Three years ago I started using a de-Googled phone. A couple of months ago I also moved my personal email to @proton.me . Moving out of big-tech is way simpler than it looks. You should try. heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/t...

In one of the international projects I'm working we have two requests: some members ask to allow integration with LLM servers deployed in private networks and others to develop a mobile application because they do not have access to notebooks/computers. That's the level of inequality we are in.

Me: I'm gonna browse the internet... Internet: Lol, no

Municipalities around the globe face common challenges and have similar necessities. We need a collaboratively built and maintained software layer for local governments. Open Source is the way to go.

I HATE that GMAIL wraps every link in an email into its own tracking URL. Not only tracks every click you do but also makes the web experience slower since instead of directly going to the web that someone share you now have an intermediate redirect. F*cking nightmare.

"...servers tend to be relatively stable. Hardware failures are relatively rare, and once a server is up and running it usually runs flawlessly for years without much intervention. Managing your own servers is not a full-time job." rameerez.com/send-this-ar...

I said there would never be an htmx 3.0 but I never said anything about an htmx 4.0 htmx.org/essays/the-f...

Welcome to technofeudalism on steroids: Just 8 of the S&P500 companies account for 35% of the entire US market’s value, 69% of the gains since the market bottomed in April, and almost 80% of the S&P 500’s net income growth in the last year. www.ft.com/content/ae4d...

The future of tech is commons-based, open by design & built with people at its heart. With #DCEDIC, Europe leads a new way, creating digital infrastructure that others can adapt, reuse & grow globally. This is our @okfn.bsky.social vision in action. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...

I want data around Bare Metal vs Cloud complexity. I'm not sold on the argument that cloud is easier. In fact, I believe the opposite is true for most of the use cases. Last time I deployed a Webapp/Redis/Postgres in Azure was a nightmare of products, pricing and private networks. Not simple at all

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

I asked an LLM to generate a sample CSV and the first thing it produces is a file with all personal information: phone number, email, salary, etc. I know all data is fake, but 🤦

Entonces no hay que bajarse el precio. Si sos mediocre en algo ESTA BUENISIMO. Hay que aspirar a esa mediocridad en cosas que la pasás bien haciendo. No hay que aspirar a ser el mejor, hay que aspirar a llegar al nivel que te hace feliz.

No shit Sherlok. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"We saved 76% on our cloud bills while tripling our capacity by migrating to Hetzner from AWS and DigitalOcean." I love stories about pepole leaving big tech cloud. digitalsociety.coop/posts/migrat...

Public interest tech should be built to last. Our partners at @okfn.bsky.social created The Tech We Want, a field guide that shows how simplicity, openness, and community-driven design lead to digital systems that can endure the test of time. Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/4rvjuvuf

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

☁️😵 We at @okfn.bsky.social are not afraid to talk about the elephant in the room: there can be no truly public digital infrastructure as long as the ‘cloud’ belongs to corporations. 📸 @avilarenata.bsky.social at #OGPSummit

Can’t believe the Irish tried a version of UBI, found it worked, and decided to keep it rather than commission another study.

A must read!

Systems having problems handling a two words last name.

Ready to participate at the OGP Summit! As usual, printer's systems cannot handle my last name properly. #StopSplitingLastNames

I love the work going on around pushing common UI patterns to the platform itself. Improving HTML is key for long term sustainability of the Web. Maintaining dozens of JS Frameworks is wastefull when you can standardize and integrate into the browsers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aknX...

✍️✨ Thank you very much Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas for your thoughtful report on how #OpenDataEditor is helping journalists tell better stories with data! #TheTechWeWant #DataJournalism buff.ly/sTFEU0m

Buongiorno, John Elkann &Co porteranno a Torino #ItalianTechWeek: la tecnologia che sta rivoluzionando il mondo secondo piani e interessi dei signori della #Guerra,#Sorveglianza,#Capitalismo. Noi porteremo la #Resistenza, grazie #SerenaDoe per #ItalianTechResistance

Vercel is NOT #TheTechWeWant And as Argentinian, I'm embarrassed to see my flag there. Believe me, there is better tech talent in my country.

