’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech.
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Before I could pick my 2026 goal for #DanmarkSkifter, I did a digital status. I was mildly surprised when I saw my 2025 digital changes together. I looked at the list and thought: ’Tell me you hang out in the Fediverse without telling me you hang out in the Fediverse.’
From Outlook to Tuta
From Office to Libre
From MS Authenticator to Ente Authenticator
From Google Play to F-Droid
From Spotify to AntennaPod
From Firefox to Vivaldi
From DuckDuckGo to NoAIDuckDuckGo
And I bought a back-up drive.@CiaraNi take a look on Linux Mint @linuxmint instead of Windows?
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@CiaraNi take a look on Linux Mint @linuxmint instead of Windows?
@HomeAlone @linuxmint Thank you for the recommendation. I will take this final step off Microsoft first before thinking about other moves. I'm making changes in stages, as I find that more manageable for me.
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@CiaraNi @sebastian @Flatus Check Hetzner's Storage Share. That's basically a hosted and very affordable Nextcloud. I'm using it myself.
@lari @sebastian @Flatus Thank you for the recommendation. That sounds worth a look.
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Before I could pick my 2026 goal for #DanmarkSkifter, I did a digital status. I was mildly surprised when I saw my 2025 digital changes together. I looked at the list and thought: ’Tell me you hang out in the Fediverse without telling me you hang out in the Fediverse.’
From Outlook to Tuta
From Office to Libre
From MS Authenticator to Ente Authenticator
From Google Play to F-Droid
From Spotify to AntennaPod
From Firefox to Vivaldi
From DuckDuckGo to NoAIDuckDuckGo
And I bought a back-up drive.@CiaraNi you made me finally install F-Droid, and at so little effort, tnx for this motivational push!)
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@CiaraNi you made me finally install F-Droid, and at so little effort, tnx for this motivational push!)
@martijn_geerdes Ah! It was someone in here that recommended it to me, so we're passing it on nicely by word-of-mouth
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@martijn_geerdes Ah! It was someone in here that recommended it to me, so we're passing it on nicely by word-of-mouth
I found it simple too.@CiaraNi toot-to-toot?
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@CiaraNi toot-to-toot?
@martijn_geerdes Haha yes! Toot-to-toot.
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@janeishly @BashStKid @CiaraNi
NAS is lovely but still a risk unless you also have an offsite copy. I have family members in different parts of the country but ideally I'd like to be able to keep a copy on the other side of the planet...
There's a fedi service waiting to be created! (how to stop it becoming just another cloud service?)
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William Gibson's early work never envisioned a future where such devices would be manufactured by companies that go regularly bankrupt, stranding their consumers, vendors, & patients.
He did predict a world where the hacking, data theft, & data harvesting would be used to threaten, coerce, surveil, extort, & blackmail.
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/the-koch-brothers-intelligence-agency-215943
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/cloak-and-data-cambridge-analytica-robert-mercer/
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@Npars01
I'm thinking of the implants and brain hacking in, I believe it was, Neuromancer. It's been a while. My favorites were Count Zero and Pattern Recognition, which if memory serves is about corporate takeover of every aspect of life. -
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The scale of the manipulation of public sentiment against vaccines and democracy are just two reprehensible examples.
https://therecord.media/chatgpt-health-draws-concern-privacy-criticsHe did predict a world where societal trauma is deliberately manufactured then weaponized for corporate & ideological gain by the rich.
https://wp.nyu.edu/greenestreetreview/2019/12/04/hard-wired-traumas-a-retrospective-review-of-william-gibsons-neuromancer/He saw the "DNA hacking" capabilities of AI
DNA-enabled disassemblers as a tool of "judge, jury, & executioner" police forces & kleptocratic warfare "The Peripheral"
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/prescriptionsforabrokensystem/114977
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@janeishly @BashStKid @CiaraNi
NAS is lovely but still a risk unless you also have an offsite copy. I have family members in different parts of the country but ideally I'd like to be able to keep a copy on the other side of the planet...
There's a fedi service waiting to be created! (how to stop it becoming just another cloud service?)
@OneInterestingFact @janeishly @CiaraNi My literal solution to that you’re running your regular machine backups to the NAS, the NAS is running its own state-save infrequent snapshots for your library data, and twice a year you copy the whole thing onto some slow-as-shit old drives (who cares if it takes a few days?).
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#pluralistic "Unauthorized Bread" very well worth reading about tech bankruptcies, anti-refugee sentiment, & ramping up social dissatisfaction
The indoctrination of children was predicted by both Orwell & Aldous Huxley.
Koch Network has successfully dismantled public education as a public interest & common good.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/tech-giants-pushing-ai-schools@Npars01
Saving this thread for all the links. Thank you! I also saw a post saying that there were reports of injuries that suggested sound weapons were used by the US in Venezuela. This would be a very dangerous precedent. Untraceable. -
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The scale of the manipulation of public sentiment against vaccines and democracy are just two reprehensible examples.
https://therecord.media/chatgpt-health-draws-concern-privacy-criticsHe did predict a world where societal trauma is deliberately manufactured then weaponized for corporate & ideological gain by the rich.
https://wp.nyu.edu/greenestreetreview/2019/12/04/hard-wired-traumas-a-retrospective-review-of-william-gibsons-neuromancer/He saw the "DNA hacking" capabilities of AI
DNA-enabled disassemblers as a tool of "judge, jury, & executioner" police forces & kleptocratic warfare "The Peripheral"
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/prescriptionsforabrokensystem/114977
@Npars01
I haven't read the Peripheral yet. Time to add it to the list. -
@Npars01
There was a very interesting post by Anonymous about a frequency able to modulate brain waves. 6G terrahertz frequencies. Lifi all sorts of stuff to stop it. Over my head.
There's a lot of covert weapons development going on.
Microwaves?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58396698https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome
With Republicans, Accusations are Confessions
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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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’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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Before I could pick my 2026 goal for #DanmarkSkifter, I did a digital status. I was mildly surprised when I saw my 2025 digital changes together. I looked at the list and thought: ’Tell me you hang out in the Fediverse without telling me you hang out in the Fediverse.’
From Outlook to Tuta
From Office to Libre
From MS Authenticator to Ente Authenticator
From Google Play to F-Droid
From Spotify to AntennaPod
From Firefox to Vivaldi
From DuckDuckGo to NoAIDuckDuckGo
And I bought a back-up drive. -
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Why is no one asking these questions:
Why are the wealthiest corporations shoving AI so hard?
Why are billionaires so keen on this dubious product?
Why are billions of investment dollars being wasted on this white elephant?
Why are politicians running away from AI issues?
I've seen these questions arise but no real satisfactory answers. Just $$$$$$
