Mastodawn

Practical #digitalsovereignity in #Europe::
- Governments in France, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium have started rolling out in-house messaging services for officials to exchange sensitive information, in an effort to stop staff from using US-controlled apps and switch to local alternatives they can control.
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-civil-servants-new-messaging-services/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp

Governments want to move away from “platforms over which we have no control,” says Dutch minister.

POLITICO

Jörg Erdmenger Apr 8

New blog post "Degoogling"

https://www.irrlvnt.de/blog/degoogling/

#diday #google #digitalsovereignity

Degoogling

Irrlvnt.de - Nachrichten an mein zukünftiges Ich

Tim Schlotfeldt ⚓🏳️‍🌈Apr 6

@Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 is right. Everyone knows full well that this isn't digital sovereignty. Yet organizations still go down this path because it so conveniently shifts all real responsibility onto others.

#^Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 (@[email protected])
I've said it before an I'll say it again: This entire project of identity verification with Apple/Google-account bound mobile devices is going to lead the continent down a dark, dark path into full technological submission to the US

#EUDI #digitalsovereignity

The Hubzilla @ tschlotfeldt.de

Axel Knauf Apr 5

Right in time for today's Digital Independence Day I am celebrating my one-year-anniversary of self-hosting this @gotosocial instance and fediverse account.

https://fedi.4x31.dev/@id/statuses/01JR3RS5MGBABWRKH9DV17F8QH

Small resource footprint, easy to self-host and with a cute sloth as mascot + in combination with an awesome web client, @phanpy => an unbeatable duo:

Getting started with GoToSocial:
https://docs.gotosocial.org/

Phanpy official instance and docs:
https://phanpy.social/
https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy?tab=readme-ov-file#phanpy

A big thank you to the creators, maintainers and fediverse community <3 Happy DiDay everyone!

#DiDay #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #DigitalSovereignity #FediVerse

Axel Knauf (@[email protected])

After a little bit of reading up on the docs I've now set up my personal #fediverse instance using #GoToSocial - smooth sailing so far, esp. with the provided compose file for use with podman: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/getting_started/installation/ I am using a #Caddy reverse proxy in front for SSL termination, since it does all the LetsEncrypt ACME stuff out of the box and the virtual host config is literally three lines long: https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/patterns#reverse-proxy This also includes WebSockets without additional parameters, so live updates from clients will work nicely. Speaking of clients, I now settled with panphy.social. A modern web-based UI, highly configurable, and the #vim-like key bindings are lovely <3 #selfhosting

fedi.4x31.dev

everton137 Apr 5

Kennst du eine deutsche Digitalbank, deren App wir nutzen können, ohne auf Google Play angewiesen zu sein? Welche?

#Google #DigitalSovereignity #Deutschland #Bank #Android

Sebastian "spaetz" Spaeth Apr 1

Oh what a week in office land: not only #OnlyOffice vs. #EuroOffice (don't get me started on this one).

But also #collabora, main contributor to #LibreOffice, is kicked out of #TheDocumentFoundation, which leads them focusing on #CollaboraOffice. Not an April fool's joke although it sounds exactly like (a bad) one.

See Michael Meeks' post on this: https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-ejects-its-core-developers/

Not exactly optimal, where we have a great window of opportunity to push further for #Digitalsovereignity

Joint Lab Bioelectronics Mar 30

RE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanphysicalsociety/116318825029249851

The recent newsletter of the #EPS encompasses the article
"The European Physical Society and the German Physical Society are on #Mastodon!"

👉 https://eps.org/the-european-physical-society-and-the-german-physical-society-are-on-mastodon/

Hey, that's great! 💫

#SciComm #Europe #digitalsovereignity #socialmedia #science #research #physics #fediverse #DPG #Physik

Klaudia (aka jinxx)Mar 26

Headline in my TL: Google is making it easier to import another AI’s memory into Gemini

My head: Of course they are. 🤷‍♀️ #Google is an advertisement company making billions off every bit of data they can possibly get from each and every one of us. Their #Gemini #AI is Old-Google on steroids.

Context: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/902085/google-gemini-import-memory-chat-history – I wouldn't recommend doing that. #TeamDatenschutz #DataPrivacy #DigitalSovereignity

Google is making it easier to import another AI’s memory into Gemini

Gemini’s new memory importing tools could help attract new users by making it easier to copy their preferences and history from other chatbots with a few prompts.

The Verge

Maximilien Danton Mar 21

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@kdkorte/116269760209668988

Microsoft says it's highly unlikely that US technology companies would turn off the services of European countries or politicians. Well, if you asked 2 years ago whether ICC officials would have had their MS subscriptions suspended, would they have said that it is a risk?

Of course not. #digitalsovereignity is the only reasonable course of action.

Fediway Mar 21

RE: https://fediway.com/@honeywinter/116266645464096630

It was a blast, super inspiring, many learnings and great people. Stay tuned! #fediverse #socials #digitalsovereignity #publicSpaces