It has never been easier to give away control of your computing experience to someone else:

• We use software and services that are "free" with strings attached
• We gladly publish valuable data about ourselves at no cost
• As software gets more complex, we understand less of the software we use

Software has touched virtually all human endeavours, so it follows that our computing experiences have profound impacts on our actual lives.

If we continue to lose control of our digital lives, there may come a tipping point after which we can never get it back. One of my favorite books is 1984, but it's not like I'm interested in bringing it to life in the real world!

So welcome to fossable.org. This is the home of some free software projects designed to help us maintain control of our computing. To name them all:

• outpost is a tunneling application that allows you to self-host applications on the public Internet, while still having some conveniences of the cloud.

• turbine is a server that watches a git repo of your choice and sends cryptocurrency to contributors.

• gantry is a "SaaS vending machine" that helps host SaaS applications in exchange for cryptocurrency.

• sandpolis is a virtual estate (basically anything in your digital life) monitoring and management tool.

• goldboot is a tool for building and installing customized golden images of your OS.

Fossable is not a business of any kind. Rather, it's like a social movement with the primary goal of empowering users to control our computing!