Abraham Raji @avronr@aana.site

"Every Free and/or Open Source Software based/located/maintained/served/related to the USA and its companions IS NOT a Free Software, since there’s no freedom of use, access and study, at-least for 80 Millions of individuals."

https://ahmadhaghighi.com/blog/2021/us-restricted-free-software/

If you host any #freesoftware in the USA, please consider moving your code outside USA.

Debian 11 bullseye has been released! https://bits.debian.org/2021/08/bullseye-released.html

Right now, we have following activities planned:
- "Introduction to Debian bullseye" by AR
- SuperTuxKart gaming session, details to follow.

If you would like to present an event/talk, please get in touch with @avronr , @anupaaj or @sahilister latest by Friday, so that we can plan accordingly.

#Debian #BeThereForBullseye #DebianIndia

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We plan to have a virtual Debian release party, India on 14th August, 6 pm IST. Bookmark the link for the meeting room [1].


[1]: https://deb11.fsci.in/

#Debian #BeThereForBullseye #DebianIndia

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A sad day for #FreeSoftware, #Kerala forgets its legacy in leading the world and falls for Google's 'free of cost' service.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kite-rolls-out-g-suite-platform-for-online-classes-in-kerala/article35217726.ece

I think we should educate teachers and general public about dangers of surveillance capitalism where you pay with your data, privacy and even at the cost of losing our political agency to big companies. #Google is providing 'Free of Cost' only because they know to make money out of people's data and has a monopoly in online ads. Would you join me?

Microsoft: Copilot doesn't violate copyright

Copilot:

A bully does not understand how solidarity works. When people see the pain of others, they want to do their bit to relieve it. When they see injustice, they oppose it.

Someone who sees protest and violence only as a means to power cannot understand this.

As promised, we're here with MiniDebConf India 2021 group photo.

#MDCO-IN-2021 #MiniDebConf #debian #debianindia #freesoftware

Had a chance to try windows 10 PC after so many years at a friends place. I must say. What an abomination it has become. It goes out of its way to be in your way of work, specially if you have a wacom plugged in. Settings scattered around all over. People say Linux is quirky. 🤦🏾‍♂️

Privacy in Digital Age | Abraham Raji @avronr

Mothers are special people. They know how you feel from the way you sound over a phone call. Well they've been seeing you almost constantly from your birth. They also use this incredible amount of information to tell you exactly the right to make you do exactly what they want.

https://abrahamraji.in/posts/privacy/

#privacy

Any #nodejs developers interested in taking up this challenge?

Build #yarn 1.x with #babel 7.x

Yarn 2.x already moved to babel 7.x but there is no stable release for yarn 2.x and it is completely different from yarn 1.x.

This will help us ship yarn in #debian (we already moved everything else to babel 7.x but could not port this yet) for next stable release bullseye.

It would be useful to nodejs developers to make initial installation of yarn easy.

Afraid of Angering BJP, Facebook Ignored Hate Speech Rules for Party's Anti-Muslim Posts: Report

A report in the Wall Street Journal, quoting unnamed current and former FB officials, alleges a top Facebook India official opposed taking down hate speech posts by a BJP MLA over worries it would damage the company's business prospects in India.

https://m.thewire.in/article/tech/facebook-hate-speech-bjp-wall-street-journal

#facebook #india #bjp #hatespeech