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The city of #Bern wants to keep Google and Microsoft out of their schools! 🎆

Schools are experimenting with Collabora (Nexcloud), Kolab, Mahara, Mattermost and Moodle. ❤️

Some, of course, complain for the minor incompatibilities, e.g., with MS Word, but they should blame themselves for not having used Open-Standards in the first place!

Full article (in German only):
https://www.inside-it.ch/articles/55959

If you know other cities running similar initiatives please reply.

#FuckOffGoogle
FuckOff #GAFAM

Privacy shouldn't be a luxury. We’ve joined with @privacyint and over 50 other orgs to ask Google to take action against the exploitative practices of pre-installed apps.

Read the letter & add your voice: https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/3320/open-letter-google #Bloatware

Hackers Are Breaking Directly Into Telecom Companies to Take Over Customer Phone Numbers

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dmbjx/how-hackers-are-breaking-into-att-tmobile-sprint-to-sim-swap-yeh

Google deshabilita sus altavoces inteligentes de todos los dispositivos Xiaomi tras un fallo de seguridad

https://www.ticbeat.com/seguridad/google-deshabilita-sus-altavoces-inteligentes-de-todos-los-dispositivos-xiaomi-tras-un-fallo-de-seguridad/

Stop wrapping your website in Electron and calling it an app challenge twenty twenty

Inside Intel’s Ghost Canyon NUC, the incredibly small modular desktop PC https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/7/21051879/intel-pc-nuc-9-extreme-ghost-canyon-element-hands-on-teardown-ces-2020

(1) Una comparación de lo intrusiva que es la App de Twitter para Android (la de iOS es igual) y cómo son las de Mastodon (Fedilab y Tusky).

Las apps de Mastodon sólo piden los permisos estrictamente necesarios para funcionar: Almacenamiento (para subir y descargar fotos), vibración, etc. Twitter en cambio tiene una lista de 40 permisos.

Además que Twitter, a parte de rastrear a sus usuarios por su cuenta, tiene 2 trackers: uno de Google y otro para recopilar métricas de usuarios.

Be Paranoid About Privacy

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/24/opinion/location-privacy.html