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Dear Fedi friends,I just hit "publish" on my blog post "A newbie's guide to #selfhosting with #YunoHost. Part 1: reasons + requirements". It's here if you wanna read it:🔗​: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-1-reasons-requirements/This guide is intended for true newbies who are curious about self-hosting some essential digital services. I'm hoping to dispel some myths about self-hosting and make it appear accessible to all. Well, at least to people curious about it but hesitant to get started because they think it's too complicated. That was me up to a year ago.Special thanks and shout-out to @ilja for setting my journey in motion. And eternal gratitude to @yunohost for the way they are empowering us all with the tools to self-host#MySoCalledSudoLife #blog #BigTech #rebellion #digitalsovereignty #NextCloud

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Destroying Autocracy – December 04, 2025Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.The Programmer’s Fulcrum is the future (and smaller) home for a fusion of Symfony Station and Battalion. Its tagline is Devs Defending Democracy, Developing the OMN.You can sign up now and for 2025 get an email with links to each week’s Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion “Destroying Autocracy” post along with their featured articles. And you’ll be set with TPF after the fusing in January.We are posting on the Fediverse now at @thefulcrum @thefulcrum.dev and original website content will start next month.Featured Item(s)Hamish Campbell writes:ActivityPub is a shared vocabulary, a public language for moving meaning and connection across the open web. It gives you nouns and verbs, and the community defines the grammar through lived use.This is why the OMN works with ActivityPub, a metadata and meaning layer, not a platform, flows, not silos. ActivityPub is the widely deployed 4 Opens protocol that treats publishing as a flow, a conversation.Unlike the more vertical stacks (ATProto is a good example), ActivityPub doesn’t force a worldview. It doesn’t tell you, “this is how your network must be structured.” It doesn’t enforce hierarchy or lock you into one interpretation of identity, authority, or workflow. It’s a KISS path – here’s a shared language, verbs for publishing and receiving, express objects, updates, relationships. The rest is up to the commons.This flexibility is exactly why the OMN can become a part of this flow.Why the OMN works with ActivityPub – And why we need a bridge to p2pWe start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.The response to Russia’s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggeryDDEV has:Power Through Blackouts: How DDEV Community Helped Me in UkraineTechPolicy Press shares:How to Test New York’s Algorithmic Pricing LawThe EU’s Digital Omnibus Must Be Rejected by Lawmakers. Here is Why.Singapore announced an:Issuance of Implementation Directives to Apple and Google Under the Online Criminal Harms ActThe MIT Press Reader has:The Secret History of Tor: How a Military Project Became a Lifeline for PrivacyThe Guardian reports:Irish authorities asked to investigate Microsoft over alleged unlawful data processing by IDFNeutralTechPolicy Press reports:What the European Commission and Civil Society Both Get Wrong on the Digital OmnibusWhy Platforms Don’t Catch Climate Misinformation — and How to Change ThatEuroNews asks:Which European countries are building their own sovereign AI to compete in the tech race?Numerama reports:Mistral AI dévoile Mistral 3 et Ministral : des modèles qui replacent la France sur la scène open sourceTechCrunch reports:Mistral closes in on Big AI rivals with new open-weight frontier and small modelsWired reports:The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the states. Activists Are Fighting Back.The Evil Empire (AKA Autocracy) Strikes BackThe Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They’re DoingEDRi has:Promises unkept: The EU-US Data Privacy Framework under fire404 Media reports:Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AIPariah StatesDarkReading reports:Tomiris Unleashes ‘Havoc’ With New Tools, TacticsDPRK’s ‘Contagious Interview’ Spawns Malicious Npm Package FactoryStudent Sells Gov’t, University Sites to Chinese ActorsTechPolicy Press reports:The Gulf’s AI Rise and the Risk of Entrenching AuthoritarianismThe Register reports:Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spywareChina using AI as ‘precision instrument’ of censorship and repression, at home and abroadBig MediaAxios reports:Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom toolsBig surprise.Big TechThe Guardian reports:How big tech is creating its own friendly media bubble to ‘win the narrative battle online’More than 1,000 Amazon workers warn rapid AI rollout threatens jobs and climateAnti-immigrant material among AI-generated content getting billions of views on TikTokBleepingComputer reports:Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll outBig surprise here. But, if you’re amoral enough to use it, you deserve all the privacy invading ads you get.Google deletes X post after getting caught using a ‘stolen’ AI recipe infographicNature reports:Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AIWow.The Guardian reports:The question isn’t whether the AI bubble will burst – but what the fallout will beNational Review reports:Meta Researchers Privately Compared Instagram to Addictive Drug, Bombshell Court Filing ShowsWanna-be Big TechOMG Unbuntu has:Mozilla’s ‘Rewiring’ to AI – Saving the Web or Saving Itself?Cybersecurity/PrivacyTechCrunch reports:European cops shut down crypto mixing website that helped launder 1.3B eurosDarkReading reports:New Raptor Framework Uses Agentic Workflows to Create PatchesBleeping Computer reports:Fake Calendly invites spoof top brands to hijack ad manager accountsThe Register reports:Microsoft quietly shuts down Windows shortcut flaw after years of espionage abuseFediverseCoywolf has:Mastodon creator shares what went wrong with Threads and ponders the future of the fediverseBen Werdmuller shares:Introducing RoundaboutSean Coates explores:The Fediverse and Content Creation: MonetizationGreat and important stuff.Ploum asks:Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?Wouldn’t the fix to this would be to show a larger version of a user’s profile image with text posts?RSSPlanet Codigo has:Mi solución RSS con software libre y autogestionadoSlightly Decentralized Social MediaTBDCTAs (aka show us some free love)That’s it for this week. Please share this edition of Destroying Autocracy.Follow me on the Fediverse. Or this site via the button in the footer. Or via RSS. Or even our future home in 2026, if you want a head start.Keep fighting!Ringleader, BattalionReuben Walker Follow me on the Fediverse#ActivityPub #AI #Autocracy #BigJournalism #BigTech #Democracy #Fascism #Fediverse #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Roundabout #RSS #StopChina #StopIsrael #StopRedAmerica #StopRussia #SupportUkraine #TechnoAnarchism #TechnoFeudalism #Threadshttps://battalion.mobileatom.net/?p=4147

