Re: Helping Ukraine with Debian
Long Term: Wars in modern times can only happen, if Propaganda ensures their support by the population. Anything that helps against propaganda helps against wars.
Think what technology would make it easier for people to discover the truth and share it with others (avoiding censorship).
I'm currently interested in decentralized search engines, e.g. YaCy.net. Other topics might be free, decentralized and censorship-resistant communication (Email, XMPP, ...)?
> Andrew M.A. Cater <amacater@einval.com> hat am 07.04.2022 11:57 geschrieben:
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> On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 06:41:58PM +1200, Matt Grant wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Has anyone thought about how to help out Ukraine by using Debian?
> > Thinking about humanitarian relief and and other possibilities for
> > communications. Is there any way I may be able to help out by remoting
> > in? Any one got any verifiable contacts please?
> >
> > Thank you so much,
> >
> > Matt Grant
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> Hi Matt,
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> I think there's a couple of things here. Although the Debian installer and
> some other parts of Debian have been localised into Ukrainian, anyone
> who speaks and writes Ukrainian would be very welcome to help Debian in
> general make Debian a better environment in Ukrainian - we're short handed
> for this.
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> Distributing laptops with Debian on, for example, or Freedombox or whatever
> may be counterproductive at this time: probably the best help that anybody
> could do is to give money to the International Red Cross or one of the large
> aid agencies on the ground - and keep giving. If Debian is worth 10 currency
> units a month to you - give that much to one of the large aid agencies as
> if you were giving it to Debian.
>
> Offering to help administer somebody's machine remotely in the climate of
> cyber attacks, allegations and misleading information might not be welcomed :(
>
> All the very best, as ever,
>
> Andy Cater
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