General info
VPS rented in Hetzner.
| Who cares | Name |
|---|---|
| OS | Debian GNU/Linux |
| RAM | 16Gb |
| CPU | ARM Altra 8 Cores |
| Storage | 160Gb SSD |
Why I started all of that & maintaining it
At some moment, I notice that I getting fucked by big-tech…
The internet has become a bloated mess. Huge JavaScript libraries, countless client-side queries and overly complex frontend frameworks are par for the course these days.
Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.
— Pavel Durov
At some point of my life I started asking questions. Why? Cause I sick/tired of this. What “this”? Very small part in form of questions in my head at that point in time:
- why does the site take so long to load?
- why they forcing me to SignUp/Login?
- why they disallow see content without SignUp/Login?
- why they feeding me with some bullshit?
- why they disallow usage with ad-blocker?
- why they harvesting my data without at least without notice to me and some form of payment to me?
- why my mailbox on google/yahoo/outlook is basically trashbox with tons of marketing and SEO shit?
- why the fuck I need proff that Im not a robot with millions of captchas while they feeding platforms with fake people profiles and bots?
- why they disallow me to delete default browser Edge from their M$ Windowz?
- why they collect everything I type?
- why they filtering-out “harmful” results?
- why they collect every my physical activity?
- why they forcing “tolerance” to gay shit?
So when I got answers for all my questions I started taking control back.
We don’t have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back.
— Edward Snowden
Basically I started replacing software I use with privacy respecting alternatives. Most of the software became open source. I got rid of M$ Office, Chr0me/M$-Edge and most of the development toolchain successfully. At some moment I successfully got rid of M$ Windowz (most hardest part), but still used big-tech services and sites. Later I learned about the existence of libre-frontends and they changed my life. Literally. Page on Quora/Medium/Reddit now readable and loads fast, LibreTranslate not harvesting everything I type, Gitea just based and works without JS. And I decided to contribute into improving the state of browsing internet and internet decentralization.