Borjan Tchakaloff

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Borjan TchakaloffJun 11, 2025
Autonomic Co-opJun 11, 2025

We're thrilled to announce our new project:
https://docs.coop/

Building on the great work of Suite Numerique (https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/home/), we are offering an opportunity to be part of a new collaborative Docs platform as a service, that provides an ethical alternative to Google Docs, Office 365, Notion etc.

Docs is the result of a joint effort lead by the French đŸ„– (DINUM) and German đŸ„š (ZenDiS) governments which represents a paradigm shift in the way open source software is funded.

#workercoops #coops #FLOSS #privacy

Borjan TchakaloffMay 23, 2025
Carlton Gibson đŸ‡ȘđŸ‡șMay 23, 2025

"Obviously there are a lot of things going on in this example, and every one of them is terrible"

Just started watching Cory Doctorow's keynote from PyCon US. My word, it starts hard.

Gonna pause and come back when I have a proper moment.

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

Keynote Speaker - Cory Doctorow

YouTube
Borjan TchakaloffMar 28, 2025
Michael Downey 🧱Mar 11, 2025

  Announcing the first 15 endorsers of the United Nations #OpenSource Principles" – 8 practical ways for groups around the world to promote global digital cooperation through free and open source software.

✍ Like software freedom itself, these principles are for everyone, everywhere - and the orgs you support can join a list of endorsers today.

 #boostsAppreciated - spread the word!

https://unite.un.org/news/fifteen-organizations-endorse-un-open-source-principles

#FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS #UN #UnitedNations

Sixteen Organizations Endorse the UN Open Source Principles | Office of Information and Communications Technology

The United Nations Open Source community is proud to announce that 16 leading organizations have the UN Open Source Principles, following the initial endorsement by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), bringing the total to 17.

Borjan TchakaloffJan 21, 2025
Aral BalkanJan 21, 2025

Nah, don’t worry, it’ll be ok. They’ve been sponsored by Google for years. Even Facebook at one point.

It’s open source
 it’s about the source being open. It’s open as in “open for business”.

The “F” in FOSDEM is silent.

It’ll be fine


https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM25 #JackDorsey #billionaires #trillionDollarCorporations #institutionalCorruption #openSource #openForBusiness #BigTech #PR #Google #Facebook https://mastodon.cloud/@mfeilner/113859797648383354

I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them (so say we all)

It’s always difficult admitting you’re wrong. But sometimes, it’s exactly what you have to do in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. So, today, I admit that I was wrong about Google, Facebook, and surveillance capitalism in general being toxic for our human rights and democracy. You see, it simply cannot be true given how they are endorsed by some of the most well-respected groups and organisations in the world.

Aral Balkan
Borjan TchakaloffJan 20, 2025
Gabriel PettierJan 20, 2025

Surcoté:
- la motivation
- la discipline

Sous coté:
- Ă©crire son objectif global
- écrire la plus petite action immédiate à accomplir en direction de cet objectif.

Borjan TchakaloffJan 16, 2025
Dr. SobekJan 16, 2025

#fosdem https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html

Seriously, let a blockchain company have the keynote at FOSDEM ??

No billionaires at FOSDEM

Borjan TchakaloffJan 4, 2025
TreyJan 3, 2025

Is there enough substance in this question to submit a talk proposal to DjangoCon Europe?

https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-as-the-foundation-for-a-local-first-project/37463

#Django

Django as the foundation for a local-first project

After hearing the breathless excitement in this review of the successor to Replicache called Zero, I’m almost ready to throw away all my sensibility and build a full-stack JS app. But there are so many little things that Django does miles better than any option in the JS world. Especially the ORM. Nothing else comes close! Over the years, I have dug my heels in about SPAs and JS-heavy development in general. So much so that my comfort zone is monolithic Django. Learning about all this “full-st...

Django Forum
Borjan TchakaloffJan 4, 2025
Chad Dec 28, 2024

It's been two and a half years that mstdn.ca has been a thing.

If you see this, please reshare it and star it. I'm curious about the reach we have.

Consider this a research and proof of concept project!

#mastoadmin #mstdnca

Borjan TchakaloffJan 2, 2025
Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂Jan 1, 2025
Hello #Fediverse and Happy New Year!

I'd like to mark the start of 2025 with the first message from my self-hosted instance. You may already know me as @[email protected]. Well, now I also run my own #ActivityPub microblogging server, thanks to the magic of #YunoHost and #GoToSocial (and #Phanpy, which I'm using to compose this).

I registered this domain – aseachange.com – a looooong time ago but never did anything with it. It was the very first domain name I ever bought, even before securing elenarossini.com (!!!). It was so long ago, but I remember I was inspired by Beck's album Sea Change. seachange[dot]com was taken, so I grabbed Aseachange.

I absolutely love its meaning of profound transformation and I think it's PERFECT for my self-hosted #Fediverse instance and what it represents: independence, empowerment and digital sovereignty.

Ever since setting it up, I've been feeling joyful and hopeful. Everytime I look at myself in the mirror, I think: I'm in control of my own social media platform. And it feels SOOO GOOD.

What do I have in store for 2025? I plan to use this account to post messages about #selfhosting, learning #Linux, privacy and digital sovereignty.

I will also keep posting from my Mastodon account because you don't give a Lamborghini to someone who just passed their driver's license. I barely know what I'm doing here, so I feel a lot safer (for now) keeping my mastodon.social account as well... In case anything goes wrong here. Better safe than sorry!

So, this is my #Introduction and if you've read as far as here I just want to thank the Fediverse for being so amazing and allowing me to connect with people on my own terms. And thank you Fedi people for being so generous and supportive with your superb advice and kind words.

This is a really magical, special place.

Happy New Year, everyone!
Borjan TchakaloffJan 1, 2025
Gary WongDec 31, 2024

An #ITU study https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2024/11/10/ff24-internet-traffic/ reports that we transferred over 7 zettabytes of #Internet traffic in 2024. However, the authors do not describe what all those data actually were.

Therefore, I have performed extensive research to classify every byte, and I can now share this summary of the purposes of all the year's traffic.

Happy New Year!

Facts and Figures 2024 - Internet traffic

International bandwidth usage