Did fucking micro fucking soft just update something that disables my phone camera unless location enabled????

Or was it the evil goo g? Or who?????

So fucking pissed right now.

Linux phone better work in my rural area.

#resist
#techSovereignty
#bigTech
#FuckBigTech

🇮🇳 India's UPI = World's best payment system.

✅ FREE for users
✅ ₹2 QR code (chaiwala can use)
✅ Works on Nokia keypad phones

Compare:
🇪🇺 SEPA = lengthy, slow
🇨🇳 Alipay = vendor needs scanner ($500+ machine)
🇺🇸 Visa = 2-3% commission

8 countries already use UPI.
France (first in Europe) accepted it.

Yet U.S. media calls India "dependent"?

Wake up, world.
Technology's future is India.

#UPI #DigitalIndia #TechSovereignty

This whole thread is such a joy to read, about migrating away from big tech and taking back control of a digital life. #TechSovereignty #TechEmpowerment
https://mastodon.green/@CiaraNi/115877848035381822
@CiaraNi - ’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.

#DanmarkSkifter

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116210085518302030

I totally get the frustration with "AI Slop" and the Big Tech slot machine vibe.

As an absolute AI Supporter, I still believe the antidote isn't #NoAI, but Sovereign AI.

We need to move away from pulling levers at the corporate casinos and towards independent, transparent tools like Thaura:AI.

AI should be a sharp tool for craftsmen, not a gamble for tokens.

#VibeCoding #SovereignAI #ThauraAI #TechSovereignty #SelfHosted #AI #OpenSource

"As nations across the Global South seek technological autonomy, they confront not just the immense capital requirements of advanced manufacturing — measured in billions of dollars for a single semiconductor fabrication facility — but the persistent hierarchies first established under colonialism and maintained through continuously evolving mechanisms of economic control after independence. India’s experience reveals that successfully navigating global technology markets demands more than capital or skilled labor. It requires fundamentally dif­ferent institutional arrangements and social relations than those that emerged from the postcolonial period — arrangements that have yet to be imagined, let alone implemented.

Yet the story need not end here. The moment of decolonization reminds us that other worlds were once possible — that technological development need not inevitably reproduce patterns of dependence. Any renewed struggle for technological sovereignty must begin by reclaiming the revolutionary promise of that first decolonial moment, while appreciating that genuine independence requires not just scientific expertise or state planning, but fundamental social and political transformation. Only by recognizing how the tragedy of failed decolonization gave way to the farce of contemporary technological nationalism can we begin to shape futures that break, at last, from this unrelenting cycle."

https://restofworld.org/2026/dwaipayan-banerjee-india-technology-book

#India #TechSovereignty #DigitalSovereignty #Decolonization #BigTech #Nationalism

Das Kapital ist größtenteils nicht europäisch.
Wer tatsächlich investiert:
Jeff Bezos (USA)
Eric Schmidt (USA)
Nvidia (USA)
Samsung (Korea)
Toyota (Japan)

Das Startup ist organisatorisch europäisch, aber finanziell global.
Der Fall zeigt ein strukturelles Problem Europas: starke KI-Forschung, aber schwache Kapital- und Skalierungsstrukturen.
Europäische Forschung + internationales Kapital. Kein europäisches KI-Ökosystem.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/World-model-instead-of-LLM-Yann-LeCun-s-startup-receives-890-million-euros-11206350.html
#EuropeanAI #TechSovereignty #digitalsouvereignty