manic pixie donkey kongthe 2032 illegal raves in abandoned data centers are going to be incredible
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@youjungnoh @tommi gnocchi can fix code and so much more, good luck for the upcoming workshop! :)
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XPUBEXTRATERRESTRIAL PUBLISHING ZINE FAIR
Thanks for all the attention, interest and applications.
We will be at Dokhuis on the 31st from 11:00 to 18:00, closing with a screening by Lens Based Media PZI students.
We updated the website (https://www.xpub.nl/xtraterrestrial) with all the workshop information and a sign up pad. (https://pad.xpub.nl/p/ExtraTerrestrialWorkshopRegistration)
Please fill your name in to take part in them.
Hope to see you there 🛸
Babette KnauerWhat does digital independence look like for a #university?
At the University of #Groningen, this conversation has been growing bottom-up: academic & professional support staff are driving a move away from #BigTech toward shared, #open alternatives.
With support from the Uni Board, this effort is shaping a community-driven 5-year roadmap towards #DigitalAutonomy by 2030.
Newspaper Ukrant covered the shift.
https://ukrant.nl/magazine/we-can-do-without-them-how-the-ug-is-cutting-ties-with-big-tech/?lang=en
Error 417 Expectation FailedRumour has it the online exhibition «13 Scores Against Tech Fascism» will be launched this Friday.
h333dSelf-hosting in 2026 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure
Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure - Lemmy.World
I used to self-host because I liked tinkering. I worked tech support for a municipal fiber network, I ran Arch, I enjoyed the control. The privacy stuff was a nice bonus but honestly it was mostly about having my own playground. That changed this week when I watched ICE murder a woman sitting in her car. Before you roll your eyes about this getting political - stay with me, because this is directly about the infrastructure we’re all running in our homelabs. Here’s what happened: A woman was reduced to a data point in a database - threat assessment score, deportation priority level, case number - and then she was killed. Not by some rogue actor, but by a system functioning exactly as designed. And that system? Built on infrastructure provided by the same tech companies most of us used to rely on before we started self-hosting. Every service you don’t self-host is a data point feeding the machine. Google knows your location history, your contacts, your communications. Microsoft has your documents and your calendar. Apple has your photos and your biometrics. And when the government comes knocking - and they are knocking, right now, today - these companies will hand it over. They have to. It’s baked into the infrastructure. Individual privacy is a losing game. You can’t opt-out of surveillance when participation in society requires using their platforms. But here’s what you can do: build parallel infrastructure that doesn’t feed their systems at all. When you run Nextcloud, you’re not just protecting your files from Google - you’re creating a node in a network they can’t access. When you run Vaultwarden, your passwords aren’t sitting in a database that can be subpoenaed. When you run Jellyfin, your viewing habits aren’t being sold to data brokers who sell to ICE. I watched my local municipal fiber network get acquired by TELUS. I watched a piece of community infrastructure get absorbed into the corporate extraction machine. That’s when I realized: we can’t rely on existing institutions to protect us. We have to build our own. This isn’t about being a prepper or going off-grid. This is about building infrastructure that operates on fundamentally different principles: Communication that can’t be shut down: Matrix, Mastodon, email servers you control File storage that can’t be subpoenaed: Nextcloud, Syncthing Passwords that aren’t in corporate databases: Vaultwarden, KeePass Media that doesn’t feed recommendation algorithms: Jellyfin, Navidrome Code repositories not owned by Microsoft: Forgejo, Gitea Every service you self-host is one less data point they have. But more importantly: every service you self-host is infrastructure that can be shared, that can support others, that makes the parallel network stronger. Where to start if you’re new: Passwords first - Vaultwarden. This is your foundation. Files second - Nextcloud. Get your documents out of Google/Microsoft. Communication third - Matrix server, or join an existing instance you trust. Media fourth - Jellyfin for your music/movies, Navidrome for music. If you’re already self-hosting: Document your setup. Write guides. Make it easier for the next person. Run services for friends and family, not just yourself. Contribute to projects that build this infrastructure. Support municipal and community network alternatives. The goal isn’t purity. You’re probably still going to use some corporate services. That’s fine. The goal is building enough parallel infrastructure that people have actual choices, and that there’s a network that can’t be dismantled by a single executive order. I’m working on consulting services to help small businesses and community organizations migrate to self-hosted alternatives. Not because I think it’ll be profitable, but because I’ve realized this is the actual material work of resistance in 2025. Infrastructure is how you fight infrastructure. We’re not just hobbyists anymore. Whether we wanted to be or not, we’re building the resistance network. Every Raspberry Pi running services, every old laptop turned into a home server, every person who learns to self-host and teaches someone else - that’s a node in a system they can’t control. They want us to be data points. Let’s refuse. What are you running? What do you wish more people would self-host? What’s stopping people you know from taking this step?