In “The Nextcloud mission and principles”, Frank Karlitschek, CEO of Nextcloud describes the mission and principles of Nextcloud, the company behind the software with the same name.

I use Nextcloud for quite some time already and with every release I like it more, it’s a wonderful software (although it’s PHP). Another reason to like Nextcloud is because the company has principles I wish more companies had: 100% open source (and no open core), open standards and decentralization, just to name a few.

Although the linked article is basically an ad for Firefox, there are two things I would like to highlight.

The third point “Turn on strict tracking protection” says that enabling strict tracking protection, or like I do by using uBlock Origin, prevents data from being sent to “dozens or even hundreds of companies” and therefor also the processing of it. That’s such an important point in my opinion! It’s also just another good argument when trying to tell people why they should use an ad blocker…

The second point I want to highlight, is the last one in Mozilla’s list: “Get bored”. Getting bored and doing just nothing, not only saves some energy, but can have a positive effect on your brain too.

I heard of telnet already, but I never used it in some way. It’s one of the oldest internet standards. Now I discovered a cool project: mapscii.

When you are on Linux or macOS, open your terminal and type:

telnet mapscii.me

Maps in your terminal via telnet! 😄

To navigate, use the following shortcuts:

• Arrows up, down, left, right to scroll around
• a or z to zoom in and out
• q to quit

On Windows you can use PuttY. And if you don’t want to use telnet, you can also download the project and run it locally. It’s NodeJS-based.