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Indymedia ireland

offsite link Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qae... Tue Nov 11, 2025 21:01 | imc

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 Tue Nov 04, 2025 02:40 | Mark

offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Dam... Fri Oct 31, 2025 23:44 | imc

offsite link The Golden Haro Fri Oct 31, 2025 11:39 | Paul Ryan

offsite link Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause... Sun Oct 05, 2025 20:31 | imc

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Human Rights in Ireland
Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

offsite link Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 22:01 | imc

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:40 | Mark

offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

offsite link The Golden Haro Fri Oct 31, 2025 12:39 | Paul Ryan

offsite link Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 21:31 | imc

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Miliband Comes for Underfloor Heating and Towel Rails in Net Zero Drive Sat Jun 13, 2026 11:00 | Will Jones
Ed Miliband will ban the sale of underfloor heating systems deemed to be using too much power in his latest?Net Zero drive as he also sets his sights on electric towel rails, gas fires and storage heaters.
The post Miliband Comes for Underfloor Heating and Towel Rails in Net Zero Drive appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Climate Cult Sat Jun 13, 2026 09:00 | William Happer
Fifty years from now, academic treatises will be written about how the world was taken in by the climate madness of a pseudo-scientific doomsday cult, writes Princeton physicist Professor William Happer.
The post The Climate Cult appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link No, the Police Should Not ?Reflect the Community They Serve?. They Should Be Good at Their Job Sat Jun 13, 2026 07:00 | Joanna Gray
Of all the myths that have undermined policing in Britain, perhaps the most pernicious is that polices forces should 'reflect the community they serve'. No, says Joanna Gray: they should be good at their job.
The post No, the Police Should Not ‘Reflect the Community They Serve’. They Should Be Good at Their Job appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sat Jun 13, 2026 01:28 | Toby Young
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Day That Satire Died in Britain Fri Jun 12, 2026 17:00 | James Alexander
Prof James Alexander has pinpointed the day that satire died in Britain: it was in 2015, when Private Eye launched its podcast, and therefore confirmed it was just another tedious organ of the right-on liberal Left.
The post The Day That Satire Died in Britain appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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Free Software Alternatives to Big Tech that you should use

This page lists some free software alternatives to some common proprietary software. Indymedia is based on free software and we likewise encourage people to embrace its use as much as possible.

By using commercial software and by using corporate owned sites run by Facebook, Google and others you are empowering them and disempowering yourself. People should use software and platforms that are independent of this corporate giants and their control and take back control yourself. It can be done

There is also a comprehensive list at this site: https://goodreports.com/>

See also the TechTonic podcast charting the spread of Big Tech into all areas of live and it's intrusions and surveillance.
https://techtonic.fm/

Browser:

Media Tools:

Webserver:

Website development:

  • Perl language - www.perl.org
  • PHP scripting language - http://www.php.net
  • MySql database - www.mysql.com

Web Content Management Systems

  • Oscailt (designed for Indymedia sites -runs this site) http://www.indymedia.ie/oscailt
  • Drupal - www.drupal.org
  • Wordpress -Blog and Publishing Platform - www.wordpress.org

Text Editor:

Image Editor:

Email Service

Instead of Gmail

Email Client:

Instant Messaging / Chat:

Apps & Messaging:

Alternative to Google & Bing Maps

Alternative to Google Search

Secure Operating System including Mobile OS / Alternative Mobile OS

  • https://grapheneOs.org/ - Graphene OS
  • https://tails.boum.org/ -Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity.
  • This is the full list of alternative OS for phones if you want to degoogle your phone and stop tracking.
    • LineageOS
    • iODE OS
    • CalyxOS
    • GrapheneOS
    • LunarOS
    • /e/Foundation

Alternative to YouTube

Social Media Alternatives

Instead of Twitter or Facebook, use Minds, Gab, Pleroma or Mastodon:
Centralized:
Decentralized (Federated):

Alternative to Zoom


VoiceCalls / Voice over IP:

  • Ekiga www.ekiga.org
  • Twinkle is a SIP softphone for linux only. http://www.twinklephone.com
  • Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat http://www.jitsi.org/

Alternative to Instagram

Whiteboard interworking:

Alternative to Wikipedia


For a comprehensive list of free software, visit the Free Software Foundation Website and go to the page: http://directory.fsf.org/
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