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offsite link Ten Awful Covid Studies Funded by Taxpayers Thu Aug 07, 2025 07:00 | Charlotte Gill
From 'COVID-19: What are the Drivers of the Islamophobic Infodemic' to 'Being alone together: developing fake news immunity', Charlotte Gill revisits 10 of the worst taxpayer-funded Covid studies.
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A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link The Government Has No Idea Who is in Britain Wed Aug 06, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
The British state has only the vaguest idea how many people live in the UK, legally or otherwise, says Michael Simmons, with thousands of migrants overstaying their visas and purposefully slipping into illegality.
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offsite link How Have We Ended Up Paying For Everything While Doing All the Work Ourselves? Wed Aug 06, 2025 17:30 | Guy de la B?doy?re
Have you noticed how over the last few decades we're expected to do more and more for ourselves, while paying ever more for the privilege? Guy de la B?doy?re takes a satirical look at this unwelcome trend.
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offsite link Heat Pump Installations Running 90% Below Miliband?s Target Wed Aug 06, 2025 15:12 | Will Jones
Heat pump installations are running 90% short of Ed Miliband's Net Zero targets, with just 30,000 fitted instead of 300,000. At this pace, it would take 150 years to equip all homes with 'renewable' technology.
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Free Software Alternatives to Big Tech that you should use

This page lists some free software alternatives to some common proprietary software. Indymedia is based on free software and we likewise encourage people to embrace its use as much as possible.

By using commercial software and by using corporate owned sites run by Facebook, Google and others you are empowering them and disempowering yourself. People should use software and platforms that are independent of this corporate giants and their control and take back control yourself. It can be done

There is also a comprehensive list at this site: https://goodreports.com/>

See also the TechTonic podcast charting the spread of Big Tech into all areas of live and it's intrusions and surveillance.
https://techtonic.fm/

Browser:

Media Tools:

Webserver:

Website development:

  • Perl language - www.perl.org
  • PHP scripting language - http://www.php.net
  • MySql database - www.mysql.com

Web Content Management Systems

  • Oscailt (designed for Indymedia sites -runs this site) http://www.indymedia.ie/oscailt
  • Drupal - www.drupal.org
  • Wordpress -Blog and Publishing Platform - www.wordpress.org

Text Editor:

Image Editor:

Email Service

Instead of Gmail

Email Client:

Instant Messaging / Chat:

Apps & Messaging:

Alternative to Google & Bing Maps

Alternative to Google Search

Secure Operating System including Mobile OS / Alternative Mobile OS

  • https://grapheneOs.org/ - Graphene OS
  • https://tails.boum.org/ -Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity.
  • This is the full list of alternative OS for phones if you want to degoogle your phone and stop tracking.
    • LineageOS
    • iODE OS
    • CalyxOS
    • GrapheneOS
    • LunarOS
    • /e/Foundation

Alternative to YouTube

Social Media Alternatives

Instead of Twitter or Facebook, use Minds, Gab, Pleroma or Mastodon:
Centralized:
Decentralized (Federated):

Alternative to Zoom


VoiceCalls / Voice over IP:

  • Ekiga www.ekiga.org
  • Twinkle is a SIP softphone for linux only. http://www.twinklephone.com
  • Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat http://www.jitsi.org/

Alternative to Instagram

Whiteboard interworking:

Alternative to Wikipedia


For a comprehensive list of free software, visit the Free Software Foundation Website and go to the page: http://directory.fsf.org/
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