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A hinting engine for the web

https://github.com/webhintio/hint

#1ospd #opensource #a11y #bestpractices #hacktoberfest #hint #hints #interoperability #lint #performance #pwa #pwas #security #securityscanner #webhint

GitHub - webhintio/hint: 💡 A hinting engine for the web

💡 A hinting engine for the web. Contribute to webhintio/hint development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Chuck Mattern 1d ago

Global instant payments are scaling, but fragmented infra and legacy tech debt keep the real value out of reach. 🐧

To achieve true cross-border efficiency, we must solve the interoperability puzzle. Standards like #ISO20022 are "well-lit paths" to unlocking value and AI. The future depends on resilient, flexible platforms that bridge the gap between legacy and modern rails.

HHS changes the U.S. health IT office’s name, and its purview

The Trump administration is changing the name of the federal health IT office back to the Office of the National Coordinator.

STAT

Helmholtz Metadata Collab.3d ago

🎤 Keynote: Oliver Stegle (DKFZ / GHGA)

What does it take to make metadata actionable at scale?

Insights from large-scale infrastructures like #GHGA, focusing on #FAIRdata, #interoperability, and secure cross-institutional collaboration.

Join us at #HMCConference2026 and register by 10 April
➡️ https://events.geomar.de/e/HMC-Conference_2026

#HMC2026
helmholtz.de @DKFZ @OliverStegle @ghga

Open Rights Group 3d ago

"The State is being ripped off and hollowed out."

Listen to ORG's Exec Director @jim discuss the need for UK digital sovereignty to break from our dependence on foreign-owned Big Tech and how to escape the enshittification of social media.

Check out the @openDemocracy podcast ⬇️

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/podcasts/in-solidarity-podcast/ai-panopticon-surveillance-jim-killock-open-rights/

#digitalsovereignty #interoperability #enshittification #socialmedia #bigtech #digitalrights #fediverse

When the state openly admits it wants its eyes on you at all

openDemocracy

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Open Rights Group 4d ago

With geopolitics in dire straits, we need digital sovereignty.

This means protecting the communication, banking, energy, travel and healthcare systems that we all rely on.

It involves diversifying the businesses who provide systems and ensuring that they meet open standards.

Sign our petition for UK Digital Sovereignty ⬇️

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-trump-s-kill-switch-secure-our-digital-sovereignty

#digitalsovereignty #opensource #interoperability #palantir #NHS #ukpolitics #ukpol

Stop the "Kill Switch": Demand the UK takes back control of our technology.

From the NHS to our energy grid, we are too reliant on US tech. Help us demand digital independence.

38 Degrees

Open Rights Group 4d ago

Triggering a break clause with Palantir's NHS contract shows we can ditch Big Tech.

But when they go, they take the systems with them. That's what you get by contracting suppliers who exclusively own the product.

The UK government must back interoperable open source software, so we can switch suppliers without changing systems.

https://www.ft.com/content/2d2b1af1-edea-4fd0-a081-3811e34bc52e?syn-25a6b1a6=1

#digitalsovereignty #opensource #interoperability #palantir #NHS #ukpolitics #ukpol

Ministers explore triggering break clause in Palantir’s NHS contract

Government is under pressure to eject the controversial American company from NHS England data systems

Financial Times

ViOffice 4d ago

Good News 🎉

Germany 🇩🇪 is taking an important step toward digital sovereignty: Open Document Format (#ODF) is set to become mandatory in public administration

A strong signal for #interoperability, #transparency, and #independence 💻

Centre for Digital Scholarship 4d ago

New blog post: Demystifying #ResearchData #Interoperability

Ari Asmi shares the highlights from a workshop (co-organised by the three TDCCs) on "the ugly duckling of the [#FAIRdata] acronym": Interoperability.

> Why would anyone take the effort to find obscure terms from complex technical vocabularies for our metadata, if the reason for doing this is unknown?

> (…) interoperability information is crucial for finding and reusing research data(…)

https://www.digitalscholarshipleiden.nl/articles/demystifying-research-data-interoperability

Demystifying research data interoperability

Of the FAIR principles, the ones relating to interoperability are the most challenging. Ari Asmi of the Leiden University Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarship is an interoperability expert and organised a workshop in February 2026, the key highlights of which are illustrated in this blog.

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🫧 socialcoding..5d ago

@reiver

Today "ActivityStreams: Where do you want to go to today?" might be a slogan we borrowed from Microsoft.

The question is whether #ActivityStreams should be used - besides all the things it is already being used for - to also map to file systems.

The #LinkedData nature of #ActivityPub is generally shunned in favor of plain #JSON. That in itself is fine, as long as:

a) information still represents valid #JSONLD.

b) information models still follow data modeling best practices.

c) information models are designed with #interoperability in mind.

Not saying your approach is good or bad, just observing that everyone mapping and overloading their own app-specific semantics to the poor AS vocab looks to me a worst-practice. We can get away with it, as we made post-facto interop the poor man's accepted practice, lacking more rigorous extension process and guidance.

There are likely existing standardized ontologies.