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A year on and I wonder how much of the new legislation has been implemented without much public debate. Despite that the tiny details will matter more than anything.

https://tomas.jakl.one/blog/2019-03-24-The-problem-with-the-latest-copyright-directive

Apple just killed Offline Web Apps while purporting to protect your privacy: why that’s A Bad Thing and why you should care ar.al/2020/03/25/apple...

Join us in our push for more repairable, longer-lasting smartphones. We love and depend on them, but they shouldn’t cost the earth! https://repair.eu/smartphones #LongLiveMyPhone

How is it that a major podcast producer like Pushkin Industries doesn't even have raw RSS feed link on their podcast pages? Why should I have to hunt for simple links like feeds.megaphone.fm/happinesslab on their website? If they're worried about potential UI issues, why not use something like SubToMe?

It's promising that Apple is focusing so much of their marketing efforts on the “privacy” of their products. Though it doesn't make someone like me want to buy an iPhone,...

The Galaxy S4-mini was released in 2013, has 32 bit CPU and 1.5GB RAM. But it works great with /e/ OS! Android security patch up to date...

Need to improve 32-bit app support though :)

GNOME files defense against patent troll (to fight for us all)

https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/10/gnome-files-defense-against-patent-troll/

#FOSS #patenttroll #gnome

"... Rather than trying to humanise technology, then, we should be trying to democratise it. ..."

This and many more interesting points in this Guardian's Long Read:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/03/why-silicon-valley-cant-fix-itself-tech-humanism

(A podcast version: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2018/jun/01/why-silicon-valley-cant-fix-itself-podcast )

"... Drug companies have to test their drugs, car companies have to test their cars before they can go out and actually sell their products to people. ... Why is it that a tech company is allowed to make the excuse that what we build is too complicated for even us to understand and, therefore, we're not at fault. ..." --- Christopher Wylie

(From an interesting interview with him: https://video.aktualne.cz/dvtv/facebook-je-jako-kolonizatori-lide-z-firmy-mi-vyhrozovali-a/r~86416d68620611e9a305ac1f6b220ee8/ )

Dave Winer's essay on Live In The Moment vs Climate Change (and also the young vs old).

An interesting perspective on what's the point of writing scientific papers:

"Papers are written so that their author(s) can forget their content and move on to other things. Therefore when you write you should be very careful to put in enough of the big picture and enough of the details so you'd be able to reconstruct your thoughts 10 years later if you'll need to, assuming you'll forget everything but retain some familiarity with some basic principles of mathematics."

https://mathoverflow.net/a/83093/46003

Google+ is no longer available for consumer (personal) and brand accounts

Time of death: 10:03:42 US/Pacific.

I've written an article explaining why the upcoming copyright directive is about to fundamentally break the internet: https://tomas.jakl.one/blog/2019-03-24-the-problem-with-the-latest-copyright-directive

Please help to stop it, contact your MEPs and ask them to vote against it in the upcoming week. https://saveyourinternet.eu/

#savetheinternet
#saveyourinternet #article11 #article13 #copyrightdirective