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May 1, 2021

Shelter - Isolate your Big Brother Apps, using Work Profiles

Shelter is a Free and Open-Source (FOSS) app that leverages the "Work Profile" feature of Android to provide an isolated space that you can install or clone apps into.

https://k7r.eu/shelter-take-a-break-from-work/

Free and open source alternatives to harmful platforms

Directories of alternatives

  1. https://switching.software - a list of easy-to-use alternatives to well-known software.
    Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software.
    The source code for its website is published on Codeberg (meaning you can suggest changes, etc.).
  2. https://www.privacyguides.org - lots of categories. The website itself is built from a public Github repo. Via https://mastodon.neat.computer/users/privacyguides/statuses/113002199475214098
  3. https://guide.yuuire.com/recommendations/software/foss-alternatives - list of open source and privacy-friendly apps. Website's source code on github
  4. https://divestos.org/pages/recommended_apps - F-Droid recommended apps by divestos.org.
  5. https://european-alternatives.eu - European alternatives for digital products.
  6. https://selfh.st/apps - A directory of self-hosted software.

Other lists of directories

Clean up the web!

Another nice initiative by Aral Balkan of Small Technology Foundation.

Makani - Airborne Wind Turbines

This project was acquired by Alphabet in 2013 and shut down by the same in Feb 2020.

The project leaves after it this almost 2h long documentary.

https://x.company/projects/makani/

Via /u/Chris_in_Lijiang.