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offsite link Elon Musk Plans to Take on Wikipedia With ?Grokipedia? Sun Oct 05, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Elon Musk is taking on 'Wokepedia' with Grokipedia, an AI-powered encyclopedia aiming to cut bias, fix errors and add missing context.
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offsite link Pope Leo ? a Chip Off the Old Block (of Ice) Sun Oct 05, 2025 17:00 | Dr Roger Watson
Pope Leo XIV is basically Francis 2.0 ? soft on migration, preaching LGBTQWERTY wokery and now going 'full Greta' by blessing Arctic ice like it's holy water, says Dr Roger Watson.
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offsite link Should we Abandon Liberal Democracy in Favour of the Singaporean Model? Sun Oct 05, 2025 15:00 | Toby Young
For those who think liberal democracy is the best form of government, Singapore poses a challenge. It's a technocratic, one-party state characterised by ruthless central planning. Yet it's been astonishingly successful.
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offsite link Net Zero Crumbling Slowly at First, Then Suddenly Sun Oct 05, 2025 13:00 | David Turver
Net Zero has been slowly crumbling for years and is now entering the sudden collapse stage, says David Turver. The only people still backing it are the reality-denying zealots of DESNZ and the Climate Change Committee.
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offsite link I Asked a Simple Question at a Pro-Palestine Protest and It Turned Ugly Sun Oct 05, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
At a pro-Palestine protest, Times journalist Matthew Syed asks a simple question about Hamas ? and is met with abuse, denial and antisemitism. What he found in Trafalgar Square wasn't protest but a mob drunk on hate.
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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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