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Cake day: July 27th, 2023

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  • I’m tired of the argument that the solution to fight tracking/ads/subscription/gafam is self hosting.

    It’s a solution for some nice people that have knowledge, time and money for.

    But it’s not a solution for everyone.
    We need more small nice open source association and company that provide services for people that don’t know the difference between a web search engine and a navigator or just a server and a client. I think that initiatives like “les chatons” in France are amazing for that!!! ( https://www.chatons.org/en )

    And just to be clear, I think that self-hosted services are a part of the solution. :)












  • This, again to me, while slower, is preferable than being tied to the whims of a provider, e.g. Whatsapp, iMessage and telegram, does away with the market fragmentation (not competition) and gets rid off all the artificial bullshit like blue/ green bubbles, security lapses and image degredation between apps.

    Sooo true :/ I’m tired too!!

    Do you know an operator who provide this feature/protocol to his users?






  • As web developer working in a company as consultant, I think often that I use a lot of free software like framework / library and tools to build proprietary applications without paying the free sofatware I use.

    I feel sad about that, that our clients and my company do not want to pay ( with some exceptions ).

    That’s a social problem.
    Maybe some laws our just another culture about take care of our commons can change that.
    We can still hope. :/