Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest.

[parismarx@mastodon.online]

Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest.

In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you that I’ve been regularly updating for months.

https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/

#tech #digitalsovereignty #iran #politics #geopolitics

[mihamarkic@mastodon.social]

@parismarx there is also Sygic for navigation (Slovakia)

[budududuroiu@hachyderm.io]

@parismarx genuinely, why are people shitting on Helsing?

[freya@chaosfem.tw]

@parismarx I feel like my 58-contianer self-hosted mess is probably a really extreme example of that?

[mrbranch40@mastodon.world]

@parismarx

Oh, that reminds me,
my wife and son cancelled Amazon Prime this weekend.

This is how you vote with your dollars.

[rockerdoc@mastodon.social]

@parismarx @pluralistic Shouldn’t we retain some nuance? There are still ethical and progressive developers in the US, right? It is the entitled gorillas that I most want to get away from.

[regendans@todon.eu]

@parismarx Great that you made this list 🤩 but I'd remove Opera as browser suggestion.

The Vivaldi browser project emerged from among other people working at Opera. Several people were very angry about the direction Opera was going.

"History Vivaldi began as a virtual community website that replaced My Opera, which was shut down by Opera Software in March 2014.[22] Von Tetzchner was angered by this decision because he believed that this community helped make the Opera web browser what it was. Von Tetzchner then launched the Vivaldi Community—a virtual community focused on providing registered users with a discussion forum, blogging service, and numerous other practical web services—to make up for My Opera's closure." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi_(web_browser)#History

And who is the owner of Opera browser ? It is developed in Norway but it is overseen by a Chinese company. https://www.aeanet.org/who-makes-the-opera-browser/

#opera #vivaldi #european #usa #bigtech

[lokjo@mapstodon.space]

@parismarx

Impressive list you made there!

Suggestions for maps could be Lokjo and for Graphic design Krita.

Thanks!