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Years ago, when I was young and stupid... My mother rarely was picking up the phone when I calling her. When asked why, she told me, the ringtone is indistinctive, and she doesn't hear it. I've recorded a custom ringtone, with me shouting a Polish counterpart of: "Hey! It's me! Pickup the phone!" Well, it has worked, even if she had changed the ringtone soon after 😅
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Attached: 1 image #Meme #HumourLady Laura :bongoCat: (Mastodon)
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🆕 blog! “NHS Goes To War Against Open Source”
The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories.
Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so…
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#government #nhs #OpenSource #politics
NHS Goes To War Against Open Source
The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source.Terence Eden’s Blog
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Eine Frage...
Peertube kennt Kategorien
Friendica kennt Kategorien
Aber die Peertube-Kategorien sind in Friendica unbekannt?
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Community run free Open Source plugins for a community group using Wordpress
!WordPress I volunteer with a community group that uses #Wordpress for its website. So far its approach to Wordpress plugins has been fairly haphazard. Our budget is basically zero. We've ended up using various plugins for User Registration, Access control, Forms, Backup and Restore and other funcitons that are all freemium or cripleware versions of plugins that are really commerical projects by their authors.
On the otherhand we have been looking at running #CiviCRM inside wordpress and that looks to be a powerful, useful tool that's truely community open source.
What other plugins are community groups using that are true community developed opensource projects? I've tried to look through the community plugins directory on Wordpress.org and do some searches but the web is littered with promotional content for commerical 'free' plugins.
I really don't have strong connections to the wordpress community. It woudl be great to connect with other community group volunteers that are involved in Wordpress and get your input and thoughts.
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Hey UK folks into #CiviCRM (an #openSource #crm (database) for NFPs, charities, campaigns, communities).
Do you know you've got 2 days left to get your early bird tickets for "CiviBRM" - a user-focussed event in #Birmingham on 9 June?
These events are a brilliant way to share experiences, learn new things and engage in a software that's about community not commerce.
#events #event #westMidlands #midlands #oxford (well I'm going!)
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Today, the #panoramax federation 🗺️ consists of 10 instances. It hosts 98.91 million pictures 📸 that cover 901,032 km, uploaded by 2,099 contributors! 🦺
Compared to yesterday, this is an increase 📈 of 237,837 pictures 📸, covering 2,089 more kilometers. 🚧 This includes 2 new contributors. 👷
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Amazonia tiene un nuevo logotipo, y es una obra maestra. Las letras fueron extraídas de imágenes satelitales del propio río.
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Want to get more from your CiviCRM database?
Join the CiviCRM Administrator Training in Manchester on May 14–15 and explore memberships, contributions, CiviRules, SearchKit reporting, and more.
Thanks to Ruza Solutions and Northbridge Digital for supporting this training. Register now: civicrm.org/civicrm/event/info…
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Taller de ayuda + Presentación: Autodefensa digital, privacidad y nuestra situación en el mundo tecnológico
Este próximo viernes 24 de abril regresamos a Las Naves con una ponencia imprescindible de Juan Conejero, matemático y ciudadano comprometido con la soberanía tecnológica.
Como es habitual, arrancaremos la tarde con nuestro taller de ayuda: un espacio abierto para instalar software libre con nuestro apoyo y resolver cualquier duda técnica.
Lectura en valencià disponible fent clic ací.
🛠️ 17:00 – Taller de ayuda GNU/Linux (Install Party)
¿Quieres dar el salto a GNU/Linux? ¿Te has decidido a dejar atrás Windows o Mac pero no sabes por dónde empezar? ¿Ya usas Linux pero se te resiste alguna configuración?
En nuestra Install Party te echamos una mano. No importa tu nivel de experiencia, desde principiantes hasta usuarios avanzados, todos sois bienvenidos. Trae tu equipo y nos ponemos manos a la obra.
A partir de las 17:00, podrás venir a:
- Instalar GNU/Linux en tu ordenador. 🔧 (Recordatorio: ¡trae hecha tu copia de seguridad! 💾)
- Aprender a bloquear anuncios y rastreadores en tu móvil. 🛡️
- Descubrir e instalar aplicaciones libres, conociendo sus ventajas frente al software privativo. 🔄
- Explorar redes sociales federadas y medios de comunicación alternativos. 🌐
- Resolver dudas o problemas técnicos de tu sistema actual. 🐧
🎙️ 18:00 - Ponencia: Autodefensa digital, privacidad y nuestra situación en el mundo tecnológico
Juan Conejero, socio de la asociación y excelente divulgador, nos plantea una sesión de reflexión crítica sobre las preguntas que definirán el futuro de nuestra sociedad digital.
