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I set up my own XMPP / Jabber Server some minutes ago. I installed Prosody without any problems. You could now contact me via hanez@systemchaos.org. Please use this account for future contact requests. Since decentralization is a good way for keeping enemies away, run your own XMPP service!

The configuration took about 5 minutes. I created a certificate for encrypted communication to the server and then changed some small parts of the configuration. Since this server is “private only” I don’t need to care about much stuff. You could not register, so the most stuff is static. Adding users is not more then an “adduser” command on generic operating systems.

It is so easy… do it yourself and be autonomous from services on the net…

ACTA is one more offensive against the sharing of culture on the Internet. ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is an agreement secretly negotiated by a small “club” of like-minded countries (39 countries, including the 27 of the European Union, the United States, Japan, etc). Negotiated instead of being democratically debated, ACTA bypasses parliaments and international organizations to dictate a repressive logic dictated by the entertainment industries.

ACTA would impose new criminal sanctions forcing Internet actors to monitor and censor online communications. It is thus a major threat to freedom of expression online and creates legal uncertainty for Internet companies. In the name of trademarks and patents, it would also hamper access to generic medicines in poor countries.

More on ACTA:

• La Quadrature du Net about ACTA
• EFF’s International Page on ACTA

I have added #arduino-de to Freenode in hope there will be people from Germany meeting up there.

German language preferred but no must!

Please join to create a german IRC community for Arduino… ;)