Elias @eliasr@librem.one

If you tell people to "just search for it" instead of giving them a link, you need to change that too: you are effectively giving google the power to decide what people will find.

Oh and one more thing: when you leave google, make sure to not end up in the claws of another of the giants that are no better, like Apple or Microsoft. They are equally bad.

Be free! Do not let google own you, and do not help google own others around you.

5/5

If you share links to youtube videos, stop doing that right now! There are alternatives, see #PeerTube

If you use gmail, switch to another service right now!

If you use an android phone, throw that away and help build #MobileLinux instead. As long as you are using android, you are helping google preserve its dangerous near-monopoly.

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If you like democracy and human rights, then you must stay away from google because of the huge power that company has, power that is outside the reach of any democratic institution. Google's power is not used to benefit people, instead it is used to increase Google's profits and power even further.

Oh and if you are a google user, then don't blame anyone else -- you are the problem! You need to change.

3/?

If you lean left, then it should be obvious that you should not allow such a huge for-profit company to have power over you, and over society around you.

If you lean right, then htink about the size of the company and its monopoly situation. The company is so large that it has long ago passed the point where there was meaningful competition in a marketplace. A this point it just stays in power due to its monopoly.

2/?

This is for anyone using Google things, their search, their email, youtube, android, all that crap. Stop using that right now!

Google is a company so large that it's value is more than a trillion (1 000 000 000 000) USD. That should be enough information for you to understand that you should stay far away from their disgusting "products".

No matter where you stand politically, the conclusion is the same: stay away from google.

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@agx thanks! I do have spare devices, don't worry about that 😉

@carlton this helps I think: look at the center piece on each side, that defines the color of that side since you cannot move the center piece.

Then try to get one side complete, taking care to not only get the right color on that side but also on the adjacent side. E.g. if you try to get a complete white side, then there is a piece that is white and green, then you know exactly where that piece should be because you know which side is the green side.

@JohanAlfredeen tack! paprikan är lite som en vindruva då... kanske funkar som tapas om du marinerar den med massa vitlök? 🙂

@JohanAlfredeen det här går ju inte, jag vet inte hur stor Milou är.

@annaardin särskilt obehagligt med den där parentesen. Ju yngre person desto större anledning att utöva förtryck mot personen, tydligen.

@agx ok, thanks!

Is there anything mere mortals like myself can do to help making Crimson ready?

@JoWa hur var den?

@agx @purism Great work! When are Librem 5 users getting this? My L5 is still on phosh 0.29 so two versions behind. By my count it's now 8 weeks since the release of phosh 0.30 (Aug 3) -- is something wrong, or are there reasons why such long delay is needed?

Read this: https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content/

Quote:

"The Commission has been reluctant to detail the relationship between Thorn and Johansson’s cabinet under the EU’s freedom of information mechanism. [...] disclosure [...] would undermine the organisation’s commercial interest”."

So we cannot have democracy because that would hurt the "commercial interest" of those who want to sell their mass-surveillance technology to the EU.

#ChatControl #StopChatControl #StoppaChatControl #svpol #eupol #democracy

@jon absolutely, go ahead. Sorry for bothering you.

@jon

> welcome *technical* and NOT
> *political/ethical* answers

So you assume it is possible to separate those?

I don't think that works, technology is politics 🙂

In your question you ask what is "better", but what is meant by "better" is very political. "Better" for whom? For society, for some kind of common good, or for a certain company's business? That's political.

Photo of #GamlaStan taken from the #Skeppsholmsbron bridge this morning. Trying to compete with @stockholmpixels

#stockholm #stockholmbypixels #cityphotography #ShotOnLibrem5

@Mer__edith @franzmueller @nateb

I mean, the EU is huge and there must normally be a procedure where experts in the field will review any proposal before it is presented. But in this case, experts have been ignored. How is that possible? All experts say it is madness.

The process of how the proposal was created is deeply flawed. That should be investigated, and it could be done by a journalist who does not need deep technical knowledge, it's a problem at another level, about how the EU works.