The author criticizes NRK for its participation in Eurovision, arguing it should oppose Israel's actions instead of acting as a platform for propaganda.
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Quitting LinkedIn is driven by ethical concerns, and the author explores alternatives for networking and maintaining connections without traditional social media.
The post argues that the resource-intensive development of large language models exacerbates the climate crisis and questions the societal value placed on GDP over ecological health.
The blog post recounts the author's experience at FOSDEM 2026, emphasizing the conference's vibrant atmosphere and the significance of political engagement in technology.
The author discusses Tekna's recent stance in solidarity with the people of Palestine, highlighting concerns about the organization's previous lack of engagement regarding the atrocities in Gaza. The post references a chronicle pu...
The text discusses Norway's potential need to apologize for profiting from the illegal occupation of Palestine, drawing parallels to historical apologies made to other groups. It also highlights Norway's significant investments in...
The author describes their experience at a hackathon organized by Hubbel, where the theme was to make something cool. They chose to work with Common Lisp, a programming language that was standardized in 1994. The author shares the...
The text discusses two init systems, systemd and Shepherd, presented at FOSDEM 2025. It provides an overview of the history, development, and features of both systems, as well as the controversies and challenges associated with th...
The author shares their thoughts on the future of the world, inspired by a LinkedIn post about Europe's troubles. They discuss military spending, mass-immigration, entrepreneurship, wealth inequality, and the need for vibrant comm...
The author shares their initial thoughts on learning Emacs, including their experience with different setups, the shortcut system, documentation, the community, Lisp programming, typing Norwegian, and web development. They also sh...
The www-data user on Debian is used for web servers and web content. It is used to run web servers and PHP processes, and is used to write out data by web servers. The user is used to prevent a compromised web server from rewritin...
0Filesystems are weird
2024-11-01 • file system backup solutions data transfer
The author encountered a strange situation while transferring files from a laptop to a NAS, where the file size and number of items fluctuated between different file systems. Despite seeing no errors, the author felt uneasy about ...
The text discusses the action taken by the Palestinian Committee at the Cloud Native Day Bergen conference to raise awareness about the profiteering of Microsoft, Google, and Amazon Web Services from apartheid and genocide. The po...
The text is a travel report from a local meeting of the Palestine Committee, summarizing the activities and discussions from the weekend. It includes information about the number of local chapters, members, and the demographic dis...
The author recently held a speech against the war in Gaza and tested the Whisper language model for automatic subtitling. The model worked well but had some issues. The author then used KI to solve the problem. The post also discu...
The author has moved all their projects from Github to a self-hosted Forgejo instance. They have deleted the git histories of their Github projects and put up a notice explaining where the code has moved. The author was inspired b...
The text is a practical walkthrough of the author's setup for hosting git projects, including network setup, backup strategy, and deployment setup. The author aims to learn non-hype, long-lived concepts and technologies, minimize ...
The book 'Hope is what you do' serves as a necessary antidote to despair. It is a witness to lost lives and ongoing suffering due to ruthless geopolitics. It speaks for hope in action and the need to continue the fight for solidar...
The text is a guide on how to set up two-factor authentication (2FA) on the Discourse forum software. It explains what 2FA is, its benefits, and provides videos for both Android and iOS users. It also includes information for Disc...
The text provides a review of the book 'Teknodiversitet' by Yuk Hui, a Dutch-based philosopher from Hong Kong who is also a trained data engineer. The book offers a fresh perspective on technology, criticizing the current understa...
The frog and the mouse discuss the need for decentralized alternatives to centralized industrial behemoths, but the frog is skeptical about the ease of self-hosting. The mouse encourages the frog to tinker, develop, learn, documen...
0Boknotat: Why I Write av George Orwell
2024-01-15 •
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The text discusses the importance of transparent access control design in multi-user systems to avoid confusion, frustration, and workplace mistrust. It highlights the need for users to be able to see all folders, even if they don...
The text is a review of the book 'Hverdagshelter' by Eva Joly, which discusses the fight against corruption. The book introduces ordinary people who have fought against corruption in various ways. It also highlights the historical...