I came to #America because of the great, great #freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.
I understand where they are coming from but that is way too much of a technological framing. Even an encrypted open source Internet can be super unsafe to exist in.
Safety comes from social and political structures and decisions that technology can support.
And that responsibility is something #techbros have shirked by moving goalposts of how much freedom users have while extracting from users. They do this because they can buy influence in a nation where #freespeech is measured in dollars.
DI.DAY is a new monthly “Digital Independence Day” encouraging people to ditch Big Tech and move to privacy‑respecting services. 📅
Launched by Save Social and Chaos Computer Club at 39C3, it runs every first Sunday with events like “de‑Google your phone,” Nextcloud setups, and Linux install parties across Europe. 🛡️
The iconic Statue of Liberty proudly stands adjacent to the American flag, which unfurls majestically in the breeze at the mouth of the Hudson River, set against the expansive canvas of a sun-kissed blue sky.
The iconic Statue of Liberty proudly stands adjacent to the American flag, which unfurls majestically in the breeze at the mouth of the Hudson River, set against the expansive canvas of a sun-kissed blue sky.
Sich gegen die Glaubenssätze, die man von seiner Familie anerzogen bekommt, zu wehren, ist meist am schwersten...
...aber sie bieten oft auch das größte Potential für Wachstum und Freiheit...
wenn du auch manchmal gegen was ankämpfst.. du schaffst das.. dein Herz ist am richtigen Fleck und Weg :) und vergiss nicht: du darfst deinen eigenen Kopf haben <3
Ein lila-blauer Drache, der auf seinem Schwatz eine Katze sitzen hat, die Männchen macht. Der Drache schaut die Katze voller Freude an. Über ihm steht: "My mum says: Cats are dragon food." Unter ihm steht: "But I say: Cats are friends, not food."
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Aight so me and two other good folks are starting a tech workers' cooperative. We've got plenty of stuff against us.
None of us have worked in a workers' cooperative or other kind of democratic workplace before.
There are barely a handful workers' coops in Norway. The national umbrella org for coops in Norway is basically dead and doesn't care about workers' coops at all.
Our coop is geographically distributed evenly along Norway, which means our northernmost worker-member would have to drive 24 hours by car or 44 hours by public transport to reach our southernmost worker-member.
We've put in effort to reduce our weaknesses, and we've got things going for us too.
We've met and continue to meet with other workers' coops to learn from them and collaborate. We've got potential clients and pilot projects. We've got hardware. We've got tech and business know-how. We're working on the formal stuff, bylaws and agreements.
For eleven years I was a Senior Writer at wisebread.com, writing about personal finance and frugality. Before that I worked as a software engineer for 25 years, first secure Unix then Bluetooth.
“And so we stand here today… against the madeup fake what you can call ICE professional law enforcement. I don't call them none of that. I call them madeup fake wannabe law enforcement because what they do is against not only legal law but the moral law.
If any of them want to come in this city and commit a crime, you will not be able to hide. Nobody will wisk you off. You don't want this smoke.”
Linux newbie advice on choosing a distribution
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