Euro-Office just launched its first stable version 🇪🇺🔥
We're excited to be part of this movement to bring digital sovereignty to Europe and beyond with @nextcloud @xwiki @openproject @soverin #Eurostack 🎉
The @EUCommission just released a statement positioning open source as central to #Europe’s #TechSovereignty.
We couldn’t agree more. #OpenSource is critical to a robust and independent society.
Here’s our full statement: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/europes-new-tech-strategy-puts-open-source-front-and-centre/
#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb #OpenWeb #DigitalSovereignty
AI Appears to Be Trapping Certain Job Applicants in a Limbo Where They Never Get an Interview for “Reasons” That Are Completely Unfair
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-job-applicant-limbo-cortex?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Futurism @futurism-Futurism
In Japan, a New Steward for 1,200 Years of Cherry Blossom Data Has Been Found, Sustaining a Climate Change Research Project
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/in-japan-a-new-steward-for-1200-years-of-cherry-blossom-data-has-been-found-sustaining-a-climate-change-research-project-180988607/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Smartnews @smartnews-Smithsonianmag
RE: https://masto.ai/@rbreich/116439500460485277
Somehow I have a feeling it’s more like a ‘reset’
A reset of the job markets, mass layoffs while CEOs get massive pay packages, stock and investors are driven up by the ‘savings’ and later on when people are ‘desperate enough’ they get rehired for a fraction of the previous pay
Fuck corpo assholes
"As governments around the world strain to make the internet safer for children, one idea has been gaining traction: Instead of forcing websites to keep out children, why not have their device do it instead?
In the United Kingdom, Apple has already begun requiring some iPhone users to verify their age at the operating system level to access certain features.
This is a major shift in how identity works online..."
‘Hungary has chosen Europe’: EU leaders jubilant after Péter Magyar’s victory over Orbán
Congratulations pour in from across EU, with leaders from Spain, Poland, France, Britain, Denmark, Romania, Sweden and beyond hailing a new chapter
In rush for age checks, we’re putting kids’ security at risk - by Edward Komenda
#selfhosting can be daunting at first, it involves a few steps:
0. obtain a domain name
1. sign certificates to prevent MITM and create trust with for example #letsencrypt
2. understand the process of proxying connections and hosts, #nginx_proxy_manager
3. host your applications in a maintainable way with for example #truenas
Once you get the hang of this process, it gets really easy to spin up new services.
#immich for google photos
#dawarich for google timeline
#ollama or #vllm for openai
I'm taking control of my media collection.
For years i have been paying for service without explicitly owning the content.
I'd rather buy a copy and digitize the media.
#jellyfin to replace streaming audio and video (replaces #spotify, #netflix, #primevideo, #disney)
#radarr for movie metadata
#sonarr for music metadata
#lidarr for series metadata
#bazarr and #opensubtitles for automated subtitles
#finamp for android
#subsonic to provide music to garmin
And from there the world opens up!
Nederland moet zelf de baas worden over digitale toekomst
Soevereiniteit is een breed begrip dat nog veel vragen oproept. Is een Nederlands datacentrum dat draait op buitenlandse hardware soeverein? Dreigt bij alleen Europees inkopen een risico van Europese afhankelijkheid? Voor deze en nog veel meer vragen was ruimte genoeg op het iBestuur-congres Soevereiniteit en Overheid in Amsterdam. Lees verder: https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/nieuws-nds/nederland-moet-zelf-de-baas-worden-over-digitale-toekomst/
"Meowing at your cat is better for reducing loneliness than an AI chatbot, study finds"
The government in #Lithuania is pressing ahead with proposals that would impose political control over the country's public broadcaster, LRT. Academics warn that the proposed changes showed signs of #censorship and threats to #democracy.
https://viabaltica.fi/lithuania-government-pursues-control-over-public-broadcaster/
🚨Chat Control 1.0 is dead. Holding each MP transparently responsible works!
Now, let’s end Chat Control 2.0 - say NO to mass surveillance. 💪
➡️ From today on, Gmail, Microsoft, LinkedIn & Co are no longer allowed to scan your emails & messages: https://tuta.com/blog/voluntary-scanning-google-microsoft
Whereas governments once used ad hoc measures to suppress online speech, today, states around the world have systematized censorship, creating durable systems of control. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/digital-hopes-real-power-revolution-regulation
My partner brought this lovely video to my attention:
https://vimeo.com/1168468796?fl=pl&fe=sh
And I even found it on not-youtube! #NoBIGTech
@laimelea
8€/a month for Instagram?! Thank you for the last push I needed to delete my account for good 🤣 #byeMETA #delusional #bigtech #metatest #instagram
For over 10 years I use #linux exclusively, the past few years I managed without full reinstallations, just upgrading fedora. I started at #fedora 37.
The urge to get rid of #bigtech came up again #truenas makes it easy!
Cancelled my youtube subscription. Now I either use #peertube or tubearchivist + #jellyfin.
I cancelled my office subscription, took all my files from the cloud and put it into #nextcloud
#signal for whatsapp
#mastodon for all forms of social media.
#pixelfed for instagram
