I already have my https://yacy.net.
Readit Newsfghtr commented on Verizon Media launches OneSearch, a privacy-focused search engine venturebeat.com/2020/01/1... · Posted by u/KoftaBob
Volunteering makes your happier.
Can't we have an open source search engine with publicly sourced "indices"? Anyone who wants can then crawl the web and build a graph of parts of the internet. The search part and the crawling code would be open source. What's the problem?
Here you go: https://yacy.net
fghtr commented on I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left write.as/dsf4khx3r1m1208f... · Posted by u/dogweather
Also called social benefit corporations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation
If the company doesn’t have their values and goals listed in the articles of incorporation, then they have no legal obligation to follow them.
>> Also called social benefit corporations
Wikipedia says it's not the same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_purpose_corporation
>> If the company doesn’t have their values and goals listed in the articles of incorporation, then they have no legal obligation to follow them.
But Purism afaik does have them listed.
fghtr commented on I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left write.as/dsf4khx3r1m1208f... · Posted by u/dogweather
Google, in my mind, is the quintessential "You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain" story.
(To be fair, since this all is subjective, I do believe Google 2009 would consider this behavior counter to it's values and the values of the people it attracted.)
The question I have is are there ways to stay true to values (which in some cases might be in direct opposition to growth and profit taking) with the way our society is structured? Has any major company pulled this off? (This reminds me a bit of the Boeing story posted a few days ago where quality lost out to dangerous shortcuts for profit)
>> are there ways to stay true to values (which in some cases might be in direct opposition to growth and profit taking) with the way our society is structured?
Purism is trying to do exactly this by being Social Purpose Corporation: https://puri.sm/about/social-purpose/. However, I would not call them a "major company" yet.
fghtr commented on Things that I think will be important in the next decade facebook.com/4/posts/1011... · Posted by u/juniusfree
We have had CCTVs around for the last 30 years, where are the massive privacy violations that you guys predicted 30 years ago?
Very very few people had google glass to begin with, the glass hole term was invented and perpetuated by a bunch of conspiracy theorists, enough to get 3.9 million hits on google (for < 1000 units?), it provides no evidence of anything.
Tech Luddism is as old as technology itself. It isn’t surprising that you don’t want this, that you don’t want other people to have this, we’ve gone down this road before and we will go down it again.
Tech Luddism has nothing to do with these arguments. I do not want tech that someone else controls, because it benefits 'them', not me. I want tech that I can control. See, e.g., Free Software Foundation and Purism.
fghtr commented on NitroPad: Secure Laptop with Tamper Detection nitrokey.com/news/2020/ni... · Posted by u/Manozco
See also Librem Key for a free (as in freedom) alternative [0].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z66N_oKbs0k