’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech.
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’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
@CiaraNi I am inspired! I moved to Libre a few months ago & set up a Tuta account. I still have photos & calendar on iCloud though. It is a process
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Just as the Daughters of the Confederacy rewrote history to whitewash slavery, AI enables the same "amnesia" about crimes against humanity, like ecocide.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/ai-memorization-research/685552/"Personalized shopping" is price fixing
https://www.ft.com/content/957c7438-b2e0-4605-a276-caa8a7ec363c
https://archive.ph/Q7wp3https://www.axios.com/2026/01/11/walmart-google-gemini-ai-shopping
AI medical summaries are disguising anti-health disinformation campaigns & antivaxxer ideology.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/11/google-ai-overviews-health-guardian-investigation
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AI coding assistants disguise wage suppression schemes, mass layoffs, and monopolization
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degradeshttps://github.blog/ai-and-ml/llms/why-ai-is-pushing-developers-toward-typed-languages/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/ai-jobs-automation/
AI is a system to narc on former employers IP
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-contractor-upload-real-work-documents-ai-agents/AI is a system that ensures a lack of privacy everywhere
https://www.wired.com/story/physical-ai-is-coming-for-your-car/AI is a porn generator & distributor
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/09/grok-image-generator-outcry-sexualised-ai-imageryAI is the means for election meddling
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/nyregion/ny-hochul-ai-candidates.html -
@CiaraNi @metteh
Jag hade tydligen fel. Qwant har inte AI, vilket ju är bra ur ert perspektiv.Enligt den här artikeln på franska från 10 november 2025
https://www.emarketerz.fr/les-moteurs-de-recherche-sans-ia-brave-duckduckgo-qwant-quel-avenir/
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@mkj Good information. Thanks. @andresimous @sebastian @Flatus
@CiaraNi @mkj @andresimous @sebastian If you self-host, how do you handle backups?
And do you just keep images on a regular drive?
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@mkj Good points. Once I got the back-up external drive, I instantly felt less pressured about finding a new cloud provider. I've started the process, and it doesn't feel as overwhelming as if I had to try and get everything out of one locked-in cloud and into a new, unfamiliar one overnight. 'Something' better than 'nothing' - yes, that strategy works for me.
@CiaraNi There are so many people who take either an absolutist (must do everything at once and everything must be perfect) or a defaitist (nothing one does matters at all) approach.
My opinion is quite simply: *every step you take toward better leaves you in a better position!* Even the small steps.
Just looking at the steps you have already taken (and committed to), you're probably *already* in a better position than a *huge* number of people. Don't dismiss the progress you've already made.
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’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
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@CiaraNi @mkj @andresimous @sebastian If you self-host, how do you handle backups?
And do you just keep images on a regular drive?
How do you keep track of everything?@Flatus I'm not @CiaraNi but I can say about backups from my own perspective: by having copies! Keeping things solely in the cloud is definitely not a backup!
Once you have stuff somewhere you have full control, backing up is "just" copying the right files to elsewhere.
(If you're curious how *I* personally am handling backups, I wrote a blog post at https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2024/my-data-backup-setup/ about two years ago. It's not completely up to date, but nothing major has changed since.)
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’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
@CiaraNi If you need a cloud thing to replace OneDrive, my experience with NextCloud is really good
I started with a free account via thegood.cloud & have recently upgraded to a paid one 
(I'm not using it for auto-syncing pictures from my phone but I'm told i can do it natively)
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AI coding assistants disguise wage suppression schemes, mass layoffs, and monopolization
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degradeshttps://github.blog/ai-and-ml/llms/why-ai-is-pushing-developers-toward-typed-languages/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/ai-jobs-automation/
AI is a system to narc on former employers IP
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-contractor-upload-real-work-documents-ai-agents/AI is a system that ensures a lack of privacy everywhere
https://www.wired.com/story/physical-ai-is-coming-for-your-car/AI is a porn generator & distributor
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/09/grok-image-generator-outcry-sexualised-ai-imageryAI is the means for election meddling
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/nyregion/ny-hochul-ai-candidates.html4/
AI is creating chokepoints, bottlenecks, & likely points of failure in fragile systems. It erodes robustness, reliability, & redundancy.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkh9611zb11gAI removes guardrails, governance, and oversight. It obscures provenance.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ie/blog/dancing-with-the-devil/202601/the-emotions-behind-aiAI is worsening the climate crisis.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/ai-climate-change-bill-gates/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/17/ai-climate-crisis-cop30
AI is trying to substitute expertise for lies
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/suspended-toronto-lawyer-linked-to-deadly-triple-shooting-caught-using-ai-in-appeal/ -
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AI is creating chokepoints, bottlenecks, & likely points of failure in fragile systems. It erodes robustness, reliability, & redundancy.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkh9611zb11gAI removes guardrails, governance, and oversight. It obscures provenance.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ie/blog/dancing-with-the-devil/202601/the-emotions-behind-aiAI is worsening the climate crisis.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/ai-climate-change-bill-gates/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/17/ai-climate-crisis-cop30
AI is trying to substitute expertise for lies
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/suspended-toronto-lawyer-linked-to-deadly-triple-shooting-caught-using-ai-in-appeal/5/
AI is a mechanism for social engineering & fuels a societal mental health crisis. It manipulates public sentiment.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/08/google-character-ai-settlement-teen-suicide
AI is going to cause a timely financial crisis in time for the midterms.
