solilo guy @dirk@computerfairi.es

my company (MNT) is looking for office/production space in berlin, around 50sqm. preferably kreuzberg or mitte. we’ll be working on open (libre) hardware and software with a team of three. if you hear sth, please write to lukas@mntmn.com. 🙏

Reboost very welcome! Hamburg-Freiburg-Auto?

Moin! Masto-Magic gesucht! ✨ Und zwar in Form einer Person, die in nächster Zeit von Hamburg mit dem Auto nach Freiburg fährt, und eine Spenden-Lieferung für die @computertruhe mitnehmen kann. Es handelt sich hauptsächlich um Tastaturen und Mäuse. Es könnten Teile des Sprits übernommen werden. Nähere Infos können gern erfragt von mir werden.

I released a new version of my Firefox extension that will forcefully redirect you away from privacy erosive services to better alternatives. It started as a joke, but I end up actually using it.

When I want to look up a place, I instinctively and mechanically start typing "maps.googl...". This extension will instead take me to OpenStreetMaps. It will also functionally translate Google Search links to DuckDuckGo and Google Translate links to Deepl.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resist-the-internet/

#FuckOffGoogle

Google is a socially destructive public menace.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/google-reveals-plans-to-monitor-our-moods-our-movements-and-our-childrens-behavior/

No, thanks.

Facebook is a dishonest, harmful corporation.

[Examples omitted for brevity...]

I strongly encourage you to seek work elsewhere, so your efforts
do not further contribute to the damage caused by your employer.

As long as you do that job, you're complicit.

Please keep me on your list of potential candidates so I can
share this message with your other recruiters.

Thanks and good luck!
- Bjarni

Joint press release by Betterplace.org, Karuna and #Google:
https://www.betterplace.org/c/neues/uploads/haus.betterplace.org/pressemitteilung-das-haus.pdf

So full of "social-washing": Google are the good guys, full of empathy, and this was their plan right from the start, because they love the neighborhood...

Yet this Karuna thing seems to have got some Google money (prize) and develops "blockchain-based wallet for homeless young people".

Let's scrutinize this further, while enjoying the sweet taste of -small, temporary, yet- symbolic victory!

#FuckOffGoogle

elementary OS 5 Juno is here. It’s more refined, more productive, and an even better platform for developers. We've majorly updated apps, made the desktop more productive with several new features, refined the overall look and feel, and a whole lot more. https://buff.ly/2RSeAts

@dajbelshaw @jalcine @gargron @aral It may depend on definition here, but:

1 - Mozilla has never received less than 91% of its funding from royalties, the bulk of that coming from its default search engine contract. This contract has always been with Google except for a short period where it switched to Yahoo.
2 - for 2016 that meant $474M out of $520M was from this contract
3 - No one would claim that Google was anything *but* the epitomy of surveillance capitalism :) https://www.computerworld.com/article/3240008/web-browsers/mozillas-record-2016-revenue-funded-its-firefox-quantum-browser.html