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What about the human cost? https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-gig-slave-labor

Web pages use a data source behind the scenes, but web pages are NOT a data source. A rendered Qt app is not a data source either. weboob builds plain-old objects (or JSON), it is …

You probably don't use a lot of things, right? Did you do a background-check on the thousands of developers that contributed to all the software you use? Did you check the smartpho…

Given the long list of contributors, maybe not all of them adhere to the same standards.

> Do you think women would be comfortable contributing to a project called "boobsize", which is part of a larger project called "weboob"? Not to mention "QHandJoob". Looking at the…

You seem to be pointing at a specific revision and the file doesn't seem to exist anymore in the current version of the repository. I confess I didn't check more than this though.

> Python 3, AFAIK, doesn't have anything as handy as Ruby/Perl's Mechanize. But using the web developer tools you can usually figure out the requests made by the browser and then u…

WebOOB [0] is a good Python framework for scraping websites. It's mostly used to aggregate data from multiple websites by organizing each site backend implement an abstract interfa…

Actually, even if you're paying, the service operator may be mining your data. This is the case for example with cell phone operators: you pay a monthly fee, and yet they use your …

Degooglisons-internet [1] is an initiative (broader than just email) to promote free services without selling your data. It aims at giving easily deployable apps so more hosters ca…

Yes, moxie "knows it all" wants to control his apps so much he doesn't want them to be on f-droid https://f-droid.org/posts/security-notice-textsecure/

Regarding binaries, I know these could be useful and I'd like to provide them, but I'm afraid some "not (yet?) very popular mirroring project" can't show how we can trust it regard…

For now, Github is not ad-ridden as SourceForge is. Github is monetizing some repositories: https://github.com/pricing I don't know if they're sustainable, but from my naive point …

Thanks, I'll have a look

I confess my ignorance regarding archive.org's various collections. There seem to be a lot of them, which one are you referring to?