• https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/
• https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/66089/why-isn-t-vivaldi-browser-open-source

Yes, Vivaldi isn’t fullFOSS, because 5% of the script of the unique UI is proprietary of Vivaldi, but it’s 100% auditable and even moddeable by the user, they even show how to do it in its community. Edge and Chrome would fork it in the same moment when Vivaldi make it OpenSource, killing all other Chromium and Vivaldi itself. Maybe in the future it will go full OpenSource, there are still intern debates about it. The sense of OpenSource is to be capable to collaborate in new products, but with almost 100 browsers and forks in the market, this value is pretty debatable. For the user is more important the ethics of the company respect the user, in this case a european, employee-owned cooperative, which is given with a full transparency in all it’s services included in the account (mail, calendar, feed, blog, the Vivaldi Mastodon instance, e2ee sync in own server, etc.).

Vivaldi, good maintaned, no calls to Google, inbuild and customizable ad and trackerblocker. If Chromium, than this one.

It should not be missing from the Bookmarks:

• https://themarkup.org/blacklight
• https://webbkoll.dataskydd.net/en
• https://www.urlvoid.com
• https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url

Also usefull

• https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com

There are also some more I use

Yes, in Linux you need 3-4 different apps to do the same as you can do with ShareX

Yes, but anyway, everybody wish ShareX in Linux, but nobody dares to fork ShareX for Linux. Until now there sadly isn’t any equivalent tool for Linux

Flameshot is a really nice screenshot tool, but the big drawback is, that it only upload to Imgur, one of the worst Data hogs. The best and most complete is ShareX, there you can set the destinations to your like, but it has also a big drawback, it’s Windows only (depends on NETframework, same as Greenshot)

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You can use Flameshot, but recomment to store the screenshots only locally and upload to share/host later to, eg vgy.me, or some self hosted one, like FileCoffee (valid for all type of files, image, video, multimedia, documents, presentations, etc.)

No, but eg, Chromium has a BSD 3 license, that means simplified do what you fucking want with it at your own risk, exept if you want to put the original Chromium author on your shabby fork or derivated products, you need a permission to do it. Even Gecko has a more restrictive license (MIT, also very liberal but need copyright mencion if you use it)

i know, because off this I named what is FOSS and what is OSS. But even FOSS, when it include APIs, also FOSS, from Big Brothers, it isn’t really FOSS, it’s only because the traditional definition, same for “Open” Source as such. This is because I said that the traditional definition need a revision.

https://miloslav.website/blog/2020/10/26/firefox-privacy/

All from Google Code (Chromium, Chromium OS, Android, irbase, etc…) and alot of third parties which include APIs from Google, Facebook and the other mencioned. Well, as FOSS you can all of these gut and fork, but if not, the are not more private and secure as any other proprietary soft. You can take a look also on the over 6200 Microsoft Open Source repositories in GitHub (also from MS), eg Docker, LinuxTracepoints, Live-share…

https://github.com/orgs/microsoft/repositories?type=all

Or in the Open Source repositories from Zuckerbot (eg. React)

https://opensource.fb.com

Also Amazon

https://aws.amazon.com/en/opensource/

Most trustworth those from the NASA, but most very specific apps. Maybe Worldwind as alternative to Google Earth.

We all know that companies like Adobe, Amazon, Google, Zuckerbot products and M$ are everything, but trustworthy when it comes to security and privacy. But too many times FOSS is confused with being reliable, secure and private, which is profoundly false, especially in recent years, since precisely the aforementioned companies got massively into the world of OpenSource, injecting and controlling many FOSS products with their APIs.

The big evil today is called surveillance advertising, that is, selling user data to advertising companies and others, to create income, which is not only an invasive privacy problem, but also a serious security problem as it is not controllable how these data, often sensitive, are processed and protected.

Especially in products from the US, where privacy regulation is practically non-existent and which require an urgent review in this regard, irrelevant if it is FOSS or proprietary soft. It also requires a revision of the definition of OpenSource, where products that send data to third parties and large companies are not really Open Source, other than in an evil sense…

USA, weapon companies and Nazies

At least for my city OSM is pretty complete with all business in it, A alternative is Here Maps, which also show all traffic and public transport lines, apart of the business sites. The only thing that no other map has is the Google Street View (Here at least has a 3D view), but I can live without this.

More info https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

As I said before, ReviOS isn’t a OS as such. In Windows I used the Hellzerg Optimizer to gut privacy invading parts, services and nags. Well ReviOS is something similar, but in extremis, leaving Windows with just enough to function as an OS, without unnecessary functions, services and telemetries, with the half of its default size. But independent if you use the ReviOS setup or ISO, you need Windows first, precisely because RevisionOS isn’t a OS as such.

You know all entity from all the FOSS you use?

Well, ReviOS isn’t a own OS as such which substitute the existing Windows, like eg. ReactOS, it’s an FOSS tool which convert an existing Windows to something acceptable. It’s because of this not so different as posting any other FOSS for Windows, like the hellzerg Optimizer on steroids. See here the changes made by ReviOS https://www.revi.cc/docs/faq/before/features/

What a shame, no one thinks about poor Mark? ¬¬

Yeah, one day in the future chips with net access are implanted in the newborns brain and wellcome to the the universal consciousness