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Jean Dinco

I installed pihole

Describing my 2024 as merely eventful would be a disservice to it. It’s the year I decided to walk my talk on self-hosting. And, of course, I started with Pihole and Unbound. This blog is less of a tutorial and more of documentation for myself. I am this blog’

Academia's reliance on Google scholar

Google Scholar bears the remnants of the old search, far away from the fast-paced enshittification. Whilst some of the so-called advancements have seeped their way through via the AI outline that is currently only available on Chrome and AI-generated 'research', Google Scholar is still a decent academic search

On Filipino resiliency

In the image below, you will see how a mayor in the Philippines described the ongoing crisis back home, a lazy and deeply appalling take. The Philippines is on its 16th typhoon this year, six of which were just this month. The author even quoted the US National Academy of

Navigating the surveillance state for trans liberation

The 2024 Paris Olympics was meant to be a celebration of athletic might yet it became a political battleground where the politics of identity were as fiercely contested as the sports themselves. The Olympics showcased an unsettling moment when Algerian boxer Imane Khelif faced a torrent of bigotry for allegedly

Reform vs revolution: a personal dilemma

I recently spent two weeks in Honolulu on a fellowship funded by a foundation established by a tobacco heiress and a historically contentious institution. I applied to this fellowship without expecting much rather than meeting people and maybe a few answers to some questions that I have gathered in the

Meta's human rights report: genuine concern or strategic PR?

Meta has just released its human rights report for 2023, which covers the whole of 2023 from 1 January to 31 December inclusively. The report is structured into a few subchapters, including sections on ‘AI’, risk management, issues, stakeholder engagement, transparency and remedy and something they called ‘looking forward’. As

Rethinking digital rights: from "me" to "we"

In an era dominated by digital interactions and transformations, the discourse around digital rights has increasingly become steeped in ideologies anchored on the tenets of individualism. We have been told over and over again that they were designed that way to champion 'personal freedoms'. Yet, recent events like

My intervention at the ‘multistakeholder’ information session on the Global Digital Compact at the UN

Below is the speech I delivered on behalf of Manushya Foundation during the United Nations’ so-called multistakeholder information session on the GDC: We appreciate the opportunity to speak as we critically evaluate the third and latest revision of the Global Digital Compact. This document, released under the silence procedure, has

On why the UN Global Digital Compact is a Trojan horse in Internet governance

The United Nations has finally made public the third and latest revision of the Global Digital Compact, which it originally published under silence procedure. This procedure gives member states 72 hours to raise concerns to break their silence. Should they fail to, the text will be adopted as is. As

The UN Cybercrime treaty is a cesspit of overreach and authoritarianism

Cybersecurity Awareness Month is still two months away, but given the importance and urgency of this topic, I thought I’d write about the UN Cybercrime Treaty. And as the negotiations for the treaty draw to a close on August 9th, the stakes couldn’t be higher. This treaty was