Kubuntu 8.04.

It was the last release with KDE 3 and very polished for its time. Many applications from back then have vanished by now. Kopete was Magic, supporting all IM protocols (Including Yahoo video calls!), Amarok was so reliable and sleek.

Of course most things have improved since then, but I remember it fondly.

With the German Pirate Party loosing its seat a strong voice against surveilance is lost.

They also supplied NGOs with information directly from the legislative process, allowing them to act faster (and sometimes you have to be very fast to comment on minor changes with great effect) I hope somebody else at least partly takes on this role.

Well there is the Stop Killing Games initiative started by Ross Scott and supported by the Pirate Parties. If they succeed, companies selling games in recent years will be required to either keep supporting their game or to make it available in a way so that others can ensure its continued support.

When this is achieved the step to free older games is small.

If you live in Europe you have the chance to support the movement by vote in the upcoming elections.

Soon there are European elections. Voting for the Pirate parties and getting other people to vote for them is a good way to stop this. They are fighting hard against this law. Especially Patrick Patrick Breyer of the German one. Anja Hirschel, who will follow him, will likely continue with the same vigor.

Donations are also a great way to support. Donate to the Pirates, EDRI, or local groups opposing this.

I use it on a Pixel 5 and even there it is fluid while browsing. Only on Youtube there is the slightest stutter for HD Videos. Heavy sites like Discourse fora or Cryptpad or such work flawlessly.

Mit der CSU: Volle Zustimmung. Hier plakatieren sie sogar mit "Für mehr Oberbayern in Europa" Themaverfehlung pur.

Auch die Idee ist nicht neu:

Schon 2014 haben die Piratenparteien ein länderübergreifendes Programm aufgestellt. Mit tatsächlichen Auswirkungen da Piraten aus Tschechien und Deutschland im Parlament sind. Nach dieser Wahl vermutlich auch Luxemburg :)

Transnationale Liste sind Thema seit 2018, noch bevor Volt gegründet wurde.

Und Geld müssen sie haben wie Heu.

Ich bin für die Piraten aktiv, auch aktuell am Plakatieren. Jede Stadt und Gemeinde hat da Regeln (allgemeine wie: "Nicht die Sicht in Kreuzungen versperren", "nicht an Schilder die fließenden Verkehr regeln" und spezielle wie "Die Plakate müssen den Boden berühren" - München, "selbe Partei mindestens 100m Abstand" - FFB) Die meisten halte ich für sinnvoll. Doch Volt hängt hier einfach überall, in Kreisverkehren, auf Verkehrsinseln, an Vorfahrtsschildern, ...

Wir Piraten bekommen in München schnell einen Hinweis "Da hängt ein Plakat falsch, 3 Tage für den Beweis, dass ihr euch drum gekümmert habt, sonst 75 € und später mehr" Wird bei Volt nicht anders sein. Trotzdem hängen deren Plakate, teils direkt neben welchen von uns die gemeldet wurden, noch wochenlang da.

Ergo sagen sie entweder "Wir leisten uns das" und haben entsprechend Geld, oder sie sind überfordert von all den Meldungen und nach der Wahl pleite.

Die Piraten folgen tatsächlich der Wissenschaft und sind auch deshalb gegen Atomkraft (und die aktuell breit gepushte Wasserstoffinitiative)

Zudem haben sie im Parlament auch einiges erreicht. Genug, dass sogar, ohne Witz, Sonneborn sie empfiehlt.

(letztes Kapitel, aber die Interviews auf drm Kanal sind generell gut, hier das der Piraten)

Vor allem natürlich beim Datenschutz, aber die tschechischen z.B. auch beim Klimaschutz.

Ein gemeinsames Europäisches Programm gibts länger als Volt, und diesmal stehen die Chancen gut auch aus Luxemburg Piraten ins Parlament zu bekommen :)

Maybe Kolibri OS?

Its an amazing project, booting from a single floppy disk into a full graphical OS with multiple tools. And that on PCs with almost no RAM.

I sometimes use it to backup ancient PCs.

Example from Networking Hardware:

Cisco has had multiple cases where they likely built exploits for Government spyware into their devices. And they have far to many vulnerabilities which are found. This leaves two options: Either their security is so bad that intelligence always has backdoors ready and governments shouldn't use them, or at least some are backdoors built in accordance to NSA demands and goverments shouldn't use them. https://thehackernews.com/2016/08/nsa-hack-exploit.html?m=1

On the other hand Huawei, far less security issues, even offered to open their code for checking of backdoors and to let goverments check all updates. They are shunned by western governments and partially even banned.

Have a funny memory with this game. Got it for Christmas, played a bit, showed it to my brother and we played a game against each other.

A hour later I come trumphant into my brothers room: "I won!" "No, I am winning! See?" And indeed he was.

The game had somehow lost synchronisation, but it transferred just enough to let each player seem alive to the other one. Two happy players that day :)

And where do maintainers for the new parts of systemd come from? The larger systemd grows the more parts of it will be neglected. Also in regard to people checking commits, opening up doors for exploits like the one in xz.

This is handled in the modem Firmware. Linux just has to supply "User has dialed number x, go into emergency mode" and then route the audio.

