A Rebel’s Guide to Digital Independence

Cory Doctorow calls it Enshittification: the systematic demolition of platforms that exploit users and the businesses depending on them, until nobody is happy. Now the same corporations are training AI on our data and selling the results back to us. We should stop playing along. This talk is about taking back control: of our data, the protocols and the infrastructure we depend on. We'll go from the theory to concrete steps you can take: owning your data, choosing open protocols, self-hosting and building software that benefits society instead of shareholders.

Julian Köpke

Julian is a polyglot programmer who has started programming in the early 2000s. He built software for the web, mobile and embedded devices. Originating from an education heavily dominated by Java, he moved on from OOP after picking up Elixir in 2022. Now, he is developing applications for electrical engineers at DENPAFLUX with Elixir and Rust. When not at a computer, Julian is learning Swedish and enjoys being in nature going hiking and camping.