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Web Review, Week 2021-43

Oct 29, 2021 | 2 minutes read

Tags: web-review, gafam, internet, fundraising, web, management, tech, linux, cooking, commons, microsoft, surveillance, leadership, rfc3339, data-science, free-software, tor, google, statistics, rss, social-media, iso8601, date, quality, facebook

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2021-43.

Reflections as the Internet Archive turns 25 - Internet Archive Blogs

Tags: tech, internet, commons

Another very important common turns 25 this year. Happy birthday Internet Archive!

https://blog.archive.org/2021/07/21/reflections-as-the-internet-archive-turns-25/

Privacy is a Human Right | Tor Blog

Tags: tech, tor, fundraising

Fundraising from the Tor project, especially nice message this year.

https://blog.torproject.org/privacy-is-a-human-right

Google sought fellow tech giants’ help in stalling kids’ privacy protections, states allege

Tags: google, facebook, gafam, surveillance

Basically an attempt at building a cartel of the surveillance capitalism companies to slow down privacy regulations… how surprising, not.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/22/google-kids-privacy-protections-tech-giants-516834

Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? - Dusted Codes

Tags: microsoft, free-software

Unlike what the usual PR claims, Microsoft keeps being Microsoft… lots of infighting and tensions.

https://dusted.codes/can-we-trust-microsoft-with-open-source

Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from the Linux community

Tags: tech, linux, quality

This is in the context of a game, but from my experience in other domains… this is definitely why you want Linux users when you make a product. Might not generate a lots of sales but the signal/noise ratio in the bug reports is just great.

https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/qeqn3b/despite_having_just_58_sales_over_38_of_bug/

RSS is Wonderful · Quakkels.com

Tags: tech, rss, web, social-media

Since I’m still hoping for a strong RSS revival (not that it disappeared but I wish it was more the default option again), this post especially resonated with me. The discovery tool sounds very interesting.

https://quakkels.com/posts/rss-is-wonderful/