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Check https://grapheneos.org/

Google hardware without Google software. With USB-C and headphone jack, for now at least.

The world would be such a better place if Google could simply communicate a little bit better.

Can you add a switch for Amazon UK DE FR ES?

It's not as if most people are rich in Equatorial Guinea. It's an appalling outlier in terms of inequality, even on such an unequal continent as Africa.

"Only about half of the country’s population has access to clean drinking water, overcrowded living condition is—surprisingly given the country’s low population density—rampant and very few children enjoy the advantages of urban life such as education, medical services and recreational facilities." https://borgenproject.org/equatorial-guinea-poverty/

I tried to find data about GINI for the country but the World Bank and the UN don't have anything. http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/income-gini-coefficient

Not sure if it really helps when making a choice but here's an extensive overview of 185 VPN services over 30+ factors: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/#simple-vpn-comparison

Neither is Hacker News.

ShiftIt helps me a lot. Basic, simple keyboard shortcuts. And it's free (as in free speech). https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt

Plus Google Talk was XMPP compatible for a long time.

bahn.de used to be my go-to place (even for trains inside Italy) but these days https://www.thetrainline.com/ is the best for finding good train connections across Europe.

https://www.rome2rio.com/ can come in handy as well.

I like http://webmsx.org/ a lot. Works right inside your browser.

Matomo is analytics for folks who really care about privacy (or folks who want to simply have more control over their users analytics data). Install https://matomo.org/ and run it in the same location as the project you're already running. Your own instance of Matomo is not going to be on EasyList any time soon.

Ha! I'm pretty sure deusofnull was being sarcastic here.

Do you have links to your analytical work?

Bonus for links to your thoughts on how to fork and expand another order of magnitude. This is something I'd love to work on at some point.

Plus the article could do with some basic fact checking.

"The web boom of 1997-2006 brought us Amazon, Facebook, Google, Salesforce, Airbnb"

Wikipedia AirBnB page: "Founded August 2008; 9 years ago"

For website of a purist software freedom company I was surprised to see Privacy Badger show up with a red 5:

ajax.googleapis.com fonts.googleapis.com secure.gravatar.com fonts.gstatic.com code.jquery.com

It is a fiat bubble.

Did you watch Silicon Valley episode 1?

If you still don't know what to do after that, just watch some more episodes.

Trillions. That's what's currently going around in quantitative easing. That's why many are calling for QE for the people. Instead of giving money to financial institutions, give it directly to the people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing

https://satoshipay.io/ is another interesting project. (Disclaimer: I don't have any stake in the company but Meinhard is a friend of mine.)

The problem is called deletionism and I (re)started http://deletionpedia.org/ because of this problem, currently at 50k+ articles in English.

Hitchhiking guide http://hitchwiki.org dumpster diving guide http://trashwiki.org social network https://www.trustroots.org

Not for the US: http://holvi.com is great for Finnish, German and Austrian startups. You can get multiple cards, comes with bookkeeping built in and reimbursement functionality.

Finding free food with PHP: http://trashwiki.org/en/Main_Page

The Arabic ZIM file of February 2017 is 5.4G. http://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages

I moved over to Privacy Badger a while ago. It's an EFF project unlikely to ever be bought by a for profit company.

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

http://deletionpedia.org/ is a small project to cope with this in a positive way. A couple of years ago, when I was frustrated by deletionism once again, I wrote a bot that automatically copies articles that are about to be deleted.

There are Techstars programs in Berlin, if you make it in you get 20K+100K. Plus convenient intros with numerous investors as part of the program and comfy intros to hundreds of investors afterwards. You also learn a few other things about building a scalable business.

Check http://www.techstars.com/programs/berlin-program/ and https://www.metroaccelerator.com/

I started editing Wikipedia in 2003. It was fun. Over the years it became less fun, I gave up on participating and quite a few articles I had started ended up being deleted.

I also often found myself looking for articles I knew had been on Wikipedia, but had been deleted.

In December 2013 I had enough of the deletionism. I spent a few hours to set up http://deletionpedia.org/ - to rescue articles from deletion.

It doesn't deal with harassment, but it's a useful resource if you want to find back something that was deleted on Wikipedia.

(The site had been set up before, but the original creator let it slip.)

Thanks to abundant wasted resources you hardly need any money to get a much better lifestyle than what 1929 had to offer, in Western societies at least. Some folks even go completely moneyless for a while.

Not mentioned in the article is the strange workings of scientific publishing. In my 20s I found writing open source software much more interesting than writing scientific papers describing the software. Whereas to me at that time it seemed everyone else was describing the buggy collection of Matlab code in articles without publishing any of the code (or datasets used), making it impossible to reproduce their results.

The topic of my unfinished PhD was finding structure in musical pieces with AI.