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Canada Is Dismantling Digital Privacy: Bills C-22, C-34 & C-9 Explained (corelab.tech)
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Buried inside federal Bills C-22, C-34, and C-9 is a sweeping surveillance architecture. Here is what it means for Canadians and how to self-host your way out!

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[–] 7 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Yes self hosting and leaving the big Tech companies behind is the way to go. Linux and other FOSS is the best option!

If you are not ready to drop Windows or Mac start self hosting your something that you can use on your LAN and than add something else when you are comfortable. Slowly you will find that you can do more easily.

If you are looking for something easy to start with but still want to keep the icky OS I would suggest CUPS so that you can detach your printer from the internet and still be able to print from anywhere on your LAN.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    This is a good resource that I did not know about, wish I had when I started my whole boycott the US stuff. Sure I have been getting off of the Google services longer than that, but I was using CUPS long before I really had any idea about FOSS (sorta, it was the early 2000’s once I had my own computer and printer I dropped CUPS for a while). I got into Google docs in the early 2010’s but was out of them nearly as fast because I felt it was easier than OpenOffice or NeoOffice or whatever it was called that I was using on my Mac. Either in some time between probably 2017 or 18 I got into pihole which helped me see my way out of Google things (minus search and youtube). I quickly started getting weird ad combos in youtube so I got premium. Trumps whole 51st state BS got me to look into what money I was sending to the US, I cancelled all my services and replaced them with Canadian things, minus youtube and search but youtube I was now using an ad blocker with. I would later switch my search engine with ecosia. Ecosia was still shilling for the Google even if they stopped using their results they where still using Google and Microslop for ads, but I moved to searXNG before Ecosia became what it is now. I was out of my home one day and needed to search for something so I went to Google just cause that was easy and I realized how much crap was on it so I was forced to get wireguard working once again. I self host Nextcloud, Immch, Pi-hole (x2), scansJS, CUPS, vaultwarden, wireguard, and other things I cannot think of off hand. I will be moving to OpenWRT soon as well.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Docker makes it dead easy to self-host stuff. Just learn docker/podman, and use docker compose.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Yes I agree with that but if you want a simple project where you do not need to know much learn how to install and use CUPS. Docker is awesome but I do not feel the same joy that I did after every bare metal thing I have struggled through, I want to stay docker from now on though.

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