{"id":44,"date":"2025-06-30T20:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T03:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeekden.net\/wordpress\/?p=44"},"modified":"2026-04-15T19:39:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:39:54","slug":"so-here-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeekden.net\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/30\/so-here-goes\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Geek Den…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome to thegeekden.net<\/a>! This is the WordPress<\/a> Blog<\/a> section of our site, where we will provide the stuff we want to post and\/or share. We do this with the intent that some of you fine humans on the Internet<\/a> will find something entertaining, informative, or useful for your own needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are interested in 3D-Printing<\/a>, DIY Projects<\/a>, Linux<\/a>, Open Source Software<\/a>, Self-Hosting<\/a> your own network services, Artificial Intelligence<\/a>, Technology<\/a>, you are in the right place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please notice that we will provide informational links as much as possible in our posts to provide further context about the topics related to the current post. Just hover your mouse pointer over them to show you where they lead to, and click on the underlined words to navigate to them if you wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, we will include affiliate links to products on Amazon<\/a>, and other sites, so that we can (hopefully) make a little bit of money to help support our site, and to get our readers straight to the products we use ourselves for our projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will NEVER have advertisements on our website – Quite frankly, we find them distracting at best, and usually unproductive for what we are trying to accomplish, with regard to posting projects and information here on our site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our ideology is in alignment with Tim Berners-Lee’<\/a>s philosophy on the intent of the Internet: It should be a free, open, and decentralized “universal information system” that serves humanity, upholds democracy, and empowers individuals, which he famously summarized as being “for everyone”. He (and we) envision the web as a collaborative platform facilitating harmony, privacy, and equality. He is now advocating for a re-decentralized “pro-human” web where individuals own their data, a belief which we strongly agree with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The commercialization of the Internet by corporate interests is eroding user privacy, online autonomy, and the open structure of the Internet as a shared public resource. This shift, driven by “surveillance capitalism<\/a>” and the dominance of a few large companies, has transformed the web from a decentralized network for information exchange into a platform designed for targeted advertising, data collection, and content manipulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on this, please see this article: “It’s not too late to fix it”<\/a> at The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will try to keep things as simple as is humanly possible in our posts, since it is getting harder and harder to keep up with the complexities of life in this modern world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, without further adieu, onward, and upward!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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