More and more countries ditch Microsoft as the movement of digital sovereignty keeps growing🎉🇪🇺

The idea of digital sovereignty is to become independent from US Big Tech providers that have too much control over our digital infrastructure.

Only together we can achieve digital sovereignty💪🇪🇺

Find out more about which countries are ditching Microsoft and becoming digitally sovereign here 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/countries-ditching-microsoft-choosing-linux-digital-sovereignty

The best way to help a Fascist Regime is to be politically neutral ... I'm looking at you, my friends in the FOSS community.

Yesterday in #WashingtonDC, on the steps of the Capitol where protest is currently not allowed (!), an active duty officer in the #AirForce deliberately broke the law to honor his oath of service. He called for the removal of Trump, and he wore his uniform to do it.

Rep. Al Green, my favorite member of Congress, and the Removal Coalition stood with him, as did a crowd of DC protesters.

#50501movement #Trump #fascism #military

@RickiTarr

there were darker eras. there will be yet darker times still

we do what anyone does in such times

we persist and resist

it doesn't have to be full-throated. something like your post as a clarion call of sanity is enough. muster the grace that we can, as you are doing now

the ideal of course is we coalesce some sort of means to not only fight back but win

we don't have to be desperate about it. we don't need anxiety. we simply smile and carry on and then discover stronger means

RE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/116850334762728573

Being a Mastodon server admin is not an easy job, especially with all these spam bots powered by LLMs and AI crap. In fact, anything running web facing will be attacked by all those AI companies to steal your data. I absolutely hate this garbage behaviour. Yes, many solutions exist to stop bots, but even highly paid solutions like Cloudflare anti-bot & co get defeated many times, & open source solutions works but it is another game of cat and mouse. I appreciate the fight humans are putting up

Urban areas are hotter than forests.

EU’s Copernicus satellites recorded a difference of about 23°C on land surfaces in the most affected areas of Europe during last week’s heatwave.

We’re making your city greener by:

🔸Committing to planting at least 3 billion trees by 2030
🔸Promoting sustainable living through the European Bauhaus

When the heat returns, hydrate, avoid the midday sun, and check on those most at risk.

It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now. How do I celebrate a country with detention camps? I know there are great people here, who are working toward a better tomorrow, but it feels nuts to want to shoot off fireworks right now. Add on this massive heat wave that most of the United States is going through, and I'm just feeling trapped. Of course, then I feel ungrateful, I have a place to live, I'm not in a camp, I have food, and friends. My mental health feels less than stellar right now. Anyway, sorry for the brain dump, I just wanted to be honest, it feels so complicated right now, what do we do, how do we help? I love you all. I hope you're safe, cool, and have a good weekend. Feel free to share your thoughts and feelings too, if you want.

Sorry about the terrible AI accounts that keep popping up..

It seems AI agents use invites to create more accounts so we disabled that for now, managed signups is often the choice

We’re really trying to suspend them all and we spend quite some time each day on this

I truly hate LLMs with all my heart, what a shitshow

Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Me: "Therefore, any sufficiently complicated technical problem is indistinguishable from a curse."

#infosec #sysadmin #bofh

Technically, the extinction of the dinosaurs is the highest ratio of birds killed with one stone.

@cmconseils

#meme #humor

#Meme #Humour

Mastodon has automatic age verification built in, no scanning your face

✅ if you join here you're old
✅ you've seen too much shit
✅ you're tired of said shit

On this #CanadaDay I'm struck by how few Americans know their government and the Russians are involved in a psyop in Alberta to incite a separatist movement. The goal: force a populist referendum to leave #Canada and join the #USA.

Albertans are being swayed by glitzy YouTube influencer videos, many of which are #AI generated abroad,, to suggest their lives would be better in the US. You know, Florida mansions, control over immigration, pristine health care, high valued US dollar, and other grass is greener lies. Very #Brexit-esque, Cambridge Analytica playbook.

As the US under this administration seeks to capture and manipulate oil internationally, Hormuz and Venezsudentenland are not enough. They are coming for the Canadian oil fields not with arms, but with algorithmically amplified #disinformation and millions of corrupt dollars to influence an election in their favor. For Russia, cracking Canada means destabilizing yet another Western democracy in the international illiberal project, plus Canada recently signed an agreement to provide drones to the #Ukraine.

How can you help?

I wish I could say call your Congressional Rep, and that might still work in some districts. However, this is digital guerilla warfare, and we still don't have good innoculation against it.

Any information you can get out there on social media --about what it is really like to live in the US (maybe more about how actually likely it is to own a mansion or paying for your health care!), about how disinformation campaigns work, about what happened to democracies that voted to shoot themselves in the face based on peddled lies and are now dealing with the consequences (hello #UK), would help. Please tag Alberta separatism to ensure the message gets out.

And tell your friends. People need to know this is going on.

#elbowsup

Receipts:

https://thewalrus.ca/alberta-separatism-fuelled-by-russian-networks-and-us-influencers/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/co-ordinated-network-of-fake-youtube-channels-pushing-alberta-secession-and-us-annexation-narrative-report-finds/

https://www.cdmrn.ca/slopaganda-the-inauthentic-youtube-network-selling-secession-to-albertans

https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/04/21/Dishonest-Online-Campaign-Support-Alberta-Separatism/

https://disifnowatch.org broke this story with international journalists' help: see: https://disinfowatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Alberta-and-Foreign-Interference-Report-Final-052026-web.pdf

“PIRATING” IS A CAPITALIST FRAME

don’t be a cop.

If buying isn't ownership then p̶i̶r̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ SHARING isn't stealing

If buying doesn't create ownership, then p̶i̶r̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ SHARING doesn't destroy it.

SHARING is anticapitalist and antifa because sharing is caring.

If buying doesn't create ownership, then pirating doesn't destroy it.

🚨 Beyond the limit 🚨

New ESO study finds that current proposals to launch 1.7+ million satellites into orbit would have devastating consequences for astronomy.

The most extreme proposals come from SpaceX & Reflect Orbital

1/4

📷 F. Kamphues, ESO/M. Kornmesser

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #environment #pollution

apps. people. starter kits. one place.

fediverse onboarding has been broken for too long, and it doesn't have to be.

the new https://fediverse.info ships soon.

boost and spread the word 😘

#fediverse #onboarding #fediverseInfo

Putin planned to supply his troops in occupied Donetsk via the Mariupol-Donetsk highway.

Ukraine changed the plan.