Thank you very much =)

It looks nice and the wallpaper is great. Would you mind sharing a source for it?

Many thanks OP for starting this thread and also big thank you to all suggesting Mull and Mulch. I was not aware of those apps and will try out both of them.

Here are some links to start from:

• DivestOS website with information about their apps: https://divestos.org/pages/our_apps
• Mull directly from F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/
• Mulch only from DivestOS F-Droid Repo: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/us.spotco.mulch/ - must enable repo first!

I really liked the Bromite browser on my mobiles, but unfortunately it did not get (security) updates for a longer time. From the many discussions in the Issue tracker asking about status of the project, I could not get a clear clue about the situation, but fact is that the last Bromite release is from Dec 2022.

From here Bromite is Dead, Use Cromite Instead I learned about and tried to switch to Cromite, but on my 32-bit Android devices it is still very unstable.

Definitely dislike MS, generations of my workstations have small, yellow “Microsoft Free Workstation” stickers on their monitors, but VSCodium (in my case) is not really bad.

Also I really like the Xbox360 console and (as a hacker and maker) still love the first Kinnect. The Kinnect is an excellent piece of sensor-hardware, was rather cheap when purchased in used condition and it works very well with Linux.

The German Feddit was down for quite a while, but if this counts for 200 servers I do not know.

You can start with The Uber files, which “is a global investigation into a trove of 124,000 confidential documents from the tech company that were leaked to the Guardian.”

Summary

Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals

Some examples:

• The cache of more than 124,000 internal Uber files lays bare the ethically questionable practices through which the company barged its way into new markets, often where existing laws or regulations made its operations illegal, before lobbying aggressively for those same laws or regulations to be altered to accommodate it. Read here
• Senior executives at Uber ordered the use of a “kill switch” to prevent police and regulators from accessing sensitive data during raids on its offices in at least six countries. Read here
• Two of Barack Obama’s most senior presidential campaign advisers, David Plouffe and Jim Messina, discussed helping Uber get to access leaders, officials and diplomats. Read here
• At least six UK government ministers, including the then chancellor, George Osborne, and the future health secretary Matt Hancock, did not declare secret meetings at which they were lobbied by Uber. Read here
• The inside story of how Uber used its connections to the Conservative party to lobby Boris Johnson in a rearguard effort to stop Transport for London introducing new regulations. Read here
• One of Uber’s top executives quit amid questions for the company about whether its European operations were structured in a way that avoided tax. Read here
• Uber secretly hired a political operative linked to Russian oligarchs allegedly aligned with Vladimir Putin in an attempt to secure its place in the Russian market, despite internal bribery concerns. Read here

[…]

As Bonus some older articles about their overall ethics and practices:

• Harvard Business Review: Uber Can’t Be Fixed - It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down
• NY Times: How Uber Deceives the Authorities Worldwide paywalled | archived article
• The Verge This is Uber’s playbook for sabotaging Lyft
• BuzzFeed: Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt On Journalists
• Business Insider: Uber has lost its licence to operate in London … as “Uber was not “fit and proper” to hold a licence”
• Business Insider: France was right to punish Uber, according to a top European legal adviser | archived article

Thank you for your detailed explanation and the wiki link 🙂. Good to hear that this (side-) topic is on the agenda.

As mentioned, I really appreciate your work around education and awareness of FOSS principles and chances
and I wish you a nice (remaining) Software Freedom Day.

Looks like a really nice and useful initiative.

Yes indeed. It would also work (at least similarly) for the VIC-20 and other Commodore computers 🧑‍🏫

Or … 99 has a more uncommon meaning for me 🤓

(in reality the hardware in question was brand new hottest stuff when I was young)

I know what you mean, but who are this “double click” and “exe” guys?

• Press RUN/STOP and SHIFT.

• PRESS PLAY ON TAPE

• Press PLAY on tape.

• OK
  SEARCHING
  FOUND Ultimate Game II

• Take walk with the dog.
• Play game.

Do you mean that the filesystem itself had optimization so that searching from the command line (find, grep) was fast?

Or do you think more into the direction of the desktop apps Finder and Librarian?

At least I remember the Librarian.app was great for indexing and quickly searching through large amount of texts (from various formats).

Thanks alot for the details.

Very interesting, I did not know that the Mac SE/30 and the (cheapest) NeXTstation had comparable prices.

What I knew (for here in Germany) was that PCs were expensive (compared to today), but much cheaper than the Macs and NeXTs.

If you want to play around with NeXTstep or OpenStep today, I can recommend the following starting points and tools:

• NeXT Computers forum and its download section
• Previous emulator for emulating black NeXT hardware (m68k) | Releases | Source 1 | Source 2 | Development
• VirtualBox for emulating white NeXT hardware (intel) | Video: Installing OpenStep in VirtualBox

Here you can take a look at the NeXTstation brochure, it is mentioning your price of $5,000 on the last page.

Do you by any chance know what around the same time the costs for a “normal” PC was? Just to get an idea about the difference.

please see this comment above

All my real daily-use archivers were not listed in the poll, except 7zip.
Had to select “Other”, but meant: gzip, xz, bzip2, unrar, rar and zip.

MetaGer is a German meta search engine (utilizing several search engines in the back). UI and results are of course available in many languages.

https://metager.org | https://metager.de

From their About page:

What makes MetaGer special?

MetaGer is different from other search engines. This is reflected not only in our public good orientation and focus on privacy, but also through some unique features:

• Possibility of creating a personal blacklist
• Function of the search in the search
• Advertising-free search possible
• Integration of search engine projects like YaCy
• The only German search engine that combines results from several large web indexes
• And much more…

What We Stand For

Guaranteed Privacy

Data protection and privacy are important to us. That’s why we don’t track or store personal data and offer several services to protect your privacy, for example our anonymizing proxy (“Open Anonymously” feature).

Non-Profit Association

MetaGer is a project of the non-profit association SUMA-EV, Association for Free Access to Knowledge. SUMA-EV is primarily committed to promoting media literacy.

Diverse and Free

MetaGer produces diverse results because it is a metasearch engine. We have explained exactly what this means in our transparency statement. By publishing our source code, we show that free access to knowledge is important to us. Our source code is free and open source.

100% Renewable Energy

Sustainability and resource consumption is also a big issue for us. Therefore we pay attention to the energy consumption of our services and only use electricity from renewable energy sources.