’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech.
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@mkj Good information. Thanks. @andresimous @sebastian @Flatus
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@CiaraNi You are welcome!!!
If you have further questions you are welcome to tooot me ore, better for you I think, have a look at the great forum of Synthing.
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@Bodo Thank you! I really appreciate that.
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Do this switch fast, because the wealthiest people on the planet are funding efforts to put AI everywhere.
AI is international state surveillance & malign influence campaign generator.
AI is spyware & these billionaires don't give two hoots about anyone's "economic mobility" but their own.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/
I used AI chatbots as a source of news for a month, and they were unreliable and erroneous
When we ask for news, we should expect generative AI tools to stick to the facts. But new research shows they don’t.
The Conversation (theconversation.com)
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‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral
The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targeted
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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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/Q7wp3
Google teams up with Walmart and other retailers to enable shopping within Gemini AI chatbot
Google said Sunday that it is expanding the shopping features in its AI chatbot by teaming up with Walmart, Shopify, Wayfair and other big retailers to turn the Gemini app into a virtual merchant as well as an assistant.
CP24 (www.cp24.com)
AI medical summaries are disguising anti-health disinformation campaigns & antivaxxer ideology.
‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk
Guardian investigation finds AI Overviews provided inaccurate and false information when queried over blood tests
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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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.
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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 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. -
’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 Lovely! Good luck!
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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/Q7wp3
Google teams up with Walmart and other retailers to enable shopping within Gemini AI chatbot
Google said Sunday that it is expanding the shopping features in its AI chatbot by teaming up with Walmart, Shopify, Wayfair and other big retailers to turn the Gemini app into a virtual merchant as well as an assistant.
CP24 (www.cp24.com)
AI medical summaries are disguising anti-health disinformation campaigns & antivaxxer ideology.
‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk
Guardian investigation finds AI Overviews provided inaccurate and false information when queried over blood tests
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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AI coding assistants disguise wage suppression schemes, mass layoffs, and monopolization
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades
Why AI is pushing developers toward typed languages
AI is settling the “typed vs. untyped” debate by turning type systems into the safety net for code you didn’t write yourself.
The GitHub Blog (github.blog)
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
The Sixth Element: AI as Consciousness' Great Convergence
What do you get when you mix fire's power, electricity's reach, math's precision, and language's connection? AI—humanity's most profound tool and greatest identity challenge.
Psychology Today (www.psychologytoday.com)
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@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
Les moteurs de recherche sans IA : Brave, DuckDuckGo, Qwant… quel avenir ?
✅ À lire : Les moteurs de recherche sans IA : Brave, DuckDuckGo, Qwant… quel avenir ?, publié sur EmarketerZ , le magazine spécialisé Search (SEO / SEA) et digital.
EmarketerZ (www.emarketerz.fr)
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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 @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.
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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 been a long time.Linux user, so no M$ for me, but have recently de googled completely.
Tuta and Proton for mail
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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-degrades
Why AI is pushing developers toward typed languages
AI is settling the “typed vs. untyped” debate by turning type systems into the safety net for code you didn’t write yourself.
The GitHub Blog (github.blog)
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
The Sixth Element: AI as Consciousness' Great Convergence
What do you get when you mix fire's power, electricity's reach, math's precision, and language's connection? AI—humanity's most profound tool and greatest identity challenge.
Psychology Today (www.psychologytoday.com)
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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/
AI is guzzling energy for slop content – could it be reimagined to help the climate?
Some experts think AI could be used to lower, rather than raise, planet-heating emissions – others aren’t so convinced
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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/
Why does AI suck at making clocks?
'Telling time is a very human thing.'
Popular Science (www.popsci.com)
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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/
AI is guzzling energy for slop content – could it be reimagined to help the climate?
Some experts think AI could be used to lower, rather than raise, planet-heating emissions – others aren’t so convinced
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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/
Why does AI suck at making clocks?
'Telling time is a very human thing.'
Popular Science (www.popsci.com)
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AI is a mechanism for social engineering & fuels a societal mental health crisis. It manipulates public sentiment.
AI is intensifying a 'collapse' of trust online, experts say
For years, people could largely trust, at least instinctively, that seeing was believing.
NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)
Google and AI startup to settle lawsuits alleging chatbots led to teen suicide
Lawsuit accuses AI chatbots of harming minors and includes case of Sewell Setzer III, who killed himself in 2024
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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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-bubble
AI bubble: five things you need to know to shield your finances from a crash
Some experts have voiced fears a tech meltdown could hit our savings and pensions – here’s how to protect yourself
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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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@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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@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.
