#digitalsovereignity — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #digitalsovereignity, aggregated by home.social.
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"Cyberspace and analog space aren't independent from one another, and never will be. Whoever claims that cyberspace is a separate world is simply selling a political project in which corporations make the rules that govern our lives."
I'm going to have to revisit this again after I let it soak in a bit. Lots to digest here (for me, at least).
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Ever since reading "Getting off US tech: a guide" by @parismarx last year, I wanted to build a little website where you could check the #software you're using and get some shareable text, showing how much is from the US. Now it's finally done 👇🏼🥳
What do you think? Will somebody use this? What did I miss, what is wrong? Any ideas?
Please head to https://codeberg.org/Fingolas/WhereIsMyTechFrom for suggested changes.
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Even without seeing the talk at Minnebar by Paul Cantrell (@inthehands), this review/reflection/meditation by Matthew Tift (@mtift) moved me deeply.
In particular, I want to share it with my EU friends as they develop and revise their national tech and energy infrastructures to reduce their, um, supply chain risks.
https://matthewtift.com/blog/caring-about-software-caring-about-people
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Even without seeing the talk at Minnebar by Paul Cantrell (@inthehands), this review/reflection/meditation by Matthew Tift (@mtift) moved me deeply.
In particular, I want to share it with my EU friends as they develop and revise their national tech and energy infrastructures to reduce their, um, supply chain risks.
https://matthewtift.com/blog/caring-about-software-caring-about-people
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Even without seeing the talk at Minnebar by Paul Cantrell (@inthehands), this review/reflection/meditation by Matthew Tift (@mtift) moved me deeply.
In particular, I want to share it with my EU friends as they develop and revise their national tech and energy infrastructures to reduce their, um, supply chain risks.
https://matthewtift.com/blog/caring-about-software-caring-about-people
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Even without seeing the talk at Minnebar by Paul Cantrell (@inthehands), this review/reflection/meditation by Matthew Tift (@mtift) moved me deeply.
In particular, I want to share it with my EU friends as they develop and revise their national tech and energy infrastructures to reduce their, um, supply chain risks.
https://matthewtift.com/blog/caring-about-software-caring-about-people
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Even without seeing the talk at Minnebar by Paul Cantrell (@inthehands), this review/reflection/meditation by Matthew Tift (@mtift) moved me deeply.
In particular, I want to share it with my EU friends as they develop and revise their national tech and energy infrastructures to reduce their, um, supply chain risks.
https://matthewtift.com/blog/caring-about-software-caring-about-people
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Die Dokumentation meines #Stalwart-Upgrades 🚀 von Version 0.15.5 auf Version 0.16.2 ist nun verfügbar.
Und bitte beachten: Dass das so viel Aufwand ist liegt daran, dass hier größere Umstellungen in Hinblick auf die kommende Version 1.0 stattfanden. Normalerweise, und das soll dann auch zukünftig wieder so sein, ist das nur das Austauschen eines Binaries - fertig.
Let's #DecentralizeTheInternet again for #DigitalSovereignity
https://grupp-web.de/cms/2026/05/03/mein-stalwart-upgrade-von-version-0-15-5-auf-version-0-16-2/
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AI infrastructure is no longer a software problem. It is constrained by energy, water, and network realities.
This paper introduces the Feasible Sovereign Operating Region (FSOR), where AI can actually run under physical and regulatory limits, with joint optimization of compute and networks.https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09705v1
#AIInfrastructure #DigitalSovereignity #Sustainability #DataCenters
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Upgrade auf neueste #Stalwart-Version erfolgreich 🚀🎉
Nach ein paar Fehlschlägen, weil der Port 443 mit anderen Diensten über einen vorgeschalteten HAproxy geteilt ist, läuft nun alles wieder 🤩
Mal sehen was ich nun zuerst mache:
- Upgrade-Doku blogen
- Stalwart-Vortrag für Samstag neu machenVielleicht sieht man sich ja in #Augsburg beim #LIT2026 der @lug_augsburg. Ich kann schon mal verraten es bleibt dabei - das Setup eines Mailservers mit Stalwart bleibt auch mit der neuen Version überraschend einfach!
Let's #DecentralizeTheInternet again for #DigitalSovereignity
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Habe für das 📈 Upgrade (m)eines #Stalwart 📧 Mailservers auf v0.16.0 meine Vorbereitungen dokumentiert 📝.
Wegen der anstehenden v1.0 ist das nicht ganz so "easy-going" wie erhofft. Es wurde aber vom Entwickler zugesagt, dass Upgrades dann in Zukunft einfach sind.
