Audrey Tang (@au / @audreyt.org ) will be giving a talk on Friday 22 May organised with our local #FOSS / #FLOSS group, from 15:30 to 16:30 UK time, in #Oxford and online. You're welcome to join!

https://ox.ogeer.org/event/good-enough-ancestor-software-freedom-as-civic-care-across-generations-audrey-tang-2025-right-livelihood-laureate-and-taiwans-cyber-ambassador

The topic is "Good Enough Ancestor: Software Freedom as Civic Care across Generations". It will connect the software freedom movement to Audrey's and Caroline Green's framework for local, community-governed, more caring AI systems rather than reliance on centralised systems. Tang and Green work in the local University of Oxford Institute for AI Ethics. Tang is also first Digital Minister of Taiwan, and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate. Before ministership and research, Tang was a prolific FLOSS programmer, and since has for example helped persuade Pol.is to adopt the AGPL license.

#AI #anarchism #decentralization #federation #democracy #event #events #FreeSoftware #GoodEnoughAncestor #OpenSource #Plurality #SoftwareFreedom 

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Au BLACK MARKET 59 Rue Berbisey 21000 Dijon Samedi 30 Mai 2026 – 15H00

Rencontre et Discussion
avec Pierre BANCE

autour de son livre : LA GRANDE FEDERATION Démocratie directe et vie fédérale

Pierre Bance est l'auteur aux Editions Noir et Rouge d'Un autre futur pour le Kurdistan?
Municipalisme libertaire et confédéralisme démocratique (2017) et de la Fascinante Démocratie du Rojava. Le Contrat social de la fédération de la Syrie du Nord (2020).

Pierre Bance vient présenter son ouvrage :
La Grande Fédération :
Démocratie directe et vie fédérale est l'idée selon laquelle le monde nouveau se prépare collectivement bien avant la révolution.

Cette pensée conduit l'auteur à amorcer et encourager une réflexion sur les institutions et les droits fondamentaux d'une grande fédération de communes autonomes, auto-administrées et autogérées.

L'ouvrage est composé de quatre idées :

- Croire que l'État peut ne pas être dominateur est comme croire que le Capital peut ne pas être profiteur.
- Sans un mouvement pour la démocratie
directe, la commune et le fédéralisme, un autre futur est impossible.
- Faute d'avoir pensé les institutions de la
société à venir, la révolution communaliste est vouée à l'échec.
- Faute d'avoir dessiné les droits et libertés de la société à venir, la révolution émancipatrice est vouée à l'échec.

Aperçus de l'histoire passée et présente de la démocratie directe :

- La fulgurance de la Commune de Paris.
- La tragédie de la Révolution Russe.
- L'Espagne Libertaire trahie par les siens.
- La résistance d'un Chiapas émancipé.
- L'Auto-administration du Rojava et ses revers.

Rien n'est tranché !

Tout est à discuter !

Ce livre n'expose pas une doctrine !

Il propose seulement une feuille de route pour une utopie concrète !

Cette discussion est proposée par Les causeries de Louise

#Dijon #Fédéralisme #Fédération #DemocratieDirecte #Anarchisme

#XMPP Community

Join the XMPP #Berlin #Sprint from 19th to 21st of June 2026.
Work side by side with developers from the XMPP community!

More information and registration here: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Sprints/2026-06_Berlin

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc #opensource #federation #messaging #Germany #development

@[email protected] While I don't believe that 'Gitlab is about to go to shit' it'll certainly change and adapt to the times.
The pure bets and observations stated in the letter are probably justified for the 10-year period given. We'll see about what happens thereafter. And we'll see about the funky side-effects within the 10-year period.

In other news: Have I already recommended @forgejo on that matter? It scales from thin-client to @Codeberg, is probably still very organically grown, awesomely self-hostable without the epic ruby-battle that is #Gitlab and generally awesome for very many use cases.

Also (not sure about the current state of the efforts there): The only SW forge that can do federation with others. Or at least was forked and built with this as a core idea.

#forgejo #federation #selfhosting #selfhosted #ruby

#XMPP Community

The #Chat of the Future Initiative ends its first cycle today 7:00 pm CEST!

We discuss final tweaks and how to publish the collaborative results best.
https://xmpp.org/2026/01/chat-of-the-future-initiative/

#jabber #rtc #messaging #federation #collaboration #interoperability

I just opened a post on a different server to the one I'm on - not through this page, but the site of the other server.

Without thinking about it, I clicked the boost button on a post I liked...and it boosted!

I wasn't logged in on the other server, not least because I don't have an account there. There was a button inviting me to login or set up an account, so definitely browsing as a visitor.

Is this #Federation in action? Did it pick up my cookie and boost it from my account? Because if so, that's pretty bloody neat.

