(8/7) ADDENDUM: "This is not hate against Proton. It is brutal love of truth. If we want reliable infrastructure, we must demand it even (especially) from those who claim to be 'on our side'. Criticism is revolutionary care."

#DataSovereignty #Encryption #Privacy #TechFail #Accountability #mastodonPrivacy #lemmyworld

TikTok’s US Reset: What the New Ownership Deal Really Means for Power, Data, and Global Tech Politics

#TikTok
#TechPolitics
#DataSovereignty
#USChinaRelations
#DigitalSecurity

https://eng.harbouchanews.com/2026/01/tiktoks-us-reset-what-new-ownership.html

TikTok’s US Reset: What the New Ownership Deal Really Means for Power, Data, and Global Tech Politics

TikTok’s US Reset: What the New Ownership Deal Really Means for Power, Data, and Global Tech Politics ...

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I'm building the Push Notification feature for Loops, and it will allow admins to use our EU-based relay server if preferred.

It will default to our Toronto, Canada server otherwise.

One more thing, you won't need to apply for Push Notification support, simply press a button in the admin dashboard and it will be enabled for your users ✨

#Loops #DataSovereignty

Hướng dẫn chi tiết triển khai RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) trên laptop bằng n8n, Ollama và Qdrant (Docker). Bao gồm nhiều screenshot hướng dẫn cấu hình từng thành phần. #Ollama #n8n #Qdrant #dataSovereignty #embeddedAI #tríTuệNhânTạo #dữLiệuSởSở

https://www.reddit.com/r/ollama/comments/1qjtnqm/how_to_implement_a_rag_retrieval_augmented/

Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology | The-14

Europe’s push for digital sovereignty exposes the risks of US cloud dominance, cyber blackouts, and why open-source infrastructure is now a strategic necessity.

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If you can't read the link, here are the bullet points:

* #datasovereignty of #eu and speculation on how far down the supply chain it will go practically,

* the search for alternative methods of development.

My take: we should be distributing #ai to the user level for a variety of reasons. Water, electricity, bandwidth, #privacy, etc.

https://www.wired.com/story/europe-race-us-deepseek-sovereign-ai/

The Race to Build the DeepSeek of Europe Is On

As Europe’s longstanding alliance with the US falters, its push to become a self-sufficient AI superpower has become more urgent.

WIRED

SOVEREIGN WASHING

"The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is a new, independent cloud for Europe entirely located within the European Union (EU), designed to help you meet your most stringent sovereignty requirements."

Source: https://aws.eu/european-sovereign-cloud/?refid=821a6223-2b2b-4238-a36a-430e8a91fa71

Amazon and their subsidiaries such as AWS European Sovereign Cloud are subject to the United States CLOUD Act: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

#AWS #European #Sovereign #Cloud #EU #DigitalSovereignty #GDPR #Privacy #InfoSec #Amazon #Europe #DataSovereignty

My new fancy sneakernet offsite backup case. 11 TB raw storage. More on the blurb: https://www.theonlyblogever.com/blog/2026/backupdata.html #homelab #sneakernet #datasovereignty #backupnow

"Sovereign EU Cloud" from a US company?

Plot twist: The CLOUD Act (2018) lets US agencies demand your data — no matter where the server sits.

"Data stays in Europe" ≠ "Safe from US law"

#CloudAct #DataSovereignty #EUDigitalSovereignty #GDPR #Privacy