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Harald Eilertsen

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:06:27 +0100

FSFE wrote the following post Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:39:28 +0100

Less than 24 hours left to provide your feedback on the EU guidelines for #RouterFreedom! #BEREC is running a #PublicConsultation defining whether your router will belong to you or to your ISP. Please participate now, it's as easy as sending an email!

See how to make yourself heard, and the #FSFE's response on the current draft: https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20191120-01.html

De Dødes Tjern (Norway, 2019)

Harald Eilertsen

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 22:29:27 +0100

English title: Lake of Death

The official opening film at Ramaskrik this year was the Norwegian De Dødes Tjern (Lake of Death). This was a mixed experience for me. The film is based on the same story as the older Norwegian film with the same name from 1958, which is a major part of Norwegian film history, and a great, atmospheric horror film. The new version does spin a slightly different story than the original, which was some sort of a relief. A plain remake would be pointless in my opinion.

The story itself is good, and apart from some continuity blisters, and holes in the story itself, it is a technically well crafted film. The cinematography, lighting and sound work is all top notch. Also the main character Lillian, played by Iben Akerlie is well portrayed. Almost without uttering a word during the entire film she's able to carry the story well. The problem is that she's the only interesting character in the entire cast. The rest are forgettable, and feel more like extras than actual cast.

In the end, De Dødes Tjern isn't a bad film, but not all that good either. It does have some good moments, but sadly not enough to make it interesting.

#horror #film #ramaskrik #ramaskrik2019

Film Ramaskrik Horror

Harald Eilertsen

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:37:51 +0100

Aral Balkan wrote the following post Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:30:48 +0100

EU Parliament: future of internet regulation event. #DigitalServicesAct

Live stream: https://web-greensefa.streamovations.be/index.php/event/stream/the-future-internet-regulation

Via https://mobile.twitter.com/echo_pbreyer/status/1196705226046234624

Harald Eilertsen

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 08:19:03 +0100

André E. Veltstra wrote the following post Tue, 19 Nov 2019 01:52:19 +0100

#ProTip: stop using #GoogleDocs to host surveys or polls. Either write it yourself, or find a host that offers #accessibility and #privacy in a believable way.

Harald Eilertsen

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:35:43 +0100

Aral Balkan wrote the following post Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:19:11 +0100

Wow, just had the Pirates/Greens pick through my EU parliament presentation slides with a fine tooth comb in a phone call and try to get me to change what I’m saying so as not to criticise Facebook, etc. WTF?

Never had anyone try to censor what I say before. Of course I will speak my mind verbatim tomorrow and if anything this means I won’t be accepting any future speaking engagements at the EU parliament for these parties.

WTAF?

*fumes*

CC @Gargron

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hEARt PhoniX

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 20:53:53 +0100

Pirates attempting to hold back in f?
Sounds even more strange as Greens.

Harald Eilertsen

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 21:10:24 +0100

My experience with the Pirate party here in Norway is sadly a bit similar. Never heard them try to prevent someone from criticizing facebook, though. While some of them realise the danger of surveillance capitalism, they are much more worried about any kind of regulation wrt the internet, so way too often end up on the side of the corporate mega companies agenda. Even their website sends data about all their visitors to facebook and google. At least here in Norway it's not at all about your rights online, it's about the right to free (as in beer) content.

hEARt PhoniX

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 22:50:10 +0100

@Harald Eilertsen That's really sad. I mean, in Germany they maneuvered themselves into insignificance by infighting when they were on the verge of gaining some real momentum.

Harald Eilertsen

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 23:01:41 +0100

@h.ear.t Yeah, they've had their share of that here too.

M. Dent

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 18:18:26 +0100 last edited: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 18:16:46 +0100

Fremtiden i våre hender: Derfor støtter vi Huseby i rettsaken mot Apple

Harald Eilertsen

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:28:54 +0100

Apple har saksøkt mobilreparatøren Henrik Huseby fra Ski. Nå er saken anket til høyesterett. Framtiden i våre hender støtter Huseby fordi saken handler om retten til reparasjon av elektronikken vår. I 2018 gikk Apple til rettssak mot Henrik Huseby. Anklagen var at han skulle ha importert piratkopierte reservedeler for å kunne reparere iPhone-telefoner.

