’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech.
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’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
@CiaraNi If you need a cloud thing to replace OneDrive, my experience with NextCloud is really good
I started with a free account via thegood.cloud & have recently upgraded to a paid one 
(I'm not using it for auto-syncing pictures from my phone but I'm told i can do it natively)
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AI coding assistants disguise wage suppression schemes, mass layoffs, and monopolization
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degradeshttps://github.blog/ai-and-ml/llms/why-ai-is-pushing-developers-toward-typed-languages/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/ai-jobs-automation/
AI is a system to narc on former employers IP
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-contractor-upload-real-work-documents-ai-agents/AI is a system that ensures a lack of privacy everywhere
https://www.wired.com/story/physical-ai-is-coming-for-your-car/AI is a porn generator & distributor
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/09/grok-image-generator-outcry-sexualised-ai-imageryAI is the means for election meddling
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/nyregion/ny-hochul-ai-candidates.html4/
AI is creating chokepoints, bottlenecks, & likely points of failure in fragile systems. It erodes robustness, reliability, & redundancy.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkh9611zb11gAI removes guardrails, governance, and oversight. It obscures provenance.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ie/blog/dancing-with-the-devil/202601/the-emotions-behind-aiAI is worsening the climate crisis.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/ai-climate-change-bill-gates/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/17/ai-climate-crisis-cop30
AI is trying to substitute expertise for lies
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/suspended-toronto-lawyer-linked-to-deadly-triple-shooting-caught-using-ai-in-appeal/ -
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AI is creating chokepoints, bottlenecks, & likely points of failure in fragile systems. It erodes robustness, reliability, & redundancy.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkh9611zb11gAI removes guardrails, governance, and oversight. It obscures provenance.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ie/blog/dancing-with-the-devil/202601/the-emotions-behind-aiAI is worsening the climate crisis.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/ai-climate-change-bill-gates/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/17/ai-climate-crisis-cop30
AI is trying to substitute expertise for lies
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/suspended-toronto-lawyer-linked-to-deadly-triple-shooting-caught-using-ai-in-appeal/5/
AI is a mechanism for social engineering & fuels a societal mental health crisis. It manipulates public sentiment.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/08/google-character-ai-settlement-teen-suicide
AI is going to cause a timely financial crisis in time for the midterms.
A fossil fuel industry funded fascist rugpull to keep the GOP in power.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/09/nx-s1-5672643/market-ai-what-is-a-bubblehttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/10/are-we-in-an-ai-bubble-tech-leaders-analysts.html
https://www.economist.com/business/2026/01/08/the-ai-frenzy-is-creating-a-big-problem-for-consumer-electronics
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@irgndsondepp Thanks! I *think* I can figure that out.
You don't see a lot of 34 character long domain names btw. Good choice
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@CiaraNi If you need a cloud thing to replace OneDrive, my experience with NextCloud is really good
I started with a free account via thegood.cloud & have recently upgraded to a paid one (I'm not using it for auto-syncing pictures from my phone but I'm told i can do it natively)
@jwcph Oh that is really good to know. Mange tak. I couldn't find an entry point for NextCloud as a Just Make It Work non-tech end user. Great to have a provider name - thanks. I will look into a free trial account and take it from there. (That's how I moved to Tuta - the free account was so good and simple that I subscribed almost immediately.) Tak for hjælpen.
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AI is a mechanism for social engineering & fuels a societal mental health crisis. It manipulates public sentiment.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/08/google-character-ai-settlement-teen-suicide
AI is going to cause a timely financial crisis in time for the midterms.
A fossil fuel industry funded fascist rugpull to keep the GOP in power.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/09/nx-s1-5672643/market-ai-what-is-a-bubblehttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/10/are-we-in-an-ai-bubble-tech-leaders-analysts.html
https://www.economist.com/business/2026/01/08/the-ai-frenzy-is-creating-a-big-problem-for-consumer-electronics
https://archive.ph/y8Hqz6/
AI increases nuclear proliferation & the likelihood of world wars.
The fossil fuel industry is gearing up for an automated WW3.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/meta-signs-nuclear-energy-deals-to-power-prometheus-ai-supercluster.htmlhttps://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-05-13/trump-arrives-in-saudi-arabia-amid-much-pomp
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/11/mbs-pledges-saudi-investment-1t-trump-meeting
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/
AI is automating the foreign straw donors, public corruption, & bribery
https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidias-huang-joins-tech-titans-funding-trumps-ballroom-2025-10-29/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/business/saudi-investment-forum-kennedy-center.html
AI is a flight of capital out of the fossil fuel industry.
Money laundering the looted treasuries of nations.
