Inside the German state trying to break free from Microsoft
Inside the German state trying to break free from Microsoft
Eurosky + Igalia - partnering for the future of the open social web (pdf)
> Eurosky and Igalia today announced a partnership to develop key infrastructure for the open social web, based on the AT Protocol. > > The collaboration brings together Eurosky’s vision of sovereign, public-interest social web infrastructure for Europe and Igalia’s long-standing expertise in open-source engineering and standards development. Together, the two organizations will work to strengthen the technical foundations of the AT Protocol ecosystem and ensure that Europe can contribute to shaping the next generation of social media. > > The goal of the partnership is to accelerate the development of independent, European-operated infrastructure for the social web, enabling developers, organizations, and communities to build new social applications on top of open protocols.
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What's the most important problem in the world that one can work on?
Cross-posting a 2023 Hacker News thread [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34294156]: Everyone has different perspectives and values, so what do you personally think is the most important problem in the world right now? Is it something that one, or a group of early enthusiasts, can work on? The original quote is from Aaron Swartz [http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/productivity]: > Life is short (or so I’m told) so why waste it doing something dumb? It’s easy to start working on something because it’s convenient, but you should always be questioning yourself about it. Is there something more important you can work on? Why don’t you do that instead? Such questions are hard to face up to (eventually, if you follow this rule, you’ll have to ask yourself why you’re not working on the most important problem in the world) but each little step makes you more productive.