Technology alternatives

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Technology alternatives

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These lists of technology alternatives are just a starting point jump off list of the

Resilience

MediaWikis are very secure, extremely well supported globally as FLOSS (free / libré open-source software), and because powerful decentralized or distributed wiki networks do not exist (yet), our simple decentralization solution and top priority is to provide openly downloadable backups to prepare for the worst (censorship and loss of freedom).

Operating systems

Personal computer operating systems

Personal computer operating systems blurb. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system

FLOSS blurb. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software

Personal Computer Operating Systems

Num	OS	Security	Details	Note
1	Linux Mint	strong	now most popular FLOSS	-
2	Ubuntu	strong	formerly most popular FLOSS	-
3	macOS	meh	Linux-based, extremely constricted, corporate compromised	-
4	Windows 7	weak	corporate compromised	-
5	Windows 10	terrible	corporate compromised	-

Portable device operating systems

Portable device operating systems blurb.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_custom_Android_distributions
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mobile_operating_systems
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_computer
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set-top_box

Portable Device Operating Systems

Num	OS	Security	Details	Note
1	LineageOS	strong de-Googled	Only supports specific models	requires tech skills
2	Android OS	Google	corporate compromised	-
3	iOS (formerly iPhone OS)	Apple	secure with humans but corporate compromised	-

Programs and applications

Internet browsers

What are your browser needs?

• usability
• privacy (and security)
• customizability
• philosophy (open-source, privacy, security, etc)
• respect for the user
• looks
• resource usage (speed, memory, processing, etc)

Very critical, thorough, and highly recommended article dissecting and reviewing all browsers:

'How to choose a browser for everyday use?

" Let's start with the basics. What is the point of a web browser? Originally, it was to be able to read HTML documents, but since then, the Web has changed massively, and modern browsers need to satisfy more demands. [...] One advantage of these niche browsers is that they don't spy on you, but what I've learned from trying probably all of them is that, in the end, addons are essential [...] so, for a day-to-day browser, you have only two options: Firefox based and Chrome based. Since they all support the same addons [...] we will have to use some other criteria to judge these browsers. These consist of usability, privacy, customizability, philosophy, respect for the user, looks, and resource usage. Let's analyze them one by one:

~ DigDeeper.NeoCities.org/articles/browsers

Browser recommendations

Jason Carswell generally recommends:

• Stay clear of Microsoft's Edge & Internet Explorer, Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari, Firefox, Opera, etc.
• Good Chrome-based browsers, a standard using addons found in Google's Chrome Web Store.
  • Brave Browser : Brave.com

    Related: Brave Search is better than Google Search and DuckDuckGo.com

    Search.Brave.com

  • Vivaldi Browser : Vivaldi.com
• Good Firefox-based browsers, a standard using addons found in Mozilla's Firefox Browser Add-Ons.
  • LibreWolf Browser : LibreWolf.net
  • WaterFox Browser : WaterFox.net
  • PaleMoon Browser : PaleMoon.org
  • Basilisk Browser : Basilisk-Browser.org

Wikipedia: List of web browsers

Browser add-on and extension recommendations

Jason Carswell generally recommends the following list of addons, among some others, mostly* available on either Google's Chrome Web Store or Mozilla's Firefox Browser Add-Ons. (* Google prevents YouTube addons from downloading audio/video files.)

• Dark Reader
• Enhancer for YouTube
• Magic Actions for YouTube
• Nimbus Screenshot
• Return YouTube Dislike
• SingleFile
• SmartVideo for YouTube
• Tab Manager Plus for Chrome
• uBlock Origin
• uMatrix
• Video DownloadHelper

YouTube-DLG

The standalone app YouTube-DLG (GitHub.com/yt-dlg/yt-dlg) has the ability to download YouTube audio, video, and merged files, batch download channels, and/or batch download playlists, along with the ability to custom batch rename downloaded files as you see fit. YouTube-DLG downloads easily from most sites with videos (ie. Facebook, Reddit, Rumble, Twitter, etc), not just YouTube. Admittedly it is perhaps too much for most folks being advanced geekery with so much customizability and power. Expert geek users might not use the GUI (graphic user interface) and may prefer to use command line control with the original YouTube-DL (YouTube-DL.org).