Hele idéen om "piratkopierte reservedeler" burde skrapes en gang for alle. Apple har ingen ting med å diktere hvilke deler man kan bruke, eller hvem som har lov til å reparere produkter man har kjøpt. Tvert imot burde leverandører av all elektronikk tvinges til å dokumentere komponendene de bruker, slik at andre kan reparere, utvide eller tilpasse produktene til egne behov. Kravene Apple stiller er like absurde som om Levis skulle kreve at kun autoriserte reparatører fikk reparere buksene deres, og kun med sytråd produsert av Levis. En slik sak ville aldri en gang nå rettssystemet.

Derfor støtter vi Huseby i rettsaken mot Apple - Framtiden.no

#norsk #norge #apple #reparasjonsrett #politikk

Norsk Samfunn og teknologi

Harald Eilertsen

Sun, 17 Nov 2019 17:51:55 +0100

Theremin wrote the following post Sun, 17 Nov 2019 17:22:39 +0100

Version 2.1.14 of #Drawpile has been released: https://drawpile.net/news/release-2.1.14/ #Software #Release #OpenSource

Harald Eilertsen

Sat, 16 Nov 2019 18:14:39 +0100

Harald's Favourite Horror Shorts wrote the following post Sat, 16 Nov 2019 16:45:22 +0100

Prey

This was a pritty nice film with a surprising ending. Well done!

PREY
by Bill Whirity on Vimeo

#horror #shorthorror

Harpoon (Canada, 2019)

Harald Eilertsen

Sat, 16 Nov 2019 12:14:10 +0100

A group of friends are stranded on a Yacht in the middle of the ocean with food and water supplies quickly draining. While an interesting setting for a drama, and the at times witty dialogue and story telling, Harpoon becomes a bit longwinded and too static. The film does picks up in the end, but I'm not entirely sure I think it was worth the wait. A bit sad, since the premise from the beginning of the film had a lot of potential, and built up to something that could have been a lot more interesting.

#horror #film #ramaskrik #ramaskrik2019

Film Horror Ramaskrik

Red Letter Day (Canada, 2019)

Harald Eilertsen

Sat, 16 Nov 2019 11:19:12 +0100

Another Canadian film watched at this years Ramaskrik horror film festival in Norway. In Red Letter Day a sleepy suburban town wakes up to everyoe receiving a mysterious letter in a red envelope with instructions for who to kill, or they will kill you first. An interesting concept treated with just enough humour to make it entertaining. I found Red Letter Day to be a light hearted and fun watch.

#horror #film #ramaskrik #ramaskrik2019

Film Horror Ramaskrik

Z (Canada, 2019)

Harald Eilertsen

Sat, 16 Nov 2019 00:10:08 +0100

There was quite a few Canadian films at Ramaskrik this year, and Z was one of those I had quite some expectations to. The film is written and directed by Brandon Christensen, who also did Still/Born, with extra writing credits to Colin Minihan who also wrote What Keeps You Alive, both favourites from Ramaskrik a couple of years backand last year respectively. Z is a fairly traditional, but technically well executed horror. It's at times quite creepy, and both the kid and the adult cast does good performances. Still it never manages to reach the level of either of the above mentioned films, and thus comes down as a bit of a disappointment.

#horror #film #ramaskrik #ramaskrik2019

FIlm Horror Ramaskrik

Spiral (Canada, 2019)

Harald Eilertsen

Fri, 15 Nov 2019 23:45:17 +0100

Spiral is a suspenseful and an extremely well told story. What at first seems like a psychological drama, turns into a slow creepy horror where the viewer is constantly torn between doubting the main characters sanity and the actions and motifs of the surrounding cast. It manages to keep the suspense and the actual underlying story shrouded in mystery until the very end. As such it's not unthinkable to compare it to Jordan Peele's Get Out. As with Get Out, this film also deals with prejudice and discrimination in a way that is unique and thought provoking. While there are some traditional horror elements in the film, they are spread out and not too pervasive. The real horror unfolds with the story, which is where the focus of the film is.

