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Afgelopen donderdag vond het verkiezingsdebat bij Waag Futurelab plaats, met partijen als GroenLinks, D66 en VVD aan het woord. Wat kunnen we doen tegen de oprukkende datacenters? Hoe zorgen we ervoor dat de lokale economie sterker uit de digitale transformatie komt? En hoe dichten we de digitale kloof tussen verschillende groepen in de samenleving?
Benieuwd naar de standpunten van de politieke partijen? Kijk het debat nu terug ⤵️
https://tube.waag.org/w/ncXFH3G9NxEgNH9YpQWJDG
❓Have you noticed that digital products and services are getting worse? So have we!
➡️We have published a report about enshittification, on how and why digital products and services keep getting worse - and how we can turn the trend (hint: open tech, enforcement, public policy++)
Obviously @pluralistic is a big inspiration and help in this work.
More than 80 groups in Europe and the US has joined in a call to action.
More here: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree
Enjoy this short film!
Wat een goede en slimme actie van de gemeente Groningen!
Linux-overstapmiddagen op 19 en 26 maart en 23 april:
https://groningenafvalvrij.nl/agenda/overstappen-van-windows-10-naar-linux/
This whole "OpenClaw" thing has made me very angry and I wrote a bit about the why. It's not that "it's AI": It is the way that kind of project invalidates decades of work and care in free software. "AI" software isn't just careless, it is actively rejecting responsibility and care.

One of the features of “AI” is the diffusion of responsibility: “AI” systems are being put in all kinds of processes and when they fuck up (and they always fuck up) it was just the “AI”, or “someone should have checked things”. “AI” companies want to sell machines to solve every issue but give no […]
A big thank you to the @libreoffice community for enabling companies, public administrations, nonprofits and individuals to run a office suite that grants them the rights to use, study, share, and improve it. ❤️
How would we be able to open and edit all those proprietary doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx files without you?
Despite all the challenges ahead, please keep up focusing on your mission for #softwarefreedom 🫶 #ilovefs