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This piece from the creator of Gumroad* about him failing to find much in the way of Waste and Fraud when a brief abortive stint in DOGE in government, but being conditioned by it being endemic in large tech firms is quite something.
* (a popular platform for selling ebooks and digital products)
R.I.P my UNDP colleague Ramzi Khader, who was killed alongside his wife, six children, and more than 36 members of his extended family in an airstrike by the IDF in Jabalia, Northern Gaza, on the first day of Eid Al-Adha on 6 June 2025.
Over 300 United Nations personnel were killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war, side by side with over 50,000 of the Palestinians they served. What a tragedy. What a waste.
@carlton you moved house?
(Well… instance, I guess)
Wow, I had no idea this was a thing - figured this might be a thing up @bert_hubert’s street.
The company providing the Europe-wide adblocking DNS lookup service is called Whalebone, and they’re based in Czech Republic.
Anyone know more about the org? I want to understand their gov structure vs trusting a publicly traded US tech company like Google or Cloudflar, subject to the US cloud Act.
https://mastodon.green/@gcluley/114653569219362520
Attached: 1 image The EU wants to stop feeding your DNS queries to Silicon Valley. DNS4EU is the European Commission’s attempt to build a sovereign DNS resolver infrastructure that doesn’t route all your web lookups through the likes of Google, or Cloudflare. DNS4EU aims to bring DNS resolution under EU oversight and privacy rules. So, if you want 🇪🇺-backed ad-blocking and child protection, you may want to give it a try. Check out DNS4EU here: https://www.joindns4.eu/for-public
Words matter. The Israeli military did not “intercept a ship and escort it to safety.” The Israeli military did commit a violent act of piracy against a UK flagged vessel in international waters as it fulfilled a legal right to reach Gaza and alleviate suffering, then abducted its crew and transported them by force to Israel under threat of execution.
Not a single corporate media outlet has had the courage or integrity to correctly label this horrific injustice. Legacy media has failed us all.
This an interesting thought.
If you have seen actual numbers on spending or reasonable estimates on what is spent on Microsoft’s services vs this LibreOffice experiment, do please share.
Last year I think Nextcloud reported around 10m EUR of revenue in the company filing.
For context, a very quick guess for Microsoft puts office revenue at around 40bn USD for the same year (based on assumption of about a third of its cloud revenue that year).
That’s around 4000x more.
https://stroud.social/objects/77374516-05bc-4a90-bc57-26c1846b8eaf
A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It's written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon. - GitHub - apple/container: A tool for cre...
@bert_hubert @randahl TLDR though:
1. pitting the whole Microsoft 365 suite that an organisation has built all its processes around,
vs
2. just LibreOffice for half the users
…sounds like it’s almost designed to show how much harder all those processes will be for the half with the non-integrated OSS option, especially if there is patchy training and IT support for staff trying to migrate 😬
Toby!
Alberto Cottica
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
Scott Stedman
Brian Okken 