Cloud: Row in Bavaria over billion-euro Microsoft contract without tender
#DigitalSovereignty
🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it 🇪🇺💪buyeuropean.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2026-02-02
The article points out that a single year of this budget could convert pretty much the entire system to a #FOSS or at least #OpenSource solution and would save a considerable amount in the long run. As well as building skills, jobs and #digitalSovereignty
#dkpol
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:npmoerrzaqzrlpvu3yu6i4pi/post/3mdukp7ma2h2j
Talk online for streaming:
FOSDEM 2026 - EU OS: learnings from 1 year advocating for a common Desktop Linux for the public sector
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/DTE3NX-eu-os-1-year-after-with-feedback-and-wishlist/
Oh, habe gerade erst erfahren, dass es einen DID gibt (digital independence day):
https://di.day/
Looking for a good news source?
My Brave browser's home page is "Europe in brief" from "European Newsroom" (enr). Enr is a cooperation project between news agencies from all over Europe – AFP, AGERPRES, AMNA, ANSA, ANP, APA, ATA, Belga, BTA, CTK, dpa, EFE, Europa Press, FENA, HINA, Lusa, MIA, PAP, Ritzau, STA, Tanjug, TASR, TT and UKRINFORM.
Those who need more reasons to leave X and all services provided by Musk read this ---> https://www.404media.co/grok-ai-sexual-abuse-imagery-twitter/
#leavex #musksucks #diday #europeanalternatives #digitalsovereignty
I am expanding my list of digital service providers outside US jurisdiction (also outside Russia and China). Someone inquired if there were any antivirus programs I could find.
So far I can add:
Bkav — Vietnam
Quick Heal — India
K7 Computing — India
#AntiVirus #Jurisdiction #DigitalSovereignty #Security
So far I can add:
Bkav — Vietnam
Quick Heal — India
K7 Computing — India
#AntiVirus #Jurisdiction #DigitalSovereignty #Security
Some good news. Estonia is joining countries that are actively looking for alternatives to US tech. https://news.err.ee/1609927169/estonian-state-trialing-it-system-free-from-us-tech-giants
#Estonia #EU #Europe #EUpol #Europa #Eesti #BigTech #technology #tech #DigitalSovereignty
The Challenge: Trust as an Architecture ⚖️ As technology becomes invisible, transparency must become more visible. The shift to proactive systems requires a new social contract regarding data sovereignty and algorithmic ethics.
Discussion: Which of these shifts excites you most—and which one gives you pause? Let's talk about how we shape this future together.
Many institutions are committed to #sustainability.
For this reason alone, #digitalsovereignty should be important to them.
Two years ago, scientists from @JLBe and its network published a study on the sustainable use of #smartphones.
👉 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sd.2995
It showed that typical #socialmedia apps such as #Instagram, #TikTok, #YouTube, etc. on #cellphones conflict with a number of sustainability goals.
Among other things, they cause high #energy consumption, which is not incurred directly on the smartphone, but in #datacenters and transmission networks. A large proportion of the #electricity consumption is due to the fact that these apps do not respect #privacy and data protection, but instead spy on users.
The use of #Mastodon and other #Fediverse services is more sustainable because much less data is exchanged between users' smartphones and the service instances.
The test for a sovereign cloud isn't just who controls your data, but also who else has access to it.
#digitalsovereignty #cloud #data
https://www.techradar.com/pro/who-really-controls-your-data-the-test-of-sovereign-cloud
💾 Decrypting the Future: neobild is Public. ⛓️💥
The era of "Trust Me" AI is over. I’ve just released neobild, a mobile-native architecture for Verifiable AI Discourse.
If you believe AI should be a tool for truth, not a black box for manipulation, help me audit the logs.
Source Code & Hash Manifests:
👉 https://github.com/NeonCarnival/NeoBild
#Cyberpunk #DigitalSovereignty #NeoBild #Llama3 #Termux #Cryptography #LocalAI #SmallTech #NeonCarnival
RE: https://mastodon.social/@chrisstoecker/115996325064617045
Column (timely for Digital Independence Day): Europe wants to make itself less vulnerable to blackmail and stand up to the US. So why are virtually all heads of state posting statements on X, a toxic US platform that exposes children and violates European law?
#LeaveX #EU #Germany #Democracy #digitalsovereignty #digitalindependenceday #X #diday
This town in #Cornwall gets it
BBC News - Politicians agree to stop using social media site
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx479625dno
Digitale Souveränität: Staatschefs runter von X! - Kolumne - DER SPIEGEL
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/digitale-souveraenitaet-staatschefs-runter-von-x-kolumne-a-ca97edbd-2286-496e-a584-8bcac6f90297
#digitalsovereignty #digitalesouveranitat #digitalindependenceday
The latest FOSS Academic post is: New Nextcloud with Possible Digital Sovereignty
https://fossacademic.tech/2026/02/01/new-nc.html
I discuss setting up a new Nextcloud instance on Canadian public infrastructure, moving away from my previous US-based host. I talk about the "how" of that migration (it was pretty easy, actually) and the "why" (I no longer will send Canadian money to a US firm). But how "sovereign" is the Digital Research Alliance?
#FOSSacademic #Canada #digitalsovereignty
I've had a GMail account for 15+ years. Is it time?
Rechtsvorschau 2026: Das ändert sich für ITler in diesem Jahr | iX Magazin https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Vorschau-2026-Was-aendert-sich-im-europaeischen-und-deutschen-IT-Recht-11112525.html #DSGVO #GDPR AIact #ArtificialIntelligence #KRITIS #NIS2 #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalMarketsAct #DMA #DSA #DigitalServicesAct #DigitalOmnibus #eIDAS #CRA #CyberResilienceAct #Urheberrecht #copyright #DataAct
I'm tired of the US threatening my country. I don't have much power, but I'm at least going to stop paying the US for tech services, and invest that money into other services instead. Today I switched my search engine & stopped paying for US cloud storage.
Wrote about it here: https://www.gustavwengel.dk/2026/02/01/out-of-us-1.html
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