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Wrote up my Google to Proton switch. The why and the actual steps, including downloading your Google data, importing contacts, moving photos to Proton Drive, and what this does and does not solve.
Includes alternatives to Proton and a section on backing up to a hard drive so you are not just trading one dependency for another.
Free on the site, no signup.
urbild.org
#privacy #protonmail #selfhosted #digitalrights #urbanwilderness #degoogle
Dailyish note today posted: https://divisionbyzero.net/notes/2026-05-29/
Most of the content is a lesson I learned at Booking.com: Own your differentiators. I'm _SO_ fucking sick and tired of cloud and SaaS for everything. Owning and running your own infrastructure is not that complicated and is _FAR_ cheaper than leasing it from hyperscalers.
Maybe this is why I'm so opposed to AI? On premise, self-hosted, owned infrastructure companies I worked for kept their OpEx's below 40%. The SaaS/Cloud heavy infrastructure companies I worked for had 80-100% OpEx costs. This is not a coincidence!
@007 Thank you. The SSL cert is propagating from a domain change today and should resolve within 24 hours.
The cookies are being looked at now.
Appreciate you taking the time!
I've been building something.
It's called Urban Wilderness. Real documentation for people trying to opt out of systems that weren't built for them. Self-hosted infrastructure, skill bartering, solar in a rented apartment.
There are also logs. And a story unfolding in public.
First post is up. Free, no account required.
urbild.org
Happy Earth Day!
"Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
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Mark Hurst
Todd Battistelli