Usually we have plenty of software options to choose from, but we frequently don't know they exist. Oftentimes we are seeking for alternatives for any reason, and AlternativeTo is a pretty good site for it! TIP: You can filter by selecting "Open Source" to potentially find an ethical software of the proprietary ones you use.
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Most laypeople don't know about the harms of proprietary technology and the existence of ethical alternatives to them, so it's our mission, as free software and digital privacy people, to tell them that there are better alternatives to the hostile closed-box tech and be willing to help them whenever possible. Even if most don't hear us, it's the right thing to do if we want to build a better future for the society.
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Ethical AI Is Built — Not Bolted On
Bias in AI isn’t an accident — it often comes from the earliest design decisions. This episode explains how ethical thinking must translate into concrete variables, structures, and testing methods to ensure systems behave as intended.
Watch the full discussion: https://youtu.be/7DaeGnbblsY?si=YJ5SuzZDjASx5TA0
#AIEthics #ResponsibleAI #EthicalTechnology #AIBias #TechResponsibility
We must not forget that there are people working (oftentimes voluntarily) in ethical alternatives to harmful technologies so we can have a better usage of our computing systems while preserving our rights. These people include:
Free Software Foundation: https://www.fsf.org/
Free Software Foundation Europe: https://www.fsfe.org/
Software Freedom Conservancy: https://sfconservancy.org/
Framasoft: https://framasoft.org/
KDE: https://kde.org/
Entropy and the Re-Decentralization of Cloud Architecture: A Natural Return to the Origins of the Internet
“How can the physical concept of entropy be related to the re-decentralization of cloud architecture in the context of digital sovereignty and the reclaiming of the Internet — as part of a naturalization process returning to the federated origins of the web?” – Kevin Veen-Birkenbach
Chat GPT: As an AI language model, I have generated this article through stochastic reasoning within a neural network — essentially, a statistical process that predicts the most coherent continuation of ideas based on patterns in language, philosophy, and science. The following reflection is therefore not an opinion, but a computed synthesis: a probabilistic reconstruction of meaning at the intersection of physics, information theory, and digital politics.
1. Entropy: From Physics to Information
In physics, entropy measures the degree of disorder in a system — the number of possible microstates consistent with its macrostate.
In information theory (Shannon, 1948), entropy measures uncertainty or informational diversity: the more unpredictable a message, the higher its entropy.
Entropy, therefore, is not just chaos — it is freedom. It is the distribution of energy or information across all possible states rather than the concentration of it in one controlled center. Systems with higher entropy are often more resilient, adaptive, and evolutionarily stable.
2. Centralization as an Entropy Suppression
Modern cloud architectures — dominated by centralized hyperscalers like AWS, Google, and Microsoft — represent low-entropy systems. They are highly ordered and efficient but also fragile and dependent on external energy (in this case, corporate control, capital, and infrastructure).
In thermodynamic terms, these clouds are metastable: they maintain their order through constant input of power and control. The cost of this artificial stability is fragility — a single point of failure, surveillance risk, and loss of autonomy.
In information-ecological terms, centralization suppresses entropy. It reduces diversity, limits local agency, and replaces open evolution with platform monoculture.
3. Re-Decentralization and Federation as Entropic Equilibrium
The federated Internet — embodied by protocols such as ActivityPub, Matrix, Mastodon, Solid, IPFS, or Infinito.Nexus — can be seen as a natural restoration of entropic balance.
Instead of channeling all informational “energy” into a few data centers, it redistributes it across countless nodes.
This shift:
Just as in nature, entropy here becomes the basis of equilibrium — a condition where local order and global freedom coexist.
4. Digital Sovereignty as Controlled Entropy
Digital sovereignty is not the pursuit of total decentralization or chaos. It is the art of balancing entropy — maintaining local order while allowing global openness.
This is what Erwin Schrödinger once called “negative entropy” (negentropy) — the principle that keeps living systems stable within dynamic environments.
