With @Karlitschek and various luminaries, I'll be visiting Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen of the European Commission today to talk about European digital sovereignty. We may have a long way to go, but the attention is now there! https://mastodon.social/@Karlitschek/114826877070584689

good read via @einalex:

https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar0ec480cc

"On 27 May, an official document calling for regime change in European countries was published in Washington DC.[...]

Trump’s Western bloc is not centered around values or democracy. The focus is entirely different: to prevent China from growing too powerful.

This is why Washington is forcing its allies, especially in Europe, into submission."

@vaurora @bert_hubert That’s indeed DAFT. Why offer US citizens a ridiculously easy path to get a visa and get permanent residency?

Erik Satie (1866-1925) is honderd jaar dood en nog even raadselachtig als hij voor zijn tijdgenoten was. Hij was dan ook uniek, de vinder van muziek die niet pathetisch op de tenen staat om laatste waarheden te zeggen. https://www.groene.nl/artikel/een-weerloos-mens?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=owned_social&utm_source=mastodon

@frank I remember Molly White wrote about this, especially the difficulty of setting up email: https://www.citationneeded.news/substack-to-self-hosted-ghost/

Please consider signing this open letter to stop the uncritical adoption of AI technologies in academia

https://openletter.earth/open-letter-stop-the-uncritical-adoption-of-ai-technologies-in-academia-b65bba1e

European Commission presents Roadmap for effective and lawful access to data for law enforcement - 24 June 2025
https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/news/commission-presents-roadmap-effective-and-lawful-access-data-law-enforcement-2025-06-24_en
#dataretention #lawfulinterception #digitalforensics #encryption #ai

@1br0wn Ok.. that was truly horrible…

@1br0wn Joining online ;-)

@JulianOliver This describes the official process, with checks and balances (for what it’s worth). And ICANN is no longer under sole US control. Yet Verisign (a US based company) is the sole registry for .com. Which strongly suggests that the Trump Administration can twist their arm to get a .com domain taken offline behind anyone’s back.

Watch out, #encryption fans: there is an #IGF2025 workshop TODAY 1015-1130 CEST where the usual suspects look like they are on the attack (again) #E2EE https://igf2025.sched.com/event/61f3a45b7968d8c41c8ded0ac16046e6

Great! A bunch of us here wanted it. Now it exists. 👍

It's a "dark archive" of the arXiv - a non-public backup to save the data in case of attack by hackers or the US government. The arXiv, I hope you know, is the biggest source of modern math and physics papers.

Who got the job done? The TIB: the Technische Informationsbibliothek, run by the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, in Hannover, Germany.

They write:

"The TIB has now set up a so-called dark archive for the arXiv content in order to be able to make the backed-up data accessible if the data stored in the USA is lost. The archive functions as a silent reserve: the complete copy of the content is stored decentrally at the TIB, but is not publicly accessible. This means that the data stock – almost 10 terabytes – is protected against potential outages and can be activated in an emergency.

The TIB is currently working on processes to keep the archive up to date: new submissions and updated versions must be backed up regularly in order to preserve the state of research as completely as possible.

“Building a Dark Archive is an expression of our longstanding commitment for a reliable, international academic provision, and as a partner of arXiv. Even though the Dark Archive today only works in the background, it is a key element in safeguarding digital research contents in the long term, because in case of a crisis, we could open the archive,” explains Dr Irina Sens, Deputy Director of the TIB."

We should call it the darXiv.

More details here:

https://blog.tib.eu/2025/05/14/protecting-science-tib-builds-dark-archive-for-arxiv/

@JulianOliver Then it would also be interesting to know how easy it would be for the Trump administration to get certain .com domains to be taken offline.

Perhaps more a Q for Legal, but I'm trying & failing to find an outline of the regulations & processes a host jurisdiction holds over the weaponisation of Root DNS Server authorities. This is something that Ukraine gov asked of ICANN as to Russia, to blackout their www.

10 of the 13 Root DNS servers (& their numerous instances) are under the authority of US based institutions, among them US Army & DoD. This is an incredible centralisation of power under what is a highly unstable & punitive gov.

De Europese Commisie heeft vandaag met ons (Frankrijk, Duitsland, Nederland) een sessie georganiseerd voor lidstaten die geïnteresseerd zijn in de European Digital Infrastructure Consortium for Digital Commons (EDIC DC). Samen zetten we open source in voor onze eigen doelen, en werken we samen aan onze gezamenlijke doelen.

De broncode van de KNMI-app is nu vrij beschikbaar op GitLab: https://gitlab.com/KNMI-OSS/KNMI-App. Dit betekent dat iedereen de broncode kan lezen, aanpassen en verpreiden. Opensourcesoftware is belangrijk voor meer openheid in ICT-systemen van de Rijksoverheid. #opensourceweek

THIS.
I gonna save this to just post it every time one of those entitled FOSS-bros crosses my path.

If the only way for people to use a computer is to either become a developer yourself or suffer through exploitation by big corporations it isn't an individual failure of those people, it's an absolute failure of the FOSS / Linux community to build good software.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/
#Linux #Accessibility

Together with @tante I'll be talking capitalism, fascism, AI and cyberlibertarianism next Thursday, 7pm in @tuberlin.

Join us, discuss with us, resist with us.

@koen @MennoOng Super mooi! Op het congres is er een fantastische motie met overweldigende meerderheid aangenomen op dit terrein! Dus dit gaat helemaal goedkomen. Ik ga de motie even voor je opsnorren!

@mikarv Congratulations Michael!