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I Get No Ideas Inside the Machine
At Cables of Resistance, I ran a workshop asking if we can build hardware without capitalism. I was grieving what AI is doing to open source. Technologists need to see there's no innocent ground under the machine. It was always someone's land.…
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Open Source Is Indefensible
Codeberg's members voted to stop hosting mostly AI-generated projects. The freedom worth defending is not the freedom to be taken from, it is the freedom to refuse.…
Fork It or Walk Away
"Fork it" too often just means there's the door. But exit isn't the only tool we have.…
An Afternoon of Tedium as an Exit Tax
TOTP is an open standard for 2FA, but the app I chose over a decade ago locked me in anyway. Getting out took a whole afternoon of tedium.…
I Cannot Be Trusted to Send Email
I left Gmail after 21 years, but instead of going for another mail provider, I decided to self-host (what I can).…
Laying the First Stones
A VPS, a reverse proxy, a password manager, and a DNS zone full of forgotten history. The autonomous stack begins to take shape.…
On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: "The Master's Tools" in Tech Discourse
Somewhere between Audre Lorde's 1979 speech and contemporary tech discourse, the "master's tools" became a meme. This essay traces what was lost in the translation.…
Three Servers and a Tunnel
Credentials first, then email, then everything else. Before a single service can move, the migration has to be ordered by dependency, and the infrastructure to hold it has to exist first.…