@ekaitz_zarraga @factourism it gives "cream of mushroom soup" a whole new meaning...

I finally got around to finishing the "about" page on Bob's Tech Site.

Aside from my own CV, it also covers my thoughts on which Linux distro you should try as a newcomer, and my thoughts on "free software v open source" and "the year of the Linux desktop"

https://bobstechsite.gitlab.io/about.html

Here's the direct link to the findings from those documents:

https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/culture-media-and-sport/Note-by-Chair-and-selected-documents-ordered-from-Six4Three.pdf

It is really quite damning.

* Facebook deliberately obscured from users what information they were collecting about them & how to opt out

* Facebook used its monopoly to cripple competing applications and services

* Facebook signed agreements to acquire data other app developers collected in exchange for some of its own

* Companies could circumvent user permissions by signing an agreement with Facebook

@smallsees @nolan I guess in a way it's a blessing in disguise.

What it should teach developers in big companies is that *they* are responsible for vetting the dependencies in their final application.

Fixed versioning and mirroring your own repos in the build environment is something Maven used to get a lot of stick for, but I think the lessons are being re-learned about why they're important things to do.