A fossil fuel industry funded fascist rugpull to keep the GOP in power.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/09/nx-s1-5672643/market-ai-what-is-a-bubblehttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/10/are-we-in-an-ai-bubble-tech-leaders-analysts.html
https://www.economist.com/business/2026/01/08/the-ai-frenzy-is-creating-a-big-problem-for-consumer-electronics
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@irgndsondepp Thanks! I *think* I can figure that out.
You don't see a lot of 34 character long domain names btw. Good choice
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@CiaraNi If you need a cloud thing to replace OneDrive, my experience with NextCloud is really good
I started with a free account via thegood.cloud & have recently upgraded to a paid one (I'm not using it for auto-syncing pictures from my phone but I'm told i can do it natively)
@jwcph Oh that is really good to know. Mange tak. I couldn't find an entry point for NextCloud as a Just Make It Work non-tech end user. Great to have a provider name - thanks. I will look into a free trial account and take it from there. (That's how I moved to Tuta - the free account was so good and simple that I subscribed almost immediately.) Tak for hjælpen.
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AI is a mechanism for social engineering & fuels a societal mental health crisis. It manipulates public sentiment.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/08/google-character-ai-settlement-teen-suicide
AI is going to cause a timely financial crisis in time for the midterms.
A fossil fuel industry funded fascist rugpull to keep the GOP in power.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/09/nx-s1-5672643/market-ai-what-is-a-bubblehttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/10/are-we-in-an-ai-bubble-tech-leaders-analysts.html
https://www.economist.com/business/2026/01/08/the-ai-frenzy-is-creating-a-big-problem-for-consumer-electronics
https://archive.ph/y8Hqz6/
AI increases nuclear proliferation & the likelihood of world wars.
The fossil fuel industry is gearing up for an automated WW3.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/meta-signs-nuclear-energy-deals-to-power-prometheus-ai-supercluster.htmlhttps://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-05-13/trump-arrives-in-saudi-arabia-amid-much-pomp
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/11/mbs-pledges-saudi-investment-1t-trump-meeting
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/
AI is automating the foreign straw donors, public corruption, & bribery
https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidias-huang-joins-tech-titans-funding-trumps-ballroom-2025-10-29/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/business/saudi-investment-forum-kennedy-center.html
AI is a flight of capital out of the fossil fuel industry.
Money laundering the looted treasuries of nations.
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@leanderlindahl @metteh Det lyder lovende. Hvis man kan slukke for AI via én knap, så er det allerede bedre end Big Tech-udgavene.
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@Orewoet Sorry, no, I haven't used it as a shared calendar. Maybe someone else here in the Fediverse has - I'd be interested to hear myself.
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’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
@CiaraNi I am copying all of my 3Tb of pics from OneDrive to external SSDs...It turns out, download speeds are either capped or crippled as the regular speeds are 2-5Mb. But I have optical 1Gb link...Took me 3 days to download 400Gb. Still in progress
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@Flatus I'm not @CiaraNi but I can say about backups from my own perspective: by having copies! Keeping things solely in the cloud is definitely not a backup!
Once you have stuff somewhere you have full control, backing up is "just" copying the right files to elsewhere.
(If you're curious how *I* personally am handling backups, I wrote a blog post at https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2024/my-data-backup-setup/ about two years ago. It's not completely up to date, but nothing major has changed since.)
@mkj @Flatus @andresimous @sebastian I am moving my photos off OneDrive on to my computer and taking a back-up to my new external back-up drive. It's helped me weed the archive, making me think more about what I keep. I use a folder and file structure. Not sure if it's just me (perhaps a GenX thing?) but I can keep track through file names, photo dates and folder tree structures, no problem. I'd struggle more to find individual images from a flat structure grouped through links to albums.
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’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
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@CiaraNi Just a suggestion, which of course may not fit your needs.
Consider if you could put your music, video, and data onto a home NAS, and securely stream it within the house but also outside the house.
No need for any cloud drive, and little need for a streaming service. Audio streaming already starves musicians, buy and rip CDs instead. Video streaming is enshittifying with less for more. No data for water-hoarding data centres.@BashStKid Thanks for the tips. I don't know what a NAS is, so I am probably not the right one for that. I don't audio stream anything. I listen to CDs and the radio. And I never watch TV or films, so no alternative to streaming needed there either. Only now that you mention this do I realise that my analogue (/dull/old-fashioned) habits must make it easier for me to make digital changes than others. I have fewer things to consider. I'm lucky there.
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@leanderlindahl @metteh Det lyder godt! Nul AI. The dream.
