Hey Michael,
You may wish to post your fascinating talk ideas to the local BSD User Group
("[email protected]" <[email protected]>) and/or get involved with the OSCAR EMR user
and/or development communities. A bunch of those topics are very relevant to
them 😉
I am not currently aware of any open source Hospital Information Systems in
Canada but.. one day.
Cheers,
Katie
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From: Michael Goguen via linux <[email protected]>
Sent: 25 June 2024 21:06
To: Katherine Mcmillan <[email protected]>; Michael Goguen
<[email protected]>
Cc: Scott Murphy <[email protected]>; [email protected]
<[email protected]>; Linux-Ottawa <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [linux] Re: July Meeting...
Attention : courriel externe | external email
topics for a meeting some time?
Is it hard to figure out how to make a simple online forum that is behind a
login wall on the internet, possibly on a server one has oneself, instead of
someone/ other sites server? Similarly, some of the... alternative social
media... like mastodon, diaspora... are supposedly designed... partly open
sourced... and so people can ... host their own... kind of 'servers', that they
can control... including shared files etc, connect with their own associates
with... but also still have some accessibility to others and other of that
social media service servers that others are on and hosting... so they can kind
of communicate between... servers... does anyone know much about this, or is
willing to do some talks about this? Also, things to do with changes in
Canadian laws to do with... freedom, information... gathering, rights,
disclosure, ie anyone with a podcast now has to register with the Canadian
government, facebook not letting people share Canadian news over their social
media, stuff with Julian Assange (it was said supposedly online that he may
have gotten released to go back to Australia or something? Can anyone confirm
this?) ... anything Mgeist Michael Geist has been writing about in articles
about canadian laws technology etc changes etc freedom... the possibly...
making so everyone's health info from ANY health provider... currently in Nova
Scotia started so all of this needs to be available to the Canadian government,
supposedly to make sure people aren't defrauding people with their treatments
etc, as well as... potentially sensitive mental health info being... in
'supposedly secure' online databases that... clandestine elements will
definitely have and make sure to use their unofficial access to ...as might
have further implications related to project like... well google and darpa etc
behaviour etc prediction projects (and monitoring) and via cambridge analytica
etc ... profiling people, manipulating, controlling, maybe partly mind control
but so unbelievably advance with so much processing power and data that people
will probably almost never be able to tell its happeing, let alone... protect
themselves or see it's happening and prove it or stop it etc... for most people
I would say... walmart and other corporations literally... do some of this sort
of processing for their own financial and corporate interests... let alone...
suffice it to say this is not necessarily limited to extreme cases of national
security that are being carefully vetted by judges and or other human beings on
a case by case basis at this point, but being automated to be distributed
everywhere and only... transparent and accountable (to the extent interest
decide they prefer to do this at all) to very select interests, possibly with a
lot of national etc bias... and then how some of this relates to...
mainstreaming things like... MAID 'Medical Assistance in Dying', the potential
of climate change and huge economic... crises... including some that may be
intentionally generated with plausible deniabiility while interfering with
reasonable actions by the public to mitigate and make changes to reduce the
harms in order to cause... crises which justify... disenfranchising many,
removing/ shifting the social net significantly, etc (potentially) ie can't
help poor or disable or old people as much in a supposed crisis so a massive
purge during crisis with the crisis being... covertly... kept from being
managed collectively effectively by less ... centrally integrated and finanical
and power brokers in order to do things... a little bit like how the pandemic
destroyed small businesses all over the world and allowed bigger businesses, if
they decided to keep certain services or products available, to basically buy
them up excessively cheaply etc (...'some people are in a position to massively
profit from potentially crises if they just watch this webinar and do the thing
x that serves the status quo of certain currently powerful people etc... ' ads
etc eheheh :/ )
I know some of this is reaching outside of technical linux focus...
freedom of communications, and maintaining secure communications over the 'open
internet' in an age of unimaginably powerful AI running around by various
interests... and maybe alternately... securing ... not on the open internet
community intranets (and keeping them 'off' the public open internet, if people
prefer'?)
for those who might not want to buy into starlink, etc... are there any ...
retro communications that... people might still like in a crisis or something?
are there like hand held radios or devices like phones that can run on some
kind of free open source linux through just local band radio that would be
allowable, practical, cheap, legal, effective for some communications if people
wanted (or believed they needed) to do this? Does just mentioning these where
they may be... put on the public internet and archived and available to be
harvested by the powers that be... put any... adaptive measures to... corrupt
concentration of power and destroying peoples' personal freedoms... does it
potentially... undermined the potential to do anything about these things by
talking about them this way... so that... measure to ... countermeasures to any
possible privacy or security people might try to make are likely to be
implemented etc, and their... and peoples' potential dissent, let alone
resistance... to various... agenda of powerful, including taking away some
essential freedoms, rights and coopting / messing with legal systems and
structures meant to protect against this, etc? that peoples' intent, whether on
places like this forum, or through their own personal digital communications,
being in proximity of devices, possibly belonging to someone else... will cause
this information to be in a 'profile' about them that will have...
'consequences' etc?
Is it ok that I put these... questions and thoughts plaintext in this email?
Blessings, thank you for allowing me to continue to be connected to this group
and explore some ideas around open source, free accessible... technologies to
empower people... especially the linux open source operating system...
Michael Goguen
ps are any folks here fans of national capital freenet nonprofit internet
service provider here in Ottawa?
Do any folks from here... value the idea of partnering with the or like
collaborating etc sometimes... on various projects?
For instance, making wifi more available in some low income areas, or like
cheap devices like phones etc, or even... connecting with the Ottawa Library
and similar public resources in order to... support various programs to ...help
various public who are interested in... certain low budget sort of 'communal'
resource sharing for like enabling... especially less affluent folks to ...
help themselves and others on a low budget/ minimal means and training etc?
ok sorry maybe I'm rambling a bit here now.
thanks in advance.
Michael
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 7:12 PM Katherine Mcmillan via linux
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi All,
There is such an emphasis on bilingualism at the Government of Canada that I am
putting all of my spare time into learning French so won't be able to attend
this meeting (but have started to attend the Linux-Meetup Aux
Quebec<https://www.meetup.com/linux-montreal/>, which I would highly recommend).
[X]<https://www.meetup.com/linux-montreal/>
Linux-Meetup au Québec | Meetup<https://www.meetup.com/linux-montreal/>
Les Linux-Meetup sont des rencontres informelles où plusieurs personnes
discutent de ce qui les passionnent et font un partage de leurs cheminements
dans le monde des logiciels libres avec GNU/Linux.Le tout se déroule dans une
ambiance décontractée et amicale. Venez rencontrer des gens passionnés ay
www.meetup.com<http://www.meetup.com>
Sincerely,
Katie
________________________________
From: Scott Murphy
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2024 17:00
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: July Meeting...
We didn’t really have any discussions on topics on a July 4th meeting.
I might have something, but nothing definite yet. I’ve been a little busy and
on training the past week and a half.
Does anyone have a topic they would be interested in presenting? I know that
John and Tug will not be available.
Cheers,
Scott
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Scott Murphy
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
