On 24/06/25, Michael Goguen via linux wrote: > 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. A bit? There are so many ideas mashed up here that it would get more engagement if it were split into at least 5 different subject emails. That first blob alone with no paragraph breads was daunting. This is going to be too much for most to parse and engage in. > 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 slainte mhath, RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.ca> <www.TriColour.ca> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! 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