El mundo digital avanza a una velocidad vertiginosa. Cada innovación suele presentarse solo por sus beneficios, omitiendo sistemáticamente su cara más oscura.El objetivo de esta charla es ayudarnos a desarrollar los "anticuerpos" necesarios para navegar la vida digital con conciencia, criterio y menos ingenuidad.
Estamos deseando escuchar su propuesta y generar un debate sobre el propósito real de la tecnología en nuestras vidas. ¿Te unes? ¡La entrada es libre y gratuita! 🆓
¡Recuérdalo! 🧠
- 📅 Viernes 24 de abril de 2026
- 🎟️ ¡Entrada libre!
- 📍 Edificio Las Naves (Calle Joan Verdeguer, 16, 46024, Valencia)
- 🕔 17:00 Taller de instalación / ayuda GNU/Linux
- 🕖 18:00 Ponencia: Autodefensa digital, privacidad y nuestra situación en el mundo tecnológico
¡Nos vemos muy pronto! ❤️ No olvides seguirnos para estar al día.
Al día siguiente… ¡Retrópolis 2026! 🕹️
La divulgación no para: el sábado 25 de abril estaremos en la UPV. Por la mañana impartiremos un taller de Godot (creación de videojuegos) y por la tarde seguiremos instalando software libre y disfrutando de videojuegos abiertos.
¿Aún no conoces la feria Retrópolis? ¡Haz clic aquí para ver toda nuestra agenda y los detalles del evento!
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#PluginSolar in the #UK can never work its far to cloudy! Germany is much more sunny.
That is wrong: #London is on the same Latitude as #Dortmund. #Hamburg on the same Latitude as #Manchester.
Let’s do some math: We got to re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvg_tools/… works for the Great Britain, even though you left the EU. And choose London.
We choose 2025 Crystalline Silicon, 0,8 kWp and 14% system loss. Mounting is 90°, so hanging on a balcony. Azimuth: 0° is South.
As a price we choose equivalent of 500 EUR which is currently 432,92 Pound. 2% interset and 15 lifetime.
Gives us: Yearly PV energy production 614.65 kWh.
Average Price for London is 24.9 p/kWh.
We assume that you use about 50% of that electricity yourself.
600 kwh * ½ * 0,249 Pound = 74 Pound a year.
Gives you a cost return of about 5,4 years.
Full Article: balkon.solar/news/2026/03/27/c…
JRC Photovoltaic Geographical Information System (PVGIS) - European Commission
Photovoltaic Geographical Information System (PVGIS)re.jrc.ec.europa.eu
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The closing of a beauty school created quite the horror scene...
Cycling in Kyoto is not for the faint of heart💀👀😱💇✂️😮💨
#Kyoto #kyotohorrorstory #mannequinmassacre #beautyschool #hairdressers #mannequin
Terence Eden
in reply to Terence Eden • • •I'm quoted in this article.
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#NHS #OpenSource #GitHub
NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hacking fears
Matthew Sparkes (New Scientist)Terence Eden reshared this.
Terence Eden
in reply to Terence Eden • • •As I say in the post, if you're in the UK *please* write to your MP about this.
Don't just pontificate online. Write a short email to your MP and tell them you disagree with NHS England's decision to shut down all their Open Source code.
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Dan Q
in reply to Terence Eden • • •I don't see anything in the article about writing to your MP. 😔
But I've done so anyway. And echoed your concerns at danq.me/nhs-england-rushes-to-…
NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hacking fears
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in reply to Terence Eden • • •Terence Eden
in reply to 210561 ✨ [Q] • • •Chip Butty
in reply to Terence Eden • • •Terence Eden
in reply to Chip Butty • • •I suggest writing to both your MP and MSP 😀
Chip Butty
in reply to Terence Eden • • •DamonHD
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in reply to DamonHD • • •David O'Brien
in reply to Terence Eden • • •I’m based in Scotland. Does this decision apply UK-wide, or England only?
@Edent
Terence Eden
in reply to David O'Brien • • •David O'Brien
in reply to Terence Eden • • •Not sure the NHS in Scotland had the same setup, but will do.
