Samsung Electronics donated $315,000 to U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony in January, newly released data from the U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) showed.
https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2025/04/22/VYMZNLJMYFACHAAGKXT6TRTD5U/
New blog post! It's my favourite #FOSS alternatives for the new #Nothing3a #Android and moving away from Google as much as possible without fully transitioning to something like #GrapheneOS.
Also updated my #Hugo theme from Anatole to Anubis2. Like the more steamlined one column layout compared to the more dated fixed left sidebar + header...
https://www.burgeonlab.com/2025/hardening-my-new-android-phonenothing-phone-3a/
#BurgeonLab
#Nothingphone3a #Nothingphone #AndroidFOSS #degoogle
Gotta say, right now it seems my little @nextcloud thing is rather seamlessly replacing not just Google Drive & Docs but also Dropbox... the only minor thing is,upload isn't exactly snappy - maybe it'll be a little better if I start paying, which I probably will, but if not it isn't a deal breaker for me, I can work around that
Wiz Acquisition Puts Israeli Intelligence In Charge of Your Google Data
Good replacement for Google Calendar?
Edit: hat sich erledigt. Ich habe das Huaweii liegengelassen; das ist zu aufwendig und unsicher.
Weiß jemand, ob man ein Huaweii P20 lite degooglen kann? In den Listen der alternativen OS sehe ich es nicht als unterstütztes Gerät leider.
@cwicseolfor @hakfoo @futurebird @lnlyisol There was also the politics of it.
For a long time, Silicon Valley positioned itself as being the enlightened, socially-conscious, pro-freedom, pro-consumer alternative disrupting established cartels and vested interests.
Instead of believing what the old media barons tell you about the War in Iraq and Saddam's WMDs, our platforms let anyone be a publisher!
Instead of the RIAA's boy bands and lip syncing pop idols, we allow talented independent artists to be heard!
Instead of IBM, and later Microsoft, having a monopoly, buy our products instead! Think different! Don't be evil! It just works!
And then once everyone was locked into the walled gardens, the enshittification began.
Now.
What we really should have collectively been insisting on was a genuinely enlightened, socially-conscious, pro-freedom, pro-consumer alternative.
Member-owned, community-run non-profits. Creating open source software, based on open standards and protocols.
Where you own, and are free to repair, and are free to tweak or upgrade, your hardware. Which comes pre-installed with open source software from member-owned non-profits.
The Wikipedia/Wikimedia Foundation model works for encyclopaedias. So let's do that for search too.
And let's not leave the design of tech to just the computer science majors and MBAs. Let's get some social science and humanities folks in that design process too.
We can still do it.
But we need to start by recognising that tech, and who owns it, and who designs it, and who makes decisions about it, is a political issue.
We, the people, need to make those decisions. Not just the billionaire VCs and CEOs.
#OpenSource #FOSS #enshittification #Fediverse #OpenStandards #Linux #Wikimedia #deGoogle #Google #Meta #Facebook #Apple #Microsoft
I started a #nonprofit to help people change away from #bigtech products, and weaken #surveillancecapitalism -
www.rebeltechalliance.org
There's a Learn section to help people understand the problem, including refutations to the most common objections, and an Alternatives section for privacy-respecting alts to big tech.
I hope it is useful for you, and please share with friends and family that you are helping to leave big tech