I have a few colleagues that are very skilled and likeable people, but have horrible digital etiquette (40-50 year olds).

Expecting people to read regurgitated gpt-summaries are the most obvious.

But another one that bugs me just as much, are sharing links with no annotation. Could be a small article or a long ass report or white paper with 140 pages. Like, you expect me to bother read it, but you can’t bother to say what’s relevant about it?

I genuinely think it’s well intentioned for the most part. They’re just clueless about what makes for good digital etiquette.

How about reducing our dependence on data centres by using software that is more peer to peer and local first etc?

Of course some data centres have legitimate use cases, such as big data analysis on weather and climate data etc, but building huge data centres for social media and running everything in the cloud is silly from an environmental perspective

P2P + IoT could be great for safety and privacy. We should just remove the middle men (datacentres, servers) so that data travels between the devices you own, and not via some data vampire trying to get in the way.