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jnrynlds 7 months ago
Hey NOSTR! Inspired by @Jeff Booth , I’ve begun the journey of pulling my time, energy, and attention out of Big Tech. So far, I’ve: -moved as much of my messaging over to Signal, Session and @White Noise -Permanently deleted all (anti) social media accounts, including Instagram and X. Pumped to explore NOSTR via @primal -permanently deleted my Google account. Current replacement stack = Proton for mail, calendar and authenticator, Bitwarden for password management, Organic Maps for GPS. (Still some work to do but this is a good start so far) BUT….I’m still sitting inside the Apple ecosystem (iPhone, Mac, etc.) So here’s my question: Is it necessary to exit Big Tech at the hardware layer too? Or is reclaiming the app/protocol layer already 80–90% of the win? If the answer is “yes, go further” what are the best paths right now? Looking at options like Framework and System76 but open to suggestions. I’m trying to move toward sovereignty without unnecessary complexity. But would favour sovereignty over complexity if need be. Would appreciate thoughts from people further down this path. (@ODELL, @MartyBent, @npub1spdn...q6j7, @Ava, @IKITAO, @Gigi, @Derek Ross, @Shawn, @GHOST would love your thoughts but also, thanks for all the inspiration!)

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jnrynlds 7 months ago
Haha, I feel you. Curious now that I think about your advice…why ditch Proton?
Protonmail and the CERN Protonmail was created in 2014 by CERN people (Conseil européen pour la Recherche nucleaire - European Organization for Nuclear Research). A service advertised as privacy centred, done by CERN should not be taken seriously as the CERN speech is full of bad spirit and bad taste jokes. CERN started in 1954 and over the years, it's objectives, words and activities have been disturbing to many. The organisation does not only hold scientific research but also questionable "art". Strange dance by non-Catholics Gilles Jobin (who states: "Contemporary art can be as obscure to them as physics is to me") and Julius von Bismarck (who was once arrested for whipping the Statue of Liberty, and in CERN led 22 physicists in total darkness through the winding tunnels underneath Cern, eventually locking them in a small dark space, where they listened to an old recording of the philosopher Bertrand Russell discussing Plato, when many scientists state to have seen bright flashes of colour in the dark). More about it can be read on The Guardian, 2012. Some years latter Ruben van Leer released a whole "dance-opera" distasteful film made there called symmetry. Mixing constant weird dance with research is not the only activity that resembles rituals at CERN. In 2016 their personnel dick another joke, a mock ritual killing occult ritual that was filmed and went viral online, to which CERN responded "Cern welcomes every year thousands of scientific users from all over the world and sometimes some of them let their humour go too far. This is what happened on this occasion." This mock ritual was performed in front of the 2 meter tall bronze statue of the idol Shiva the destroyer. In our opinion, CERN's environment is too welcoming to bad spirit and bad taste. The organisation is just too lenient with distasteful jokes, to say the least. We reject these resemblances of rituals and many mentions to devils by their people over the years (e.g. Jordi Rose's recruitment lectures to hire demonologists or software engineers). We are diametrically opposed to technology seen as a Faustian Bargain. We also reject the Revolutionary utopia of redemption by science and technology. We don't think menkind can resolve all his problems, eliminate pain, poverty, ignorance, insecurity, in short, everything we refer to as the effect of Original or actual sin. We affirm the Redemption by Our Lord Jesus Christ. We do not believe in a world run by science and technology, by propaganda and psychology, in order to attain happiness without the supernatural. The research activity in CERN with the Large Hydron Colider (LHC) is also concerning to many. In the 7th of July, 2022, the LHC produced a mysterious crack on the electromagnetic field of the earth that vanished withing a few minutes, but the remainder was open for 14 hours. This allowed solar winds to stream through the openings and caused strong geomagnetic storms. According to the researchers this occured due to the phenomenon called corotating interaction region from the sun, large scale plasma stranchers that are generated in the lower middle latitude regions due to the interaction of far solar wind streams and surronding slow solar wind. More on their scientific activities over the years can be seen on some videos available on rumble such as: video 1 and video 2
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