Post AyRPxK0k76StrPJIAq by Larvitz@burningboard.net
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(DIR) Post #AyPOg5gRdmwyEQ7F8i by jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
2025-09-20T19:48:09Z
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Decentralisation is the biggest enemy of authoritarianism. So #SelfHost. Buy solar and batteries. Heat pumps. Get an electric car. Electric bicycles. Use #OpenSource and #FreeSoftware. Store your data at home. Get a Canon Selphy to print the pictures you take. Buy books. Vinyl or CDs. Join your local library. Do. Don’t discuss. And help your neighbours to do the same things. Sharing is caring. Avoid getting lost in discussions about what’s best. Do. Fail. Share. Learn. Repeat.
(DIR) Post #AyPOgDPMvA2oBmBidM by jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
2025-09-20T20:03:12Z
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You’re here on Mastodon/ActivityPub reading this message. That makes you part of the galaxy. Now move more friends and family to this galaxy. It won’t be easy. But it’s worth it. We might need these hidden networks. These cells. Things are changing fast. But we have the tools and solutions we need. Do. Don’t discuss. Good night!
(DIR) Post #AyPOgKdS3CT6bTpZ3Y by jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
2025-09-20T20:12:10Z
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Avoid the “yes, but” and fundamentalist crowd. Yes, many things you can buy are centralised through cloud services. Alternatives are not always available. Let’s work on that. Not through infighting. But in pragmatic ways. With patience and persistence. Deal?
(DIR) Post #AyQswbfZg29LqnSabA by joshua@social.mbbc.us
2025-09-21T13:46:51Z
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@jwildeboer The only thing that I question in your list is the electric car. Right now, electric cars are closed source computers that the user has little control over. I would prefer to not have an always connected internet device with cameras and microphones that I cannot control.I drive a 25 year old jeep because it has no cameras, no microphones, and no gps.
(DIR) Post #AyQvEhH3mHHwLzkPWS by foundseed@spore.social
2025-09-21T14:12:26Z
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@joshua @jwildeboer not to mention electric car manufacturing is still completely dependent on centralized and extractive methods.
(DIR) Post #AyRPxK0k76StrPJIAq by Larvitz@burningboard.net
2025-09-20T19:52:57Z
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@jwildeboer @jwildeboer I selfhost everything I can. E-Mail, File sync, Git forge, websites, Matrix and much more. My own Mailserver is maintained for more than 20 years already.For the other points: Heatpumps and solar unfortunately fails because of my landlord.And for transportation, I prefer the "no car at all" approach and am a happy Deutsche Bahn customer and eBike user 🚆
(DIR) Post #AyRPxKv6jXYGgDgJ1s by constancies@metalhead.club
2025-09-20T20:36:48Z
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@Larvitz @jwildeboer how easy would you say it is to self host mail today?
(DIR) Post #AyRPxLVGZ6TWUMbBOC by purple@nya.social
2025-09-21T13:06:13.986Z
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@constancies@metalhead.club @Larvitz@burningboard.net @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net it's fuckin hard.
(DIR) Post #AyUl7TlkB0iYwhUDmi by mose@infosec.exchange
2025-09-23T10:37:57Z
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@joshua @jwildeboer it can be a complicated question, afaict. We have one foot in energy independence and the other in privacy. If you want to produce the energy you consume, I think an electric car is the easiest to work with in a residential setting. There are a lot of absolutely common technologies to turn some form of potential energy into electricity. You can use wind. Solar. Gasoline even.Next best might be biodiesel, but it looks complex by comparison. On privacy, there are facets.Cars are almost universally closed source, excepting those cases where licenses like the GPL force otherwise. Many electric cars have their own cellular connectivity. There is some consolidation in software, but it is not yet the narrow OS duopoly we see in phones and tablets. Still, there is a lot of opportunity for data collection. Older EVs and conversions may be a little less aggro in hoovering up your data. The first generation LEAF has, at least in the US, a Nissan voluntary service campaign to disable the 2g cellular module on 2011-2015 cars because the 2g networks are gone and there's a cybersecurity risk associated with keeping the radios active, plus there's a sizeable grassroots community around maintenance. As far as I know, the Mitsubishi i-MiEV never had cellular at all - it had a remote with an antenna and a little screen for charge monitoring.Then, there's the privacy exposure through getting energy.There is short distance travel around your home/place-you-usually-charge. This is how most day-to-day driving happens. Work, groceries... for this kind of use, EVs could have better privacy, since you're not creating transaction records that represent how much energy you're using moving around your area.For long-distance travel, it's probably worse than non-EV travel. I see two angles of privacy erosion specific to EVs. One is being forced to carry a phone running Android and iOS, making you have to navigate everything that entails. Forced, because some networks use phone apps as the sole or backup way to authorize a paid charging session. I don't know of ANY charging network that will take cash in exchange for energy. I don't know of any gas station that won't take cash. This could improve with better terminals and widening plug-and-charge deployment.Another is having to plan a trip. Charging infrastructure is pretty good, but it's nowhere near where gas and diesel are, such that (at least for the US Interstate Highway System where I am) I can assume most highway exits have at least one place to get fuel. There are great tools for EV trips, but most are commercial and privacy eroding. All of this has privacy concerns. It'd be good to be able to download a database of what chargers are out there to periodically and then to use local processing to calculate a road trip. I don't think this exists.