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Google Street View coverage in Europe

A few months ago I teamed up with Liam from @gamingonlinux to produce a video about Mindustry. In response, a viewer went above and beyond, and posted this lengthy list of open source games.

I felt it deserved wider visibility than being buried in a comment section. He even includes a short note about each title and where you should be able to obtain it.

https://listed.to/@jasone/17516/note-to-self-check-out-these-open-source-games

My apologies to @gardotd426 that I forgot and which did most of the work to port Regolith to Archlinux (see https://github.com/gardotd426/regolith-de )

awesome job, thanks for it!

The U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services wants to greatly expand its processing of our personal information, in the name of containing COVID-19, but without showing actual benefit to public health. We oppose this data grab. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/no-expanded-hhs-surveillance-covid-19-patients

Wow, after a single week of on-campus instruction, student/staff COVID-19 infections went from 10 to 177, prompting UNC-Chapel Hill to move to remote learning: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/unc-chapel-hill-coronavirus-cluster/2020/08/17/8ebce060-e0ab-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html

Yes! Telegram video calls are here! And end-to-end encrypted! 🥰

(group video calls coming later this year too)

https://telegram.org/blog/video-calls

Just opened the app store on my phone and saw "Simple & Privacy-Friendly Flashlight App" listed.

Crazy that it is necessary. Every flashlight app should just be a flashlight app and not a way to collect and share user data 🙄

What a world we live in 😂

So many people saying they're switching from Firefox. Won't this only make the problem worse?

If you're switching to Brave or qutebrowser or UnGoogled Chromium or something, you're only strengthening Google's monopoly. If you're switching to a Webkit-based browser like Epiphany, you're shifting the monopoly towards Safari, whose parent company doesn't consider the Web a priority.

That Mozilla has bad management doesn't change the fact that Firefox is the most viable option for the open web.

Before you start your day, try to make a list of the 3 most important things to focus on that day.

Mozilla is laying off 250 employees (I believe that's about a quarter of their staff).

Their stated reason for laying off 250 employees is... to develop more Mozilla products. Typically you don't need to have less employees to build more products...

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/112624/mozilla-is-laying-off-roughly-250-employees-i-believe-thats-about-a-quarter-of-their-staff-th

I've officially joined @privacytools as a Team Member 🎉

We're currently updating the Email Clients page, and we have a lot of other things planned!

https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/pull/1990

@kev Create a cron job that runs every 10 minutes that has a 10% chance of shutting down your computer without warning? Easy enough.

I talk about my imposter syndrome and how it can slow down or even halt writing entirely.

😓 📚 The Fear of Being Found Out: https://victoriacorva.xyz/2020/08/12/the-fear-of-being-found-out/

(Originally posted supporter-only, now free for all!)

"How Many People Are on This Site?"

This is a nice and transparent way to link to your public dashboard and inform your audience about stats you collect at the same time.

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stats/

"Trump says Spanish flu probably ended second world war in 1917"

That's about as accurate and factually correct as anything he has ever said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFN69J7A81Y

It's weird that these days you have to make "Privacy-friendly flashlight" apps. When did we reach a point where flashlight apps started invading our privacy?

Crazy world.

#foss #privacy #android #apps

I've taken a six week break from posting thoughts to the internet. My bird site account no longer exists. I guess it's time to fully embrace and build the decentralized web.

Today is the 16th anniversary of #OpenStreetMap. How are you goind to celeberate it?

There are people around the world organizing online meetings. You may want to participate or even organize your own. Check this page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_16th_Anniversary_Birthday_party

Use this occasion to talk more about #OSM to people.

Use #OpenStreetMap16 in social media.

This extensive and thoughtful post by a member of the #Librem5 community does a good job of explaining the past and present mobile Linux ecosystem and why Purism's approach with phosh makes strategic sense long-term. https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2020/08/05/advantages-of-phosh/