https://degooglisons-internet.org/img/Peha-Banquet-CC-By-192... This is not what I want the Internet to be.
Notably not seated at the table: users.
all people sitted at the table are users !
De-Google-Ify Internet
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#62This is a French free software foundation that have collected together various open source alternatives under a unified branding. Being neither a startup nor american, they are of course condemned to eternal scorn by many HN readers.
I do have to admit being guilty of something similar. Being German, I would never use German software (even German translations) or hardware. I have seen to many things :D
I used German translations for a long time, but eventually switched to LC_MESSAGES=C because it makes it easier to report UI bugs. It just removes the guesswork of "what is this menu item named in English?".
Also, with LC_MESSAGES=C set, I can blacklist /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/ in my package manager and save half a gigabyte or so.
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#63What is the best single term description for software like this? Self Hosting (It was already a term for an unrelated thing) Control Panel (its more than a control panel) Full Stack Automation (that is what I thought of calling it) personal cloud (What does personal mean) personal infrastructure (that does sound intimidating) community computer (a small server that only serves a particular community or small business…
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least Google and Apple are big contributors to open source software (e.g. Chromium, CUPS). Instead of roasting big companies (because... privacy?) we should work together. This picture does more harm, because it view companies purely as enemies.
Open source is NOT free software. You are not free because you are using Chromium instead of Chrome. Free software is a philosophy, Open source just mean every one can read the source. You can contribute to Open Source and be evil...
Well technically, when you can just read the source, it's not called "Open Source", but rather "Shared Source".
Re: De-Google-Ify Internet
#65Plug: I created EteSync a secure, end-to-end encrypted, and privacy respecting sync for your contacts, calendars and tasks. https://www.etesync.com
Relevant for people interested in removing Google from their lives.
Re: De-Google-Ify Internet
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Open source is NOT free software. You are not free because you are using Chromium instead of Chrome. Free software is a philosophy, Open source just mean every one can read the source. You can contribute to Open Source and be evil...
Well technically , when you can just read the source, it's not called "Open Source", but rather "Shared Source".
I think the term source-available is more commonly used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software
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#67Framasoft is also behind the decentralized video platform Peertube (the creator wasn't part of framasoft originally, but he was employed by them)
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#68The favicon is way too similar to BitWarden's, wish they'd pick something better.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
> At least Google and Apple are big contributors to open source software (e.g. Chromium, CUPS). …that's a strange choice. Basically every company in that comic contributes in some way to open source.
Contributing to open source is not contributing to free software, the big 5 are indeed all doing quite the opposite: creating walled gardens, trying to monopolize the distribution of software and goods, and pushing for a web monoculture. Also, they are making the web a more centralist and frankly, boring, place.
"creating walled gardens, trying to monopolize the distribution of software and goods, and pushing for a web monoculture"
...and spying on users.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not in British typography (it does in American).
That's interesting. I do it the British way when I write English (because it's the way we do it in my native language in my native country too). What's the rationale for enclosing the punctuation within the quotation marks? It's not part of the quote after all. What happens if the sentence is a question that ends with a quote? If the quote itself isn't a question, enclosing the question mark would interfere with its…
IIRC it's a result of technical issues on early typewriters