See this comment here, or this direct link to the repo: last updated 6–7 moths ago

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Their special viewpoints are what I meant. Their ownership structure is a co-op (Genossenschaft), so absolutely decent by all I can tell.

Good question, I’ve heard of but never looked into them. ProPublica seem to get most of their money from a charity created by billionaires, so their funding might come with some significant strings attached, but they do some pretty good journalism, it seems.

What news organization today isn’t owned by some international goliath?

Excellent question. Here are the ones I could think of; let’s collect links! (Of course, they all have their flaws.)

World at large:

• <please help me out, folks>

US-focussed:

• jacobin.com
• 404media.co
• democracynow.org
• NPR, PBS

Europe in general:

• Most public broadcasting stations (BBC and the likes of it)

Germany:

• nd-aktuell.de
• jacobin.de
• kontextwochenzeitung.de (Baden-Württemberg)
• taz.de
• jungewelt.de (with a grain of salt)
• netzpolitik.org (digital/privacy/civil rights politics)

Philippines:

• rappler.com (led by Maria Ressa, do watch this speech of hers)

Reminiscent of dumping on the Washington Post because Bezos.

Things did turn out quite badly.

The reason that quality independent journalism is so hard to find is that nobody much is paying for it. Including you, probably.

There are several interrelated reasons: Lack of funding (in part due to a lack of an advertising subsidy, which is a good thing), lack of prominence, lack of readers recognizing the value of independent journalism.

The crucial thing is that with everyone who does recognize its value—and the harm that is caused by a corporate-dominated media landscape—and who therefor starts to make a conscious effort to read independent sources more often, to point others to them, and to support them financially (which I do, for the record), those issues improve in tandem.

Thanks!

Integrated trackball? Name please!

I recall the general observation that a lot of Chinese EV companies were being built up, quickly building production capacities that, taken together, greatly exceed demand, each company hoping to be among the few that eventually survive. So that what we’re now seeing would be this show down

Fuck every Axel Springer Publication, which includes Politico

What’s much easier than dual boot on the same hard drive, see if you can install a second hard drive (not too expensive if you buy used), so that Windows can have its own little quarantine cell.

The Mastodon founder, Eugen Rochko, has just announced that “We’ve moved our internal communications from Discord to Zulip at Mastodon”.

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116041405748460511

Zulip is probably more focused toward work than TTRPGs, but it can’t hurt to try it. (I haven’t tried it personally, yet.) It is self-hostable.

https://zulip.com/

Falls ihr euer Registrierungsdatum bei Facebook nicht direkt findet:

Im Facebook-Accountcenter unter Deine Informationen und Berechtigungen rechts auf Deine Informationen exportieren klicken. Dann im Pop-Up-Dialog Export erstellen > Zu Gerät exportieren > Zeitraum auf “Gesamter Zeitraum” einstellen > Export starten. Sobald der Download bereitsteht, bekommt man eine E-Mail und kann sich aus dem Facebook-Accout die Zip-Datei herunterladen. Unter Profilinformationen findet ihr das Datum der Registration.

Vom DUT (Digitaler Unabhängigkeitstag) bzw. di.day hast du wahrscheinlich schon mitbekommen (der Initialzündungsvortrag von Marc-Uwe Kling auf dem 39c3 erklärt das Konzept ausführlich und sehr witzig).

Der Gedanke wäre, diesem monatlichen Event mehr Sichtbarkeit zu verschaffen, vor allem von der Art, die auch gut in nicht-deutschsprachige Bereiche überschwappen kann, um auch dort Neugier und Lust zum Mitmachen zu wecken. Ein den Digital Independence Day begleitendes und feierndes Kunstwerk von dir könnte das glaube ich enorm gut, zumal wenn du Lust hättest da monatlich was zu zu machen und es einen sichtbaren Ritualcharakter gewinnt.

Well they cite intelligence sources, surely they can’t lie. /s

Then I especially recommend Linux Mint LMDE edition. It’s built on Debian, which is known for its stability, instead of on the flashier Debian-derived Ubuntu.

https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

Can we stop needlessly sharing Elmo’s deranged utterances? The topic of social media policy (much as anything else) is too important than to concern ourselves with his weird tweets.

Relevant 39c3 talk (but dealing with civilian sattelites): Don’t look up

Sehr geehrter Künstler,

ich bitte höflich um Inbetrachtziehung: https://feddit.org/post/25149482

Lasst alle Hoffnung fahren.