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Sovereignty Is Engineered, Not Procured

Europe often asks whether it can build a company like Palantir: a software champion capable of serving intelligence, defence, law enforcement, crisis response, cyber defence, and public-sector decision-making at scale.

The usual answer is that Europe lacks data, capital, talent, or legal room. I do not think this is the full story.

The capacity is there. The data is there. The technical talent is there. The public-sector problems are real, urgent, and interesting. What is often missing is the will to tackle complex programmes seriously, over time, with teams that are allowed to build, fail, iterate, and take responsibility.

Europe does not need a Palantir clone. It needs the capacity to build strategic software for intelligence and security missions without outsourcing the core of its thinking.

#opensource #intelligence #cybersecurity #palantir #europe #sovereignty #intelligence

🔗 My full blog post about the topic https://foo.be/2026/06/Sovereignty-Is-Engineered-Not-Procured

Sovereignty Is Engineered, Not Procured

Personal webpage of Alexandre Dulaunoy - from information security to open source and art

Alexandre Dulaunoy - adulau - Home Page

Conny Nasch 7h ago

Nick @ The Linux Experiment 8h ago

TIme for this week's #Linux and #OpenSource news video!

As a heads-up, I'll be on vacation next week, so no News video next Saturday, although I'll be back wit the regular schedule the week after that :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ2Pb0YNeqE

Linux News - EU ditches Google Search, Brave's Paid browser, Ubuntu makes big moves

YouTube

Conny Nasch 7h ago

Dota Kehr 7h ago

Kleiner Gruß aus dem Backstage. Lange nicht gespielt - aber "Geld verdirbt den Charakter" bleibt wohl aktuell und enthält alle Reimworte auf Charakter. Oder fallen euch noch welche ein?

06.06. Leipzig

11.6. Bayreuth

12.6. Konstanz

13.6. Heilbronn

14.6. Saarburg

22.6. Nürnberg

2.7. Erfurt

3.+4.7. Banz

5.7. Rudolstadt

8.7. Berlin

15.7. Weimar

16.7. Freiburg

17.7. Bad Endorf

18.7. Sittersdorf

19.7. Aichach

21.8. Walkenried

2.9. Frankfurt

3.9. Bochum

4.9. Berlin

5.9. Dresden

Conny Nasch 7h ago

Eugen Rochko 9h ago

A new episode in my series of tutorials on how to use #Mastodon! This time, going over every profile customization feature, from the basics, to custom fields, to verification, and more. Have you learned something you didn't know before from this video? Then please let me know!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b_F1INtMFY

Mastodon - How to Customize Your Profile - Every Feature

YouTube

Conny Nasch 7h ago

Tjeerd Royaards 10h ago

For World Environment Day, Cartooning for Peace, Européens Sans Frontières and Greentervention used one of my cartoons to create a short animation as part of a campaign to raise environmental awareness: https://www.cartooningforpeace.org/en/evenements/caricartoons-journee-mondiale-de-lenvironnement/

Conny Nasch 7h ago

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bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵7h ago

@nixCraft seconded, very worried about wikipedia. for me that's the most important site on the internet

Conny Nasch 8h ago

Erik Jonker 9h ago

So when your investing in index funds (except S&P 500), you can't avoid SpaceX stock and the AI financial bubble it seems. It looks like they want to make the SpaceX stock too big and important to fail. We will see if it is enough when the inevitable financial bubble of AI will pop.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/technology/spacex-indexes-401k.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oFA.EgSR.W-BscOT8hD0r&smid=nytcore-android-share
#spaceX #ipo #indexfunds #ai #stockmarket #economy

Why the SpaceX IPO Will Affect Your 401(k), Like It or Not

Elon Musk’s rocket company, on the cusp of the largest initial public offering ever, will soon end up in index funds after rule changes by Nasdaq and other index providers.

The New York Times

Conny Nasch 8h ago

evacide 16h ago

Every time someone sends me a screenshot of some genius indicating that I have personally destroyed EFF by being a blue-haired Jewish lesbian, I grow more powerful.

Conny Nasch 8h ago