#datasovereignty — Public Fediverse posts

IT student and neurodivergent. Self-hosting, vibe-coding, narrative sovereignty. This is my corner of the web — a quiet space to exist on my own terms without corporate silos or algorithmic noise.

https://the.kalvin.blog/notes-from-my-corner-of-the-web/

#selfhosted #neurodivergent #technology #autonomy #datasovereignty #narrativesovereignty #personal #blog #infrastructure #learning #independence #digital #privacy #opensource #community #introduction #intro #website

IT student and neurodivergent. Self-hosting, vibe-coding, narrative sovereignty. This is my corner of the web — a quiet space to exist on my own terms without corporate silos or algorithmic noise.

https://the.kalvin.blog/notes-from-my-corner-of-the-web/

#selfhosted #neurodivergent #technology #autonomy #datasovereignty #narrativesovereignty #personal #blog #infrastructure #learning #independence #digital #privacy #opensource #community #introduction #intro #website

Which #Discord communities/"servers" for the following Open Source software projects, would you most like to see re-established/migrated into an #OpenSource , non-walled-garden forum software (such as their own dedicated #Flarum website)?

**Check all that apply** :blob_cat_heart:

Note 1: Community membership sizes may be listed as approximates, may be out of date (Qwen knew from 2024), but none the less, give a useful ballpark. **Were any fairly large Open Source communities in Discord missed? Please reply, stating so.**

Note 2: Flarum 2.0 will be coming out soon, **has great mobile support** (important to younger-generation adoption), and is also lightweight. An #RSS feed add-on/plugin, Open Source, is also offered. 👍 Having said this, I approve of any Open Source, non-walled-garden forum software, such as #Discourse (but it requires a beefier server, uses node.js, alas, and runs in #Docker)
#Blender #LinuxMint #LibreOffice #laravel #dev #DataSovereignty

Which #Discord communities/"servers" for the following Open Source software projects, would you most like to see re-established/migrated into an #OpenSource , non-walled-garden forum software (such as their own dedicated #Flarum website)?

**Check all that apply** :blob_cat_heart:

Note 1: Community membership sizes may be listed as approximates, may be out of date (Qwen knew from 2024), but none the less, give a useful ballpark. **Were any fairly large Open Source communities in Discord missed? Please reply, stating so.**

Note 2: Flarum 2.0 will be coming out soon, **has great mobile support** (important to younger-generation adoption), and is also lightweight. An #RSS feed add-on/plugin, Open Source, is also offered. 👍 Having said this, I approve of any Open Source, non-walled-garden forum software, such as #Discourse (but it requires a beefier server, uses node.js, alas, and runs in #Docker)
#Blender #LinuxMint #LibreOffice #laravel #dev #DataSovereignty

A friend pointed out that I will answer anything about myself and the answer is always surface. He was right. That is not secrecy, everything was true. It was transparency at a resolution I chose. Dumping everything is not openness.

#DataSovereignty #Privacy #Governance #Leadership #InfoSec

"Even today, #colonialism assumes new forms. It no longer dominates bodies, but appropriates data, transforming human bodies into exploitable information. [...] Those who control the health data of entire peoples can also decide to whom medicines, investments and protections will be allocated. Here lies one if the most urgent moral challenges of our time: to ensure that shared knowledge becomes a true common good, rather than an instrument of dominance."

#DataSovereignty #Privacy

"Even today, #colonialism assumes new forms. It no longer dominates bodies, but appropriates data, transforming human bodies into exploitable information. [...] Those who control the health data of entire peoples can also decide to whom medicines, investments and protections will be allocated. Here lies one if the most urgent moral challenges of our time: to ensure that shared knowledge becomes a true common good, rather than an instrument of dominance."

#DataSovereignty #Privacy

Unraveling the tangled web of data sovereignty in today’s global digital arena is like trying to untangle a pair of earbuds—complicated, sometimes futile, but absolutely necessary. #DataSovereignty 🎧🌍
https://www.eliza-ng.me/post/twosfromthetext_51/

Which software ecosystems have you been brave and courageous enough **to abandon completely**? PART 2!! (There were calls for other ecosystems). Please Check all that apply.

Please boost for *even more* #Science :blob_cat_giggle:

(gmail is currently the "main boss", is the hardest to get rid of...)

#SocialMedia #Microsoft #internet #web #apps #Bigtech #x #Twitter #Telegram #DataSovereignty #software #cloud #github

Which software ecosystems have you been brave and courageous enough **to abandon completely**? PART 2!! (There were calls for other ecosystems). Please Check all that apply.

Please boost for *even more* #Science :blob_cat_giggle:

(gmail is currently the "main boss", is the hardest to get rid of...)