This is solved for all Linux phones as far as I know. From Openmoko over N900 till Librem 5.

In honesty I didn't hear all his statements back then. Now from a quick search I can only find his Twitter:

„Natürlich kann es so gewesen sein, wie es @derspiegel annimmt. Es kann aber auch anders gewesen sein. Ich habe als Rechtsanwalt häufig erlebt, dass alles gegen A sprach, es war dann aber doch B.“

Which just says there should be more investigation before accusations are made. Asking for evidence. If you have a link to an interview or talk where he does as you said I would be interested to hear how he phrased it.

I want to point out one thing I have seen far to often in recent times: If a person or group of the left make a wrong statement others which previously followed them are quick to change their view and declare them as persona non grata. On the other hand we have the far right which spills out lies after lies and their followers are so used to it that even disproving them in multiple points does not touch their loyality in any way. I think we should focus more on welcoming people who try to do good thing. If they make a wrong step we should not shun them but try to show them why they did wrong. At least hey try to better themselves and you/we have a good chance to convince them of the better way.

See for example Snowden. He made the mistake to believe Russia would never invade Ukraine. An easy mistake if you have to live inside Russia propaganda machine. Upon realizing his error he was so struck by it, because he uses his social media reach to better the world and now trough a mistake he abused it for spreading propaganda, that he apologized and stopped tweeting for many months.

This is generally true, but there are also many notable exceptions. Here in Germany I could name:

• Gregor Gysi
  • Of the left Party
  • Always does what he thinks is best for the people
  • Many political opponents tried really hard to stick dirt on him and failed
• Nico Semsrott
  • Arguably not that long in politics
  • Took a stance against Martin Sonnenborn (who is the very popular leader of a satirical party) in an affair and is now without a party (Yes this makes it likely he will not be in the next parliament)
  • As far as I have seen votes always in favor of the people
• Patrick Breyer -Pirate Party
  • fights for digital freedom and privacy since decades
  • Always follows the pirate paradigm: transparency. He publishes all his meeting with lobbyists.
  • Helps to educate the public and discovered quite a few hidden legislative attempts to undermine privacy

Ivanti Connect Secure VPN

So its spreading via a closed source VPN software. Why should you even use that when there is great VPN software available on Linux which works reliable for decades?

Well of course you miss zero trust connections, multi-cloud readiness, award‑winning security and proven secure corporate access ...

Interesting. For the Nokia N900 there is Maemo Leste which also uses mainline Linux (+ a few patches they are working to mainline) and there everything works. Mind that works means in this case: Does what I want if I issue a number of console commands. However most of it by now even works via the GUI.

Keep in mind that Leste is a project by a few enthusiasts and writing drivers for undocumented hardware is a monumental task, writing GUI for a whole mobile OS is also complicated. So it is utterly astonishing, how far they got!

The point is, they already did. 99% of webservers run Linux. They are all out in the open and hackers love to get their hand on them as they are likely to have mailservers on them and they have a public IP so they can always be reached.

And most of them do not get hacked. And those that do mostly get hacked due to bad passwords or bad website code. I administer one and see the thousands of attacks running up against it daily (most are just attempts to log in with basic credentials). And of course I see the daily influx of updates from Linux.

If a new security flaw is seen, its often quite difficult to use. And with Linux somebody makes a patch before simple tool for hackers are out. With Microsoft products you wait till the next patch day, in the best case critical exploited bugs are patched in days. Also security flaws in closed source products are often easier to exploit and tools to use them are available fast. (Such flaws are often already discovered in open source products by third eyes and testers before they make it to production systems.)

Of course there are exceptions to the rule, like heartbleed. This was an easy to exploit flaw in an often used Linux service and it caused a big turmoil because many where to slow to patch their systems.

Also of course if Linux gets more popular on the desktop more software will be an attractive target for malicious actors and some software may get popular before many people take a look at the source code. But the situation will still be much better compared to closed source systems.

(Also of course more closed source software will be made for Linux then)

Sure because Error Code 0x8007057 tells you immediately how to solve the problem.

Linux error messages like error: kex_exchange_identification: client sent invalid protocol identifier "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" are completely arcane tough.

I support both systems. And Linux support is so much easier. Mostly in runs out of the box. If it runs I continues to do so and If you have an error you get a specific message like above.

With such a message you either:

• See right away how to solve the problem
• Search it online and get a specific solution for exactly you problem
• Or you can ask Experts for a solution for your specific problem.

With Windows: No systems runs out of the box, I always have to install additional software (7zip, sane browser, ...) and also for anybody remotely privacy concerned have to adjust many settings (for which tools exist thankfully)

If an error occurs under Windows and I get a code like above:

• I can sometimes guess by my experience what the reason is and solve it.
• If not I search the error code and circumstances which lead to it online, then apply the 20 solutions presented one by one in hope one works
• Ask experts which ask me to run a bunch of diagnostic utilities because the error message does not tell you anything. (Yes by now I can also guess which utility could provide relevant information, but not because Windows told me)
• In a noticeable amount of cases the solution is: We can not determine the reason for the error, please reset everything (First a restart, then run this cleanup tool and if this doesn't help just reinstall!)