Better with free software
Instagram is a centralized social network that requires the use of proprietary software. It's almost impossible to use Instagram without giving up your privacy or freedom... unless we use another front-end, such as Bibliogram, which I describe in this article.
Bibliogram allows consulting user profiles, posts and IGTV videos in a simple way. In the home page, there are search forms for both posts and users.
Keep reading Check Instagram with privacy and free softwareTwitter is a centralized social network that requires the use of proprietary software. It's almost impossible to use Twitter without giving up your privacy or freedom... unless we use another front-end, such as Nitter, which I describe in this article.
I think its name is an acronym from not twitter. But who cares? The thing is that it works well and also the interface is lightweight, it prevents Twitter from getting your IP, you can customize its look, it has native RSS feeds and it's responsive.
It's now in its infancy, so they are expected to include more features, such a login system to admin accounts you follow from its web.
Keep reading Check Twitter with free software and privacy, with NitterThis article was first published by Julie Marchant under the license CC BY-SA 4.0.
In Richard Stallman's essay, "The JavaScript Trap", it is pointed out that people run proprietary software which is silently, automatically installed into their browsers every day. In fact, he very much downplayed the problem; not only are most users running proprietary programs every day merely by browsing the Web, they are running dozens or even hundreds of such programs each day. The JavaScript Trap is very real and prolific; the Web is said to be so broken without these non-standard, usually proprietary extensions to HTML that Web browsers have moved toward not even offering an obvious option to disable JavaScript; disabling JavaScript, it is argued, will only cause confusion.
It's obvious that we need to solve this problem. However, in focusing on whether or not scripts are "trivial" or libre, Mr. Stallman misses a crucial point: this behavior of automatic, silent software installation is, itself, the main problem. That most of the software in question is proprietary is merely a side-effect.
Keep reading Fix or kill automatically installed JavaScript?The Uruk Project includes many useful applications and a GNU/Linux distribution based on Trisquel. I've interviewed Hayder Majid, one of their creators, to find out more about it.
Keep reading Interview about Uruk projectGoogle has recently partnered with the Pentagon to help it develop artificial intelligence. The project, called Maven, involves the development of a system to identify objects through drone imagery.
This means that Google's power over people around the world will be used by the US empire for its dark interests. Now completing a Google reCAPTCHA not only involves ethical dangers related to economic exploitation and the use of proprietary software, but also close collaboration in the murder of human beings. Deaths that seem dehumanised, but in the end it is unconscious (and conscious) people who train machines to kill.
