Digitaliseringsproblemer kan løses med fri/Open Source software – åbent brev til partiernes IT-ordførere FSFE Danmark v/Allan Dukat, Øjvind Fritjof Arnfred og Carsten Agger – Om os i FSFE Danmark: https://community.fsfe.org/t/handleplan-og-arbejdsgrundlag-for-fsfe-danmark/963 I slutningen af 2019 klagede en far til Datatilsynet over Helsingør Kommune, fordi hans otte-årige søn i sin folkeskole havde fået udleveret en Chromebook Read more »
Note: This text was originally the synopsis for a much longer article which I intended to write as the followup to a lightning talk about the subject I did at my workplace. Acknowledging that I probably won’t get time to write the long version, I think this synopsis can stand pretty well on its own Read more »
Note: This post is a book review. I did not buy this book on Amazon, and if, after reading this post, you consider buying it, I strongly urge you not to buy it on Amazon. Amazon is a proprietary software vendor and, more importantly, a company with highly problematic business and labour practices. They should Read more »
Yesterday, I went to the protest in Barcelona against the incarceration of the leaders of Omnium and ANC, two important separatist movements. The Catalan question is complex, and there are lots of opinions on all sides. However, after speaking with a lot of people down here and witnessing a quite large demonstration – as shown Read more »
The photo displayed above is from a protest in São Paulo on August 30. The protest was because a federal court in São Paulo has decided to strip the area called Jaraguá of its status as indigenous land, effectively expulsing 700 men, women and children from the land they’re currently occupying, no doubt to satisfy Read more »
Interview with Fabiane M. Borges published on May 21, 20171 By Bia Martins and Reynaldo Carvalho – translated by Carsten Agger Also available in PDF format In a state of permanent warfare and fierce disputes over visions of the future, technoshamanism emerges as a resistance and as an endeavour to influence contemporary thinking, technological production, Read more »
I’m co-organizing this event, involving our hackerspace and the FSFE local group in Aarhus: Frank Karlitschek, creator of ownCloud, will give a talk centering on ownCloud, free software in the enterprise and data protection in a post-Snowden world. The talk will be followed by a discussion with the audience and a discussion panel consisting of: Read more »
One of the more important parts of the 1st Festival of Technoshamanism (previously covered here, here and here) was several points of collaboration with the local Pataxó Indians. The Pataxó is an indigenous people of about 12,000 people who live in the extreme south of the Brazilian state of Bahia, mainly in the area between Read more »
The result of the Danish referendum on the European patent court and the unitary patent was, in spite of a rather intense campaign by Prosa, IT-Politisk Forening and Bitbureauet (and, to a lesser extent, our local FSFE group), a clear victory for the “yes” camp. In our defense, the other side had more money and Read more »
This afternoon, I will give a talk at Aarhus University School of Engineering, recommending a no in the upcoming referendum about Denmark’s accession to the unitary patent and the European patent court. Our main motivation for working against the unitary patent is that the rules about software patents are very unclear, and given a closed-circuit Read more »