Weitere Upgrade-Doku folgt dann noch zeitnah.
https://grupp-web.de/cms/2026/04/28/stalwart-verzeichnisse-anpassen-upgrade-v0-16-vorbereitung/
#DigitalSovereignity #DigitaleSouveränität #DecentralizeTheInternet
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Practical #digitalsovereignity in #Europe::
- Governments in France, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium have started rolling out in-house messaging services for officials to exchange sensitive information, in an effort to stop staff from using US-controlled apps and switch to local alternatives they can control.
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-civil-servants-new-messaging-services/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication -
@Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 is right. Everyone knows full well that this isn't digital sovereignty. Yet organizations still go down this path because it so conveniently shifts all real responsibility onto others.
#^Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 (@[email protected])I've said it before an I'll say it again: This entire project of identity verification with Apple/Google-account bound mobile devices is going to lead the continent down a dark, dark path into full technological submission to the US
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Right in time for today's Digital Independence Day I am celebrating my one-year-anniversary of self-hosting this @gotosocial instance and fediverse account.
https://fedi.4x31.dev/@id/statuses/01JR3RS5MGBABWRKH9DV17F8QH
Small resource footprint, easy to self-host and with a cute sloth as mascot + in combination with an awesome web client, @phanpy => an unbeatable duo:
Getting started with GoToSocial:
https://docs.gotosocial.org/Phanpy official instance and docs:
https://phanpy.social/
https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy?tab=readme-ov-file#phanpyA big thank you to the creators, maintainers and fediverse community <3 Happy DiDay everyone! :brdHappy:
#DiDay #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #DigitalSovereignity #FediVerse
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Kennst du eine deutsche Digitalbank, deren App wir nutzen können, ohne auf Google Play angewiesen zu sein? Welche?
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Oh what a week in office land: not only #OnlyOffice vs. #EuroOffice (don't get me started on this one).
But also #collabora, main contributor to #LibreOffice, is kicked out of #TheDocumentFoundation, which leads them focusing on #CollaboraOffice. Not an April fool's joke although it sounds exactly like (a bad) one.
See Michael Meeks' post on this: https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-ejects-its-core-developers/
Not exactly optimal, where we have a great window of opportunity to push further for #Digitalsovereignity
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanphysicalsociety/116318825029249851
The recent newsletter of the #EPS encompasses the article
"The European Physical Society and the German Physical Society are on #Mastodon!"👉 https://eps.org/the-european-physical-society-and-the-german-physical-society-are-on-mastodon/
Hey, that's great! 💫
#SciComm #Europe #digitalsovereignity #socialmedia #science #research #physics #fediverse #DPG #Physik
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Headline in my TL: Google is making it easier to import another AI’s memory into Gemini
My head: Of course they are. 🤷♀️ #Google is an advertisement company making billions off every bit of data they can possibly get from each and every one of us. Their #Gemini #AI is Old-Google on steroids.
Context: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/902085/google-gemini-import-memory-chat-history – I wouldn't recommend doing that. #TeamDatenschutz #DataPrivacy #DigitalSovereignity
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RE: https://fediway.com/@honeywinter/116266645464096630
It was a blast, super inspiring, many learnings and great people. Stay tuned! #fediverse #socials #digitalsovereignity #publicSpaces
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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/116255609277115472
Now let's hope the @EUCommission does the same!
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Amsterdam chooses open source | Interoperable Europe Portal
https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/amsterdam-chooses-open-source -
You can now join the waiting list for office.eu, the European office suite (built on Nextcloud Hub) @office.eu #digitalsovereignity #Europe #office https://office.eu/
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Wir Europäer nutzen alle die gleichen Apps, von immer den gleichen Firmen: den Big Tech-Unternehmen wie #Google, #Amazon, #Meta, #Microsoft oder #X. Alle sind US-Unternehmen. Was wäre, wenn das alles wegfiele?
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/121620-127-A/wo-bleibt-das-europaeische-google-oder-facebook/
#Europa #eu #digitaleSouveränität #DigitalSovereignity #unplugtrump
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@DigiDavidex @mike @lealternative @[email protected] @informapirata
https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers
Proton, tuta, mail.de, web.de and gmx hanno tutti un'opzione free a 1 GB.
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Trump wants to cut all trade with Spain. Well: Does this also go for digital products from Microsoft, AWS, Google etc? And what does this mean for actions in terms of #digitalsovereignity for (other) european countries? www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Trump says he’s cutting all tr... -
Heute ist wieder Di.Day, der dritte digitale Unabhängigkeitstag. Und im Februar gab es eine Umstellung bei meiner E-Mail-Nutzung. Ich habe mich vom US-Dienst #Gmail abgekoppelt.