I think Spiral has to be my absolute favourite from this years Ramaskrik horror film festival. While there was many contenders, after letting it sink in for almost a month, Spiral still stands out as the strongest.

Highly recommended!

#horror #film #lgbt #ramaskrik #ramaskrik2019

Film Horror Ramaskrik

Harald Eilertsen

Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:52:12 +0100

Write Freely wrote the following post Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:39:36 +0100

Version 0.11
Today we're excited to release WriteFreely v0.11! This is a huge update that includes many fixes and improvements, built-in automatic, free SSL certificates, support for our command-line client, and more moderation controls for multi-user instances.

Besides all of these improvements, this update come just over a year after our very first release, v0.1. Keep an eye out for a future post about the last year in review — a lot has happened!

Get the lastest release now (you'll notice it's v0.11.1), or jump into the updates below.

Major Features

Automatic SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt (T542)

It's now even easier to start up a WriteFreely instance with free, automatic certificates from Let's Encrypt. With the application facing the public internet (i.e. not behind a reverse proxy), you can set a few configuration values to have WriteFreely generate the certificate for you.

For new instances, choose Production, standalone > Secure (port 443), auto certificate during the interactive setup process.

For existing instances, set autocert = true and tls_cert_path = certs (see config documentation for more information).

WriteFreely Command-Line Interface

We've released our first official WriteFreely client along with this version: wf-cli! This is a simple command-line-based tool for publishing to one or many WriteFreely instances. It's perfect for tech-savvy users who don't want to leave their terminal window or anyone looking to build WriteFreely publishing into their desktop writing workflow — and it's available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and anywhere else you can build a Go application.

User-Facing Changes / Fixes

Prevent transliterated slugs from exceeding character limit (#137)
Don't consider posts unpublished when they have a title (#138)
Blog 404 pages are now styled like the rest of the blog (T493)
Fix missing hostname when publishing via API and support WriteFreely CLI (#144)
Fix various minor issues with single-user instances (#145)
Support <audio> HTML element (#147)
Fix future pinned posts showing in navigation (#158)
Fix false logged-in state on failed login
Fix title attribute getting stripped on <abbr> elements (#184)
Add helpful instructions on invite links when logged in (T690)
Publish to user's blog by default, instead of Drafts (T697)
Fix blog URLs in CSV export (#205)
Include Reader link in site-wide navigation while logged in
Make header navigation on user and non-authenticated pages consistent

Minor Changes

Fix go-sitemap-generator overriding GOMAXPROCs (#86)
Log server software and version on startup (#168)
Fix crash on some duplicate ActivityPub follows (#159)

Admin-Facing Changes

Support setting a default visibility for all blogs (T675, #148)
Support toning down WriteFreely promotion (T676, #149)
Support using an alternative editor template (T677)
Support customizing Reader page (T684)
Support resetting user password from web-based UI (T695)
Fix tar bomb on install (#160)

Developer-Facing Changes

Add make build-arm7
Remove dependency on github.com/gogs/gogs/pkg/tool (#182)
API endpoints will now honor Accept: application/json headers (not only Content-Type) (#178)

Experimental / In-Progress Work

User Silencing (T661)

Now instance admins can silence problematic users to make their writing inaccessible to the world and prevent further publishing. This strikes a balance between preventing further abuse and making reversible moderation decisions, as users will still be able to log in to their account and access their data.

This is still experimental, as it needs more extensive testing. Please report any bugs you find and give us any feedback you have on this feature!

Reader-centric instances (T681, #157)

As part of our new Write.as for Teams service, we're experimenting with an alternative configuration for admins that want their site to be more focused on the collective work of its writers, rather than on individuals. It's meant for businesses, organizations, and institutions that want to create more of a shared blog than provide individual blog hosting. It sets the Reader view as the home page, uses blog templates with global navigation, and has hashtags search across all public blogs.

