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YunHsuanKaoFirstEssay 4 - 06 Feb 2022 - Main.EbenMoglen
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| | | This isn’t the plan I had in mind for recovering my ability to enjoy the freedom of thought. In the first draft, I wrote about building a future that frees everyone from the disruption of phones, ads, and notifications, but as professor Moglen suggests, I started by figuring out what freedom of thought means to me and what I can do to achieve that. The crisis came as an opportunity for me to start on that journey. From my experience, I realized that once you experienced having total control over the machines, life without surveillance or even thinking without disruptions, the feeling is far more rewarding than anything else. It is a difficult decision to make to switch from Google drive to set up my own NAS, but it will be an easy decision to make next time. I just have to remember that, I too, can enjoy the freedom of thought. | |
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Indeed one should never let a good crisis go to waste. I'm glad that you were able to get so much out of the experience, and to write about it so usefully. I hope that you will find a place to publish this account for Taiwanese readers.
In recent releases, we have concentrated on making [https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox FreedomBoz]] a turnkey home NAS server. Nextcloud running on FreedomBox gets you also on your personal NAS server the calendar, media streaming, and many other services for which you now also depend on surveillance companies. Next time you are doing this job, you should be able to transfer all your data safely to a new NAS, or build one for someone else, on a FreedomBox, which adds more security, just in case freedom of thought ever becomes a more political concept.
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You are entitled to restrict access to your paper if you want to. But we all derive immense benefit from reading one another's work, and I hope you won't feel the need unless the subject matter is personal and its disclosure would be harmful or undesirable. |
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