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The dog's face is magic :D

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Égide  

CookieWiz, fantastique outil de la CNIL (laboratoire d'innovation numérique de la CNIL) dévoile la face cachée du web, visualisation temps réel du pistage de votre navigation web, exemple avec bfmtv.com
Excusez du peu !
Voir linc.cnil.fr/fr/cookieviz-une-

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Bonjour la rousse  

Bonjour la rousse

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it is to mutt what neovim is to vim. A fork that tries to cut the accumulated cruft and drop support for all those old computers that are not really used anymore in order to improve maintainability. And it probably has some more features.

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Tbh i am starting to question weather I want to continue using #thunderbird

Mozilla no longer puts much love in this product, the community is sort of dying and one needs the community since thunderbird itself has nearly no features
(Screenshot shows now-defunct add on required for reordering the mail folders)

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I toot about movies.  

"Passengers" (2016) by Morten Tyldum. IMDb rating: 7.0. My rating: 8. imdb.com/title/tt1355644/

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Ping 🥳

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Sol 400: Instrument Context Camera (ICC)

Taken on: 2020/01/11 16:50:19

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Le juteux marché des radars automatiques

Les radars automatiques rapportent plusieurs centaines de millions d'euros chaque année. Mais une large partie de cette somme va dans les poches d'acteurs privés qui ont remporté des marchés publics très rentables. Une enquête réalisée grâce à un financement participatif met au jour les dérives du système.
franceinter.fr/emissions/l-int

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Aaron Swartz : un héros contemporain

« Militant d'un Internet libre et ouvert, il est accusé en 2011 d’avoir téléchargé 4,8 millions d’articles scientifiques. Le gouvernement américain a voulu en faire un exemple… »

Si vous ne connaissez pas Aaron Swartz, honte à vous, rattrapez-vous !

franceculture.fr/emissions/ce-

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Nathanaël  

Nos grands parents dans les années 2010 : "Vous ne vous rendez pas compte du confort que vous avez, quand on avait votre âge on n'avait pas Internet ni les ordinateurs et on allait travailler au champ plutôt que rester assis toute la journée".
Nous dans les années 2030 : *s'installons vivre à la campagne élever des chèvres loin de toute technologie après plusieurs burn-outs et dépressions après nous être interrogés sur le sens de notre existence dans la société.*

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r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖  

Been saying this for years and now it's actually happening

Farmers are buying old tractors that they can actually repair instead of new ones which come with DRM lockdown malarkey

startribune.com/for-tech-weary

A John Deere built in the 70s is actually reparable by yourself, without a diagnostics computer or a ransom

Ironically, capitalism (which was supposed to drive innovation), is eating itself out of relevance

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Ran `tootctl accounts cull`, which is responsible for removing deleted or unavailable users on other instances from our database. It ran for a full day, made the progress bar overflow, and removed nearly 10k accounts from nearly 200k.

Fun fact, during this run, it tried to contact 1360 fediverse instances which were at one point known to us, but now unavailable. RIP those instances.

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Kyle Piira  

So I was recently asked why I prefer to use free and open source software over more conventional and popular proprietary software and services.

A few years ago I was an avid Google user. I was deeply embedded in the Google ecosystem and used their products everywhere. I used Gmail for email, Google Calendar and Contacts for PIM, YouTube for entertainment, Google Newsstand for news, Android for mobile, and Chrome as my web browser.

I would upload all of my family photos to Google Photos and all of my personal documents to Google Drive (which were all in Google Docs format). I used Google Domains to register my domain names for websites where I would keep track of my users using Google Analytics and monetize them using Google AdSense.

I used Google Hangouts (one of Google’s previous messaging plays) to communicate with friends and family and Google Wallet (with debit card) to buy things online and in-store.

My home is covered with Google Homes (1 in my office, 1 in my bedroom, 1 in the main living area) which I would use to play music on my Google Play Music subscription and podcasts from Google Podcasts.

I have easily invested thousands of dollars into my Google account to buy movies, TV shows, apps, and Google hardware devices. This was truly the Google life.

