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Modern tech is cancerous – I’m going clear

Most of modern tech, be it devices or software / digital services are corrupt and cancerous. They promise increased productivity and ease of use in exchange for your privacy and your control.

My aim is to go clear, as much as I can, and document that journey here.

Some things I have already done, such as switching to a privacy-respecting email provider like Protonmail. And a privacy-focused messaging service like Signal.

My aim for these posts is to give others a kind of guide to do this themselves. Some of the steps will be difficult for those who don’t have the privilege of time and / or technical know how. This is also part of the problem – some alternatives are not easy or convenient to switch to. But I will do my best here.

I’m not bothered about privacy — I have nothing to hide.

people without a real clue. Also people without curtains on their windows or doors on any toilets they use.

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The God Slayer by Otep

I’ve loved Otep’s music since discovering the album “Sevas Tra” — with that insane album cover being the thing that brought me in.

Earlier today (yesterday) I listened to the recently-released The God Slayer, made up of half original songs and half covers.

Loved it, although Sevas Tra has been — and remains — my favourite of Otep’s.

My favourite songs from my first listen of the album are definitely the covers of Eminem’s “The way I Am” and the Beach Boys’ “California Girls”.

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Don’t stop building

I really enjoy building scripts for my own workflow.

I wish I had the skills to build things in the real world, but until then I’ll keep building stuff in the digital space only.

Although I love working with PHP and Laravel, it is Bash that has re-ignited a passion in me to just build stuff without thinking its got to work towards being some kind of “profitable” side project.

Don’t. Stop. Building.

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Website under construction

I’ve always believed that people should own and control their own place on the web. That is, if they want to.

I have actively kept a personal website for myself for about 10 years now.

Gosh… 10 years…

In that time I have moved between about 5 different domain names, different focus topics, and different reasoning behind why I want to publish online.

I have finally settled now on this domain that you are now on – davidpeach.me.

I’m also in the process of recovering my old posts that have been thrown by the wayside as I have dicked about changing domain names etc over the years.

A mixture of Twitter archives, manual database backups I have kept, and some new sources I will be incorporating, mean I am finally going to settle down in this place online I am now calling home.

I am also re-implementing aspects of the Indieweb movement for content ownership and communicating that to other websites.

I owe a big thank you to Chris Aldrich too. As it was his website I came across that inspired me to bring my website back to what I have always wanted it to be. Hopefully, thanks to the indieweb helper plugins I have installed, Chris may just get notified on his website and post a reply back — from his website over to mine using the webmention protocol.