Mojeek @Mojeek@mastodon.social

This sums up my thoughts on all too many devices these days.

Google has backed down massively. It is now signing deals with Australian news media to pay for their content. The Australian government, by refusing to give in to threats by Google, has created a worldwide precedent.

SMH (Australia): Google closing in on news content deals with ABC, Nine, Guardian

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/seven-west-media-inks-30-million-a-year-google-deal-20210215-p572iv.html

#fediverse alive servers stats

alive servers: 5,744 (+103)
max: 5,744
total users: 3,535,475 (+8,410)
max: 3,545,639

top ten (soft users servers):

2,923,325 3,167
322,728 21
130,073 808
76,869 937
31,891 172
20,803 331
10,320 64
7,716 92
6,837 27
4,270 98

Before you can do bad things to people with a clear conscience, you must dehumanise them. In Big Tech designers and developers can build systems that track, profile, and exploit people then go home to hug their kids because they’re not people to them, they’re “users” and “data.”

Poll time! For how long have you been using LibreOffice?

We have this interesting feature proposal for /e/OS: a second "panic" PIN code that can fully erase the device in case of emergency. It's been rejected by Google for Android.

Do you think we should implement it?

#degoogled #android #privacy #security

https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/backlog/-/issues/2497

A great #OpenSource project by Spanish students helps you to easily check how to take back your data from Big Tech such as Google, Twitter, Facebook and more.
😎 💪 Check it out: https://justgetmydata.com

Vous vous êtes dégooglisé, vous utilisez un moteur alternatif ? C’est bien, mais il y a de forte chance qu’il utilise les infras d’amazon, picore dans l’index de Microsoft, utilise de l’analytics de chez Google.

Il n’y a en pratique presque aucune alternative de moteur de recherche qui soit éthiquement irréprochable (ouai le mot est ptet fort).

Il existe cependant Mojeek.

J’ai fait un ptit article à son sujet 🔗 .

Voilà voilà :-)

At Tutanota every day is #DataPrivacyDay. We are happy that Data Journalism has interviewed us for their guide on how journalists can keep their data safe. Check it out! 😀👇
https://datajournalism.com/read/longreads/privacy-day-security-guide

At 2021-01-29 at 21:35 UTC Google suspended #Element from the Play Store without warning or notification.

Element is a generic chat app for connecting to the global Matrix communication network, just as Chrome is a generic web browser for connecting to the Web - and just as #Google does not control the content on the Web, Element does not control the content on #Matrix.

https://element.io/blog/element-on-google-play-store/

#privacyMatters #FreeSpeech #opensource #Federation #Freedom

Better Than Zoom

Please help me share.

Jitsi https://jitsi.org

Big Blue Button https://bigbluebutton.org

Nextcloud Talk https://nextcloud.com

Worth mentioning: Mattermost (https://mattermost.com) | OpenMeeting (https://openmeetings.apache.org) | RocketChat (https://openmeetings.apache.org)

All with free service accesses.

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Zoom #VideoCall

Here's my public safety announcement: Have you backed up today?

The #OpenStreetMap Foundation is running a survey (in 13 languages!) to find out more about the #OSM community. It should only take a few minutes, and we'd greatly appreciate as many responses as possible., 🙂 (pls boost)
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2021/01/18/community-survey/

@Mojeek You're growing really fast recently,correct?I like to see that 👍 It's time to leave the sites that depend on Bing.