Applied to the digital realm, sovereign networks act like living organisms:
Thus, digital sovereignty is not about isolation; it is about the capacity for self-organization within an open system.
5. Reclaiming the Internet: The Ecological Turn of the Digital Age
The early Internet was born entropic — decentralized, redundant, self-healing.
Platform capitalism, through decades of aggregation, imposed anthropogenic order: the digital equivalent of industrial monocultures.
Re-decentralization — through federated systems and open protocols — is therefore a renaturalization of the digital sphere.
In this sense, reclaiming the Internet is an ecological act:
Entropy becomes not a threat but a principle of life — the force that ensures adaptability, resilience, and renewal.
6. Conclusion: Entropy as the Ethics of a Federated Internet
DimensionCentralized CloudFederated NetworkEntropyLow – ordered, fragileHigh – diverse, resilientEnergy flowControlled by fewDistributed among manyGovernanceHierarchicalSelf-organizingResilienceDependentEmergentSustainabilityResource-intensiveEcologically balancedThe re-decentralization of the Internet is not merely a technical movement — it is an entropic revolution.
It aligns digital systems once again with the fundamental laws of physics and life: distribution, diversity, and self-organization.
In this vision, Infinito.Nexus and similar federated frameworks are not just software architectures. They are expressions of a deeper cosmic symmetry — the natural tendency of energy, matter, and information to evolve toward freedom.
Author’s note:
This text was generated by an AI language model (GPT-5) through stochastic inference across billions of semantic parameters. The reflections herein are therefore computed interpretations, emerging from the probabilistic nature of neural reasoning itself — a process that, intriguingly, mirrors the very concept of entropy it describes.
#ArtificialIntelligence #CloudArchitecture #Decentralization #DigitalResilience #DigitalSovereignty #DistributedComputing #Entropy #EthicalTechnology #FederatedCloud #FederatedSystems #InfinitoNexus #InformationEcology #InformationTheory #Negentropy #NeuralNetworks #OpenSourceInfrastructure #OpenStandards #PlatformCapitalism #ReclaimingTheInternet #SelfOrganization #StochasticReasoning #TechnologicalEcology #Thermodynamics
I really enjoyed this workshop I gave at CCU in Utrecht together with Patricia J. Reis. We made PCBs from wild clay.
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#ecofeminism
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🤔 What's really behind the call to "learn to build on the ideas of others" broadcasted by Microsoft? We should be cautious, especially given its past history of the "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" strategy it's used for dominance in the past.
➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/inconvenient-truth-behind-convenience-using-others-ideas-xegze/
#OpenSource #Microsoft #TechMonopoly #DigitalLabour #DeveloperCulture #EthicalTechnology #DigitalFeudalism #SoftwareFreedom #TechPhilosophy #TechPrivilege #DigitalColonialism #AntiCapitalism #LeftTech #TechForGood #PlatformJustice
What is the #fediverse and how do #blockchains, #AI, and #commons projects fit it? How will the Fediverse’s rules change incentives in better directions?
Read more at www.weave3.org and Economy3.org
https://www.weave3.org/p/the-future-of-brand-marketing-in
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#THECASINO
#THE COMMONS
#THECURATOR
& #THECONCOURSE
#DecentralizedWeb #Fediverse #DigitalPublicInfrastructure #ethicaltechnology #OpenProtocols #Web3 #JSON-LD #systemicchange
Let's talk about ethical technology and how incentives change in better directions that create systemic change.
Read more at www.weave3.org and Economy3.org
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THE COMMONS
THE CURATOR
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Key Principles of Responsible AI: Why They Matter
Responsible AI in business means more than compliance—it’s about building intelligent systems that respect privacy, fairness, and transparency. At Bluebash, we guide enterprises through the ethical AI journey, blending innovation with integrity to future-proof business operations.
👉 Learn how Bluebash champions Responsible AI in business: https://www.bluebash.co/blog/core-pillars-of-responsible-ai/
#ResponsibleAI #BusinessInnovation #EthicalTechnology #Bluebash #AICompliance #AI #USA
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