Are you just wanting to de-google or take control of your data in general?

Search: SearXNG [public instance/self-hosted], startpage.com, etc.

GMail: Proton Mail, Tutanota

Calendar/Contacts/Docs/Drive/Meet/Photos: Nextcloud [self-hosted]

Android: Google Pixel with GrapheneOS

Maps: OSM, OSMAND+ for mobile GPS

Great concept. Would love to see a larger version with the same aspect ratio and peripherals.

Julie Pelloille, responsible for comms, appears to be going a bit too far with this.

Wrong or not let’s be careful about using full names as it’s how these things get whipped up into pile-ons.

The Cersi thing is wrong on so many levels.

Hmmm

There arw thousands of these repositories all over the place...

Okay, I am not sure about others. But I was working on this as a fun project. And I wanted to share my work. Hope you find it useful and please let me know your suggestions and any additional improvements I can make.

Paywalled.

Just got to see it by using Facebook to redirect the page load:

https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bostonglobe...

The first two paragraphs:

> A well-known member of the MIT Media Lab plans to resign over revelations that the research center and its top leader took money from Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased financier who was accused of trafficking in underage girls.

> Ethan Zuckerman, director of the lab’s Center for Civic Media, last week told officials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of his plans.

While looking for a non-paywalled version, I found a Reddit comment that pointed to a more detailed Medium blog post by Ethan Zuckermann that gives more details, and here is the Medium-free version from Zuckermann’s own blog:

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2019/08/20/on-me-and-the-...

EDIT: just tried loading the FB redirect URL with "Open link in a new private window" and got “The Boston Glove / You’re using a browser set to private or incognito mode.”, but you can avoid it if you disable Javascript before loading the page.

Agreed. Doubt sdk will be OS/Linux friendly either. Previous Linux kinect drivers (libfreenect) were all community driven, it worked, but not as polished as the official stuff.

Ubuntu is officially supported by Microsoft.

>The system requirements are Windows® 10 PC or Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...

[0] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/kinect-dk/

Many users who use mobile adblockers will use one across the entire device (easy on rooted Android) instead of just a browser extension.

I'm pulling these numbers out of a hat, but I would wager users with rooted Android devices are below 1% of the mobile user base, and probably below 0.1% of the total user base including desktop.

On Android, it used to be the case that many ad blocking apps were just Proxy services.

Blokada (https://blokada.org/) acts as a VPN. It slows my connection speeds to a halt.

Counterpoint, installing uBlock in Firefox is a piece of cake, but lots of apps don't work on rooted devices. I know there are ways to hide root from detection, but I don't care to ride that treadmill back and forth.

How many users have rooted Android? Especially people in the west who are worth a lot more to advertisers?

It can’t be that high anymore. All the signals seem to be that rooting is trending down. I could be wrong of course as I have no hard data.

Aren't the majority of users on iOS or unrooted android?

But there is a driving purpose behind that, hidden vs non-hidden is binary. With so many media formats I agree that consistency is very important.

It's still largely arbitrary. I'm pushing back against the general notion that standard Unix-y command line tools are some shining example of consistency. Most of it is just us confusing familiarity for consistency.

There are some edge cases, but those cases are well-known and simple to understand.

If you haven't run across it before, google up The Unix-Haters Handbook for an entertaining book-length rebuttal.

The reason is because it was a lazy hack to hide . and .. from ls and then people started using this behaviour to hide files.

Disagree. The median laptop price is <$1k and it's not a fair comparison by any metric.