’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.
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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.
The AI Journal: When your AI Provider Goes Bankrupt: A Hidden Security Risk CISOs Can’t Ignore
As AI adoption accelerates, CISOs face a growing but overlooked risk: what happens when an AI vendor collapses and takes data, models and security with it. Hear from Sam Kirkman, NetSPI Director of Services EMEA in this article.
NetSPI (www.netspi.com)
He did predict a world where the hacking, data theft, & data harvesting would be used to threaten, coerce, surveil, extort, & blackmail.
The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency
How Robert Mercer exploited America’s populist insurgency.
The New Yorker (www.newyorker.com)
Cloak and data: The real story behind Cambridge Analytica's rise and fall
The secretive data firm said it could move the minds of American voters. That wasn’t its real victory.
Mother Jones (www.motherjones.com)
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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.
The AI Journal: When your AI Provider Goes Bankrupt: A Hidden Security Risk CISOs Can’t Ignore
As AI adoption accelerates, CISOs face a growing but overlooked risk: what happens when an AI vendor collapses and takes data, models and security with it. Hear from Sam Kirkman, NetSPI Director of Services EMEA in this article.
NetSPI (www.netspi.com)
He did predict a world where the hacking, data theft, & data harvesting would be used to threaten, coerce, surveil, extort, & blackmail.
The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency
How Robert Mercer exploited America’s populist insurgency.
The New Yorker (www.newyorker.com)
Cloak and data: The real story behind Cambridge Analytica's rise and fall
The secretive data firm said it could move the minds of American voters. That wasn’t its real victory.
Mother Jones (www.motherjones.com)
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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"
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@Peterspruijt Tresorit is a new name to me. Thanks for the tip. I will investigate it.
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@sebastian @Flatus Thanks for the tip. I did browse around in NextCloud's solutions but couldn't see a simple off-the-shelf one for a non-tech person like me who just wants it to plug-and-play work. I've been waiting to see Tuta's drive. Then the DanmarkSkifter campaign nudged to me to stop faffing around - get off OneDrive now, get the photos backed up, then pick the right cloud solution after that. Otherwise I'll never take that final step.
@CiaraNi @sebastian @Flatus Check Hetzner's Storage Share. That's basically a hosted and very affordable Nextcloud. I'm using it myself.
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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"
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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
Trump maintains commitment to Project 2025 to dismantle Education Department
Breaking up the department will exacerbate educational inequities along socioeconomic, racial and ability lines.
ajc (www.ajc.com)
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@Su_G Until I saw them listed together, I hadn't realised that I had already made (relatively speaking) quite a few changes. I've been radicalised by the Fediverse
I have more to do too, same as you. It's such a palaver of a process! But we're getting there. -
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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@BashStKid @CiaraNi I mean, yeah, but I've been wanting a NAS for the last 5 years because they're so *cute* (and also useful) but it's really hard to justify the expense.
@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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@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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There's a lot of covert weapons development going on.
Microwaves?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58396698
Pentagon urges all employees to report symptoms of ‘Havana syndrome’
The Pentagon has issued a memo urging all employees to look out for mysterious symptoms.
Military Times (www.militarytimes.com)
With Republicans, Accusations are Confessions
Gain of Fiction: How COVID Origins Motivated Defunding of U.S. Science | Think Global Health
Defunding scientific research in the United States has halted disease cure studies amid multiple infectious crises
Think Global Health (www.thinkglobalhealth.org)
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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 do you have a link? I've had a quick search and nothing is coming up about this...