Then one day, I received an email from Google that changed everything.

“Your account has been suspended”

Just the thing you want to wake up to in the morning. An email from Google saying that your account has been suspended due to a perceived Terms of Use violation. No prior warning. No appeals process. No number to call. Trying to sign in to your Google account yields an error and all of your connected devices are signed out. All of your Google data, your photos, emails, contacts, calendars, purchased movies and TV shows. All gone.

I nearly had a heart attack, until I saw that the Google account that had been suspended was in fact not my main personal Google account, but a throwaway Gmail account that I created years prior for a project. I hadn’t touched the other account since creation and forgot it existed. Apparently my personal Gmail was listed as the recovery address for the throwaway account and that’s why I received the termination email.

Although I was able to breathe a sigh of relief this time, the email was wake up call. I was forced to critically reevaluate my dependence on a single company for all the tech products and services in my life.

I found myself to be a frog in a heating pot of water and I made the decision that I was going to jump out.

Leaving Google

Today there are plenty of lists on the internet providing alternatives to Google services such as this and this. Although the “DeGoogle” movement was still in its infancy when I was making the move.

The first Google service I decided to drop was Gmail, the heart of my online identity. I migrated to Fastmail with my own domain in case I needed to move again (hint: glad I did, now I self host my email). Fastmail also provided calendar and contacts solutions so that took care of leaving Google Calendar and Contacts.

Here are some other alternatives that I moved to:

Gmail → Fastmail → Self-hosted (via Cloudron)
Google Contacts → Fastmail → Nextcloud Contacts
Google Calendar → Fastmail → Nextcloud Calendar
Google Search → Bing → DuckDuckGo
Google Maps → Bing Maps → OpenStreetMaps and OsmAnd
Google Analytics → Matomo Analytics
Google Drive → Nextcloud Files
Google Photos → Nextcloud Files/Gallery
Google Docs → Collabora Office (Nextcloud integration) and LibreOffice
Google Play Music → Spotify / Plex → Spotify / Jellyfin
Google Play Movies/TV → Plex → Jellyfin
Google Play Audiobooks/Books → Audible/Kindle
Google Play Store (apps) → F-Droid / Aurora Store
Google Android → Lineage OS → Ubuntu Touch on PinePhone (coming soon?)
Google’s Android Apps → Simple Mobile Tools
Google Chrome → Mozilla Firefox
Google Domains → Hover
Google Hangouts → Matrix and Nextcloud Talk
Google Allo → Signal
Google Podcasts → PocketCasts → AntennaPod
Google Newsstand → RSS
Google Wallet → PayPal and Cash App
Google Voice →Ting Mobile

Migrating away from Google was not a fast or easy process. It took years to get where I am now and there are still several Google services that I depend on: YouTube and Google Home.

Eventually, my Google Home’s will grow old and become unsupported at which point hopefully the Mycroft devices have matured and become available for purchase. YouTube may never be replaced (although I do hope for projects like PeerTube to succeed) but I find the compromise of using only one or two Google services to be acceptable.

At this point losing my Google account due to a mistake in their machine learning would largely be inconsequential and my focus has shifted to leaving Amazon which I use for most of my shopping and cloud services.

The reason that I moved to mostly FOSS applications is that it seems to be the only software ecosystem where everything works seamlessly together and I don’t have to cede control to any single company. Alternatively I could have simply split my service usage up evenly across Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple but I don’t feel that they would have worked as nicely together.

Overall I’m very happy with the open source ecosystem. I use Ubuntu with KDE on all of my computers and Android (no GApps) on my mobile phone. I’ve ordered the PinePhone “Brave Heart” and hope to one day be able to use it or one of its successors as a daily driver with Ubuntu Touch or Plasma Mobile.

I don’t want to give the impression that I exclusively use open source software either, I do use a number of proprietary apps including: Sublime Text, Typora, and Cloudron.

https://www.kylepiira.com/2020/01/09/why-i-quit-google/

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