Permacomputing, Ascetic Computing, ... so many cool movements going back to simplicity in a never ending enshittified software world

I am going back to software that have been here for a while, often free/open-source software

Every time I read something about big tech, I hope more people will discover that you can leave them

Related to the previous link shared :

"Cory Doctorow’s “enshittification” is about platforms. This is about products. I call it ensheinification, because everything in the market is becoming Shein. You can buy expensive Shein, or you can buy cheap Shein that breaks after 2 uses."

Since I realized the impact of enshitification, I am also looking for the dumber option now when I buy something. It's much better in the long run

I love the Web and I also hate the Web. Nowadays you need at least uBlock Origin to enjoy the web. I don't know how people do it

I have been using NoScript for almost 2 months now and block JS by default on websites and it's been mostly great. A better experience and it's easy to enable it just once or to setup a rule to only allow a specific JS element when a website is broken. (For example on ecommerce websites)

First, watch this video. Second, go read Enshittification by Cory Doctorow

2026 will be the year I start selfhosting more stuff and am still wondering if it will be on a homelab or a VPS. I will probably use Yunohost for some stuff

via Sebsauvage

Blast Info explique très bien le concept d'enshittification ou merdification, terme inventé par Cory Doctorow

And in the meantime, even if some parts of the administration (i.e: "Gendarmerie") are using free software, we are still paying a lot of money to Microsoft and Google ...

I never used Komoot but read great things about it. Following Bending Spoons acquisition, Bending Spoons fired almost the entire staff. This video shows passionate people who built a useful product but were not respected at all ..

Leta, the privacy-focused search engine, by Mullvad.

Il y a un sujet sur cette dépendance aux réseaux sociaux et surtout à Meta pour le domaine de la musique (comme plein d'autres domaines bien entendu). Ayant cofondé un collectif de musiques électroniques, c'est un sujet qui me fait beaucoup réfléchir pour trouver des alternatives

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