We’re happy to share that Mastodon has been awarded a service agreement from the Sovereign Tech Fund @sovtechfund 🎉
This covers five major initiatives through 2026 and 2027. We are very grateful for this support. Read about the details in our blog post.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/
The central bank of Denmark, Nationalbanken, today announced its new offline payment system which means Danes will be able to pay digitally at the store — even when the internet is down.
This means both credit card payments and cellphone payments go through at the counter up to 7 days into an internet breakdown, because of a new technological solution which is being rolled out at grocery stores first.
Pharmacies will be added to the system later this year.
https://via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddelelse/14873884?lang=da&%3BpublisherId=13561853
Alle voksne danskere, der har et dansk udstedt betalingskort fra Dankort, Mastercard eller Visa kan nu betale med deres fysiske kort eller wallets på mobilen i de fleste landsdækkende dagligvarekæder i mindst en uge, selvom der sker et nedbrud i kortbetalingsinfrastrukturen, eller internettet ikke virker.
Trump lost the war to Iran.
So does he criticize Putin for helping Iran win?
No. He criticizes Europe for not being part of his defeat.
The #FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and #Android will be locked-down in under 200 days.
If you care about the freedom to control your devices and care about the privacy of you data, please contact your representative and make your voice heard.
https://keepandroidopen.org/ (thanks @marcprux) has the resources to guide you.
We know users will rarely visit the site so the Client(s) will get a banner soon too.
Thank you for your support!
Much in this world depends on setting a good example.
In related news, here is Trump’s Secretary of Health telling podcast listeners how he is used to snorting cocaine off toilet seats, so germs are nothing to be scared of.
Tell me… are we still living in reality… or is everything just satire now?
Europe is dependend on the US tech and it's a bad thing. We cannot be hold in a grip by a fanatic. We have to change it
To understand the modern American state, you have to look at what it learned to do at night. In the slave South, violence didn’t arrive as spectacle. It arrived on schedule. Names checked. Horses assigned. Lanterns lit. By law, patrols could stop, search, whip, detain—without warrant or cause. Suspicion was enough. This wasn’t chaos. It was governance.
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