#SocialMedia #Microsoft #internet #web #apps #Bigtech #x #Twitter #Telegram #DataSovereignty #software #cloud #github

Learn about community mapping, data sovereignty, and Indigenous toponyms on OSM in this #SOTMUS2026 talk: https://youtu.be/1ZRapMnRNuE?si=COjLmEKa_yALgNAP

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#communitymapping #OpenStreetMap #datasovereignty

Learn about community mapping, data sovereignty, and Indigenous toponyms on OSM in this #SOTMUS2026 talk: https://youtu.be/1ZRapMnRNuE?si=COjLmEKa_yALgNAP

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#communitymapping #OpenStreetMap #datasovereignty

...und noch eine Neuigkeit: Crow Backup ist nun offiziell im App Store für Mac gelistet! 🥳🥳
https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/crow-backup/id6477860511?mt=12
Crow Backup

#crowbackup #AppStore #mac #freeSoftware #dataSovereignty #backup

...und noch eine Neuigkeit: Crow Backup ist nun offiziell im App Store für Mac gelistet! 🥳🥳
https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/crow-backup/id6477860511?mt=12
Crow Backup

#crowbackup #AppStore #mac #freeSoftware #dataSovereignty #backup

Hive mind: Have you worked on data sovereignty projects? Do you have experiences or advice to share? I won’t call anyone out by name, but I want to include personal anecdotes in what I’m writing. #datasovereignty

Hive mind: Have you worked on data sovereignty projects? Do you have experiences or advice to share? I won’t call anyone out by name, but I want to include personal anecdotes in what I’m writing. #datasovereignty

3/3 🔒 Mehr Sicherheit durch verschiedene Sicherheitsverbesserungen und Schutz vor Login-Missbrauch
🛠️ Deutlich höhere Stabilität mit zahlreichen Fehlerbehebungen (große Dateien, Backup-Abbrüche, Startprobleme und Abstürze)
💾 Effizientere Speicherung durch kleinere Datenbanken und intelligenteres Cache-Management

#crowbackup #backup #swisstech #datasovereignty #freeSoftware

3/3 🔒 Mehr Sicherheit durch verschiedene Sicherheitsverbesserungen und Schutz vor Login-Missbrauch
🛠️ Deutlich höhere Stabilität mit zahlreichen Fehlerbehebungen (große Dateien, Backup-Abbrüche, Startprobleme und Abstürze)
💾 Effizientere Speicherung durch kleinere Datenbanken und intelligenteres Cache-Management

#crowbackup #backup #swisstech #datasovereignty #freeSoftware

Wow, an interesting pattern is emerging. So it seems #gmail is "the main boss to kill", so to speak. Also, #Facebook would seem to be the least impactful/risky to close down permanently. See? Some interesting "Science" has emerged.
#Google #Meta #DataSovereignty

Wow, an interesting pattern is emerging. So it seems #gmail is "the main boss to kill", so to speak. Also, #Facebook would seem to be the least impactful/risky to close down permanently. See? Some interesting "Science" has emerged.
#Google #Meta #DataSovereignty

Q: Is Palantir the most evil f*cking company in the world?

Answers on a postcard!

“The NHS and Palantir: Why Britain Is Being Urged to End the Data Platform Deal”

by ANA VRAČAR in Savage Minds on Substack

@uk_politics

“Health organisations are urging the British government to use an exit clause in its contract with tech firm Palantir and shift from its Federated Data Platform (FDP) in the National Health Service (NHS) in early 2027. Recent reports by Medact, Just Treatment, and other groups argue that Palantir’s system brings limited benefits at the cost of patient trust and data security—not to mention millions of pounds”

https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/the-nhs-and-palantir

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #NHS #Palantir #FDP #Contract #Opposition #Thiel #Karp #Israel #PalestinianGenocide #Gaza #PublicInterest #Exit #DataSovereignty

Q: Is Palantir the most evil f*cking company in the world?

Answers on a postcard!

“The NHS and Palantir: Why Britain Is Being Urged to End the Data Platform Deal”

by ANA VRAČAR in Savage Minds on Substack

@uk_politics

“Health organisations are urging the British government to use an exit clause in its contract with tech firm Palantir and shift from its Federated Data Platform (FDP) in the National Health Service (NHS) in early 2027. Recent reports by Medact, Just Treatment, and other groups argue that Palantir’s system brings limited benefits at the cost of patient trust and data security—not to mention millions of pounds”

https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/the-nhs-and-palantir

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #NHS #Palantir #FDP #Contract #Opposition #Thiel #Karp #Israel #PalestinianGenocide #Gaza #PublicInterest #Exit #DataSovereignty

An open-weight coding model quietly posted the strongest score in its category, MIT-licensed, self-hostable. Nobody's suspending a model already sitting on your own GPUs. You're not opting out of AI. You're opting out of a single point of failure you don't control.

