Index to sets of photographs


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There are some newer photos on my Slideshows site, but that website isn't completely stable yet. You can try it but don't expect everything to work yet.

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Acknowledgements
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Please read this

Linux

You probably don't use Linux because it's more difficult to set up than Microsoft Windows, if you're not an IT professional. But have you ever wondered why Microsoft doesn't charge $1000 or more for Windows? After all, it has a near-monopoly, and Apple isn't going to compete on price.

The reason Microsoft can't gouge you is that it only has a near monopoly. Despite its best efforts to cripple Linux, by persuading manufacturers of new devices (new printers, graphics cards, etc) not to release technical information about their devices to anyone except Microsoft, GNU/Linux continues to thrive. The potential competition inhibits Microsoft from gouging you; you won't switch to Linux to save a few dollars, but you would seriously look at switching if it would save you $1000. In this way, Linux helps you even if you don't use it.

Linux in particular, and the Free Software community in general, are under constant threat from big, influential companies - Microsoft in particular - which have the financial clout to influence politicians, smaller companies, and standardisation bodies. Please make a donation to the Free Software Foundation, whose campaigns to protect your freedom save you money, even if you never actually use free software.

News media

Serious journalism is dead in the mainstream media. Simple facts (natural disasters, politicians' rhetoric, sport results) are still reported, along with sex scandals. Anything that might disturb TPTB as a whole is ignored.

In a small way I'm trying to do something about this. news.mafrareseach.eu is a website which enables you to see what dozens of independent reporters and commenters are writing, all on one page, with one-click access to the ones that interest you. Technically, it uses RSS feeds. Try it. It has no ads, doesn't track you, and doesn't need to ask you for money. If you register (free and ad-free and it doesn't sell your data), you can build your own web page showing the news/comment sources that you like. More than 100 are available, including some mainstream media.