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Amen! The Android Developers blog ( https://android-developers.googleblog.com , available as RSS at https://android-developers.googleblog.com/atom.xml ) comes to mind - It includes…

The child labourers of DRC will thank you for supporting their livelihood when you buy that Kobo you don't really need. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/oct/12/p…

Try VSCodium, which is VSCode without MS telemetry: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

If anyone is looking to understand more about the Gandhi phenomenon, I recently read (and highly recommend) Arundhati Roy's meticulously referenced introduction to "Annihilation of…

There's a lot that technology can do to fight climate change. I came across Treetracker ( https://www.greenstand.org/ ), an app that tracks tree planting and pays planters per tree…

If you're on Android, try a firewall-based system-wide adblocker like Blokada ( https://blokada.org/index.html ). It's very effective at blocking ads, including on mobile Chrome, a…

How does it fare against "Blokada" (also FOSS + no root required) in terms of battery use and features?

> It's one thing to be dumb, quite another to be extraordinarily gifted and to use that gift to do something which has no upside at all and plenty of downside One could extend this…

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"Life's too short to worry about privacy" is precisely the kind of attitude that normalizes increasingly invasive surveillance and inadvertently feeds into the desire of companies …

Going by the argument of opposing regulation/"interference" by unelected officials, conservatives could claim that the FDA (also an unelected body of government, part of the execut…

You might want to mention on your site that calls to US phone numbers from anywhere in the world are free on Google Hangouts ( https://hangouts.google.com ).

I'm trying to debug nodejs code, and I've found an issue with a method within a service (SomeService.someMethod). I'd like to be able to generate call graphs for the method and fin…

How does this compare with HospitalRun ( http://hospitalrun.io ), which also targets the developing world/resource-constrained market?

What do you mean by "modern"?

> (At least the fashion industry isn't killing us, though.) The Bangladeshi children working 16 hours a day sewing dresses for H&M might have a thing or two to say about that.