After running a small-time, non-federated #XMPP server for 2.5 years (#prosody), I've decided to decommission it.

What I loved about it was the ability to make the attachment sizes large - 100MB - then it allowed a nice long-format "video memo pen-pal" experience with my friends. We would video ourselves for a few minutes, checking in with each other and expressing how we're doing. It was a spiritual exercise: how was our meditation going lately? What were we meditating on, as an object of meditation? That 100MB attachment size allowed up to 9ish minute video memos, as long as the video-recording  resolution was turned down from the too-high default.

Now that #Canada is intent on rushing #BillC22 through, not caring what the #infosec experts have to say - they've pretty much made the decision for me, to use a #Deltachat server instead. This is to get a Canadian server on Canadian soil, with the ability to conveniently switch servers (add another "relay", in case one disappears). #DataSovereignty #ElbowsUp

With #XMPP, the encryption is unfortunately optional, and even downright problematic in group chats. #Deltachat succeeded in making the E2E encryption required and automatic. A step up, which today's politics all but required. #OpenSource

Hold Your Own Keys

When you and your competitors all run your crown jewels through the same frontier model, the only thing standing between your secrets and theirs is a boundary you do not control. The frontier providers are excellent and their security is real. The exposure is structural, not an accusation. The answer is custody: hold your own keys.

https://mickai.co.uk/articles/hold-your-own-keys

#SovereignAI #DataBreach #PostQuantum #DataSovereignty #AI

Hold Your Own Keys

When you and your competitors all run your crown jewels through the same frontier model, the only thing standing between your secrets and theirs is a boundary you do not control. The frontier providers are excellent and their security is real. The exposure is structural, not an accusation. The answer is custody: hold your own keys.

Sovereign AI and the Data-Centre Water Reckoning

The data-centre water crisis is real, but it is not a property of artificial intelligence. It is a property of one architecture: hyperscale, water-cooled megacentres. Sovereign, distributed AI on hardware you own removes the false choice between the reservoir and the model. You keep both.

https://mickai.co.uk/articles/sovereign-ai-and-the-data-centre-water-reckoning

#SovereignAI #AI #PostQuantum #Pantheon #DataSovereignty

Sovereign AI and the Data-Centre Water Reckoning

The data-centre water crisis is real, but it is not a property of artificial intelligence. It is a property of one architecture: hyperscale, water-cooled megacentres. Sovereign, distributed AI on hardware you own removes the false choice between the reservoir and the model. You keep both.

The Validation Layer: Why "Trust Us" Is About to Stop Working for AI

As artificial intelligence enters audited, regulated and disclosed industries, the unanswerable question is no longer how a model works. It is what the model actually did, and whether anyone can prove it. That question is what blockchain was built to answer. Mickai got there first.

https://mickai.co.uk/articles/trust-us-is-about-to-stop-working

#SovereignAI #DataBreach #PostQuantum #DataSovereignty #AI

The Validation Layer: Why "Trust Us" Is About to Stop Working for AI

As artificial intelligence enters audited, regulated and disclosed industries, the unanswerable question is no longer how a model works. It is what the model actually did, and whether anyone can prove it. That question is what blockchain was built to answer. Mickai got there first.

France upends the defense tech landscape. PM Lecornu announces a major split: DGSI terminates its Palantir contract early to switch to the sovereign platform ChapsVision (ArgonOS). The 2025 renewal was just a temporary bridge. Transition will take 1-3 years; the US giant remains only in provisional mode to avoid capability gaps. Real sovereignty is built on action. #DataSovereignty

🧵 Η επιλογή σουίτας γραφείου για οργανισμούς στην ΕΕ είναι πλέον θέμα αρχής, όχι απλά προτίμησης!

📌 Στο νέοάρθρο:
• Σύγκριση ανοιχτού κώδικα λύσεων: #ONLYOFFICE, #Collabora, #LibreOffice, #Etherpad

🔓 Το @ONLYOFFICE Docs είναι AGPL v3, αυτο-φιλοξενούμενο και με έδρα στην ΕΕ – η επιλογή που σέβεται την ελευθερία σας.

👉 https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/el/2026/06/best-eu-compliant-office-suites

#GDPR #NIS2 #DataSovereignty #OpenSource #FOSS #AGPL #SelfHosting #EU #Privacy #OfficeSuites #DigitalSovereignty #Tech

Σουίτες γραφείου συμβατές με ΕΕ | ONLYOFFICE Blog

Ανακαλύψτε τις καλύτερες σουίτες γραφείου συμβατές με ΕΕ & GDPR. Συγκρίνετε ONLYOFFICE, Collabora, LibreOffice & SoftMaker για ασφάλεια και κυριαρχία δεδομένων.

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Our recent Sovereignty Roundtable highlighted the UK tech strategy failings and opportunities, including open source and collaboration, which the UK must grab now, to manage collaboration in a world focused on sovereignty, according to John Leonard of Computing.

Read here: https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/2026/uk-s-tech-strategy-failure-is-a-threat-to-democracy-experts

#sovereignty #digitalsovereignty #aisovereignty #datasovereignty #opensource #collaboration #middlenations #openuk #openhq

UK’s tech strategy failure is a threat to democracy, experts

The UK’s long-term failure to develop a coherent technology strategy is no longer just a business problem - increasingly it’s a democratic one.

Eine Beobachtung: Das Pendel schlägt zurück: Comeback eigener Rechenzentren 🔄
Nach dem Cloud-First-Mantra treiben KI und Regulatorik eine Architektur-Korrektur:
1. Kosten: On-Premise spart bei kontinuierlichen KI-Grundlasten oft über 50%.
2. Data Gravity: KI braucht GPU-Power direkt lokal, Cloud-Latenzen stören.
3. Regulatorik: EU AI Act, DORA und NIS2 erzwingen Datenhoheit.
Die Zukunft ist intentionale Hybrid-IT
#KI #ITInfrastruktur #DataSovereignty #HybridIT

Public Sector AI and the Decision a Citizen Can Challenge

When the state automates a decision about a citizen, the test is not accuracy but accountability: can the person challenge it, and does the record survive scrutiny. We look at why most public sector AI fails that test, and the substrate that resolves it.

https://mickai.co.uk/articles/public-sector-ai-and-the-decision-a-citizen-can-challenge

#SovereignAI #AI #PostQuantum #Pantheon #DataSovereignty

Public Sector AI and the Decision a Citizen Can Challenge

When the state automates a decision about a citizen, the test is not accuracy but accountability: can the person challenge it, and does the record survive scrutiny. We look at why most public sector AI fails that test, and the substrate that resolves it.