#AI #OpenSource #SelfHosted #DataSovereignty #FOSS

An open-weight coding model quietly posted the strongest score in its category, MIT-licensed, self-hostable. Nobody's suspending a model already sitting on your own GPUs. You're not opting out of AI. You're opting out of a single point of failure you don't control.

#AI #OpenSource #SelfHosted #DataSovereignty #FOSS

Picking a model used to be a benchmarks question. Now it's also a jurisdiction question, a pricing-tier question, an access-list question, all at once. The benchmark still matters. It's just no longer the whole decision.

#AI #TechLeadership #DataSovereignty #SoftwareEngineering #BuildInPublic

Picking a model used to be a benchmarks question. Now it's also a jurisdiction question, a pricing-tier question, an access-list question, all at once. The benchmark still matters. It's just no longer the whole decision.

#AI #TechLeadership #DataSovereignty #SoftwareEngineering #BuildInPublic

A grounded path off Microsoft 365: email, files, meetings and identity moving to studios on hardware you own, with one assistant across all of it.

https://mickai.co.uk/articles/migrating-from-microsoft-365-to-a-sovereign-os

#Microsoft365Alternative #DataSovereignty #Migration #SovereignAI #OnPremiseAI

A grounded path off Microsoft 365: email, files, meetings and identity moving to studios on hardware you own, with one assistant across all of it.

https://mickai.co.uk/articles/migrating-from-microsoft-365-to-a-sovereign-os

#Microsoft365Alternative #DataSovereignty #Migration #SovereignAI #OnPremiseAI

#AIsovereignty emphasises the importance of retaining control over #AIsystems, #data, and #infrastructure: This includes running #AImodels on #localhardware, utilising #OpenWeightAI models, and prioritising #datasovereignty to ensure data remains within an organisation’s control. https://ai.sovereignty.it/?AIagents.at #AIagent #AI #ML #NLP #LLM #GenAI

#AIsovereignty emphasises the importance of retaining control over #AIsystems, #data, and #infrastructure: This includes running #AImodels on #localhardware, utilising #OpenWeightAI models, and prioritising #datasovereignty to ensure data remains within an organisation’s control. https://ai.sovereignty.it/?AIagents.at #AIagent #AI #ML #NLP #LLM #GenAI

The "zero Microsoft" French procurement report is the right direction, but the principle applies universally. Vendor lock-in with any hyperscaler — Azure, AWS, GCP, Apple Cloud — creates the same sovereignty and auditability problems. Open standards, self-hosted infrastructure, and interoperable formats are the answer regardless of vendor. #OpenSource #Privacy #DataSovereignty #CloudNative #SelfHosted

The "zero Microsoft" French procurement report is the right direction, but the principle applies universally. Vendor lock-in with any hyperscaler — Azure, AWS, GCP, Apple Cloud — creates the same sovereignty and auditability problems. Open standards, self-hosted infrastructure, and interoperable formats are the answer regardless of vendor. #OpenSource #Privacy #DataSovereignty #CloudNative #SelfHosted

AI data has three rooms: the prompt, training, and memory. Agents make memory the dangerous one. They act on what they remember with no way to tell if it's accurate, or even belongs to the task in front of them. Helpful and unaudited are usually the same feature.

#AI #AIAgents #Privacy #DataSovereignty #TrailFramework

AI data has three rooms: the prompt, training, and memory. Agents make memory the dangerous one. They act on what they remember with no way to tell if it's accurate, or even belongs to the task in front of them. Helpful and unaudited are usually the same feature.

#AI #AIAgents #Privacy #DataSovereignty #TrailFramework

“The people or Palantir: tech campaigners demand a new deal from Burnham”

by The Citizens Reunited on Substack

@uk_politics
@UKLabour

“For too long, Britain has served Big Tech billionaires at the expense of ordinary people. We spoke to leading tech campaigners to set out a blueprint for Burnham”

https://open.substack.com/pub/citizensreunited/p/the-people-or-palantir-tech-campaigners

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #AI #DataSovereignty #NHS #Palantir #BigTech #Burnham #Labour

“The people or Palantir: tech campaigners demand a new deal from Burnham”

by The Citizens Reunited on Substack

@uk_politics
@UKLabour

“For too long, Britain has served Big Tech billionaires at the expense of ordinary people. We spoke to leading tech campaigners to set out a blueprint for Burnham”

https://open.substack.com/pub/citizensreunited/p/the-people-or-palantir-tech-campaigners

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #AI #DataSovereignty #NHS #Palantir #BigTech #Burnham #Labour

Quite interesting, isn't it? Aotearoa NZ is discovering that decentralised for power grid infrastructure is the way to go for resilience, cost and meeting climate goals. Additionally, it gives us significantly more sovereignty from overseas suppliers.

