(Blog) How I'm Building a Trump-Proof Tech Stack Without Big Tech
(Blog) How I'm Building a Trump-Proof Tech Stack Without Big Tech
The world can no longer trust American tech. If that sounds dramatic, take a step back and consider the facts. The United States is a nation in the thrall of authoritarianism, owned and operated almost completely by a far-right doomsday cult intent on betraying every alliance, every contract, every...
cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/29675306
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I found this blog to have both a short summary of the reasons as well as a pretty complete overview of the options for protecting against this specific threat model. I can just send this to people and they'll understand the why and the how.
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There are difficult choices that have to be made. Choices about who we are and who we want to be when the world is in crisis and people's lives and freedoms are at risk.
It's easy to laugh at people who "choose the mountain" - deliberately making their lives harder and more complicated to pursue their values. We laugh because we've been taught, we've been convinced that sincerity and idealism are cringeworthy, embarrassing to the point of pornographic discomfort.
But that cynicism didn't help us stave off the last gasps of bigoted, white supremacist power, and it won't help us fight against it.
We need the idealism that pushes ordinary people to make better decisions and stick to them.
Yes, even if that looks like switching email providers.
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Made me think of this scene lol
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