I am frequently encountering social media posts, of which many are by progessive (eg, pro-climate, pro-human rights, pro-equality) voices, which frequently label politicians as “incompetent”, “ineffective”, “stupid”, or “lazy”. However, often these politicians are competent, intelligent and ambitious. Their behaviour only seems incompetent under the assumption that politicians act in the interest of the public…
Introduction According to United Nations General Assembly Resolutions A/RES/37/43 [1] and A/RES/45/130 [2], oppressed people have a right to struggle by all means, including armed struggle, against the oppressor: “2. Reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial domination, apartheid and foreign occupation by all available…
Introduction On March 30, I have a short presentation in Ukrainian. In preparation of this presentation, I discovered several similarities of Ukrainian with other European languages which point towards its exciting, reaching back to origins in the Latin and Nordic languages. Although I my knowledge of Ukrainian language and the other languages is limited, I…
1. Overview The following tutorial is a complete, detailed and tested set of instructions to install an XMPP-based messaging service (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) [1, 2] using the PROSODY [1] server as a backend and the MOVIM [4, 5] client as web browser-based frontend. This installation corresponds to company-owned social messengers, such as the…
1 Introduction After having happily used a custom Android OS called /e/ OS [1] for several years with refurbished Samsung mobile phones, my provider COMVIQ (Sweden) has now at the beginning of December 2025 switched off its G2/G3 mobile phone networks [2], leaving only G4 and G5 activated. As a consequence, I cannot make or…
Introduction The abundance of social networks poses questions regarding their similarities and differences to identify redundancies, but potentially also missing services in the social network landscape. Similarities Social networks have the basic feature in common of connecting people via electronic channels. Communication can be based on one or more of the following basic types of…
Introduction I have been using the social network LinkedIn for occasional job-related content, but mostly for sharing content on the climate and biodiversity crisis, without any issues since October 1, 2011 with currently about 1,932 connections. However, since October 7, 2023, I have started using this network to bring attention to the crisis in Gaza,…
Summary There is large uncertainty regarding the number of deaths in Gaza since October 7, 2023, especially deaths caused by military actions by Israel. There is 1) a lack of data, because of the chaos of war, breakdown of Palestinian infrastructure and the ban of foreign journalists and the targeted killings of local journalists in…
Find a Protest: Links: https://www.findaprotest.info Description: Find a Protest is built to find a protest to help people discover protests, rallies, vigils, and solidarity events in their area — whether it’s protests this weekend near me or global actions happening online. Our goal is to make reliable, up-to-date information accessible to everyone, without the need…
1. Introduction Here, I am summarizing the results of electronic devices, esp. smartphones, laptops, desktops, and related operating systems which are privacy-protecting and eco-friendly (eg, repairable). Desirable features: Hardware: eco-socially fair supply chain robust (“military-grade”) repairable hardware kill switches for audio, video, internet Software open-source private (does not leak data to corporations) Business accepts cryptocurrencies…
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