We wish you a nice Midsummer! Today is the longest day. Happy winter solstice for the southern hemisphere! ♦ Wir wünschen einen schönen Mittsommer! Heute ist der längste Tag. Für die Südhalbkugel eine schöne Wintersonnenwende! ♦ Desejamos-lhe um bom Solstício de Verão! Hoje é o dia mais longo. Feliz solstício de inverno para o hemisfério sul! ♦ ¡Les deseamos un buen verano! Hoy es el día más largo. ¡Feliz solsticio de invierno para el hemisferio sur! ♦ Nous vous souhaitons un agréable solstice d'été ! Aujourd'hui est le jour le plus long. Joyeux solstice d'hiver pour l'hémisphère sud! ∎
It is me on FB: “That just seems to be true in deed to me what Yanis Varoufakis is telling here. Really worth to read. Even just what the reporter asks needs to be known: “What would you tell about the world majority not being in support of the sanctions against Russia? No country on the African continent, none in the Middle east, the whole of Latin America as well as the countries with the largest population India and China do not speak for the sanctions” - all translated literally into German. At the bottom you can watch the original news in English language.”
Write an email to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, do what you can. Certainly you may also browse my previous messages about Julian to get more information on what to write.
Algorithm Watch wanted to analyse Facebook´s algorithm. They had to withdraw their donation project for data research for not to be sued by Facebook. When platforms like Facebook push certain content and stifle other, it can have a critical impact on public discourse. It is known that Facebook fosters content that attracts many clicks and interaction; something that also applies to fake news. Then again unwanted information can be suppressed readily if there is no public accountability. Algorithm Watch demands a Digital Services Act, which protects research in public interest.
Not just social media but even search engines are downgrading or taking certain content out of the index. The problem is not as significant with search engines but apparently there is targeted influence on search results also here in the West. The author of this page searches regularely for his own content and currently more and more sites and content from elstel and his own person disappear. It´s been quite a while since only the two controversial pages mentioned in my previous message linked from here had been obviously affected. Today it is about almost every page at elstel. It is also a long time since pirate bay founder Peter Sunde let people prick up their ears by his article ‘I Have Given Up’ which is about the free internet. Today, most likely you can find something at metager or eventually at entireweb. Bing does also censor but it lasts for them longer than for Google to downgrade or take a site out of the index.
We have extended our documentation on how to create chroots for the rpm based distributions Fedora and Mageia. Programs like dnf, zypper and debootstrap are nowadays available for most distributions which facilitates the chroot creation by users without him/her having to install a whole system directly on hardware. Furthermore we have reordered the docuemtation items in a more logically consistent way.
Besides this I am currently packaging lots of the software at elstel.org for different distributions. Where to find online repositories is issued under /software. We will apply for xchroot and possibly other programs to get included into Debian while we have updated the openSUSE package. Additionally I am planning to update existing packages more frequently though only direct download from elstel.org may at times yield the most ultimate new version.
