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The developed world is increasingly forcing people to use incompetently designed technology. The #digitalTransformation movement is being forced onto people.

Just like we cannot rely on the public sector to solve the climate crisis, we also cannot rely on the public sector to deploy well-designed privacy-respecting inclusive technology. We always need an analog option.

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Designing cloud apps for offline use is a lost art. Bringing it back would bring quality back to software β€” and offline ppl would experience less discrimination 0 daveyOsborn 4 »
When an office worker sends you a hard-copy document (on paper) with β€œclick here” underlined (infosec.pub) 0 daveyOsborn 10 »
πŸ‡§πŸ‡ͺ Cost of the right to have analog access to banking in Belgium: €88.10ΒΉ/yr (as of 2026) (febelfin.be) 0 autonomousPunk 6 »
How paper cheques are critically important to our human right to autonomy. Belgians will lose this right soon. 22 ciferecaNinjo 16 »
Complaint filed against Belgium for digital inequality (www.edf-feph.org) 0 autonomousPunk 4 »
Asshole instance name has emerged in our free world: lemmy.pleasestopfaxing.social 1 evenwicht -10 »
Italian provider of email and blogs β€œAutistici/Inventati” is shutting down on 25 September amid US bullying -- could be a reason for taking the analog path (sabot.media) 2 daveyOsborn 10 »
(US) A stock broker gives extra privileges to online customers by withholding some tax disclosures from offline customers 0 activistPnk 5 »
Fax service forces me to supply an email address which it then discloses to the fax recipient. What’s my fix for this? 1 nonserf 4 »
Cannot buy tickets for a Bob Dylan concert without cloud access 5 activistPnk 14 »
Situations where analog is better than digital 14 evenwicht 4 »
(USA) The Better Business Bureau (BBB) pulls the plug on analog consumers 6 debanqued 8 »
Digital ID in the UK: The Government Says It Is Voluntary, But Your Employer Might Not Give You a Choice (www.ibtimes.co.uk) 0 StopTech 7 »
29% of employees admit to sabotaging their company's AI strategy (www.europesays.com) 9 StopTech 48 »
Cannot play games b/c Internet is needlessly required. Starcraft, Age of Empires, Civilization.. 12 freedomPusher 22 »
Vandan Borre staff: β€œbroadcast TV was eliminated in Belgium” 0 ciferecaNinjo 2 »
Appropedia: Low tech and self-sustainable alternatives to modern systems (www.appropedia.org) 2 StopTech 4 »
πŸ›ƒπŸ™Š The spread of travel authorisations (πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έβ†’πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§β†’πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί) has scrapped our visa-free travel rights. How do offline and unbanked people handle this? Or do they just have to pound sand? (crazypeople.online) 2 ciferecaNinjo 12 »
πŸ“  FAX service suggestions for Europe? (need a replacement for PDF24) 0 freedomPusher 1 »
Thought of this community (sopuli.xyz) 0 mesa 2 »
What if a radio station jingle says something like β€œπŸŽ΅KQRX- the feed that does not track you π„žβ€ 0 freedomPusher 1 »
πŸ•΅ (for privacy & offgriders) We need a smartphone download manager (πŸ“²) that takes orders from a PC to fetch docs/websites, files, Youtube, etc. Perhaps Aria2 front-end needed. 0 debanqued 2 »
πŸ“  How getting a FAX-only number can improve your privacy and control -- while pushing back against the loss of β„» infra 0 freedomPusher 2 »
πŸ“  FAX directory needed -- and the race condition to preserve β„» 0 freedomPusher 2 »
Decreasing visibility of physical addresses appearing on websites.. even public/government agencies and human rights NGOs 0 activistPnk 2 »
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About this forum

The developed world is increasingly forcing people to use incompetently designed technology. The #digitalTransformation movement is being forced onto people.

Just like we cannot rely on the public sector to solve the climate crisis, we also cannot rely on the public sector to deploy well-designed privacy-respecting inclusive technology. We always need an analog option.

This community is loosely related to these communities:

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