[HacktionLab] Disable I.T.

Sun Dec 7 21:52:33 UTC 2014

Hi... Disable I.T. - or near enough to keep you focussed.
Also stop abusing I.T. and being abused by it.

This is my own revelation about Information Technology.
And simple experiment I encourage to prove to yourself as I am myself 
already 2 weeks into not using YouTube and just counting how long I'm 
using all this tech/screens/electricity/power packs/wires/charging 
batteries etc.

Much like you would tell a kid who found a game they really liked, we 
say to them "you need to stop playing it so much". So I'm saying it to you.

How much ahead does it get us is a frank and real question. I encourage 
personal comment on it. I really think it does something good but it's 
not getting us ahead as much as simply keeping us busy. As human we long 
for that so things online do that well...

CHOOSE THE RICH?
YouTube / Google.. choose what you support and how much you use it.
Even with it's tempting 'essential' perks for you, it's usage and 
profits <---- (or inevitable mis-spending power/data) asks the a simple 
YES / NO to it's further support. What do you believe in more? Profit? 
Money?

It's two weeks since I disabled YouTube. Any clicks or links would stop 
me helping making it make millions + the other stuff like privacy etc...

Use a plugin or edit the hosts file as said on my page:
https://network23.org/freeschool/disableit/

It's also about stopping my habit and perhaps doing more with what media 
I already have stored... I was endlessly jumping, even 'researching'... 
I have tons of it and sorting through ALL of it has made me think, hmmm 
not so necessary stuff... I didn't do the steps after this initial 
loop... just steps 1-2 but never following through step 3-4-5 making a 
video or something to show my scene(s) here and now... just untouched 
ideas...

Also we could simply consume and make our own media. Pretty much 
everything so it's ALL so much more relative. Us feeding ourselves.
Where we store/upload video's, how it's accessed and tracked... give 
more people like us jobs/tasks to do and take our business/scene's 
elsewhere!
 From the songs we stream, to the videos, the how-to's... the 
inspiration... it all should be done and managed by us... and could be 
using our own private auto-encrypted clouds... or just use mine I'll 
send you a password and you change it!
This holds infinite value... and the process where you try sitting there 
and sorting through your stuff... instead of view more, will really be 
worth it... I promise you or your virtual-YouTube-money back!

A nightmare to stop looking at others too... what to do... who am I?
At first doesn't seem good but exponentially it gets easier, a bit like 
watching disk DEFRAGmentation, where eventually you have big blocks of 
categories or groups you relate to yourself.

YT = TV.
YouTube is like TV. Is it not, at least for almost all of your usage?
If we had a program showing it's usage I think we'd be shocked... 
everything is also Google-based or google fed... so it's almost always 
connected... and for what? It keeps you busy perhaps...?
So these questions are for you to pose and try feel the reality of for a 
while. I.T. became too good?

Seems the hardest thing always was by using your feet? But only now it's 
actually become more about not switching it on, not being 'connected' 
and not installing and NOT clicking things. Habits need killing.
Otherwise you're ***cked.....                 (tracked)

I didn't like TV adverts selling my soul and that model, making me wait 
so obviously not so long ago... isn't YouTube EXACTLY the same 
increasingly only more clever, deploying background scripts, robots and 
machines to do other people's bidding.
Is the 4million + 3million profit for the aforementioned ever 3 months 
going to solve problems in the world. Is it a neutral thing? or will it 
definitely create more undermined actions and habits, fuelling those 
that can simply use spending power to make big choices... and give 
opportunity for big fuck ups too.
Automation has it's limits.
Consumption has it's limits and flavours.
Harvesting our clicks and using other ways is so low.

If anyone has a list of all the technique, I'd appreciate it.

https://network23.org/freeschool/disableit/

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> Hi Benjamin,
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> Thanks for the thoughtful response.
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> On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 09:41:49AM +0100, zylum at peacenews.info wrote:
>> Dear indy.im,
>>        Many thanks for your response and feel free to forward this
>> email to anyone if you see that as useful.
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> I've forwarded the mail through to the Hacktionlab network, and have
> moved this conversation to that list.
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>> You will be pleased to hear that one of the opportunities at our
>> event on 10th Jan. will indeed be for discussion about the
>> federated, and open web. If you have an idea for a workshop or a
>> debate which you would like to host. it is not too late to give you
>> a slot in the programme. If you are interested, I can also share the
>> draft programme with you, so that you can see what is already being
>> offered. I would love to involve you in the event and in the testing
>> phase for the online tools (which will begin in the middle of next
>> week). Do let me know if you would like to take up these
>> opportunities?
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> It would be interesting to see the application, and particularly the draft
> program.  We could contribute to a discussion on federated
> and open web, strategies for data autonomy and participation in
> federated social networks, and hosting practices ?
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>> As to your specific questions about anonymity, encryption and logs.
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> I chose those as they may be clear differentiators about choice of a
> zylum installation and whether it suitable for a particular group users.
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> Another useful question could be the legal regime that the hosting
> organisation is based in. For example organisations like
> indymedia.org.uk ( which is not so active these days ) have suffered
> from servers being seized by law enforcement, and have developed
> strategies to protect against these by using encryption and hosting in
> several international locations.  More recently Bristol Indymedia have
> suffered these attacks, with have resulted in it closing. It's my
> understanding that these were in regard to direct action around
> anti NATO protests.
>
> Other issues that have caused problems have been animal rights
> actions, SHAC and Badger Cull actions. Being able to defend user
> communications in the face of these attacks can be challenging and
> stressful.
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> I hope that you are able develop a robust way of solving these problems
> and that it is clear that these attacks on our organising tools are
> real and not imagined.
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> Regards,
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> indy.im
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