May Organic Maps Offline Hike, Bike, GPS Navigation be something for you? (found in https://feddit.de/post/3646471)
The German Feddit was down for quite a while, but if this counts for 200 servers I do not know.
Thank you very much for sharing 🙂
Das wäre ein sehr hilfreiches Feature.
Ich mochte viele der in den Kommentaren genannte Bücher und Autoren und bin zudem ein großer Douglas Adams und Terry Pratchett Fan.
Dies vorangestellt, fand ich Marc-Uwe Klings QualityLand und QualityLand 2.0 wunderbar und würde es gerne als lesenswerte, deutsche Science Fiction empfehlen. Zum Erscheinungszeitpunkt waren diese Romane ja noch Science Fiction, auch wenn wir mittlerweile einige der dystopischen Teile in der Realität erleben.
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
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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.
Suggestion to the owners of the SFD webpage
I would appreciate the SFD initiative even more, if on the SFD webpage you would "live by your own words".
Facebook and the blue bird are by no means free software, also not according to your definitions "free to study [how the program works]", "free to distribute [copies]", "free to modify [the software]", "free to access [the source code]".
So why not at least show the benefits and use FOSS social media alternatives in action?
If you need the momentum of the unfree social media, you still could do this additionally.
Über die letzten zwanzig Jahre sind die meisten unserer (inklusive Eltern) Laptops, Desktop PCs, Monitore, Spielekonsolen, Konsolenspiele, Tablets und Handys gebraucht und sehr günstig gekauft. Oft habe ich die Geräte sogar als "E-Schrott" geschenkt bekommen. Bis auf zwei Ausnahmen hat es sich immer gelohnt.
Trotz mancher kleinerer Macken laufen die Geräte bei mir locker über 10 Jahre und länger. Tablets und Handys kann man mit einem Custom ROM ganz gut modernisieren. Und reparieren kann man die meisten Sachen ja auch.
Thank you very much for sharing, this page is really great!
Ich finde Nachrichten mit einfach folgbaren Quellen auch brauchbar.