Giustamente si criticano le #BigTech statunitensi. Ma anche in Europa.. #Spotify, la macchina degli umori - Jacobin Italia https://jacobinitalia.it/spotify-la-macchina-degli-umori/ @tecnologia #music

@joel OMG this looks AMAZING! 🤩Is it compatible with iTunes or you use another software? I’m pretty big on playlists so I want to use something that enables them

@vkc thank you Veronica! 💛 Your video was really outstanding - you spoke so eloquently about this important issue. I’m basically sending it to everyone I know.And thank you for the kind offer about Jellyfin. I have already installed it via #YunoHost (which makes self-hosting so easy for us non devs). Now it’s just a matter of adding media to my library (I was away for 2 weeks because of French school holidays, so I’m excited to set it up today).Thank you for all you do and keep up the incredible work! ✨💫

Interesting initiative ─ A SETI-like, decentralized approach to AI…https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/02/fortytwo_dcentralized_ai/#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #tech #technology #BigTech #GenAI #generativeAI #Meta #Google #OpenAI #ChatGPT

🚨⏳One week left to prevent Microsoft from using your LinkedIn data to train AI.Act now 👉🏼 You have until November 3, 2025.Remember, you're opted in automatically, unless you take action and turn it off. Here's how:Go to your account → Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement & toggle the switch off to opt out.Find out more: https://tuta.com/blog/linkedin-ai-user-data#LinkedInAI #MicrosoftAI #BigTech

⏰ Time to break free from Big Tech!On Oct 20, an AWS outage took down Slack, Zoom, Netflix - and even Tinder (RIP to all the would-be matches 😅). Signal, the privacy champ, wasn’t spared either.Big Tech controls 70% of Europe’s cloud. Do we really want them holding the off-switch?It’s time to build and support new options that put power in our hands. Ready to break free?👉 Read the full BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jdgp6n45po #BigTech

@_elena This is epic! Looking forward to it!

Apple doesn’t want you to know this 👇🔸 Fake privacy heroes: Apple markets privacy, then tracks you in the background.🔸 Tracking, rebranded: Apple collects your data for ads, but says it’s not “tracking”. 🔸 Hard to avoid: Opting out means digging through obscure settings.Full story: https://www.cyberghostvpn.com/privacyhub/apple-privacy-violations/ #BigTech @gael @rikviergever @e_mydata

@Tutanota Bluesky?!🤦‍♂️

20+ years of self-hosted email. Windows-free since 2007 and only using Linux and BSD based computers. Here's my big tech exit so far:X -> Mastodon Reddit -> LemmyWhatsApp/iMessage -> Matrix & ThreemaGoogle Drive -> Nextcloud iCloud Photos -> ImmichNetflix -> Jellyfin & optical mediaAudible -> AudiobookshelfUbiquiti -> FreeBSD routerHomePod -> Home AssistantGitHub -> Codeberg/ForgejoCloud-Computing -> Netcup from GermanyOnline News outlets -> TinyRSSStill trapped: iPhone (ecosystem lock-in is real)#selfhosted #digitalsovereignty #unplugtrump #linux #bsd #bigtech #decentralize #fediverse #digitalfreedom #privacy

🚨⏳ Act now! You have until November 3rd, 2025 to prevent Microsoft from using your LinkedIn data to train AI.You're opted in automatically, unless you take action and turn it off. Here's how:Go to your account → Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement & toggle the switch off to opt out.Find out more: https://tuta.com/blog/linkedin-ai-user-data#LinkedInAI #MicrosoftAI #BigTech

@ThePfromtheO@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net This means any fork needs to be branded as a different product.That's fine, Firefox is the same.And this new product then would become an immediate competitorA fork that uses the same codebase is not really a competitor. You can share code between forks, so it also benefits Vivaldi to have forks available.And if you maintain your software well and do what your users want, there would be no need for anyone to make a fork in the first place.These are not not valid reasons.

"Asking enslaved people if they actually want to work the plantations for free would kill the cotton industry."-- Nick Clegg#AI #AIcon #exploitation #BigTech

@fsfe Background: https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Joint-DMA-complaint-Alphabet-for-publication.pdf

TikTok, Paramount, sistemi AI: Ellison costruisce un impero mediatico senza precedenti. Mentre Musk fa rumore, lui accumula potere reale: algoritmi social, reti TV, datacenter di sorveglianza. A 80 anni controlla cosa vedi e come ti comporti. E nessuno protesta perché pochi sanno chi è. Il potere silenzioso è il più pericoloso. Ecco cosa può fare nei prossimi anni.https://www.futuroprossimo.it/2025/09/altro-che-musk-come-larry-ellison-si-sta-comprando-il-futuro/#futuroprossimo #BigTech #Oracle #sorveglianza

@_elena yeah I saw that option. I did something else: I use my profile to very clearly show that I have left LinkedIn in the hope more people might follow 😉