While not as ubiquitous as the two big ones, there *are* #FPGA vendors that embrace #FOSS toolchains. So, given #AMD's license blunder with #vivado free version not available for #Linux anymore, I'll push for companies like #CologneChip wherever I can (which is also #digitalsoveignty for those who care): https://colognechip.com/
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Nextcloud    Enterprise Day in full swing. 🚀

#Nextcloud #NextcloudEnterpriseDay #digitalSoveignty

My proposed #HOPE talk builds upon and follows from last year's #PirateBox talk, where I want to teach people about rewilding the web, gaining digital sovereignty, and running their own servers and services.

I want to also touch upon BBSes, IRC, Usenet, Matrix, @VeilidNetwork, and more.

Part educational, part hacker punk energy. It's how I roll.

Let's fucking hack the planet.   

#HackThePlanet #digitalsoveignty

Can somebody please explain to me why there is a fundraising campaign ongoing for #zbmed when #OpenAlex is already up an running ?
https://openalex.org/
https://www.zbmed.de

Are we again spreading money in Europe over multiple solutions ?
Or is there a fundamental difference between these two publication databases ?
#digitalsoveignty
#AcademicChatter

OpenAlex

What I’m missing in the current discussion about #European #DigitalSoveignty is the fact that lacking #monopoly / #cartel enforcement is one of the big reasons that we’re in this situation now.

Without the #AWS-#MS-#Google #olygopoly I bet there were European #hyperscaler|s already on the market. In the current situation, going there is just not seen as good business.

A previously unpublished expert opinion, on behalf of the 🇩🇪Federal Ministry of the Interior, has now become publicly accessible as part of a Freedom of Information Act (IFG) request. It concludes that US authorities have far-reaching access to data even when it is stored in European data centers.

#dataautonomy #DigitalAutonomy #digitalsoveignty

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Opinion-US-Authorities-Have-Far-Reaching-Access-to-European-Cloud-Data-11111060.html

Opinion: US Authorities Have Far-Reaching Access to European Cloud Data

An analysis for the Ministry of the Interior highlights the reach of US laws. According to it, data stored in the EU is also not secure.

heise online
@fox Der Faktor Mensch wird sich wohl kaum aus der Rechnung nehmen lassen. Layer-8-Problem 🧑🏼‍💻. Dann ist das Beste, was man machen kann, ein gutes System zu nutzen und im Sinne der #digitalsoveignty einen großen Bogen um alles zu machen, was vom anderen Ende des großen Teichs 🇺🇸🦅 kommt und wo man keine Kontrolle hat. #opensource #foss

My remarks on the #datacenter #energyconsumption and the #hyperscaler way of deepening our dependencies on them. #AI is part of the problem, but also #nuclearenergy and lacking effort for #digitalsoveignty

https://thomasfricke.de/post/hyperscaler-skien/

The upcoming data centres

Blog, Trainings and Thoughts about Kubernetes, Cloud, Security, AI, Energy Consumption of Data Centers, Social Aspects of IT

Thomas Fricke

#WHY2025: Towards digital sovereignty with cloud federation: how to break the dominance of the hyperscalers

https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/KVXYMB/

The objective and scope of the ECOFED project are to develop a technical framework for a more open and integrated cloud usage model. This framework will enable multiple clouds from various providers to function as a single, cohesive system, offering a European alternative to hyperscaler clouds...

#digitalsoveignty @why2025camp #cloud #kubernetes
@SCS

Towards digital sovereignty with cloud federation: how to break the dominance of the hyperscalers WHY2025

A team of Dutch scientist and cloud engineers is working on Ecofed: European Cloud Services in an Open Federated Ecosystem. The objective and scope of the ECOFED project are to develop a technical framework for a more open and integrated cloud usage model. This framework will enable multiple clouds from various providers to function as a single, cohesive system, offering a European alternative to hyperscaler clouds. In this open cloud ecosystem, users can easily switch between different clouds.

I still want your pacemaker being an #edgedevice of my #cloud. But I want it Open Source.

The link to the slides is in a #digitalsoveignty Google drive

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1id4ykSvqTiB9i_azSZiK9mBMVUs1npcK

#foss

NeoNephos Community Meeting June 11.pdf

Google Docs