Cross-platform software

Cross-platform software blurb.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-platform_software

Personal computer programs

Personal computer programs blurb.

Portable device applications

Portable device applications blurb.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_Android_applications

Crowdsourced references

Projex.Wiki will be starting a list of tech alternatives and solutions for normies and resistance folks. Please discuss them here and I'll copy paste your feedback/reviews. (Posted on SaidIt, by submitted 10 days ago by JasonCarswell, Feb 15, 2022.)

• Brave Browser rather than Google Chrome
• LibreOffice rather than Microsoft Office
• DuckDuckGo rather than Google Search

Search engines that don't use Google as a source:

• Startpage - https://www.StartPage.com/
• Brave Search - https://Search.Brave.com/

• https://RestorePrivacy.com/

• https://www.PrivacyTools.io/
• https://GitHub.com/Igglybuff/awesome-piracy#anime

• Peer2Peer tier (Impossible to take down)
• Briar (Chat, groupchat/private forums and Forums) ManyVerse (Chat, groupchat up to 7 and Facebook style posts) Jami (Chat and groupchat) Aether (Reddit style forum)
• Decentralized tier (Hard to take it all down at once, no single point of failure)
• Mastodon replaces twitter Diaspora/Friendica replaces Facebook Lemmy replaces Reddit Basically anything that support ActivityPub
• Self-hosted tier (Easy to take down)
• NextCloud (pi) for home cloud YunoHost for private hosting, Matrix/XMPP/email/websites, scripts etc.
• Phone and computers (Disregarding the physical spy chips on modern CPU's)
• Use Linux on your computer, use open source ROMs on your phone. If you can't hack it, it's not your hardware.

• Mastodon
  • So far as I can tell, there's nothing on Mastadon. I don't think anyone really wants to learn how to use it. It seems rather counter-intuitive and un- user-friendly.

• I subscribe to a lot of open source producers (pinephone, fairphone etc) and programmers, newsbots, interesting people etc.
• Mastodon isn't just a website like twitter, it's thousands of mastodon websites interconnected.
• I also subscribe to youtube and instagram style platforms through the same account and get it in the same feed. I run a dedicated script that converts RSS to AP, so I subscribe to newssites through Mastodon too.

Shoes

• https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy
• https://www.privacytools.io/
• Nil's Free Speech Hosting Guide
  • https://SaidIt.net/s/DecentralizeAllThings/comments/8t47/nils_free_speech_web_hosting_guide/

This is absolutely incredible. Thank you for making this. How can I help?

• https://UnBlockIt.cam/ instead of NetFlix

• Linux rather than Windows
• Unbound (for running your own DNS server) rather than using the ISP DNS servers.
• NextCloud rather than Google cloud services
• Brave
• DuckDuckGo
• Signal

• LibreWolf
  • desktop
• IceRaven
  • mobile
• Chromium based browsers like Brave can be better for privacy but still cede too much control of the open web to Google

• Tor Browser
• Tails OS
  • for the privacy inclined

• Signal is a superior alternative to WhatsApp for messaging apps

• Brave
  • great if you want $5 in extra beer money a month
  • not as good at privacy as they lead you to believe
  • currently the best combination of privacy and compatibility
• DuckDuckGo
  • filters results too, they're just not as bad as Google
  • imperfect, without better alternatives

• Searx.

• Vivaldi
  • made by a former Opera programmer or something

See also

• Category:Lists of lists
• Category:Projex.Wiki lists
• Category:Recommendation lists

• Anti-corporate technology alternatives
• Corporate media alternatives
• Crowdsourcing
• Decentralized alternatives
• Distributed alternatives
• FLOSS alternatives
• Media alternatives
• News source alternatives
• Social media alternatives
• Technology alternatives
• YouTube alternatives