Startpage.com is now owned by an advertising company
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/di5rn3/startpage_is_now_owned_by_an_advertising_company/
(submitted by rahuldottech)
I'm kinda irked that nobody gives credit to http://calagator.org/ for having been an open source alternative to Meetup for more than a decade already
Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increase in violent crime
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/10/09/exposure-to-air-pollution-is-linked-to-an-increase-in-violent-crime
(submitted by pseudolus)
The witch hunt continues:
http://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-project/
My first thought: this is exactly what they (those who attacked rms) wanted. Divide and conquer.
My second thought: how has Stallman's behavior over the years undermined the empowerment of all computer users?
My last thought: why didn't the people making the statement explicitly state the behaviour(s) they believe to undermine?
A worker owned taxi #coop in Southend has grown from 6 to 70 drivers.
They repaid all their investors and returned £3000 to their members last year. The same year Uber left the area after failing to compete with them.
We need this in every town and city!
WTF?! My non-rooted phone had #Google Maps pre-installed, but I only use #OSMand for navigation etc.
Yesterday, I walked to a local restaurant, without using my phone, and had lunch there before walking back.
I never opened #GoogleMaps.
Today, I find a notification from Maps:
How was {restaurant name}?
Rate places to get smarter recommendations.
So it tracked and calculated where I ate without even opening my phone or the app.
Definitely time for #Pinephone / #LibreM
Thailand judge shoots himself in court after criticising system
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49945636
(submitted by miles)
Hmm... veganism you say?
https://i.imgur.com/JjjDHwu.gifv
If the operating system on your computer is a subscription service which you might lose access to at any time, what use is owning the hardware it runs on?
This could be the next revolutionary product:
Rented PCs on which you own nothing, with no way of transferring your own data out to another storage medium. Also, you cannot even unlock the PC without an internet connection, so all your files are held hostage by the subscription service.
#PlannedObsolescence is for noobs.
Perhaps that "generally reliable source" was not so reliable:
'Update (01/10/2019): Stallman has told us that “stallman.org has not moved. It has been hosted by the same company for many years. It was never hosted by the FSF. On the contrary, I started it to keep it separate from the FSF.”' -- http://techrights.org/2019/09/29/fsf-defaced-rms/
“Cancel Culture:” Social rewards are immediate, its dangers distant and abstract
https://www.city-journal.org/cancel-culture
(submitted by jseliger)
Wow.
'Techrights.org posted an unconfirmed claim Sunday from "a generally reliable source" that "Stallman.org was defaced by an FSF employee' --https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/09/29/054211/richard-stallman-is-still-head-of-the-gnu-project
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