Elon Musk used his platform to foment violence against immigrants in Northern Ireland, and Grok continues to generate CSAM, with no meaningful government action taken against X or its owner. @laurenshof asks what all this means for the open social web. "We might be building sovereignty infrastructure for governments that have decided they can live without it. What that means for the movement’s strategy, I really don’t know yet," he says.

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#Technology #OpenSocial #DigitialSovereignty

FR#166 – No Change

Many people in Europe see the open social web as a path to digital sovereignty. This week demonstrated a problem: the assumption that European governments actually want to be sovereign.

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@jim OSS does not inhibit or limit political or financial interference. #digitialsovereignty is about ensuring, if the plug is pulled elsewhere for whatever reason, the core of the OS is stored on your infrastructure and can continue being developed. The greater the reliance on third parties, the greater the risk. RH is not entirely FOSS.

The thing we need to remember is our strength is based on the weakest link not license conditions or most of the code being freely available.

#Distroless #OCI containers to replace #Bitnami images. Governments explore different options: #Nix_Flakes custom builds, community images.

Read my take and another option based on #Fedora at https://blog.riemann.cc/digitalisation/2025/10/26/distroless-containers-nix-flakes-vs-fedora/

What is your view?

#opensuse #podman #NixOS #digitialsovereignty #supplychain #NIS2

Distroless Containers for corporate use: Nix Flakes vs Fedora

In this post, I share my personal perspective on distroless containers for corporate use, hence with a view on compliance. I offer an alternative to Nix Flakes using Fedora and Podman.

~rriemann

Mark Carney wants economic growth at any cost. To achieve it, he’s going after tech investment and pushing hard for AI adoption.

In the process, AI regulations are being thrown on the bonfire and tech harms are an afterthought. It’s a recipe for disaster.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/mark-carney-is-going-elbows-down

#tech #canada #cdnpoli #cdntech #ai #artificialintelligence #digitialsovereignty

Mark Carney is going “elbows down” against Big Tech

Canada’s AI agenda ignores potential harms in the hope of short-term economic gain

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