Manuel Erhardt @erhardt@librem.one

"Tax havens - #Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £220bn profit last year" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/03/microsoft-irish-subsidiary-paid-zero-corporate-tax-on-220bn-profit-last-year

@Inkscape is celebrating the release of Inkscape 1.1! Among the highlights are a Welcome dialog, a Command Palette, a revamped Dialog Docking System, and searchable preference options. https://inkscape.org/news/2021/05/24/welcome-inkscape-11/

WAT?! You're telling me there has been a team at Facebook designing and implementing this feature, and not one person has stood up and asked:

"Uhm, isn't that super creepy, even for us?"

When the iPhone launched, all the cool apps were on the desktop, and you had to live with shitty web apps on your mobile.

Nowadays all the cool apps are on the mobiles, and you get shitty web apps for the desktop.

'Free Software is about empowerment.

When I was a student with little money, Linux enabled me to do interesting things with my cheap and old computer where the pre-installed software failed.

Since then, my whole education & many achievements would have been impossible had I not been able to experiment, learn, disassemble, reassemble, modify, tweak, and use #software the way I wanted.

This kind of #empowerment needs a strong lobby: the FSFE'

– Thomas Kahle

https://fsfe.org/about/people/testimonials#kahle

Together with our partners, we have finalized our programme ‘Joint Forces to Tackle Child Labour’, implemented in artisanal and small-scale #gold mines and #mining communities in Uganda.

Read more on results and our lessons learnt: https://bit.ly/3uYQ1yh

100 millions de changements pour une carte du monde : https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2021/02/25/100-million-edits-to-openstreetmap/

Privacy is a human right.

Congratulations to the VLC (VideoLAN) team on their 20th birthday! VLC is one of the most popular programs under the GPL, and has been used by millions around the world as their media player of choice. https://u.fsf.org/399

Librem 14 Update: Shipping Starts in February with Extended Battery

"Thank you so much for your patience while we finish up the Librem 14. Hopefully the surprise upgrade to an extended battery will help take some of the sting off of the extra wait!"

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-14-update-shipping-starts-in-february-with-extended-battery/

#Librem14 #privacy #freedom

I have a (free) new book out! "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is an anti-monopolist critique of Big Tech that connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposes a way to deal with both:

https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59

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Freedom is the gift that keeps on giving. Read the annual Giving Guide for our latest recommendations on tech gifts for your friends and family that promote #UserFreedom, not the interests of a "big tech" monopoly: https://u.fsf.org/377

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