Today the Support of Windows 10 is over

💡As a user, you should have the right to choose your operating system

🖥️ If you buy a computer with a pre-installed Windows license that you don’t want to use, you can request a refund💸.

“You should not have to pay for software you do not want. Manufacturers and vendors have no right to impose specific operating systems on users” @llas Refund4Freedom co-coordinator.

👉 https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210302-01.en.html

How to request a refund 👉 https://en.refund4freedom.org/

Even the birthplace of the world wide web wants you to use adblockers

I recently removed all advertising from OSNews, and one of the reasons to do so is that online ads have become a serious avenue for malware and other security problems. Advertising on the web has become such a massive security risk that even the very birthplace of the world wide web, CERN, now str

https://www.osnews.com/story/143279/even-the-birthplace-of-the-world-wide-web-wants-you-to-use-adblockers/

#Internet

This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in English:
https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/news/detail/joint-commitment-to-strengthening-open-research-europe
https://www.fccn.pt/en/atualidade/fct-assina-declaracao-fortalecimento-open-research-europe-ore/
and one more, NWO from 🇳🇱 considers joining:
https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/nwo-endorses-joining-open-access-platform-open-research-europe-ore
Why is this BIG? 1/4
#openscience #openaccess

we keep finding out air pollution, pm2.5 in particular, causes significant health problems from cardiac issues, to shortened life span, to dementia. and now, lewy body dementia.

i keep saying it. clean air is the new clean water. and we still don't have clean water.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu4132

On one hand, good.

On another, we shouldn’t need the UN to declare #climatechange is an existential threat at this point.

It’s here. It’s now.