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@leanderlindahl @metteh Det lyder lovende. Hvis man kan slukke for AI via én knap, så er det allerede bedre end Big Tech-udgavene.
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@Orewoet Sorry, no, I haven't used it as a shared calendar. Maybe someone else here in the Fediverse has - I'd be interested to hear myself.
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’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
@CiaraNi I am copying all of my 3Tb of pics from OneDrive to external SSDs...It turns out, download speeds are either capped or crippled as the regular speeds are 2-5Mb. But I have optical 1Gb link...Took me 3 days to download 400Gb. Still in progress
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@Flatus I'm not @CiaraNi but I can say about backups from my own perspective: by having copies! Keeping things solely in the cloud is definitely not a backup!
Once you have stuff somewhere you have full control, backing up is "just" copying the right files to elsewhere.
(If you're curious how *I* personally am handling backups, I wrote a blog post at https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2024/my-data-backup-setup/ about two years ago. It's not completely up to date, but nothing major has changed since.)
@mkj @Flatus @andresimous @sebastian I am moving my photos off OneDrive on to my computer and taking a back-up to my new external back-up drive. It's helped me weed the archive, making me think more about what I keep. I use a folder and file structure. Not sure if it's just me (perhaps a GenX thing?) but I can keep track through file names, photo dates and folder tree structures, no problem. I'd struggle more to find individual images from a flat structure grouped through links to albums.
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’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
@CiaraNi Lykke til, eller hvordan som helst man staver det på dansk! (Men seriøst, jeg håper det går bra og lett, hvis noe slik som "lett" er mulig i denne sammenhengen.)
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@CiaraNi Just a suggestion, which of course may not fit your needs.
Consider if you could put your music, video, and data onto a home NAS, and securely stream it within the house but also outside the house.
No need for any cloud drive, and little need for a streaming service. Audio streaming already starves musicians, buy and rip CDs instead. Video streaming is enshittifying with less for more. No data for water-hoarding data centres.@BashStKid Thanks for the tips. I don't know what a NAS is, so I am probably not the right one for that. I don't audio stream anything. I listen to CDs and the radio. And I never watch TV or films, so no alternative to streaming needed there either. Only now that you mention this do I realise that my analogue (/dull/old-fashioned) habits must make it easier for me to make digital changes than others. I have fewer things to consider. I'm lucky there.
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@leanderlindahl @metteh Det lyder godt! Nul AI. The dream.
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With the current madman in the WH, it would be foolish for #Europe not to insist on digital independence.
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@CiaraNi Lykke til, eller hvordan som helst man staver det på dansk! (Men seriøst, jeg håper det går bra og lett, hvis noe slik som "lett" er mulig i denne sammenhengen.)
@timtfj Tusind tak
Da jeg besluttede mig for bare at flytte lidt efter lidt, i den tempo jeg selv kunne klare og på en måde, jeg selv kunne overskue, så blev det faktisk relativt set 'let'. I hvert fald ikke så overskueligt og overvældende end jeg troede hidtil, da jeg følte, at det var 'alt eller ingenting'. Tak for opbakningen! -
@EthicalProfessor @chris Agreed. Definitely.
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’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
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@CiaraNi I am copying all of my 3Tb of pics from OneDrive to external SSDs...It turns out, download speeds are either capped or crippled as the regular speeds are 2-5Mb. But I have optical 1Gb link...Took me 3 days to download 400Gb. Still in progress
@locadeserta Ah this is familiar! Once I got my lovely shiny new SDD, I was startled to discover how sloooowly the process of downloading my images was. It's taking me weeks, bit by bit, to get through the still ongoing process. But it's good because it's made me make better choices about what files to keep.
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@CiaraNi been a long time.Linux user, so no M$ for me, but have recently de googled completely.
Tuta and Proton for mail
Ente for photos
Mega for general cloud storage@kcpoole Well done on already being deGoogled. I have bare minimum google on an Android phone, but still have some final steps to do. That'll have to wait until I have rid myself of Microsoft.
Mega for general cloud storage - a new name to me, thanks for mentioning. I must investigate.
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@CiaraNi There are so many people who take either an absolutist (must do everything at once and everything must be perfect) or a defaitist (nothing one does matters at all) approach.
My opinion is quite simply: *every step you take toward better leaves you in a better position!* Even the small steps.
Just looking at the steps you have already taken (and committed to), you're probably *already* in a better position than a *huge* number of people. Don't dismiss the progress you've already made.
@mkj Thanks for the supportive words. Much appreciated. And yes, agreed - it can be counterproductive to be either an absolutist or a defeatist. That can apply to politics and the climate crisis as well as enshittification and big tech, I think.
