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Uncloud Journal

A journal of Uncloud, an attempt to fight big tech and privacy invasive applications, like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple etc. Built by me and my friend Lucas Severo.

Project Kamp

Our goal is to try to find another way to live, one that is more in harmony with our environment. There is a lot to figure out: what building material we use for houses, how do we store energy, what do we eat.

Hotline Webring

We here at Hotline Webring traveled to the wayside, picked up The Concept of a Webring, dusted it off, and launched it to frankly astonishing acclaim.

XXIIVV

This webring is an attempt to inspire artists & developers to build their websites and share traffic amongst each other. The ring welcomes hand-crafted wikis and portfolios.

Yesterweb

This site is dedicated to a community (and a larger movement) about the internet how it's changed. We are creating, discovering and enjoying websites and digital spaces.

Oregon State University Permaculture Design Videos

Permaculture design is a method of landscape planning that can be applied to anything, from a home garden or farm to a city block or entire village. Permaculture design is an ethically based, whole-systems design approach to create sustainable human settlements and institutions. [videos](https://invidious.snopyta.org/playlist?list=PLNdMkGYdEqOCvZ7qcgS3efKm26exq5E3K).'

Oregon State University Permaculture Design Course

Permaculture design is a method of landscape planning that can be applied to anything, from a home garden or farm to a city block or entire village. Permaculture design is an ethically based, whole-systems design approach to create sustainable human settlements and institutions. [videos](https://invidious.snopyta.org/playlist?list=PLNdMkGYdEqOCvZ7qcgS3efKm26exq5E3K).'

Happen Films

Documentary films about sustainability, tiny houses, permaculture, natural building, and more. We chose film because we believe it's the most powerful way to share these ideas.

AudioBook Bay

Download unabridged audiobook for free or share your audio books, safe, fast and high quality!

Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union

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New Dark Age

In his brilliant new work, leading artist and writer James Bridle offers us a warning against the future in which the contemporary promise of a new technologically assisted Enlightenment may just deliver its opposite: an age of complex uncertainty, predictive algorithms, surveillance, and the hollowing out of empathy. Surveying the history of art, technology and information systems he reveals the dark clouds that gather over discussions of the digital sublime.

Read: ✅

Tech Won't Save Us

Silicon Valley has a solution for everything, but who do its ideas really serve?

The True Cost

The True Cost is a documentary film exploring the impact of fashion on people and the planet.

The Internet's Own Boy

The Story of Aaron Swartz is a 2014 American biographical documentary film about Aaron Swartz written, directed, and produced by Brian Knappenberger.

delightful-libre-hosters

A list of people and organizations who deploy, maintain and offer open source services to the public.

Social Coop Mastodon

Social.coop is a cooperative node of the 'fediverse' social network, pioneering an open approach to co-owning and co-operating our online platforms.

Public-Interest Technology Resources

Technology practitioners who focus on social justice, the common good, and/or the public interest.

Chatons

Collective of Hosters Alternative, Transparent, Open, Neutral and Solidarity. This collective aims to bring together structures offering free, ethical and decentralised online services in order to allow users to quickly find alternatives that respect their data and privacy to the services offered by GAFAM.

Data Detox Kit

Everyday steps you can take to control your digital privacy, security, and wellbeing in ways that feel right to you.

Terms of Service Didn't Read

Clear text + ratings on ToS.

European Alternatives

We help you find european alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SAAS products.

Against Longtermism

It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity's future. It's now richly funded and increasingly dangerous.

Branch

A Sustainable Internet for all.

Low Web

For America to Live Europe Must Die

The following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980, before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival Gathering, in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It is said to be Russell Means’ most famous speech.

System76

Alternative hardware, laptop, servers.

StarLabs

Alterntative laptops.

Kiwix

Store any website on your mobile phone or computer, easily.

Good Reports

Switching Software

Internet Cube

Let's Build a Free, Neutral and Decentralized Internet together.

NMF.earth

App Carbon Diary & Sustainable Guide.

tycrek/degoogle

A huge list of alternatives to Google products. Privacy tips, tricks, and links.

The Global Garage

Article on technologies – specially Silicon Valley and Cloud providers – fucking up society.

CoopCycle

CoopCycle is a federation of bike delivery co-ops. Governed democratically by coops, it enables them to stand united and to reduce their costs thanks to resources pooling. It creates a strong bargaining power to protect the bikers rights.

Co-op cloud

Co-op Cloud aims to make hosting libre software applications simple for small service providers such as tech co-operatives who are looking to standardise around an open, transparent and scalable infrastructure. It uses the latest container technologies and configurations are shared into the commons for the benefit of all.

How we need to remake the Internet

In the early days of digital culture, Jaron Lanier helped craft a vision for the internet as public commons where humanity could share its knowledge -- but even then, this vision was haunted by the dark side of how it could turn out: with personal devices that control our lives, monitor our data and feed us stimuli.

Why technologists need to get involved in public policy?

Tech coops list

A list of tech coops and resources concerning tech coops and worker owned cooperatives in general.

CoTech

Creative technology companies, fully owned and controlled by the people who do the work. Cooperative ownership means tech that’s better for its workers and customers.

awesome-librehosters

A curated list of awesome libre hosters. They are libre because they use only libre software.

libreho.st

librehosters is a network of cooperation and solidarity that uses free software to encourage decentralisation through federation and distributed platforms. Our values connect transparency, fairness and privacy with a culture of data portability and public contributions to the commons.

Freedombox

FreedomBox is a private server for non-experts: it lets you install and configure server applications with only a few clicks. It runs on cheap hardware of your choice, uses your internet connection and power, and is under your control.

YUNOHOST

With YunoHost, you can easily manage a server for your friends, association or enterprise.

