75% of web traffic flows through Google's Chromium. Apple controls Safari. American companies control how billions access the web.

Building a competitive browser alternative: ~€50-70M annually, 3-4 years. @servo proves it's technically possible with a small team.

The challenge isn't technical, it's institutional: can democratic societies coordinate long-term tech projects?

Read more: https://tarakiyee.com/digital-sovereignty-in-practice-web-browsers-as-a-reality-check/
#DigitalSovereignty

friends, I am in a six hour call that’s supposed to be a high level overview of a certain embedded software runtime. The current slide contains a discussion of the garbage collection subsystem and heap management, and also a diagram of how an individual cell of static ram works with the electrons shuffling around between the 0 and 1 states. There are several hundred words in a tiny font talking about voltage and whatnot.

engineers please learn to value soft skills like “expressing your expertise clearly and concisely” a little more 😭 this is like trying to share your grandma’s cake recipe through the medium of a textbook on organic chemistry

"One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" by Omar El Akkad. My rating:5 out of 5 stars, Read from: 06/29/2025 - 06/29/2025. Kindle Edition, 188 pages.

Book description: “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” by Omar El Akkad is a nonfiction work that serves as a deeply personal and scathing critique of the Western world’s moral failures, especially regarding its treatment of marginalized groups and its response to global crises like the war in Gaza. Drawing from his experiences as an immigrant, journalist, and father, El Akkad explores the disillusionment with Western ideals, exposing the hypocrisy, double standards, and systemic injustices that persist in societies claiming to champion freedom and justice. The book is both a “heartsick breakup letter with the West” and a call for accountability, urging readers to confront the gap between professed values and lived realities, and to seek something better than what the West has offered.

This is an extremely revealing read, one which I find myself totally in agreement with. I am also going to read "American War," another book by this author.

#nonfiction #memoir #MiddleEast #politics #books @bookstodon

So duckduckgo has a 'no AI' version, at the link https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

I do wish they went for an opt-in so you could choose the ai version at something like 'ai-dot-duckduckgo'. But it's better than nothing.