Now Aotearoa will also need to see this with IT infrastructure. #Decentralisation to boost resilience over centralisation via SaaS and hyper scaler's #cloud infrastructure.

#DataSovereignty #decentralization #EnergyTransition #BigTech

Quite interesting, isn't it? Aotearoa NZ is discovering that decentralised for power grid infrastructure is the way to go for resilience, cost and meeting climate goals. Additionally, it gives us significantly more sovereignty from overseas suppliers.

Now Aotearoa will also need to see this with IT infrastructure. #Decentralisation to boost resilience over centralisation via SaaS and hyper scaler's #cloud infrastructure.

#DataSovereignty #decentralization #EnergyTransition #BigTech

In Berlin verfolgt leider gerade jeder die Nachrichten der Polizei. Und dann lese ich folgendes:
„Auf Whatsapp teilte die Polizei mit, dass…“

Auf WhatsApp. Die Polizei.
Wenn die wichtigen Organisationen einfach mal anfangen würden nicht auf BigTech Plattformen zu posten wären auch alle anderen ganz schnell mitgezogen. Es scheint noch ein langer Weg.

#unplugbigtech #datasovereignty

In Berlin verfolgt leider gerade jeder die Nachrichten der Polizei. Und dann lese ich folgendes:
„Auf Whatsapp teilte die Polizei mit, dass…“

Auf WhatsApp. Die Polizei.
Wenn die wichtigen Organisationen einfach mal anfangen würden nicht auf BigTech Plattformen zu posten wären auch alle anderen ganz schnell mitgezogen. Es scheint noch ein langer Weg.

#unplugbigtech #datasovereignty

A backup proves you can survive losing a device. It doesn't prove you control your own data.

https://open.substack.com/pub/sargentjamesa/p/resilience-is-not-sovereignty?r=7o0dk0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#DataSovereignty #DigitalPrivacy #Privacy #SelfHosted #DigitalRights

How does ThatPrivacyGuy! use AI?

A tour of my (almost) fully self-hosted AI stack: local LLMs on Apple Silicon, orchestrated by Gitea, human-gated and cloud-free — privacy-first, sovereign AI.

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/how-does-thatprivacyguy-use-ai

#ai #SelfHosted #claude #compliance #DataSovereignty #LocalLlm #AppleSilicon #gitea

How does ThatPrivacyGuy! use AI?

A tour of my (almost) fully self-hosted AI stack: local LLMs on Apple Silicon, orchestrated by Gitea, human-gated and cloud-free — privacy-first, sovereign AI.

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/how-does-thatprivacyguy-use-ai

#ai #SelfHosted #claude #compliance #DataSovereignty #LocalLlm #AppleSilicon #gitea

🎉🤣 Sure, because everyone loves turning their living room into a spam-infested hellscape for the sake of "data sovereignty." 🌐💌 Let's all ignore decades of email horror stories and pretend spam was magically "solved" in 2026! 🙄🚀
https://blog.haschek.at/2026/you-should-selfhost-your-mail.html #dataSovereignty #spamHellscape #emailHorror #storiesIgnored #2026Solution #HackerNews #ngated

Is Palantir the most gut-wrenching evil company in the world?

“PALANTIR: THE COMPANY BRITAIN LET INSIDE”

by Nouri in Manufactuting Dissent on Substack

@uk_politics
@NHSrCommunity
@NoPalantirInSouthYorkshire
@nhsactivistrn

“Palantir isn’t a genius company. It’s not an all‑seeing machine. It’s not the terrifying intelligence system it pretends to be. It’s a company that figured out how to get close to power, and once it’s close, it stays. Not because it’s brilliant. Because nobody wants to admit they let it in without asking the right questions. The NHS didn’t choose Palantir because the software was good. It chose Palantir because the company was already inside the room, and the people inside the room were paid not to push back”

https://open.substack.com/pub/mandissent/p/palantir-the-company-britain-let

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #NHS #Palantir #Thiel #Karp #Genocide #Gaza #Mandelson #Epstein #GlobalCounsel #Lobbying #FDP #DataSovereignty #ICE #CIA #Israel #Zionism #Trump #FarRight

What is the UK AI Growth Lab and who should use it?

The UK AI Growth Lab, announced 8 June 2026, brings regulators including the ICO, the SRA and the Legal Services Board together to guide organisations deploying AI, starting with lawtech and conveyancing. It offers practical steer, not a safe harbour; deployments still need to be evidenced.

https://mickai.co.uk/articles/what-is-the-uk-ai-growth-lab-and-who-should-use-it

#SovereignAI #AI #DataSovereignty #PostQuantum #AIgovernance