@Edent
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in reply to Terence Eden • • •J.H.Noyes
in reply to Terence Eden • • •Franklin Delano Stallone
in reply to Terence Eden • • •I'd say I'm in 2 minds about it. Take the 2nd paragraph of the article. How does the average person benefit from the source?
I'd personally prefer having a system that lets me import my records into Apple Health or any app of my choice.
It mention duplication of effort. The duplication of effort within the NHS I don't think is solved by the repos. It's all the private companies providing things like SystmOnline which doesn't even cover everything at one GP.
Tom Chadwin
in reply to Terence Eden • • •Conny Nasch
in reply to Terence Eden • • •Hugh
in reply to Terence Eden • • •Thank you for highlighting this, and without any unnecessary hyperbole!
A hugely retrograde step; I'll certainly be writing to my MP on the matter.
Kerry Buckley
in reply to Terence Eden • • •Nu Modular
in reply to Terence Eden • • •Even with the recent Copy Fail exploit being revealed, this is an extreme measure, to put it mildly.
#FOSS #Linux
Andrew Nesbitt
in reply to Terence Eden • • •Search software origins to browse – Software Heritage archive
archive.softwareheritage.orgWalrus 🏴
in reply to Terence Eden • • •Terence Eden
in reply to Walrus 🏴 • • •@Walrus conspiratorial thinking rarely helps. You can peruse his entry in the Register of Members' Interests if you want to look for evidence.
The truth is likely to be much less exciting - I suspect a manager somewhere has gotten spooked & thinks this will help.
Nicol Wistreich
in reply to Terence Eden • • •“There are thousands of NHS repositories on GitHub. The work undertaken to assess all of them and then close them will be massive. And for what?”
“Even if we ignore the impracticality of closing all the code - it is too late! All that code has already been slurped up. If Mythos really is the ultimate hacker, hiding the code now does nothing. It has likely already retained copies of the repositories.”
”And if it were both practical and effective to hide source code - that doesn't matter. These AI tools are just as effective against closed-source. They can analyse binaries and probe websites with ease.”
“There are tens of thousands of NHS website pages which refer to their GitHub repos - will they all need to be updated? What's the cost of that?”
@Edent
Nicol Wistreich
in reply to Nicol Wistreich • • •I am convinced that closing all their excellent open source work is the wrong move for the NHS. I hope they see sense and reverse course.”
“Until then, I've helped make sure that every single NHS repository has been backed up and, because the software licence permits it, can be re-published if the original is closed.”
👏👏 @Edent
Nine Stones Close
in reply to Terence Eden • • •Terence Eden
in reply to Nine Stones Close • • •Nine Stones Close
in reply to Terence Eden • • •Terence Eden
in reply to Nine Stones Close • • •Khleedril
in reply to Terence Eden • • •@NineStonesClose Not sure how you can say this. Surely any software security breach would be undertaken with the aim of exfiltrating NHS data about patients. Exactly the data Palantir and their ilk would like to have.
I would say it is almost certain that the people who have made this decision would have been cowed into it by 'advice' that open source software leaves the door open to the data sets.
Nicole Parsons
in reply to Terence Eden • • •#TranslatedFromTheRepublican
"NHS sides with Trump billionaires to increase dependency on ghouls like Peter Thiel, despite national security risks & associations with Jeffrey Epstein.
National Security Vulnerabilities deliberately promoted."
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Cautionary Tale: Trump orders access denials
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Credit cards cancelled, Google accounts closed: ICC judges on life under Trump sanctions
Ashifa Kassam (The Guardian)Terence Eden
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •This isn't about access to data. It is about source code security.
Nicole Parsons
in reply to Terence Eden • • •Forgive my snarky remarks.
My hashtag isn't directed at your post but at the public officials fostering these policies of obsequious compliance.
The moneyed interests behind deliberate source code insecurity policies have their own agenda.
Security of data and data sovereignty are threats to those interests.
Terence Eden
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •understood. But we don't have Republicans in the UK (other than the anti-monarchy lot).
What did your MP say when you wrote to them about it?
Nicole Parsons
in reply to Terence Eden • • •desmog.com/2024/06/12/mapped-t…
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The UK has public officials enacting billionaire agendas & fossil fuel funded fascism.
Code security is essential.
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Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature
George Monbiot (The Guardian)spammyspamguy
in reply to Terence Eden • • •Michele Adduci
in reply to Terence Eden • • •Martin
in reply to Terence Eden • • •vasundhar
in reply to Terence Eden • • •⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️
in reply to Terence Eden • • •Terence Eden
in reply to ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ • • •⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️
in reply to Terence Eden • • •I meant only a few years ago this was literally just a CSV you could fetch.
