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offsite link Ukraine Buys Huge Amounts of Russian Fue... Fri Jan 20, 2023 08:34 | Antonia Kotseva

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Lockdown Skeptics

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offsite link Number of Children Regularly Missing School Surges by 12% to 1.6 Million After Lockdowns ?Normalised... Thu Jun 01, 2023 17:46 | Toby Young
The number of children now persistently absence from school has surged to 1.6 million after Lockdowns ?normalised? staying at home, says Children's Commissioner. And constant strikes by teachers are making things worse.
The post Number of Children Regularly Missing School Surges by 12% to 1.6 Million After Lockdowns ?Normalised? Truancy appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Keir Starmer Held Secret Talks With Just Stop Oil Donor Days Before Revealing Plan to Ban New Oil Li... Thu Jun 01, 2023 15:00 | Toby Young
Keir Starmer spoke with Dale Vince, the Just Stop Oil backer who gave £1.5 million to the Labour Party, just days before he announced a ban on new oil and gas developments.
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offsite link North Korea Wins Leading Role at World Health Organisation Thu Jun 01, 2023 13:00 | Toby Young
North Korea has just been given a seat on the WHO's Executive Board, with a vote on the appointment of the WHO's six regional directors and, potentially, on the replacement of the Director General.
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offsite link The Demonisation of Kathleen Stock Thu Jun 01, 2023 11:00 | Toby Young
Given that transwomen make up just 0.1% of the population, why has a generation of activists chosen transwomen's access to 'the Ladies' as the hill to die on? We went to the Oxford Union on Tuesday to try to find out.
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offsite link Government?s Free Speech Champion: ?I?ll Defend All Views.? Thu Jun 01, 2023 09:00 | Toby Young
Arif Ahmed, the Government's new 'free speech tsar', says he'll defend all views and is not intending to take sides in the culture war or promote the views of the Government.
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Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link The West refuses peace in Ukraine, by Thierry Meyssan Tue May 30, 2023 07:00 | en

offsite link Armenia cedes Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan Fri May 26, 2023 04:36 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter, n°41 Wed May 24, 2023 07:15 | en

offsite link Armenia ready to abandon Nagorno-Karabakh Tue May 23, 2023 09:14 | en

offsite link The Growing War Cost on Our Shoulders, by Manlio Dinucci Tue May 23, 2023 08:40 | en

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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

  • 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.

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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