Agi: Inchiesta arbitri, il primo teste della Figc. Sentito l'avvocato Viglione

AGI - L'inchiesta sul calcio fa un 'salto' e arriva alla Figc con l'ascolto del responsabile legislativo della Federazione, l'avvocato Giancarlo Viglione, già 'braccio destro' dell'ex presidente Gabriele Gravina. Nel corso della testimonianza durata due ore e mezza, Viglione, rispondendo alle domande del pm Maurizio Ascione, ha spiegato anche come e perché maturò la decisione di inviare gli ispettori della FIGC a Lissone dopo la denuncia, firmata da Domenico Rocca e poi archiviata, sulle presunte 'bussate' di Gianluca Rocchi. Da quel momento, nessun 'organo tecnico', compreso il designatore autosospeso, si recò più nel centro dove si dirimono i casi dubbi di gioco.
Viglione è stato convocato anche per ricostruire la "cornice istituzionale" data la sua competenza ed esperienza considerando che l'AIA è 'interna' alla Figc. Il tema del Var e quello delle designazioni arbitrali, cuore dell'inchiesta che vede cinque indagati per frode sportiva, sono stati al centro della testimonianza così come sono gli argomenti dei capi d'imputazione al momento invariati.
Collaborazione con i magistrati
Fonti giudiziarie parlano di "una buona collaborazione" da parte di Viglione le cui dichiarazioni avrebbero fatto fare "un passo avanti" dal punto di vista della comprensione delle norme sportive che sono particolarmente complesse così come la giustizia sportiva non ha nulla a che vedere coi meccanismi di quella ordinaria.
Nel lungo colloquio si sono fatti riferimenti anche a delle intercettazioni che non è chiaro se abbiano visto anche Viglione come interlocutore.
Le parole di Viglione dopo l'audizione
Avvicinato dai cronisti dopo l'audizione con corridoio della stanza del pm presidiato dai carabinieri, Viglione ha confermato che uno dei temi trattati è stato quello dell'invio degli ispettori. "Sono venuto a fare un convegno, abbiamo parlato delle norme che regolano la Sala Var" ha detto Viglione riferendosi al puntiglioso approfondimento tecnico sulle norme e i temi che ha definito "di settore". Domattina è previsto l'ascolto di un altro testimone.

Arbiters investigation, the first subject of the FIGC. Heard the lawyer Viglione.

AGI - The investigation into Italian football has taken a “leap” and arrived at the FIGC (Italian Football Federation) with the testimony of the Federation’s legislative head, lawyer Giancarlo Viglione, formerly the “right-hand man” of former president Gabriele Gravina. During the two and a half hour testimony, Viglione, answering questions from prosecutor Maurizio Ascione, also explained how and why he made the decision to send FIGC inspectors to Lissone after the complaint, signed by Domenico Rocca and subsequently archived, regarding alleged “approaches” by Gianluca Rocchi. From that point on, “no technical body,” including the self-suspended referee designer, visited the center where doubtful cases of play are resolved.

Viglione was also summoned to reconstruct the “institutional framework” considering his expertise and experience, given that the AIA (Italian Football Association) is “internal” to the FIGC. The VAR (Video Assistant Referee) and referee appointment theme, at the heart of the investigation involving five suspects for sporting fraud, was central to the testimony, as are the arguments of the charges, currently unchanged.

Collaboration with magistrates

Judicial sources speak of “a good collaboration” by Viglione, whose statements have made “a step forward” in terms of understanding sporting rules, which are particularly complex, and that the sports justice system has nothing to do with the mechanisms of the ordinary justice system.

References were also made during the lengthy interview to intercepted communications that it is unclear whether Viglione was also involved as a point of contact.

Viglione’s words after the hearing

Approached by journalists after the hearing in the prosecutor’s corridor, guarded by Carabinieri, Viglione confirmed that one of the topics discussed was the sending of the inspectors. “I came to attend a conference, we talked about the rules governing the VAR Room” Viglione said, referring to the meticulous technical examination of the rules and topics he described as “specialized.” Another witness is scheduled to be heard tomorrow.

#first #Italian #Federation #GiancarloViglione #GabrieleGravina #Viglione #MaurizioAscione #Lissone #DomenicoRocca #GianlucaRocchi #Carabinieri #theVARRoom”Viglione

https://www.agi.it/cronaca/news/2026-05-11/inchiesta-arbitri-figc-37006890/

marzuq märzenbecher (@[email protected])

@[email protected] gerne <3 bei gnusocial gab es auch !gruppen, die ich bei #mastodon vermisse [beispielsweise https://status.pirati.ca/groups]. und Du kannst auch leuten von anderen netzwerken folgen - z.b. bei https://status.pirati.ca/directory/users ausprobieren. die #federation wird imho massiv unterschätzt.

Mastodon
Menemukan kenyamanan dalam ekosistem yang terdesentralisasi. Di sini, diskusi terasa lebih manusiawi dan substansial. Hari ini saya belajar bahwa teknologi seharusnya melayani manusia, bukan malah membuat kita menjadi produknya. Mari kita dukung internet yang lebih sehat, terbuka, dan inklusif bagi semua orang. 🐘 #OpenSource #Federation #TechEthics
I've been testing this GoToSocial instance for a week now, and I love it. Federation works a hundred times better here than it does on Sharkey. The only thing that bothers me a bit unfortunately is that it's a little too minimalistic and doesn't provide a web client. I do miss that a bit and it can be super simple for all I care. Snac2 does that for example and it’s pretty much the only feature I miss a bit. This forces clients to be well-built and not hit the rate limit every time. Unfortunately, some clients do that when it comes to custom emojis, because a lot of clients just want to load all the emojis at once. Aside from that I’m very happy with gts. #gotosocial #snac #snac2 #webclient #client #federation #sharkey