This functionality is not at all finalized, and subject to change drastically without notice. We don't recommend enabling this in your configuration unless you're merely curious or want to provide feedback (which we highly encourage!).

Upgrading from v0.10.0

Download the latest release for your operating system. Stop running your writefreely service, replace all files in your installation with the ones in the archive, and then start your writefreely service again.

Now make sure your database is backed up, and update it with writefreely --migrate.

No additional steps are needed to upgrade from v0.10.0. Follow the instructions in each previous #release if you're upgrading from an earlier version.

Developers

If you are running a custom build, note that there were style changes in this release. Run make ui to generate the latest stylesheets.

Contributors

Thanks for contributing to this release!

@robjloranger @OddBloke

#WriteFreely

Harald Eilertsen

Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:50:30 +0100

Micro SF/F stories by O Westin wrote the following post Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:20:17 +0100

The tower stood on a lonely mountaintop, far from town and city. One morning, a knight seeking adventure knocked on its door.
"Is this the lair of an evil sorcerer, or prison of a trapped princess?" he demanded.
Eventually, a tired voice called out.
"This is an observatory."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Wed, 13 Nov 2019 21:08:52 +0100

Harald Eilertsen

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 20:16:13 +0100

Micro SF/F stories by O Westin wrote the following post Mon, 11 Nov 2019 19:15:32 +0100

Climate change presented us with a choice: Stop growth, move out, or dig down.
We dug down, literally, a billion years ago. Had to give up growth. Hydroponics, recycle, vent excess heat into an atmosphere so lethal we can't move out.
Planet-locked on the second rock from the sun.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Harald Eilertsen

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:28:11 +0100

Mario Vavti wrote the following post Mon, 11 Nov 2019 09:32:49 +0100

Hubzilla 4.6RC Released!
If you installed Hubzilla via git and running master branch, you are only a git checkout 4.6RC away from the next Hubzilla release. Make sure to also git checkout 4.6RC the addons if you decide to join the release candidate testing.

You are invited to provide feedback in form of bug reports or merge requests on issues you might find.

You can follow the progress of release candidate testing in this wiki. Please PM me for wiki write-access if desired.

For the changelog please have a look at the git history for now.
A condensed summary will follow with the Hubzilla 4.6 release announcement.

Happy testing!

!Zotlabs|Hubzilla Development !Hubzilla Support Forum

Die Farbe (Germany, 2010)

Harald Eilertsen

Sat, 09 Nov 2019 21:30:20 +0100

This is a German adaptation of H.P Lovecraft's novel The Colour out of Space from 1927. I think it does a good job of capturing the essence of the Lovecraftian atmosphere. The film is shot entirely in black and white, except for the colour which is here a glowing purplish colour. It's a good way of making the colour seem out of this world. After all, portraying a colour "unlike any known colours of the normal spectrum" on film could otherwise be rather difficult.

In Die Farbe, the story has moved to Germany in the mid 1970's, and the incident happening around the beginning of the second world war. Otherwise it seems to follow the novel by Lovecraft fairly well. While a good adaptation, I think this film will be mostly interesting to fans of Lovecraft's writing.

#horror #film #lovecraft

Horror Film

Halloween Every Dave Higgins

Sun, 10 Nov 2019 16:40:35 +0100 from ActivityPub

@harald I found the atmosphere superb and the acting is solid.

Not utterly struck with the shift into melting-face horror toward the end, but hard to show the incomprehensible on screen so not sure it could be avoided,

Harald Eilertsen

Sun, 10 Nov 2019 19:52:32 +0100

@Halloween Every Dave Higgins Yeah, for the most part I agree. The performance of the actors in the beginning (the american part) is a bit awkward, but the rest of the film it works great.

Hva er greia med ordførerkjeder?

Harald Eilertsen

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 17:02:40 +0100

Nypesuppe: Hva er greia med ordførerkjeder?

NRK skriver i dag at Tønsberg kommune vil bruke 200 000 kroner på nytt ordførerkjede, noe Tønsberg Venstre stemte imot:

Venstre vil ikke prioritere sånne gammeldagse symboler når det må kuttes 60 millioner kroner i nødvendige tilbud og tjenester til barn, unge og eldre.

