De-google-ify Internet

Amazing campaign by the French not-for-profit association Framasoft.

The De-google-ify Internet project offers 26 ethical and alternative online tools that may be used by everyone.

They build open source alternatives to many Google services like Youtube, Agenda, Docs, Forms, Maps etc, as well other services to replace Doodle, Facebook Event, Github, Zoom, Slack and much more!

Check their beautiful website, watch the videos to know more about their work and follow them here in Mastodon:

@Framasoft

https://degooglisons-internet.org/

#europe #opensource #europeanalternatives #EUtech #boycott #degoogle #google

HT @fere you can make Notepad more efficient by turning off AI and related friends.

My question is:
Before I turned these off, what was Notepad doing and when would it be done?

If the answer to the second question is "never", somebody at Microsoft should use this as a good time to take a moment to think about what they're doing, and why.

What unholy mess is this? Do I need to install VS Code now to edit a text file?

The State of Personal Online Security and Confidentiality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7zoP-JOg

Full interview with Signal's Meredith Whittaker.

@cR0w @buherator Proof of concept deployed at https://poison.madhouse-project.org/

Click the "Read me this garbage!" link, and it will read it with a random voice (preferring an English voice, if available), and will advance to a random link when done. It does not continue reading after advancing, though, but I will make that work in a bit, too. (Update: now it continues reading after advancing to the next page)

This is hilarious.

Four hundred and nineteen Twitter accounts that posted on Brexit were localized to Russia’s Internet Research Agency… About a third of the discussion of Brexit on Twitter was generated by bots—and more than 90% of the bots tweeting political material were not located in the United Kingdom. Britons…had no idea at the time…that the bots were part of a Russian foreign policy to weaken their country. The margin of the vote was 52% for leaving and 48% for staying. … Brexit was a triumph for Russian foreign policy, and a sign that a cyber campaign directed from Moscow could change reality.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
#russia #unitedkingdom #uk #brexit

Mark Rober maps Disney Lands Space Mountain dark roller coaster with a LIDAR *and* drives a Tesla to a Roadrunner-style "fake road" wall in a single video 🍿

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJL3htsDyQ

Special shoutout to the repair site iFixit who are now on the Fediverse, you can follow them at:

➡️ @iFixit

They provide repair forums and free repair guides for phones, computers, consoles, kitchen equipment, tools, medical devices, cars etc. They also review and tear down new gadgets to see how repairable they are.

Repairing your existing stuff is much, much better for the environment than buying replacements.

#Repairs #Electronics #DIY #Environment #Gadgets #Tech #RightToRepair

@algernon @cR0w hey, it seems browsers have a text2speech api built-in these days:

https://codepen.io/matt-west/pen/DpmMgE

this actually seems easier than I thought!

@cR0w I'm actually thinking about firing up a website if there is a client-side synthesis app so the costs would be distributed

Would you like to participate in one or more Livecode events at Revision?
Please get in touch here: https://framaforms.org/revision-2025-livecoding-events-participation-1736285169
We are excited to hear from you!

@cR0w markov generator + voice synth to make the input more colorful

Seems freshly pained.

#Art #StreetArt #Paris

“In everyone’s pocket right now is a computer far more powerful than the one we flew on Voyager. I don’t mean your cell phone — I mean the key fob that unlocks your car.”

— Rich Terrile, JPL scientist and member of the Voyager imaging team

#space

squid: RISC-V emulator for high-performance fuzzing with AOT instead of JIT compilation 🦑 https://github.com/fkie-cad/squid

"This Direction requires Australian Government entities to prevent the installation of #Kaspersky Lab, Inc. products and web services from all Australian Government systems and devices, and where found, to remove all existing instances."

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/news/pspf-direction-update-kaspersky-lab-inc-products-and-web-services

@Extelec @TheBreadmonkey "One of the secrets
of cooking is not to think about washing up."

@TheBreadmonkey Tried and easy solution: just start drinking again while cooking!

An interesting recap of how the #Plan9 OS developed at Bell Labs, with many familiar names, including, of course, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Rob Pike, and many others, making appearances.

"What I Saw at the Evolution of Plan 9" by Geoff Collyer

https://adi.onl/oral.pdf

#unix