Amir Khan

@amirbkhan
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founder | self-employed | ethical tech advocate | foss enthusiast | ex-big tech | 🍉
websitehttps://mangotek.eu
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Absolutely everyone is feeling the crushing weight of the present historical moment in some way or another, and the trick is to allow that fact to lead you to solidarity with others rather than bitterness and misdirected anger, which seems to be the dominant response right now.

Big fan of Schleswig-Holstein's #opensource approach. Will meet them soon in Brussels 🥳

And yes, I'm absolutely borrowing their approach for the 'digital autonomy' pillar in our National Digitization Strategy (NDS).

https://youtu.be/DioQIiJ6AvA?feature=shared

Open Innovation & Open Source @ Schleswig-Holstein

YouTube
I'd say it's time to malfunction and destroy civilizations. Who's with me?

The "systemctl soft-reboot" #systemd command is so cool 
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-soft-reboot.service.html

Finally a clean way to rapidly re-start everything other than the #Linux kernel… for me, it is extremely useful to be able to do that after applying desktop & graphics stack updates, and to be able to log back in within 10 seconds.

Throwing the idea out here: it would be very nice if someone figured out a way to write a #GNOMEShell extension to provide "Soft reboot" as an alternative to cold reboot!

systemd-soft-reboot.service



Door de vakantie waren er maar 4 helpers aanwezig bij #Linux020 , en met 8 klanten hadden wij een vreselijk drukke dag!

  • Bart kwam helemaal uit Den Haag met een Raspberry 500, in een keyboard gebouwd. Wij installeerden Pi OS.
  • Marcel had een corrupte Grub, en kon nog maar met veel toetsengeweld booten. Wij hebben de grub-configuratie gefixed voor double boot met Windows.
  • Annabel liet Debian Gnome installeren op de laptop die ze gekregen had.
  • Frits had een laptop teveel, en schonk die aan ons. Die moeten we nog oppeppen...
  • Ron had een koppeling gemaakt met OneDrive die niet goed werkte. Een luks systeem. Ik vermoedde een probleem met de encryptie-sleutels. Aangeraden opnieuw te installeren, of beter NextCloud te gebruiken
  • Marjan met een Desktop met LinuxMint 16 (Heel oud!). Nieuwe installatie aangeraden, maar helaas staat /home niet in een aparte partitie. Dus eerst een backup van de data gemaakt, duurde de rest van de middag. Volgende keer verder.
  • Pascale met een Microsoft Surface tablet. Debian Gnome liet zich probleemloos installeren.
  • Piet (Hij was jarig!) met dezelfde Chromebook als vorige keer, maar nu waren onze Chromebook specialisten op vakantie, dus aangeboden de laptop achter te laten, zodat we het thuis verder kunnen uitzoeken.

De tevreden klanten hebben rijkelijk in de #LinuxHelpdesk  fooienpot gestort, en daarom konden wij in het WG-café lekker naborrelen!

Absolutely jaw-dropping talk by Micah Lee on the blinding national-security incompetence at the highest levels of the Trump regime.

https://micahflee.com/we-are-currently-clean-on-opsec-the-signalgate-saga/

If this had been any Democratic govt, Fox "News" and the entire right-wing media gang would make it the top story for weeks, if not months.

"We are currently clean on OPSEC": The Signalgate Saga

I just gave my first solo main stage DEFCON talk, about Signalgate, and I think it was a resounding success! The room was packed – apparently people were waiting outside to get in. I got tons of positive feedback, and no negative feedback (though, someone told me a boomer sitting next

micahflee

Funding Open Source like public infrastructure

> To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution.

https://dri.es/funding-open-source-like-public-infrastructure

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44896433

#FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Funding

Funding Open Source like public infrastructure

To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution.

Dries Buytaert
my favourite part about health insurance is how your teeth and eyeballs are add-ons

In Sachen #Right2Repair macht den alten #Thinkpads und den #Fairphones so schnell niemand was nach.

Grad am #X201 herumgeschraubt. Allein das jede einzelne Schraube gekennzeichnet ist, was damit gelockert wird. Eine Utopie

Google Gemini will now learn from your chats—unless you tell it not to
Gemini will remember this, so it's time to check your privacy settings.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/google-gemini-will-now-learn-from-your-chats-unless-you-tell-it-not-to/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social