Ihtesham Ali

I write on technology and business. Helping you understand AI.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

This is the same guy who design NextCloud and ownCloud.

Here is the link for you:

https://t.co/naojmzLVEz

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A guy named Jan-Christoph accidentally built the most useful directory of open-source projects on the internet.

It is called LibreProjects.

Search for what you need and it shows you open-source web services across 15 categories:

> Social networks
> Search engines
> Cloud storage
> Video calls
> Spreadsheets
> Presentations
> Books
> News
> Audio
> Graphics
> Games
> Development tools

You will find Jitsi Meet for video calls, Nextcloud for cloud storage, EtherCalc for spreadsheets, Searx for search, and Project Gutenberg for books.

Click a project and LibreProjects tells you what it does, which commercial product it can replace, what license it uses, and where you can inspect the source code.

The clever part is what they refuse to list.

A company cannot throw one open-source feature into a paid product and sneak into the directory wearing a fake mustache.

The service should be open source, hosted, free to use, and simple enough for ordinary people.

It is basically an escape map from subscription software.

And somehow, almost nobody knows it exists.

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@tunguz Google is sleepy now.

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@rohanpaul_ai We are going to solve all the problems in math with this rate of acceleration.

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@HowToPrompt__ China is cooking

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@mark_k Wow

Every day I am seeing groundbreaking stuff come out.

Loved it

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@heynavtoor This is amazing.

I am excited to explore

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@AliANaqviPro Who am I protecting and giving lip service to?

Can you be precise? Thanks.

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@MaxVOAO Why are you looking down?

Look up bro.

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@RoundtableSpace Something I will never use.

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@hasantoxr I am excited about this

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Governments spent years blocking newspapers, jailing reporters, and scrubbing websites.

So, a group of journalists hid all the banned articles inside Minecraft, and now a 12-year-old in Riyadh can read them between building blocks.

It's called The Uncensored Library.

Here's the loophole nobody saw coming and I f*cking love it:

Authoritarian governments block news sites, social media, blogs, anything that lets independent journalism through.

But they never blocked Minecraft. It's a kids' game. It's harmless.

It's the most played game on Earth and it works in almost every country, including Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam.

Reporters Without Borders walked straight through that open door.

They took articles that got journalists arrested, exiled, or killed in their home countries.

They rebuilt those articles as books inside the game. Then they built a library to hold them. A real one. 12.5 million blocks. 24 builders from 16 countries.

A dome nearly 300 meters wide, one of the biggest domed structures anywhere, real or virtual.

A kid in a censored country opens a video game their government approved of.

Walks into a marble library that doesn't exist in the physical world. Pulls a book off a shelf. And reads the exact reporting their government spent millions trying to erase.

The censors are still watching the newspapers.

Nobody told them the truth moved into a sandbox game.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

@aibasehub So true.

People need to wake up.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

Governments spent years blocking newspapers, jailing reporters, and scrubbing websites.

So, a group of journalists hid all the banned articles inside Minecraft, and now a 12-year-old in Riyadh can read them between building blocks.

It's called The Uncensored Library.

Here's the loophole nobody saw coming and I f*cking love it:

Authoritarian governments block news sites, social media, blogs, anything that lets independent journalism through.

But they never blocked Minecraft. It's a kids' game. It's harmless.

It's the most played game on Earth and it works in almost every country, including Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam.

Reporters Without Borders walked straight through that open door.

They took articles that got journalists arrested, exiled, or killed in their home countries.

They rebuilt those articles as books inside the game. Then they built a library to hold them. A real one. 12.5 million blocks. 24 builders from 16 countries.

A dome nearly 300 meters wide, one of the biggest domed structures anywhere, real or virtual.

A kid in a censored country opens a video game their government approved of.

Walks into a marble library that doesn't exist in the physical world. Pulls a book off a shelf. And reads the exact reporting their government spent millions trying to erase.

The censors are still watching the newspapers.

Nobody told them the truth moved into a sandbox game.

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@heynavtoor The reason I like X and this is that they give freedom to people to read whatever the governments are hiding

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@hasantoxr This is the smartest way to read everything.

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This is the link that you can check:

https://t.co/9AMK77uHgm

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@tobiflamme You are not monetized.

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@heynavtoor I tried this and it works.

Really useful tool.

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@cb_doge I will definitely watch it.