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So let me get this straight, after launching another war in the middle east with absolutely no plan, to counter a threat that doesn't exist, the US is now strengthening the only country who actually does pose a threat, undermining European security.
Absolutely shambolic, these people are not […]
Yes, i read your document.
No, there are no comments because I can only correct something that's almost right.
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes but the preservation of fire" - Winter #Olympics opening speech.
"The God Man", a delightful 10 minute long short film, definitely worth a watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY9CTDM3l4M
#Culture #Films #shortfilm
"Obligations of non-commercial #OpenSource software developers under the #CRA are ZERO. Anybody telling you something else can please go away and read the law."- Carl-Daniel Hailfinger, from the German market regulator BSI, at #FOSDEM […]
RE: https://social.opensource.org/@policy/116013627660498569
This is our most detailed response to a public consultation yet, coming in at 16 pages!
I look forward to sharing more about it soon!
I'm not sure how much of this piece about how AI is about to kill Oracle I should believe, given its truthiness, but it certainly made me smile.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/haters-guide-oracle/
From Twitter "My grandfather used to say "and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel" and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her strudel recipe and my grandfather, who hated the Nazis with the passion of 10,000 suns, thought it was an example of the media sanitising evil people and he would use the phrase when someone asked him to overlook a bad person doing bad things and focus on the good."
Great expression that should be used more.
General view of a large lecture theatre. All rows are occupied and a panel of three speakers is in progress.
It's still before 10:00 on the Sunday after party night at #FOSDEM and the #EUPolicy room is on its second talk and very busy.
"You wouldn't take candy from a stranger so why would you run their code?"
#FOSDEM Legal Devroom....
Aranet4 Air quality Meter showing 2376 ppm of CO2 and indicating "red"
Air quality in my current location at #FOSDEM
It cannot be right to spend public money on systems that create permanent dependency on a proprietary vendor. Digital sovereignty does not happen automatically - Dirk Schrödter, head of the state chancellery, Schleswig-Holstein
#OpenSource
When a government does not fully control its IT systems it is unable to govern effectively and this cannot be solved with legislation or contracts, only with #OpenSource - Dirk Schrödter, head of the state chancellery, Schleswig-Holstein and at #OFESummit
Roberto and Zach at a podium on sage at the Awards
Roberto Di Cosmo & @zacchiro just received an #EOSAwards26 for @swheritage - congratulations to them, very proud to be part of their team!
"We need to tell politicians that investing in #OpenSource gets your money back 3x, 4x", Thibaut Kleiner, DG Connect, @EUCommission
The @EUCommission has invested €800 Million in open source over the last 8 year, according to Thibaut Kleiner of DG Connect. #EOSAwards26
Daniel Stenberg at a podium for the European Open Source Awards
Here's @bagder getting the #EOSAwards26 started at the magnificent Solvay Library in Brussels.
Pie chart showing 70% of French academic software collaboration is hosted at GitHub.
Today's digital #sovereignty data point, courtesy of #SWH2026. This chart shows who is hosting French research projects but I've no doubt it is representative of other sectors.
Another one for the "need digital #sovereignty" file. Presumably if Microsoft are collecting this information it can also be requested by law enforcement (in both your country and in the USA) […]
BBC Verify is in no doubt what happened to Alex Pretti.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cg4e0r1el5yo
(Note there is a CW)
If you are keeping a list of case studies showing why digital #sovereignty must be a priority for Europe in the age of Trump, here is another.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/22/microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-bitlocker-encrypted-data/
I hope someone at @EUCommission is […]
The @EUCommission is proposing a new Cybersecurity Act
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-strengthens-eu-cybersecurity-resilience-and-capabilities
One change I've made this year that is really helping my #productivity is allocating time for everything and keeping Inbox 0.
I spend the first hour of my day answering everything that can be answered fast, and reserving time in my calendar for anything else, then snoozing the email until that […]
Instead of reciprocal tariffs, Europeans should announce they will no longer honor US patents and copyrights. Or, wouldn't honor US intellectual "property" on its current absurd terms.
Tariffs on US goods would hurt European consumers. Dispensing with copyrights and trademarks from the US […]
I just heard about two accounts cloning my account and impersonating me on mastodon.social - I definitely do not have an account there. If you have been pinged by them as well, please report them to your instance.
I'm trying a Sonoff NSPanel Pro as a control surface for our #HomeAssistant system. It's working well. It's using Android as its OS (sadly a closed downstream of AOSP). What particularly surprised me is it has @fdroidorg as its app store.
And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.
Returning again to Pat Metheny's amazing requiem for America to channel some of the overwhelm
https://youtu.be/wiH2oJu1XZY?si=Cfv_dAHRnauGd28Q
RE: https://mastodon.social/@michael_meeks/115894601558024277
No good deed goes unpunished.