > Les Linux-Meetup sont des rencontres informelles où plusieurs personnes > discutent de ce qui les passionnent et font un partage de leurs > cheminements dans le monde des logiciels libres avec GNU/Linux.Le tout se > déroule dans une ambiance décontractée et amicale. Venez rencontrer des > gens passionnés ay > www.meetup.com > > Sincerely, > Katie > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Scott Murphy > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 25, 2024 17:00 > *To:* caretakers [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > *Subject:* July Meeting... > > We didn’t really have any discussions on topics on a July 4th meeting. > > I might have something, but nothing definite yet. I’ve been a little busy > and on training the past week and a half. > > Does anyone have a topic they would be interested in presenting? I know > that John and Tug will not be available. > > Cheers, > Scott > -- > Scott Murphy > scott [ dot ] murphy [ at ] arrow-eye [ dot ] com > >