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Office.eu launches as 100% European-owned alternative to Microsoft 365/Google Workspace, built on Nextcloud/Collabora with EU-only data centers. 🧩

Aims for digital sovereignty amid Big Tech data scandals and US CLOUD Act risks, offering docs, email, calendars, and video on open-source stack. 🛡️

🔗 https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/office-eu-and-the-want-for-a-digitally-sovereign-europe

#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Security #Government #Europe #EU #IT #Microsoft #Office #Tech #Cloud #FOSS #Linux #OfficeEU #DigitalSovereignty #Nextcloud #US #Google #BigTech

Office.eu and the hope for a digitally sovereign Europe

A new productivity platform called Office.eu promises to enable organisations to regain control over their data and digital operations.

Silicon Republic

Dan Bocain Mar 10

It's crazy to think that your WORST customer, co-worker, vendor, or employee is somehow a better person than the President of the United States.

Dan Bocain Mar 6

Matthias Pfefferle Mar 6

@benpate WordPress now supports incoming and outgoing Activity Intents: https://activitypub.blog/2026/03/05/8-0-0-smash-that-like-button/

Dan Bocain Mar 5

evacide Mar 5

Do you work in fundraising? Do you want a job that isn't evil? Signal is hiring a director of major gifts: https://jobs.lever.co/signal/68f75269-fe43-4d25-8d82-69439351f14d

Signal Messenger - Director of Major Gifts

We are seeking a Director of Major Gifts to join our Development team as a high-impact individual contributor. In this role, you will be the primary engine for high-net-worth and charitable institutional engagement, ensuring that Signal has the resources necessary to sustain and scale our technology. This is not a role for a backend administrator; it is a role for a builder and a closer. You will own the full lifecycle of major giving—from identifying prospects to closing six-and-seven-figure commitments. Reporting into the President, you will work directly with Signal leadership to translate complex technical challenges into compelling philanthropic narratives.

Dan Bocain Mar 1

dansup Mar 1

We're building an ethical alternative to commercial short-video sharing platforms.

As an open-source project, we believe in radical transparency and true community governance.

Share this, and help spread awareness ❤️

https://joinloops.org/why-loops-matters

Why Loops Matters.

In a world where platforms rise and fall at the whim of governments and boardrooms, we're building something that can't be shut down, sold off, or taken away.

Dan Bocain Feb 28

Julian Oliver Feb 27

Every server deployment on Amazon's AWS, Google's GCP and MS Azure feeds the beast.

Not only do they reinforce pathways of centralisation in the topological sense, but they also invest in US supremacy geopolitically. That supremacy now openly includes a theocratic & racist, war-mongering & imperialist movement.

Every server you spin up at home or on a smaller DC, like every abandoned Google, Twitter or FB account, slows the beast down.

The 3D's:

Depopulate. Defund. Disempower.

#bigtech

Dan Bocain Feb 26

Nicol Wistreich Feb 25

How many people know that #WordPress was co-founded by a black man, Mike Little?

Or that he's from the north of England? A self-taught coder from #Stockport, just south of #Manchester? Or that he never received so much as a share, cent or job offer from the $7bn+ valued Automattic after spending five months working exclusively with Matt Mullenweg on the B2 fork?

After @bevangelist told me about @mikelittle I interviewed him for a documentary I never got round to making. Back then I was left with two certainties: he's Wozniak to Mullenweg's Jobs. Among other things he added the one-click upgrade that's been central to WP's bonkers 45%-of-the-web-success. And he's one of the nicest people I've ever interviewed, which is also bonkers given that he not only didn't share in WP's financial success, but that he's barely known.

But he should be - so, better late than never - please meet #MikeLittle, perhaps the most-influential-least-known person in #foss… https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/mike-little-the-british-co-founder-of-wordpress-youve-probably-never-heard-of/

Dan Bocain Feb 22

ploum Feb 22

Like @cstross , I’ve only been realizing very late that extremely rich people are necessarily crazy.

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/02/more-in-sadness-than-in-anger.html

It’s logical: non-crazy people will, at some point, hit the "more money than enough even for my craziest fullfilling dreams".

People who are still destroying their social/ecological environment for more money above that level are, obviously, crazy. And dangerous.

Dan Bocain Feb 22

beSpacific Feb 21

Under new order from Sec Burgum #Trump admin announced it will to sell off #publiclands the size of #Yellowstone #NationalPark in #Alaska. 2.1 million #acres of wild country between Gates of #Arctic National Park and the Arctic National #Wildlife #Refuge. #Caribou, #grizzlies, #wolves, Dall #sheep, #muskox, #moose, #wolverines. #Rivers full of #salmon and #Arctic grayling. Over 200 species of migratory #birds that fly from six continents to breed there every summer. https://substack.com/home/post/p-188716560

Interior to Sell Off Millions of Acres of Public Lands in Alaska

The Trump Administration has begun the great public lands sell off in earnest.

More Than Just Parks

Dan Bocain Feb 5

Every big company in 2026...

#FuckAI

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