Meine E-Mails laufen jetzt über einen Server in einem deutschen Rechenzentrum. Somit bleiben alle Nachrichten, die ich mit anderen deutschen oder europäischen Servern austausche, in Deutschland bzw. Europa. Alle ein- und ausgehenden E-Mails werden zusätzlich nur noch TLS-gesichert übertragen.
Für alle, die auch zu einem deutschen oder europäischen E-Mail-Anbieter umsteigen möchten, gibt es hier ein einfaches Wechselrezept:
https://di.day/posteo-mailbox-org/#DIDit #Europa #EU #digitaleSouveränität #DigitalSovereignity #unplugtrump
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@obmondo has joined the #EuroStack initiative as a signatory, supporting Europe’s path toward digital sovereignty. 🇪🇺
Through open source Linux and Kubernetes platforms, and our work with DOSL and Digital Uafhængighed, we help organizations build secure, sovereign infrastructure on their own terms.
https://dosl.dk/
https://digitaluafhaengighed.dk/#OpenSource #KubeAid #LinuxAid #DigitalSovereignity #Obmondo #EuroStack #Linux, #Kubernetes #SelfHosting #Privacy #Fediverse
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In a sane world, when #cloudflare goes down, we'd all be calling for decentralisation...
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Did anyone attend #Eurosky's live conference on 19 Nov. in Berlin and can report about the state of play of that project?
Is there a schedule for when something will go online? What are the next steps? etc.
#Indiesky #FreeOurFeeds #Bluesky #DigitalCommons #SocialMedia #Atmosphere #Fediverse #ATProto #BigTech #digitalsovereignity #digital #eusummit25
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Der #Digitalgipfel wurde im #Fediverse wesentlich umfangreicher & informierter kommentiert & diskutiert als auf den #BigTech #SocialMedia-Plattformen. [1]
👂#Frage: Wie sind eure Eindrücke von #Bluesky #Instagram #Threads #X? Hat dazu wer Quellen, gibt es Übersichten?
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Referenzen:1 Übersicht siehe Mastowall: https://mastodon.king-consult.de/?hashtags=Digitalgipfel%2CEuSummit25%2CEUSummit%2CDigitaleSouver%C3%A4nit%C3%A4t%2Cdigitalsovereignty+&server=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.social
2 Mini-#Umfrage v. @kingconsult: https://berlin.social/@kingconsult/115571102196909777
#Reichweite #EuSummit25 #OpenSource #Mastodon #digitalsovereignity #WissKomm #Journalismus
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What did the 🇪🇺#EuSummit25 on #DigitalSovereignity achieve?
Find out live what digital experts, journalists & businesses are saying about the digital future of the #EU on this #Mastowall:
💡Scroll with your mobile phone or get a nice overview on your large screen and easily follow people via the people icon in the upper right corner.
#EuSummit #SocialMedia #Meta #BigTech #Digitalgipfel #OpenSource #Foss #DataProtection #Datenschutz #omnibus #AI #Cloud #DigitalCommons
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Yesterday the "European Network for Technological Resilience and Sovereignty" got founded. It looks promising. You can follow the summit today on live-stream
https://bmds.bund.de/aktuelles/eu-summit
At least we already have a european substitute for maps.
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Happy to see that @Mastodon is now recognised as a #DigitalPublicGood by @dpgalliance – alongside many other incredible #OpenSource projects. Find out more in their blog https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/06/mastodon-dpga/ #UNOpenSourceWeek #DGPRegistry #DigitalSovereignity
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Digital Sovereignty in Practice: Web Browsers as a Reality Check
Reading in Servo’s latest weekly report that it’s now passing 1.7 million Web Platform Subtests, I started wondering: How much investment would it build it into a competitive, independent browser, in the context of all this talk on digital sovereignty?
Servo is an experimental web browser engine written in Rust, originally developed by Mozilla Research as a memory-safe, parallel alternative to traditional browser engines like Gecko and WebKit. After Mozilla laid off the entire Servo team in 2020, the project was transferred to Linux Foundation Europe, where it continues to be developed with minimal funding from individual donors and Igalia, a team of just five engineers. Servo’s progress demonstrates what’s possible with intentional investment in independent browser projects.
As initiatives like EuroStack propose €300 billion investments in digital infrastructure and researchers proposing comprehensive roadmaps for “reclaiming digital sovereignty” through democratic, public-led digital stacks, browsers are an ideal test case to ground these ambitious visions in reality.
