Ryan Macbeth makes the case for the European Commission to stop US and Chinese social media platforms from operating unsupervised in Europe. #privacy #security #digitalsovereignty #autonomy youtu.be/ywxENdhYoXw?...

We'd like to restart the #Berlin #Nextcloud meetup like we used to have at cbase before the pandemic. We have a new office and space so you're all invited there! help.nextcloud.com/t/berlin-nex...

Just published on FOSS Force: FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending December 26, 2025 fossforce.com/2025/12/foss...

Het boek "Freedom First" van onze CEO Ir. Erik Mols is uit. Direct bestelbaar bij de uitgever, of via de bekende kanalen. In het boek staat een verzameling van artikelen, geschreven in de afgelopen 1 1/2 jaar. https://www.bravenewbooks.nl/site/userwebsite/index/id/ir._erikmols

Just published on FOSS Force: After Vizio Ruling, SFC Pushes Back And Torvalds Weighs In fossforce.com/2025/12/afte...

#DigitalSovereignty in Europe isn't looking good. But the digital workplace is a bright spot! Hundreds of thousands of #Nextcloud seats are being rolled out every month. A few examples in countries leading the pack 👇

It seems the digital resilience strategy of the Commission is the same as it was for its energy strategy before 2022: dig until the walls fall in on themselves and you're forced to act. www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

Turns out PayPal and Honey scam not only customers but also businesses. Then again what else to expect from PayPal than exactly that? youtu.be/wwB3FmbcC88?...

I guess we should also abolish the United States, Russia china. Return sovereignty to the individual states! And then abolish all and return sovereignty to the cities.

… and it can do a LOT more - Nextcloud Files can replace Google Drive but Nextcloud Hub can replace pretty much all of Google Workspace.

This Saturday I'll be at the #Berlin #fediday talking about the #fediverse and how Europe should ensure IT services aligns with its values. berlinfedi.day/en/schedule/

Should Europe, the USA and China build their own software, on their own? Big fat NO! Promoting #DigitalSovereignty does not mean hiding behind national borders! #OpenSource is a global movement, collaboration working together for the future. It should stay that way. fossforce.com/2025/09/if-o...

Austria's armed forces moved to LibreOffice for the right reasons: "We are not doing this to save money" but "so that the Armed Forces (...) can continue to (...) work" You don't save money with open source. You gain agency and control. www.heise.de/en/news/Aust...

Remember: people should have #privacy & government should be #transparency Politicians rather avoid accountability while controlling society. A police state benefitting a small elite. Don't allow it! #NoKings #RuleOfLaw #democracy #Decentralization #ChatControl nextcloud.com/blog/how-the...

You know that Windows 10 is end of life soon? If you are still stuck with a Windows 10 laptop, you can upgrade it to Linux! I'm joining a wonderful team at #KDE #AKADEMY to help you in a #EndOf10 installation party. Bring your laptop, we do the rest! endof10.org/events/

Truly mind blowing ruling. So was the recent case versus Facebook and its copyright violations, by the way. www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

Dit is echt van de zotte - net als de tweede kamer it kennis keihard nodig heeft… ibestuur.nl/artikel/anal...

Program for the #Nextcloud conference is taking shape. Am looking forward to it! But first, @[email protected] #Akademy this weekend! nextcloud.com/conference-2...

Worked on a #Nextcloud app dev workshop reminded me of amazing tutorials on nextcloud.com/developer If you want to build a dashboard widget, Smart Picker or a complete app, you just copy-paste your way to a functional start!

It is insane that the European Commission is using #Signal to communicate while instituting #chatcontrol to take away the #privacy of citizens! End-to-end #e2ee encryption and disappearing messages have no place in public administration. www.ftm.eu/articles/von...

Kudos to @danb again for your work on IsItReallyFOSS. You inspired me to attempt to explain that there is more to #FOSS than just a license. Policymakers should take note! Also thanks to all other contributors in your repo, the discussions are super informative! fossforce.com/2025/08/is-i...

This is the reality of European hashtag#DigitalSovereignty by @computerweekly.bsky.social "Right now, anyone who is not Microsoft has a very hard time getting government business, which is not helpful" www.computerweekly.com/news/3666261...

There is more to #opensource than just the license and the IsItReallyFOSS website does an amazing job showing that in practice. If you're interested in #Sustainable #FOSS projects, check out my piece on @fossforce.bsky.social and share it with people who should know! fossforce.com/2025/08/is-i...

Just published on FOSS Force: Is It Really Open Source? How to Tell if a Project Walks the Walk fossforce.com/2025/08/is-i...

"His idea is most definitely absurd, but also clever": Ecosia has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome. And it's not a bad idea. | TechCrunch

"For decades wireless companies have collected customer movement and location data , then sold it to a list of random dipshits without bothering to inform customers ": DC Appeals Court Shoots Down T-Mobile Claim That Selling Your Location Data Without Consent Is Perfectly Legal

A new #Nextcloud release is coming in a bit over a month, live from our yearly conference in Berlin! Join us, either at the conference, or watching the live launch! Also, new naming scheme... nextcloud.com/blog/introdu...

