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Cake day: February 26th, 2025

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  • The more news I read the more I think of judge dredd as the future for the USA.

    Corporate Takeover of Government

    Elon Musk and DOGE and the budget cuts, like a megacorp executive running essential public services for profit.

    Trump & Musk pushing privatization, bust like how corporations in Judge Dredd control everything from housing to law enforcement.

    Weakening Social Safety Nets

    Cutting Social Security, making healthcare deniable based on religious beliefs (Arkansas bill), reducing government services looks like pushing society toward a survival-of-the-fittest model to me.

    The rich live in luxury, while everyone else is left to fend for themselves like the division in Judge Dredd’s Mega-City One.

    Authoritarianism & the Rule of the Few

    Trump’s policies, Vance’s ideology, Musk’s influence, the US is shifting toward rule by billionaires and strongmen, bypassing democratic institutions.

    The Rise of Private Justice & Armed Control

    Musk’s obsession with tech-based policing & surveillance (like Neuralink, AI, and robot enforcement) eerily mirrors corporate-controlled law enforcement in dystopian fiction.




  • Just a couple of examples

    Red Hat Developed by a U.S.-based company.

    Fedora A community-driven project sponsored by Red Hat.

    Debian Originally founded in the U.S., with some legal ties to US regulations.

    Slackware developed by Patrick Volkerding in the US

    Since these distributions are developed or registered in the United States, they are subject to US laws, regulations, and export restrictions.

    When I have a look at what’s happening right now in the US I’m not sure what kind of laws will suddenly appear which might affect privacy and security of any kind of software from there. That’s why I decided to avoid them as much as possible.

    I will certainly go through your suggestions and have a look if I should change stuff (apart from proton, I’m sure about changing this one).





  • I’m also trying to avoid as much American tech as possible.

    • Vivaldi/qwant instead of Firefox/Google
    • Proton instead of gmail
    • Waiting for WERO impatiently until then virtual card from wise instead of PayPal
    • Void Linux instead of windows/macOS
    • Surfshark for VPN

    Can’t change everything though. I have a company phone. I could get an extra private phone, but I’d still need to use the company phone for company related stuff. Same is true for the company laptop, but I do have my own computer.

    It’s not perfect, but the important thing to me is trying as best as I can.