Society needs programs that people can read, fix, adapt, and improve, not just operate.
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"When we started, the search revenue was just about perfect," Baker said. Google was, in the early 21st century, about the only thing growing faster than Firefox. It was the best search engine, and its vision for openness and access fit Mozilla's goals for the internet. Now, Baker said, "It doesn't feel 100% aligned"
Mozilla is in a strong financial position but no longer feels comfortable with its partners' policies on data collection, misinformation and more.
https://www.protocol.com/mozilla-plan-fix-internet-privacy
#privacy
This session is facilitated by Maja Kraljic Show on schedule About this session First Feminist Principles of the Internet will be introduced and we will look into how they can be reflected in web development. We will review a few best practices from existing web sites and participants will be able to expand the list based on their experiences or ideas. Goals of this session Participants learn how to support feminist internet while building web sites. A checklist of best practices will be expa...
Is there a self hosted alternative to goodreads.com? I'd really like to have such a service, maybe even federated.
Organizing a discussion about "#FreeSoftware for #OpenScience" at #36C3 as part of the @about_freedom and @fsfe assemblies:
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2019/wiki/index.php/Session:Free_Software_for_Open_Science