Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software: Get off fb, goog, amazon, apple and msw!

I don't normally beg for boosts, but this is worth sharing with your IRL friends via email and w/e else. Older Mastodonians pretty much know most of these. I hope?

https://switching.software/

#Discord Is Not An Acceptable Choice For Free Software Projects

"Use of Discord by a group discriminates almost totally against those who prefer or, due to circumstance, require privacy for their own personal information, such as IP or related geolocation. You cannot sign up for Discord anonymously." "This excludes many people from your group by discriminating against those who insist on their human right to privacy."
https://sneak.berlin/20200220/discord-is-not-an-acceptable-choice-for-free-software-projects/

a nice #OSM map skin

https://makinacorpus.github.io/cassini-gl-style/

HT to @crickxson

"People who deactivated Facebook in a study were happier afterward, reporting higher levels of life satisfaction and lower levels of depression and anxiety.

That change is equal to about 25-40% of the beneficial effect typically reported for psychotherapy."

Non-AMP link: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-01/what-we-want-doesn-t-always-make-us-happy

AMP link: https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2019-05-01/what-we-want-doesn-t-always-make-us-happy

Hey #fosdem hackers! We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software be made available under a #FreeSoftware licence!

More and more people join this deamand every day. Do so as well and sign our open letter:
https://publiccode.eu#action

#publiccode

Sigh. DRM is difficult to fight against, but it's the knot that needs to unravel for the cause of software freedom.

Most people don't care & end up supporting it. If we pay to see what everyone's talking about, we get counted as supporting it. If we don't pay & instead "pirate" it, worse they'll turn around and say "see, this is why we need DRM!".

What we really need to do is support artists to say "see, DRM is totally unnecessary to make a profit" by supporting indie artists.

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