#DigitalSovereignty my ass
"Germany plans to use #surveillance software from #Palantir countrywide."
"On March 18, politicians in the Netherlands House of Representatives passed eight motions asking the government to reduce reliance on US tech companies and move to European alternatives. Days before, more than 100 organizations signed an open letter to European officials calling for the continent to become “more technologically independent” and saying the status quo creates “security and reliability risks.”
Two European-based cloud service companies, Exoscale and Elastx, tell WIRED they have seen an uptick in potential customers looking to abandon US cloud providers over the last two weeks—with some already starting to make the jump. Multiple technology advisers say they are having widespread discussions about what it would take to uproot services, data, and systems.
“We have more demand from across Europe,” says Mathias Nöbauer, the CEO of Swiss-based hosting provider Exoscale, adding there has been an increase in new customers seeking to move away from cloud giants. “Some customers were very explicit,” Nöbauer says. “Especially customers from Denmark being very explicit that they want to move away from US hyperscalers because of the US administration and what they said about Greenland.”"
We need a free/libre fork of #Android for the public commons. Google cannot be trusted.
Maybe that could be #lineageos or #Graphene, but given that they build on top of Android rather than driving the core development, I'm not certain they would be enough as it stands.
https://9to5google.com/2025/03/26/google-android-aosp-developement-private/
Os muros digitais começam a ser erguidos. Europeus à frente, mesmo que uma década atrasados. Quem sabe o novo efeito Bruxelas (https://lnkd.in/dpZm5QGG) será o das camadas física e lógica da agenda tecnológica?
https://www.hardware.com.br/tecnologia/europa-abandonar-nuvem-big-techs-americanas-entenda-porque/
@xwiki joins the list of companies that endorse the UN Open Source Principles!
We're pleased to share that the United Nations has switched from MS365 Forms to CryptPad forms for collecting endorsements on the UN Open Source Principles.
Thanks to all who advocated for this change!
On the rocky road to making open source the standard!
To endorse the UN Open Source Principles : https://unite.un.org/news/fifteen-organizations-endorse-un-open-source-principles
#UN #OpenSource #Privacy #DigitalSovereignty #CryptPad #XWiki #foss #news
Given global developments, European businesses and individuals face a choice: continue relying on US technologies or gain greater data control and sovereignty.
We are happy that @mailbox_org has been listed as a leading European alternative by european-alternatives.eu.
Discover the benefits of our email solution: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers
" "Blackmailability" concerns: Computer scientists oppose BSI-Google cloud deal | heise online"
> The German Informatics Society is protesting strongly against the cooperation between the BSI and Google for a "sovereign" cloud. Independence is being lost.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Blackmailability-concerns-Computer-scientists-oppose-BSI-Google-cloud-deal-10325001.html
Europen Union creates Fedora-based Linux distribution for the public sector
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/eu-os-bold-step-toward-digital-sovereignty-europe
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Universal protocol for many use cases, chat, social, conferencing, IoT.
Proven scalability (mainly in proprietary contexts: Whatsapp, Zoom, Grindr, FCM, Fortnite etc.).
Secure. Somewhat. Well, at least neither inflammable nor slippery.
Best is: DJT cannot call Jeff B. and tell them to shut #Jabber down, because there are nerve-racking journalists in the chat group. That might happen with Signal, though.
I won't use Signal, sorry!
1. Do I want to use a service in the Amazon cloud of Jeff B.? Nope. (I prefer #EU hosted services.)
2. Do I want to depend on Google Android or Apple iOS? Again, no. (I use #Mobian, sorry!)
3. Do I want to use a phone number based IM? Neither.
4. Do I want to be in a chat group with the #VPOTUS? Absolutely NO.
Mautic 6.0: Orion Edition is here! 
This bridging release brings us closer to aligning with @symfony 's releases, and our aims to provide up to 5 years of support for each major version.
A big thank you to our contributors! 
Read the full release notes here: https://github.com/mautic/mautic/releases/tag/6.0.0
Read our blog post here: https://mautic.org/blog/mautic-6-0-orion-edition-is-released/
From May 2025, Host Europe will migrate all e-mail accounts to Microsoft 365.
As a US provider, Microsoft is subject to the CLOUD Act – a risk for data protection and GDPR compliance. Businesses face an expensive vendor lock-in.
European alternatives such as @mailbox_org offer secure, GDPR-compliant solutions with data storage in Germany.
Secure your digital sovereignty now! More in the blog: https://mailbox.org/en/post/host-europe-e-mail-migration-from-data-sovereignty-to-us-vendor-lock-in
Leonhard Kugler from @zendis speaking at #OSPOlogyLive about the need for #DigitalSovereignty and how to get there
#EUOS: A Bold Step Toward #DigitalSovereignty for Europe | Linux Journal. | I don't think, it will be successful this way, at least not in the near future. There are too many dependencies from applications used by the government and Windows. 
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/eu-os-bold-step-toward-digital-sovereignty-europe
Driving digital transformation in Public Administration: How the Capital of Culture 2025 uses OpenProject
Anyone who was present at the Chemnitz Linux Days can see that there is something going on with regard to Open Source in the European Capital of Culture 2025!
How Chemnitz is leveraging OpenProject to manage hundreds of projects efficiently while ensuring transparency and collaboration: https://www.openproject.org/blog/city-chemnitz-interview/
There's quite a lot of talking about @eu_os lately, and with good reason! And since this week we released an article on Europe's Digital Sovereignty, we prepared another article introducing the EU OS project. What a better complement than to delve a bit more into practical cases?
We will release the article tomorrow. And this Friday we release our first #newsletter , the Monthly Report, so subscribe if you want to receive it: https://the-debugger.ghost.io/faq-2/#/portal/signup
I've been thinking on how to advance #DigitalSovereignty in Europe, and have come up with the infallible plan:
changing my Signal user name to Lary.Ellison.1944 and waiting for the Whitehouse/Pentagon/NSA to add me to the "Global Digital Dominance - Principals Only" group
Just as promised, here is our new article on Digital Sovereignty and #europe !
Here you'll find an overview of Europe's situation, some critical examples, and what seems to be Europe's reaction so far. We hope you enjoy it, and look forward to hearing your take on this one!
https://the-debugger.ghost.io/what-is-digital-sovereignty-and-why-does-it-matter-to-europe/
This will be the last article of March, but this Friday we will launch the Monthly Report, our first #newsletter so feel free to #subscribe !
