Rosie Pattern Language, which is an alternative to regular expressions.

Edit: Here is a presentation by the creator

I couldn't find a source for this, but I heard that we were convinced to think of dandelions as weeds by the makers of a herbicide so that we would accept the collateral damage.

The interview with Serj Tankian

Yes

I stopped using Spotify after I noticed that a song's share URL contains unique tracking elements. Then they started trying to lock down the podcast market, which reaffirms that leaving was the right choice.

GrapheneOS

What we need is a Constitutional Amendment that bars convicted felons from higher office

This would be dangerous, allowing inconvenient politicians to be excluded from office through framing or selective enforcement of the law.

What we really need is a population capable of making better decisions.

Signal is certainly not. It's open source, and verifiably end-to-end encrypted. The only information that they have about you is your phone number, when your account was created, and when you last connected to the service.

Telegram is not so privacy friendly, with a major problem being that it's not end-to-end encrypted by default.

Yes. The project seems to be in good hands while Micay is away. Regardless, the open nature of their work gives me additional confidence.

For YouTube frontends: On the Linux desktop, there is FreeTube, on IOS there is yattee (IIRC), then there are web based front ends from invideous.

Louis Rossman mentioned the other day that they are in the process of creating an app that will allow you to follow your chosen creators across multiple services, so that you can continue even if their primary platform removes them.

If you're looking for YouTube alternatives, check out Peertube, Odyssey, and Nebula (I haven't looked at Peertube or Odyssey in a while, so I can't comment on how they are doing).

Some basic information, including building numbers, can also be edited from within Organic Maps.

Lichess - rather than chess.com

Rustdesk - remote desktop software

Syncthing - rather than Dropbox

KDE Connect - phone/computer integration (notifications, media control, mouse and keyboard, file sharing, presentation remote, clipboard sharing, etc)

Aves gallery,

Organic maps

PlayBook - audiobook player

Bitwarden - password manager,

Droid-ify - F-droid client

Element - matrix client (potentiall alternative to discord)

GrapheneOS is also great.