Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

Steve Jobs was from the Silicon Valley, born and raised and lived his whole life there. All these people are from somewhere else: Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Sergei Brin, Eric Schmidt, Larry Ellison, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone.

#Austin is now getting lots of press for being the recipient of people leaving the Silicon Valley. “They just keep coming. The fleece vests, the tech bros—that’s definitely imported from California.” What is key to note here is that this same flood hit the Silicon Valley in the 90s. These hoards are not "from California", they almost all came from somewhere else. Now they are leaving and ruining other places.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-08/austin-texas-ready-or-not-becomes-hot-spot-for-silicon-valley-transplants

Now its clear that cars are going #electric, it is time to stop subsidizing cars entirely. The climate impact of just building an electric car greatly exceeds the entire climate impact of the life of biking or public transit systems. Electric car subsidies are now supporting stupid projects like #ElonMusk's #BoringCompany tunnels, which is just a bad reinvention of the subway.
https://jalopnik.com/move-over-keno-elon-musks-dumb-tesla-tunnel-now-the-l-1846654974

Donors have influence, and big donors even more. #BillGates is now steering global health research in the things he decides himself to focus on. This is dangerous https://www.politico.eu/article/bill-gates-who-most-powerful-doctor/

#Palantir is making zero cost #data sharing contracts with EU companies. We know this story already: if you're not the customer, then you're the product. Now its happening on a country-wide level, with whole countries giving into #SurveillanceCapitalism

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/02/seeing-stones-pandemic-reveals-palantirs-troubling-reach-in-europe

#LightPollution is constantly expanding, cities are consistently adding 5-10% more light a year. This is a waste of energy, harms people's sleep, stops plants from breeding, and disturbs animal and insect life. On top of that, the night is also beautiful.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/17/lights-off-france-parkour-collectives-fight-pollution-one-store-sign-at-a-time

@porru @fdroidorg in English, the setting is called "Send usage data".

@jz "How dare they buy ads on Facebook, ahem, I mean meddle in our elections!"

@Blort @fdroidorg Sure, you could review app suggestions in the RFP tracker to see if they are worth considering for inclusion https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/-/issues

@adbenitez @fdroidorg yeah gitlab.com has become a pain to use. We have considered codeberg.org, it would be a large project to migrate.

@raucao F-Droid uses Debian for almost everything. I'm not aware of any Ubuntu servers.

@jz I totally agree these kinds of activities are often shady or unethical. I was saying its not particularly new or surprising, unfortunately.

#Google should spend a lot more money on #Android. By 2016 they spent $9 billion on Android, and made $22 billion in profit. It is clear that Android users are not the customers here.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-21/google-s-android-generates-31-billion-revenue-oracle-says-ijor8hvt

@jz Sounds like your standard practice "supporting free media", many countries give money to the foreign journalists whose work they support, like US, UK, Sweden. I'm guessing France too.

"Wind turbines can apparently operate in Antarctica, so it's not clear what Texas' problem is."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/texas-power-grid-crumples-under-the-cold/

@guardianproject @fdroidorg
Popularity Contest aka F-Droid #Metrics is now posted as a merge request, it should be included in the v1.12-alpha1 which will be out soon.

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/merge_requests/985