Terence Eden
in reply to ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ • • •If it's important to you - let them know. There's nothing I can do about it.
⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️
in reply to Terence Eden • • •Kevin Russell
in reply to Terence Eden • • •Terence Eden
in reply to Kevin Russell • • •Kevin Russell
in reply to Terence Eden • • •The NHS has been put in a bobsled to hell by Tories, Starmer has done nothing to.change the destination.
Like he's done nothing on Tory demonstration laws, like he's adopted Tory lgbt bigotry, like he's continued Tory Austerity, like he continues racist Tory immigrant scapegoating.
Ain't nothing outside the PM purview.
Terence Eden
in reply to Kevin Russell • • •@kevinrns I mean, that simply isn't true. Funding is significantly up in the NHS.
ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationand…
If you think the PM bothers with matters like this, you haven't really understood how UK politics works.
No need to reply, thanks.
Healthcare expenditure, UK Health Accounts - Office for National Statistics
UK Health Accounts team (Office for National Statistics)Kevin Russell
in reply to Terence Eden • • •Terence Eden
in reply to Kevin Russell • • •@kevinrns that graph literally shows a drop since Labour were elected in 2024…
As, in fact, do most other statistics.
england.nhs.uk/2026/02/waiting…
You're welcome to be doomer about it. But I prefer a reality based approach.
Anyway, you concentrate on your country and we'll concentrate on ours.
Bye.
NHS England » NHS waiting list lowest in almost 3 years as NHS battled busiest winter on record
www.england.nhs.ukKevin Russell
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in reply to Terence Eden • • •Terence Eden
in reply to InsertUser • • •digital.nhs.uk/developer/api-c…
Nadia/Надя/नाडिया/娜迪亚/ نادية
in reply to Terence Eden • • •Terence Eden
in reply to Nadia/Надя/नाडिया/娜迪亚/ نادية • • •Stephen Paulger
in reply to Terence Eden • • •I think I have the ability to convince a "computer person" that this is a bad idea. Any advice on how to translate that to convincing an MP who has an unknown level of computing experience?
One thing I wondered was whether writing to DSIT might be a better approach for me to take.
Terence Eden
in reply to Stephen Paulger • • •@aimaz
Write a *very* short and focussed letter to your MP. The DSIT will not respond to you - they'll tell you to contact your MP.
Explain, in simple language and using no more than 2 paragraphs, why you think it is a bad idea and ask them to forward your concerns to DHSC.
Andy Wootton
in reply to Terence Eden • • •Terence Eden
in reply to Terence Eden • • •fsfe.org/news/2026/news-202605…
FSFE: NHS England should not hide public code behind closed doors - FSFE
FSFE - Free Software Foundation EuropeOwen Blacker
in reply to Terence Eden • • •@fsfe Out of interest, someone asked if I knew of any evidence of "make thing open, it makes thing better" actually having been shown to be the case.
D'you happen to know of any references offhand? (I'm being too lazy to search, so please don't feel you need to search on my behalf)
Terence Eden
in reply to Terence Eden • • •There's another article in the New Scientist with more details about how #Mythos spooked the #NHS into shutting down its brilliant #OpenSource projects.
newscientist.com/article/25253…
Backlash builds over NHS plan to hide source code from AI hacking risk
Matthew Sparkes (New Scientist)Terence Eden reshared this.
Terence Eden
in reply to Terence Eden • • •newscientist.com/article/25253…
Backlash builds over NHS plan to hide source code from AI hacking risk
Matthew Sparkes (New Scientist)Terence Eden reshared this.
Iván Sánchez Ortega
in reply to Terence Eden • • •civio.es/novedades/2025/11/17/…
This is the landmark ruling that sets a new standard for algorithmic transparency in Spain
CivioPaul M
in reply to Terence Eden • • •well there's maybe a role for you in Paris if you get completely fed up with it mastodon.social/@sovtechfund/1…
Sovereign Tech Agency
2026-04-30 16:08:33
Terence Eden
in reply to Terence Eden • • •heise.de/news/FSFE-warnt-NHS-s…
FSFE warnt: NHS sollte quelloffenen Code nicht depublizieren
Dirk Knop (heise online)alagtriste
in reply to Terence Eden • • •The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic | flyingpenguin
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