Circular Berlin

We are a non-profit organisation – developing the circular economy in Berlin, through knowledge building practical programmes, community development, and education.

CSA (Community-supported agriculture)

Model of agriculture where the consumer subscribes to a local producer for seasonal products, thus sharing the risk.

What is Food Justice and Why Does It Matter?

Food Justice is communities exercising their right to grow, sell, and eat healthy food.

Tese Onze

Canal da Sabrina sobre política, esquerda, eco-socialismo e tudo mais.

Cloud Carbon Footprint

Understand how your cloud usage impacts our environment and what you can do about it.

Democracy at Work

Nonprofit media that analyzes capitalism critically as a systemic problem and advocates for democratizing workplaces as part of a systemic solution. We can do better than capitalism.

The Anarchist Library

An archive focusing on anarchism and anarchist texts.

Artmat

Old cigarettes vending machines become art stores.

A Internet Que a Gente Quer

A internet que a gente quer e precisa é diferente da que a gente tem e usa.

Carbon Literacy

An awareness of the carbon dioxide costs and impacts of everyday activities, and the ability and motivation to reduce emissions, on an individual, community and organisational basis.

Diversity and Inclusion in Open Source

his repository contains a number of resources, templates, standards and other useful things for open (source, education, knowledge, science) projects.

Spice Program by Futurice

An open source and social impact program sponsored by Futurice.

Mozilla's Green House Gas Inventory 2019

This Greenhouse Gas Inventory (“Inventory”) describes Mozilla’s impact on the environment as measured in greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted in units of equivalent tons of carbon dioxide for the reporting year 2019.

Mozilla's Sustainability

The efforts on sustainability from Mozilla.

The Museum of Fossilized Internet

A project from Mozilla to create a future museum featuring today's technology and how deceptive they are to our world.

Power Consumption of Virtualization Technologies: An Empirical Investigation

Xen/KVM/LXC/Docker consume the same energy for CPU and memory workloads, LXC/Docker have better power performance for networking.

Toward sustainable software engineering

As companies leverage containers to improve reliability and lower costs, they’re discovering a propitious side effect: a reduced carbon footprint.

Energy Consumption on Database Management Systems

This master thesis intends to tackle this lack of knowledge by analyzing the energy consumption of DBMS software. Through benchmarks that simulate real usage environments, this research plays a key role in improving the knowledge on the energy efficiency of DBMS. We analyze four systems, namely MySQL, Postgres, MariaDB, and Redis.

SQLite Data Sets

This is a collection of public datasets conveniently packaged as SQLite databases to practice on. You don’t have to worry about the data cleaning/import process, just download the SQLite database files and query them from your favorite SQLite client.

Data is Plural

Is a weekly newsletter of useful/curious datasets, published by Jeremy Singer-Vine.

GapMinder

Gapminder is an independent educational non-profit fighting global misconceptions.

Slofile

Slofile lists public Slack groups. Discover Slack communities and channels to join.

Decolonize Palestine

Welcome to Decolonize Palestine, a collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine.

Bauer-Zuhaus

Sustainable and seasonal products, from local producers directly to your table.

Querfeld

Ugly veggies from local farmers getting a second chance.

Aufkleber Drucker

Production of stickers in Berlin.

Aufkleber Produktion

Production of stickers in Berlin.

Open Source Diversity

For more diversity & inclusion in free & open source software communities.

Gender Decoder – finding bias in job ads

This site is a quick way to check whether a job advert has the kind of subtle linguistic gender-coding that has this discouraging effect.

Gender Insights Report from Linkedin

Cartilha da Diversidade ThoughtWorks [ptbr]

Carrefour – Manual de Comunicação Inclusiva [ptbr]

The Diversity and Inclusion Handbook from Lever

Degrowth, explained

A short film explaining degrowth through the lenses of a local orange farm.

Update to limits to growth: Comparing the World3 model with empirical data

A review of one study from MIT in 1972 indicating that human welfare systems would decline in the 21st century.

1 Pixel Wealth

wealth, explained pixel by pixel.

To Change Everything

It explores the virtues of self-determination, illuminates why authoritarian power structures cannot resolve the crises they produce, and discusses how to weave our personal revolts together into a collective struggle for liberation.

Köppen-Geiger maps of present and future

A study and open data map on the climate change from present (1980-2016) to future (2071-2100).

Global Ecovillage Network

The Global Ecovillage Network envisions a world of empowered citizens and communities, designing and implementing pathways to a regenerative future, while building bridges of hope and international solidarity.

Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF)

Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) is a worldwide movement to link visitors with organic farmers, promote a cultural and educational exchange, and build a global community conscious of ecological farming and sustainability practices.

Yet another green list for a better future

Mostly mentioning only “good” companies/brands based on the “best-in-class” approach with a focus on Europe.

GreenFediverse

GreenFediverse is an open project to empower the Fediverse to run on servers with renewable energy and creating awareness for a sustainable development of it. GreenFediverse provides a critical list about servers and their renewable energy consumption status in a Green Instances List.

Green Webhosting Rank

Hackers Against Climate Change

Hackers Against Climate Change originated as a series of self-organized sessions at 35c3. Working groups, spin offs and local chapters formed afterwards and were present at all major CCC events. Join the groups or start your own!

Chaos Computer Cub (CCC)

The Chaos Computer Club e. V. (CCC) is Europe's largest association of hackers. For more than thirty years we are providing information about technical and societal issues, such as surveillance, privacy, freedom of information, hacktivism, data security and many other interesting things around technology and hacking issues.

Delightful Libre Hosters

A list of people and organizations who deploy, maintain and offer open source services to the public.

Nil Sudanese 🧆

Grünberger Str. 52, 10245 Berlin.

Great teller, they have fried cassava, please have it. There's also one in Kreuzberg.

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