Andrés™

@andrestm
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La señora que dirigía la oficina de lobby de #Meta en Bruselas entre 2020 y 2023 ahora es eurodiputada, y ha sido elegida para redactar la posición del Parlamento Europeo sobre las reformas en regulación digital. ¿Qué puede salir mal? Para las big tech, desde luego, nada. https://www.brusselstimes.com/1992574/ex-meta-lobbyist-put-in-charge-of-eus-digital-rules-tech-oligarchy-writing-its-own-rulebook
Ex-Meta lobbyist put in charge of EU's digital rules: 'Tech oligarchy writing its own rulebook'

Pressure is growing to drop the appointment of a former Meta lobbyist, elected as an MEP in 2024, from a file which could rewrite the EU's regulation of US tech giants.

⚽️ LaLiga y 🟦 Telefónica cortan el acceso a las 🔒 VPNs Proton y Nord VPN durante los partidos gracias a una nueva 👨‍⚖️ resolución judicial

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https://bandaancha.eu/articulos/laliga-telefonica-escalan-bloqueos-11668

LaLiga y Telefónica cortan el acceso a las VPNs Proton y Nord VPN durante los partidos gracias a una nueva resolución judicial

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Schleswig-Holstein is a state in Germany which dumped Microsoft products and saved 15 million euros of taxpayer's money in license costs (Windows and MS-Office) by migrating to open source products. Why can't other states and countries adopt FLOSS and save tax payers money? What could be the key issues they face?

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Goodbye-Microsoft-Schleswig-Holstein-relies-on-Open-Source-and-saves-millions-11105459.html

Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein relies on Open Source and saves millions

Schleswig-Holstein saves 15 million euros in license costs by migrating from Microsoft to free software. The conversion is significantly cheaper.

heise online

Every Sora AI vid. burns 1 kW hour & emits 466 grams of carbon. The Sora 2 platform alone emits nearly a quarter of the carbon of all Meta/Facebook.

👉🏻 https://reclaimedsystems.substack.com/p/every-sora-ai-video-burns-1-kilowatt

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Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #Mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I intend to stay on and continue to advise the new leadership and contribute, because Mastodon—and the fediverse—is one of the very few beacons of hope for a better web.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/

My next chapter with Mastodon

Reflections on my time leading Mastodon and what's to come next.

Mastodon Blog

Imagine being one of the most valuable companies on earth, making billions thanks to open-source software like #ffmpeg, without contributing financially to it, without contributing to its codebase, and even expecting those unpaid volunteers to fix bugs for you in a timely fashion as if they were your own employees.

Imagine contributing to a huge piece of software like ffmpeg that works behind the scenes on literally any device that can either play, record or transform media, a project that has become a critical piece of our digital infrastructure, and doing so unpaid, uncredited and stressed out by companies that make billions thanks to your work.

This is the current state of open-source today.

A bunch of burned out, unpaid and uncredited volunteers building free stuff in their spare time that trillion-dollar freeriders feel entitled to use without contributing back.

ffmpeg developers are right. Either #Google contributes back, or they won’t even look at their bugs anymore.

And, in an ideal world where free software licenses weren’t written by good Samaritans, either trillion-dollar companies contribute back, or they shouldn’t be allowed to use free software for profit.

20 years ago I used to have discussions with fellow engineers whether open-source would have won over commercial software.

Now I can firmly say that open-source won. There’s no doubt about it. Linux, Apache products, Python, ffmpeg, curl etc. power all of today’s technological stack. But it’s not the win that I expected. It’s the kind of win that happened because corporations realized that open-source is just a way for them to cut on internal engineering costs.

https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-sending-bugs/

FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs

A lively discussion about open source, security, and who pays the bills has erupted on Twitter. 

The New Stack

Una vegada més, ginys usats i provats a Palestina, son desplegats per a la repressió domèstica:

Els drons impulsats per IA usats a Palestina ara sobrevolen ciutats americanes, espiant protestes i pujant automàticament les imatges a bases de dades policials.

https://thegrayzone.com/2025/11/02/drones-gaza-spying-us-cities/

AI drones used in Gaza now surveilling American cities - The Grayzone

News and investigative journalism on empire

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