Notices by Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net), page 3

@cassidyjames the big lesson, that is often counterintuitive to hierarchical companies, is that giving up ownership and control in exchange for participation delivers better results, lower cost and more happy people. Weird ;)

We have seen companies forking open source projects and add features that didn’t go upstream. And how they learned the hard way that this approach means they now “own” their fork and have to support it.

Had to verify. And yes. Kernighan and Ritchie really did this. TIL :)

It is completely on-device only for the blocking part, so no data will leak to a 3rd party. It is #GPLv3 licensed and you can inspect the source code at https://github.com/confirmedcode/lockdown-ios

#LPT on your iPhone or iPad, you can and should install #lockdown. It's a kind of firewall that blocks traffic to Facebook (SDK), Google ad analytics and a lot more of those nasty trackers that are out to kill your privacy. It's #OpenSource, ofcourse. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lockdown-apps/id1469783711

Thank you, #Microsoft, for sharing how many #Google services are looming in the #Chrome/#Chromium browser. I hope all projects that use Chromium take note and also start removing these. (slide was presented at BlinkOn conference)

Please #StopUsingMedium. It’s really annoying and makes me not read your content, no matter how good it is. Not specific for this author. This a general statement.