Gammeldags er det kanskje, i likhet med mye annen symbolikk. Men slike utsagn gjør meg alltid nysgjerrig på de konkrete fakta: Hvor gammeldagse er ordførerkjedene?

#norge #norsk #ordførerkjede #historie

Norsk Historie

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Sun, 10 Nov 2019 19:12:51 +0100

Så sent som i 1948!

Harald Eilertsen

Sun, 10 Nov 2019 19:48:31 +0100

@Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum) Jepp, mange "gamle tradisjoner" som slett ikke er så gamle.

Harald Eilertsen

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 14:29:20 +0100

Velstandsfanden wrote the following post Fri, 08 Nov 2019 11:58:39 +0100

Dagens snøfall er sponset av Velstandsfanden!

#norge #norsk #vinter #snø #nissepønk

Harald Eilertsen

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 21:52:52 +0100

Jessica L. Hacker wrote the following post Thu, 07 Nov 2019 18:25:00 +0100

Hey, quick tip for you web devs out there... don't style your pages with JavaScript.

Last night I visited a website that was absolutely unreadable without javascript enabled because what should have been simple CSS was done in JS instead.

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M. Dent

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 23:57:08 +0100 last edited: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 23:56:02 +0100

In some cases that is done intentionally to break the page for scrapers

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 06:51:59 +0100

... and for blind people.

Harald Eilertsen

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 10:55:19 +0100

@M. Dent Which again means they don't understand how the web works. A scraper is just another client, like a web browser is.

M. Dent

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 13:15:32 +0100 last edited: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 13:14:26 +0100

Or they have different purposes. I don't say I agree, but there are bad actors who will programmatically steal content and use it for their own enrichment to the detriment of the person who created the content.

People are inherently always looking out primarily for #1. It's what we do. Even when it hurts others. We certainly need to learn to do otherwise, but making sure we personally have every advantage while simultaneously taking advantages away from others is the default moral compass of humanity. There is some wisdom in recognizing that and protecting yourself from the harm your neighbor can do to you even if you have learned to be of help and benefit to your neighbor. After all, if one set of neighbors destroys you, you won't be very helpful to anyone.

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 14:27:38 +0100

making sure we personally have every advantage while simultaneously taking advantages away from others is the default moral compass of humanity

Sorry, Matthew, but this is only what you have been taught to believe, it is thankfully not true, you do not have to believe this any more.

Let me rephrase:

making sure we personally have every advantage while simultaneously giving advantages to others too is the default moral compass of humanity

Harald Eilertsen

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 14:41:48 +0100

@M. Dent

bad actors who will programmatically steal content

Or good actors will make the content available to someone who does not have, or can not use, a graphical display. In anyway, using javascript as protection against clients they don't like is misguided and futile. Adding javascript capabilities to a client isn't black magic. Especially not if the client is written in node or something. So their only real effect is really to annoy people who otherwise would support them, read their content and potentially pass a link on to somebody else.

I still think it mostly boils down to incompetence.

M. Dent

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 16:02:34 +0100 last edited: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 16:01:59 +0100

@Harald Eilertsen

using javascript as protection against clients they don't like is misguided and futile.

Absolutely no disagreement there. I don't agree with the technique, but I was just pointing out that it is one tool some people use in a misguided attempt to protect themselves against bad actors.

M. Dent

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 16:05:59 +0100 last edited: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 16:04:49 +0100

@Haakon Meland Eriksen (Els Mussols)

Sorry, Matthew, but this is only what you have been taught to believe, it is thankfully not true, you do not have to believe this any more.

The fact that I have been taught to believe this does not make it untrue. I have no doubt that both of us have thought carefully about this question and have arrived at different conclusions. But this is a philosophical discussion that certainly won't be resolved through a discussion in this format and we will likely only unnecessarily think ill of each other if we try.

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 17:51:37 +0100

No, the best part is we are allowed to have different opinions and not think ill of each other. Peace and have a great weekend.