If I was the EU:
I'd get as far away from USA tech, economy, & thinking, become as incompatible as possible
I'd expand consumer laws: #RightToRepair, #RightToSalvage, #RightToInteroperability, #RightToPreserve, #RightToEncryption, #RightToHack, etc…
Rewrite tax laws so that you can only get a tax write-off on anything digital if you release it as open source
I'd massively invest in alternatives for the internet, which don't use the internet protocol stack, like meshcore, reticulum, etc…
#DigitalIndependence starts with moving away from proprietary software and switching to #OpenSource
Next, perhaps learn to write small programs which can be combined and work together?
And we need better #PropertyRights: #RightToRepair #RightToSalvage w/o asking permission, approval, or authorisation #RightToInteroperability #RightToTinker #RightToEncryption #RightToDIY w/o middlemen
Government, Organisations, Companies, etc should work towards #DigitalSovereignty & #DigitalIndependence) since given their size they can leverage law in their contracts with other parties
Natural persons, (found) families, informal communities usually lack leverage of any kind and should work towards #DigitalIndependence
I want to be able to self-host my own email-server again!
I want to be able to self-host my own digital ecosystem
I don't want to be depend on the permission or cooperation of any corporate 3rd party for this
What a mess… :sighs:
#DigitalEcosystem #DigitalAutonomy #RightToSelfHost #RightToDigitalAutonomy #RightToRepair #RightToSalvage
In the long run Open Source is all which remains ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
All closed source, usually commercial, software comes with a hidden sell-by-date. For whatever reason — a merger, a hostile takeover, a new management paradigm, incompatible OS update, a bad financial year — someone you will never know can pull a rug and —puff— it's gone.
#FLOSS #FreeLibreAndOpenSource #OpenProtocols #OpenFileFormats #RightToRepair #RightToSalvage #RightToExtend
#PSA Please when designing new tech consider that not everyone has a reliable 24/7 broadband internet connection, or a large screen, or a keyboard, or a mouse, or is able to get a domain name, or is able to run services from home, is able to power their home-server for the whole day, or can rent a VPS, or can have their ip-addresses be linked to an identity, or has one legal identity, or has one name, or has a recent computer, or has easy access to a debit or credit card, or has a bank account with either, or has a PayPal account, or has bitcoin, or one of many other things some and often many people just don't have, etc…
#PermaComputing #FrugalComputing #UnBanked #Durable #Repairable #CircularEconomy #LibraryEconomy #Sustainable #Communal #RightToTinker #Repair #RightToAmend #RightToDIY #Reuse #Repurpose #ReInvent #RightToSalvage #RightToRepair #RightToRepurpose #RightToShare #RightToOwn
In many ways #RightToRepair doesn't go far enough, you want #RightToSalvage and have some #AntiRepair and #AntiSalvage measures made illegal
A weird woman from a slowly dying post-industrial town that Phillips built and then abandoned, caring for her elderly parents, living mostly online since there is no much else here but broken promises and wasted potential
When something gets easy, I find a new challenge
When something is difficult, I find a better way to do it
When lost I set up base camp and explore & map the territory
I read, write, draw, cook, garden, tinker, repair, salvage, provide care and make things...
Someone who goes unnoticed, a walking encyclopaedia, a caster of spells, a shapeshifter, a wannabe immortal, a resilient survivor, a caregiver, someone physically disabled, autistic, tall, someone who longs for a feline friend, lives online since before the Eternal September, a keeper of dreams, a hungry fool, who hates endings, loves closures, who loves scary things, someone who smiles
Someone who hopes to someday keep bees 🐝
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#LivingOnline #RightToPrivacy #RightToBeSafe #RightToPseudonymity #RightToAnonymity
#OwnTheEndNodes #SelfHosting
#RightToBeForgotten #RightToEncryption #RightToSalvage #RightToRepair #RawText #IndieWeb #FrugalDesign #SustainableComputing #Informatica #Mathematics #Science #Forth #Scheme #Lisp #SmalTalk #Self #Pascal #Haskell #Science #TeΧ #Emacs #HomeLab
"If you are a free software developer, buy yourself a used computer which is 10 years old or older (if you don't already have one), and see how well your software runs on it, if it runs at all. If the results aren't impressive, try your best to improve them."
#solderpunk #FOSS #SalvagedComputing #frugalcomputing #righttosalvage
#RightToRepair #RightToSalvage: to be able to redirect any online dependence to self-hosted servers
https://tech.lgbt/@lunarogue/109240954584420766
#RightToRepair #RightToSalvage would mean that one could take several broken iPhones and take from each the working parts and make a new working iPhone without needing to ask anyone's blessing
#RightToRepair #RightToSalvage would also includes legal guarantees that measures like Apple's iCloud Locks expire in a few weeks after a reset unless the owner actually reports it stolen
