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   Thib (thibaultamartin@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 17:04:54 JST Thib

   Last week I mentioned the open source privilege. It has a big brother: the self-hosting privilege. Escaping surveillance is one valid motive to self-host, but not everyone can do it.

   Let’s design tech that solves systemic problems. Let’s include the busy ones, the families, the elders, those who don’t know and those who can’t afford to care.

   Let’s take care of society as a whole.

   https://ergaster.org/posts/2024/01/18-escaping-surveillance-capitalism-at-scale/

   #opensource #surveillance #privilege

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 17:04:53 JST Aral Balkan

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     @thibaultamartin This.

     Been working towards this for the last decade (initially the education/awareness raising part, and, for the last six years or so on building an alternative for everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing with the Small Web).

     Some links you might find interesting:

     - A talk I gave ten years ago when just starting out down this path: https://ar.al/talks/#free-is-a-lie

     - Small Web – where we are today: https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/

     #SmallTech #SmallWeb

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 17:06:36 JST Aral Balkan

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     @thibaultamartin This is us, by the way, a tiny two-person not-for-profit with no public funding (not for lack of trying):

     https://small-tech.org

     And the principles that guide our work:

     https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology

     #SmallTech #SmallWeb