«Schwierige Kundschaft — 83 Prozent der Europäer misstrauen US-Techfirmen:
Noch schlechter schneiden chinesische Unternehmen ab. Den Umstieg vollziehen bislang jedoch nur wenige»

Das Europa nun langsam aber sicher und hoffentlich auch nicht nur jetzt aus Protest auf Open-Source setzt ist mein Wunsch. Doch zu viele Firmen sehen MS, Apple & Co. als den Standart obwohl sie sich darüber beschweren?!

🧑‍💻 https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000316355/83-prozent-der-europaeer-misstrauen-us-techfirmen

#ustech #europa #misstrauen #software #kunde #china #usa #itsicherheit

France Accelerates Exodus from US Tech with Open-Source Push

France is taking a bold step towards digital independence, with a push to ditch American commercial software for open-source alternatives, and all government ministries are now racing against the clock to reduce their reliance on US tech by the fall. This move signals a growing unease among European governments about Silicon…

https://osintsights.com/france-accelerates-exodus-from-us-tech-with-open-source-push?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#OpenSourceSoftware #DigitalSovereignty #France #UsTech #EuropeanGovernment

Iran Issues Warning Against US Tech Companies Amid Escalating Conflict

📰 Original title: Iran Threatens to Start Attacking Major US Tech Firms on April 1

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/iran-issues-warning-against-us-tech-companies-amid-escalating-conflict/?redirpost=f03abbe2-a3a8-4dc7-860c-04964b325d0c

#conflict #iran #ustech

Iran Issues Warning Against US Tech Companies Amid Escalating Conflict

📰 Original title: Iran Threatens to Start Attacking Major US Tech Firms on April 1

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/iran-issues-warning-against-us-tech-companies-amid-escalating-conflict/?redirpost=f03abbe2-a3a8-4dc7-860c-04964b325d0c

#conflict #iran #ustech

I have been a huge LLM sceptic, but after testing @MistralAI 's #LeChat this week (they get bonus points for sustainability, privacy and are EU based and regulated and not #UStech either), I'm starting to be seriously impressed - they have moved on a lot.
I can see why these tools are taking off for daily life.
@jburnmurdoch has an interesting piece on LLMs in general in the FT today too:

Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/b18870c7-de35-4325-9a9b-5c038ee3ceba

I had a long discussion on #digitalsovereignty with our IT chief today after I complained openly about being forced to use Microsoft suite

I was informed that:
1) there is no #OpenSource alternative appropriate for a medium sized research institute like ours

2) my data privacy concerns were an ungrounded conspiracy theory

3) employees either don't want to use open alternatives to #USTech or are too inept to do so

4) open alternatives at the enterprise scale cost money and are therefore not competitive with Microsoft

5) partners in the #HorizonEU that I (will) coordinate need to offer their own solutions if they don't want to use #MSTeams

Happy #DIday y'all

US AI giants seem fine with their tech being used to spy on Europeans | Euractiv

#airace #MassSurveilance #europe #technologynews #ustech #anthropic #openai #eu #resist

https://www.euractiv.com/news/us-ai-giants-seem-fine-with-their-tech-being-used-to-spy-on-europeans/

Yesterday was the "Digital Independence Day", which I only learned of, today. Coincidentally yesterday I wrote my first blog post in years! I used to be on wordpress.com for nearly a decade, then moved my blogging to #g+ #facebook, #linkedin and co.

With the process of shutting down all my #ustech and #bigtech accounts, I felt the need of having a place to myself again, where I could share my thoughts. For now, I've decided to use #zola as a static site generator, which gets hosted to @Codeberg

Here's my successful "Hello, world!" that'll allow me to further my journey towards #digitalindependence as this static site will not only replace my old blogging software, but I plan to replace with it so much more! What a fitting coincidence, to have that post see the light of day on the Digital Independence Day :)

https://pygospa.codeberg.page/posts/hello-world

#zola #wordpresscom #codeberg #woodpeckerci #digitalindependenceday #newblog #newbie #introduction #blogosphere #staticsite #staticsitegenerator #unplugTrump