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We were promised that technology would make us more independent, we could do things faster, and many promises from the past 100 years. But somehow we ended up as “Digital renters.” We rent our servers, we rent our databases, and we even rent the tools we use to write our notes.

I’ve spent two decades entrenched in the world of Linux, running countless distros and maintaining production servers. Lately, I began a new adventure, one that feels both wonderfully nostalgic and deeply challengin Diving headfirst into FreeBSD and using it as a “daily driver” for my development needs.

Reclaiming Digital Freedom

TLDR; Due to AI privacy concerns I will be retiring and rewriting a great deal of content. I will focus in the future almost exclusively on digital privacy and security. Including working on a few projects to aid with Privacy

For the past 5 months I have been playing around with pen and paper low tech, old style cryptography, encoding for a few scavenger hunts, treasure hunt and escape room type games in the real world. I also made a kids game using these and the kids where extremely enthousiast, unfortunately, they where not able to finish it due to time constraints (we began the game too late into the party). As well as for the alternate reality game I’m working on.

I’ve been exploring alternative private and privacy preserving chat systems for a few years. In the 2000’s I remember using Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, Skype, and IRC.

Beyond the Screen: Interactive Storytelling and the Quest for Authenticity

In an era saturated with synthesized content, deepfakes, and pervasive algorithmic control, the human quest for authentic engagement has evolved beyond passive consumption. We no longer merely wish to witness a narrative; we demand to be an active component of its unfolding. This deep-seated desire fuels the surge in interactive storytelling, leading to the most profound form of digital and real-world engagement ever conceived: the Alternate Reality Game (ARG). In our case, an Alternate Reality Gateway.

Here’s how AI enslavement looks like in 5 simple steps.