Where privacy, freedom, and tech collide. GNU/Linux, Free and Open Source Software, Self-Hosted Tech Stacks, $BTC and $XMR.

Wyoming, USA
Joined October 2024
The best backup is the one you've actually tested restoring.
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Terminal: 200MB of RAM Electron app: 4GB Same task.
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Wyoming: cold winters, warm laws. Building here on purpose.
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Reminder: your smart TV has a microphone and a business model.
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Convenience is the price they charge for your freedom. They always undercharge on purpose.
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Started self-hosting to save money. Stayed because I stopped asking permission.
Not your keys. Not your coins. This has never once been wrong.
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$XMR isn't private because it's secret. It's private because privacy is the default. Optional privacy isn't privacy.
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The cloud is just someone else's computer. And they read your files.
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Things that don't phone home: A hammer A cast iron pan Your Linux box Build accordingly.
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Free as in freedom. Not free as in "we'll take your data instead." Know the difference.
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Privacy isn't secrecy. Secrecy is hiding what you did. Privacy is nobody having the right to ask.
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You don't need a data center. You need a used ThinkPad and a Sunday afternoon.
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Windows update: 45 minutes. Linux update: 45 seconds. The math isn't complicated.
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"I have nothing to hide." Then hand me your phone, unlocked, for an hour. Didn't think so.
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This is what winning looks like
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Every subscription you cancel is a small act of sovereignty. Start with one.
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Your data isn't the product. You are. Self-host something this weekend.
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Y'all don't feel me, man this ain't okay
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You can't opt out of surveillance capitalism by being careful. You opt out by running the software yourself. Everything else is harm reduction.
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