Tomorrow we will be discussing our experience building Public Interest Technology: when silicon valley rules do not apply. How to develop on low budget? Why boring is sometimes more sustainable? How to engage with communities? How to build the right thing? etc etc etc Open for all :)

With Big Tech abusing open source projects, all the AI Training on people's code, the Wordpress case and now the Ruby Bundler's take over I'm tempted to do a paper/presentation titled: What Open Source can teach you about Capitalism.

“Formatted spreadsheets are like the fossil fuel of the data community. They’ll be around for awhile” - Luis D. Verde Arregoitia at #Positconf2025

Today, @archive.org opened a new space for the Open Community in Amsterdam! 🇳🇱 📚This is the beginning of the Internet Archive Europe! The goal? 🎯 Fight against disinformation, foster learning, sovereignty, support growth.

Europe is a Digital Colony s01e15. We need better decentralised technology.

Why you don’t remove them? It is what we do, because: we don’t know of the note are ok, we don’t know what people will do with those notes, I will no share the same if this things are there. Are all loss for everyone.

20 AI Note takers in the Webinar I'm attending. There are ~50 people attending. We even have AI notetakers from companies and people that are not attending. The chat gets spammed, there is zero reuse of resources and we are feeding Big Brother with all we say. This is NOT #TheTechWeWant.

The hard, hard, hard lesson is mostly always the same: technology alone is not enough. People need contexts, resources, training material, opportunities. Space and time. This, I think, is the main reason around tech and data failures. #csvconf #csvconfv9

Amen!

@vivaldi.com has a really interesting stance on AI integration to Web Search that I completely agree with. However searching the web has become a nightmare and AI summaries are appealing. How are you experiencing the situation? vivaldi.com/blog/keep-ex...

NPM's week

I'm writing some tools to help people rescue (download) data portals based on CKAN. Today I have published `ckan-rescue` a small Python package to download all the data and metadata: pdelboca.me/writings/202... #opendata #ckan #datarescue

11% used uv in 2024. I'm wondering what the number would be in 2025. I thought I was jumping into the train quite late but looks like it still not that popular. lp.jetbrains.com/python-devel...

#ProTip: Planten un limonero 🍋

If you're an R programmer with some expertise on Data Validation and want to work in a short mission-driven project this is a cool chance to work with us! 👇

This is SO messed up. 🫥 I had a few messages and tags today asking me to clarify my stance on Israel, which was odd as I've been pretty outspoken against genocide and in full support of Palestinian statehood...

Recuerdos de mis inicios en programación.

"90% of technological problems can be solved with tools that have been around for decades" I was talking with @okfn.bsky.social about technology and open data as part of the 100+ Conversations cycle. blog.okfn.org/2025/08/26/a...

We are testing an AI integration in Open Data Editor. blog.okfn.org/2025/08/12/a... We still need to improve the output quality. Are you an AI dev-expert working on similar projects who could guide us on our remaining tech questions? github.com/okfn/opendat...

Maintainers teams getting annoyed by AI generated contributions is a symptom of poorly defined contribution guidelines and a naif open source culture. When barriers for contribution disappears, you get hit by the reality that accepting/reviewing everyone's ideas is not sustainable.

Why the "declare AI help in your PR" is useless, courtesy of 3000 years ago logic: - If you can't tell without the disclaimer, it's useless: people will not tell. - If you can tell, it's useless: you can tell. Just evaluate quality, not process.

Para los que andan por la zona de Sierras Chicas en Córdoba. Ya estamos preinscribiendo para curso presencial de programación. Es para iniciarse desde cero en Python. Si conoces a alguien que le pueda interesar, pásale link por favor: raizdetres.com.ar

A 20-year-old #Palestinian girl,Marah Abu Zuhri,was starved to death by the criminal #Netanyahu govt:she died yesterday in Italy after MEDEVAC This is a point of no return:time to bring Italian govt+arms industries before the #InternationalCriminalCourt www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/08/16/p...

🎯 On 19 August, @okfn.bsky.social is bringing together #AI experts and #digitalliteracy practitioners to discuss the challenges of building AI capacity for civil society organisations, activists, and the open movement. 👉🏾 Register here: buff.ly/Y84kWJn #AILiteracy #TheTechWeWant