Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give - Kenneth Reitz:
https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-03-18-open_source_gave_me_everything_until_i_had_nothing_left_to_give

via http://roytang.net/links/2026/#29089da0c4d4c9d37716aeafc6c2fb55

While Wikimedia content is free, the infrastructure that serves it is not.

Thanks to improvements in bot detection, more than *2 billion* requests per day get currently blocked, which would have otherwise caused further strain on the infrastructure.

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/03/26/quo-vadis-crawlers-progress-and-whats-next-on-safeguarding-our-infrastructure/

The UK’s reliance on US Big Tech is a national security issue ⚠️

But the UK is giving the controversial spyware company Palantir more contracts and more access to our data.

We're increasingly vulnerable to companies that lock us in to proprietary systems, creating dependency not independence.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/22/palantir-extends-reach-into-british-state-as-it-gets-access-to-sensitive-fca-data

#DigitalSovereignty #palantir #bigtech #security #ukpolitics #ukpol