Saw a Dutch TV item about the concept of "enshittification" from Cory Doctorow (follow his writing on @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy )- it is translated quite well. Triggered me to think of an interesting article by Paul Krugman (on his substack) where he generalized the concept to all business. 👇

When moving away from Windows, I tried BeOS. Great OS, main thing missing was software. It's a sad victim of Microsoft's anti-competitive behavior. And yes, that statement was proven in court, MS had to pay out. Years after Be went bankrupt of course... Price of doing "business".

Exactly that. There are some serious additional risks with cross-border services. If your business relies on them to get everything done, it's perhaps time to do a renewed risk assessment. Promises and past performance mean little these days. #selfhosting #digitalsovereignty #resilience

Last week, we launched our Digital Sovereignty Index. Yeah, marketingy name, but I think it's cool. We tracked the use of self-hosted digital workplace tools (from #Jitsi to #openproject ) and compared it between countries. 👇

Enhances tablet and multi-monitor support, updates brightness handling, and fixes notification quirks: KDE Plasma 6.3.6 Desktop Environment Released

Microsoft: we have a European "digitally sovereign" cloud! Also Microsoft: to save a few pennies we let chinese devs manage the US Defense Department systems, a few underpaid US citizens 'oversee' it so it's fine 🔥 @ec.europa.eu And you trust that? www.propublica.org/article/micr...

Don't forget: all complex software has #security issues. Even if it's written by a huge tech giant. #OpenSource has, on average, less security holes. But for the most critical data, keeping it on-premises behind your firewall and perhaps even fully air gapped is the way to go.

So, let's talk about fufu for a minute. I don't think it is just a food. Seriously, there's something more going on. I think this starchy goodness was invented with a deeper purpose - good or bad I don't know yet. If you don't know fufu - polenta could have been a trial. Or second attempt. 🧵

"no matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else" You might know the saying, and it is fundamental to #OpenSource success. Did you know it doesn't *JUST* mean that there are a ton of smart people outside your company? Thread 🪡

For those who don't know the site yet: isitreallyfoss.com This is a GREAT resource to check the #opensource values of the project you consider using or contributing to! Esp companies & gov't often fail to recognize how important open and collaborative development is for long term sustainability.

#Copyright law is a complicated beast with many issues, but it might be helpful in a legal fight against #deepfakes. WDYT? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Oh, yes. We should absolutely all pay more imports from Brazil because Trump feels such brotherhood for coup plotters and other criminals like him.

Internet controversy in 2015: Oh no, I did something wrong and people are mad at me on the internet. My career is over!! Internet controversy in 2025: Excellent, my carefully crafted outrage bait has landed. My career is taking off!!

Het delen waard: het Rathenauinstituut heeft een rapport gepubliceerd wat de risico's van onze afhankelijkheid van #BigTech analyseert, en suggesties geeft wat de overheid er aan kan doen. Nu is het tijd voor doen. www.rathenau.nl/nl/digitalis...

European citizens are very unhappy about the weak spines their politicians and business leaders show, and I can't blame them. We should enforce our own laws, protect our values and not give in to bullying. #digitalsovereignty #privacy nextcloud.com/blog/enforce...

@berthubert.bsky.social continues his work on a plan to compete with Big Tech. I think some are already working towards parts of this and it's mandatory reading for technical policy makers. They can explain it to their political overlords! #eurostack #digitalsovereignty berthub.eu/articles/pos...

My main gripe with AI is the creepyness. Please don't act so human, ugh. And worse, I think it's really a risk - non-techies trust the environment-destroying copyright violation machines* way too much. fossforce.com/2025/06/did-... * credit to @theabigailthorn.bsky.social and yes I paraphrased

[🚨 Exclusive] Our latest investigation finds that Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. may have violated EU sanctions and channeled money to RT, Sputnik and other EU-sanctioned entities. You read that right: Facebook *pays* some content publishers. Read full report → www.whattofix.tech/publications... /🧵

So much of queer liberation is about demanding things that everyone needs, but we get less of: free speech, free association, bodily autonomy, equal access to various things… Like, yes, there’s also gendered social norms to break down, but for a lot of things you don’t even need to go there.

PHP now is worlds apart from the humble toolset launched 30 years ago — helped by modern frameworks like Laravel & new tools like FrankenPHP.

The world according to Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: inertial scrolling, RDP clipboard syncing, and more session restore

If you're in #Berlin and have a #Windows 10 laptop lying around, I've got good news! You can learn how to upgrade it to linux at the @ecosiasearch.bsky.social offices! Much better than to let them become useless bricks in a few months. www.meetup.com/pyladies-ber... www.meetup.com/pyladies-ber...

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