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How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer https://markosaric.com/google-amp/

I did a detailed privacy check of the Tiktok app and website. You can read my article æt Süddeutsche Zeitung. Tiktok commits multiple breaches of law, trust, transparency and data protection. Here are the technical and legal details
Long thread⤵️

If you are new to Mastodon, or, like me, not so totally new anymore but still puzzling how this all works, read Noëlle Anthony's awesome Guide to Mastodon: https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon/

Tools are only as good as their documentation, user guides and communities. Thank you @noelle , you made Mastodon an even better tool for me (and I suppose a lot of other people too) now.

#mastodon #fediverse #help

All VPN companies are bad. But somehow NordVPN is worse: https://medium.com/@derek./how-is-nordvpn-unblocking-disney-6c51045dbc30

Learn about the rich history of LibreOffice, and the projects on which it's built! https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/libreoffice-timeline/

Passionate supporters of free and open source software (FOSS) are spreading the word about LibreOffice and other tools. Learn about Sokibi's great work in Java, Indonesia: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/11/25/community-member-monday-sokibi-indonesia/

"Today, at 15:35 UTC+1 on 25 November 2019, we made our final /22 IPv4 allocation from the last remaining addresses in our available pool. We have now run out of IPv4 addresses." 🎉 #legacyIP #IPv4 #RIPE #network

At its 32nd party conference this weekend, the German conservative party CDU resolved to join @fsfe in demanding that software developed with public money should be publicly available as #FreeSoftware:

"This is why the following will apply to all (public) digitisation projects in Germany in the future: the awarding of contracts and funding will be subject to compliance with the principles of open source and open standards."

https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20191125-01.en.html

#publiccode

Am Wochenende hat die CDU auf ihrem 32. Parteitag beschlossen, sich der Forderung der FSFE anzuschließen, dass mit öffentlichen Geldern entwickelte Software als Freie Software allen Zugute kommen soll:

"Deshalb gilt künftig für alle (öffentlichen) Digitalisierungsprojekte in Deutschland: #Auftragsvergabe und Förderung sind an die Einhaltung der Prinzipien #OpenSource und offene Standards gebunden."

https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20191125-01.de.html

#FreieSoftware #publiccode

How much public space we've surrendered to cars...

Art by Karl Jilg.

If you have a .org domain name: go renew it now. For the full 10 years.

Registration rights for .org were just bought by a private equity firm. And as part of that contract, the price caps were removed.

Anything in .org will get much more expensive, soon.

A ten year renewal will cost you a bit over a hundred bucks. Which is probably less than one year will cost you in the very near future.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/