😶🌫️ DEMYSTIFYING DATA CENTRES:
📱🌳 Settler-capitalism obscures the material processes and social relations that underlie our daily interactions with our phones and our computers: processes grounded in egregious resource consumption, land theft, and the violent repression of Indigenous communities.
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@sftp.canada #data #AI #colonialism #server #selfhosting #datacentres #datacenters #GenAI #surveillance
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Reduced to passive consumers, we are meant to feel helplessly dependent on digital services that we could never hope to understand, let alone control. The first step in taking back our power is demystifying the systems that are harming us.
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👩🏻💻🌱 As Marina Johnson-Zafiris reminded us during the People’s Server Workshop last month, a server is nothing more than a computer that you can learn to build yourself at home, and every data center project consists of physical land and infrastructure that can be blocked, targeted, and reclaimed for the people.
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⛓️ 📄Slides from Marina’s DIY server workshop are now available:
https://sftp-canada.org/docs/MJZ_Peoples_Server_Workshop.pdf
They include step-by-step instructions on how to build your own server using Yunohost, as well as a QR code to access our Signal skill share/ support group. 💬
If you attended the workshop, drop us a line to let us know how your own DIY server project is going! 👀👂🏻✊🏻
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