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JA Westenberg Mar 17, 2025

The easiest way to kill a movement? Convince people that if they can't do everything, they shouldn't do anything.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/on-ideological-purity/

On Ideological Purity

I've written a few words lately about trying to shift away from U.S. tech dominance. I want to buy European/Canadian, support independent software over big tech, and move toward a digital life that aligns with my ethics. I want to question as much as I can and test

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Iris

@Daojoan Oh hey, I wrote an article about how to do this for my web hosting!

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/vercel_hetzner

Migrating my website from Vercel to Hetzner Part 1 - OpenTofu and cloud-init | deadSimpleTech

As of this morning, my website is no longer hosted on Vercel, instead sitting on a Hetzner VM in Helsinki. My databases and similar shall hopefully soon follow, as part of my project of pulling all my infrastructure out of the USA. In the interests of other people who might want to do the same, I thought it would be wise to document what I did and why. So, to work!

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