The current browser landscape reveals how concentrated digital control has become. Roughly 75% of global web traffic flows through browsers based on Google’s Chromium engine; not just Chrome, but Microsoft Edge, Samsung, and dozens of others. Apple’s Safari dominates iOS but remains locked to their ecosystem. Firefox, once a genuine alternative, has declined to under 5% market share globally. This means American companies control how billions of users worldwide access the web. Every search, transaction, and digital service flows through infrastructure ultimately controlled by Silicon Valley. For societies valuing their independence and sovereignty, this represents a fundamental vulnerability that recent geopolitical events have made impossible to ignore.
Digital infrastructure is as important as energy or transportation networks. Unlike physical infrastructure, however, digital systems can be controlled remotely, updated unilaterally, and modified to serve the interests of their controllers rather than their users. Browsers exemplify this challenge because they’re both critical and seemingly replaceable. In theory, anyone can build a browser. The web standards are open, and rendering engines like Servo prove it’s technically feasible.
In practice, building browsers requires sustained investment, institutional coordination, and overcoming network effects that entrench existing players. If democratic societies can successfully coordinate to build and maintain competitive browser alternatives, it demonstrates their capacity for more complex digital sovereignty goals. If they cannot, it reveals the institutional gaps that need addressing.
Firefox offers important lessons about the challenges facing independent browsers. Mozilla has indeed faced difficulties: declining market share, organizational challenges, and ongoing technical issues. The organization has also alienated its most dedicated supporters by pivoting toward advertising, AI initiatives and cutting their impactful public advocacy programs.
However, Firefox remains the only major browser engine not controlled by Apple or Google, serving hundreds of millions of users worldwide. Its struggles reflect structural challenges that any alternative browser would face: the enormous engineering effort required to maintain web compatibility, the network effects favouring dominant platforms, and the difficulty of sustaining long-term technical projects through diverse funding sources.
Servo’s recent progress illustrates both the potential and the resource constraints of independent browser development. Since 2023, Igalia’s team of just five engineers has increased Servo’s Web Platform Test pass rate from 40.8% to 62.0%, added Android support, and made the engine embeddable in other applications, even demonstrating better performance than Chromium on Raspberry Pi. This progress on a shoestring budget shows what focused investment could achieve, while also highlighting how resource-constrained independent browser development remains.
Yet, building a competitive alternative browser infrastructure would require substantial but manageable investment. Here is a ballpark estimation I made based on existing browsers: Annual operating costs would include:
- Engineering Team of ±50 developers, designers, managers etc.: €15 million.
- Quality Assurance and Testing Infrastructure: €10 million
- Security Auditing and Vulnerability Management: €10 million
- Standards and Specification Development: €5 million.
At this point I would just round up to around 50-70 million annually, which I’m sure would comfortably cover everything I missed. The proposed EuroStack initiative already envisions €300 billion over multiple years. Browsers represent a tiny fraction of what democratic societies already spend on strategic infrastructure. This calculation proves that the cost isn’t the primary barrier: the European Space Agency for example has had a budget of €7.8 billion in 2024. Europe can afford to build a browser.
It would probably take around 3-4 years to fully build an alternative browser from scratch, less so if it’s a fork of one of the existing ones. Forking Chromium/Gecko or building upon Servo’s foundation could reduce this timeline to 18-24 months for basic functionality, though achieving full web compatibility and market readiness would still require several additional years of refinement. The initial development sprint needs to be followed by a sustained engineering effort needed afterward, for maintaining compatibility with evolving web standards, fixing security vulnerabilities, and keeping pace with performance improvements.
The core challenge isn’t technical; it’s institutional. How do you sustain long-term technical projects through democratic processes that span multiple countries with different priorities, resources, and political systems? Successful models exist. The European Space Agency coordinates complex multi-national technical projects. CERN manages cutting-edge research infrastructure across dozens of countries. The Internet Engineering Task Force maintains critical internet standards through voluntary coordination among global stakeholders. The “Reclaiming Digital Sovereignity” proposal specifically addresses this challenge by advocating for “new public institutions with state and civil society representation” to govern universal digital platforms, alongside “multilateral agreements on principles and rules for the internet” as safeguards for autonomous, democratically governed solutions.
Browser development could follow similar patterns: international frameworks that respect national sovereignty while enabling coordinated action, governance structures that balance technical expertise with democratic accountability, and funding mechanisms that provide stability across political cycles. The Reclaiming Digital Sovereignity’s report’s emphasis on “democratic international consortia” and “public knowledge networks led by a new public international research agency” provides concrete institutional models that could be adapted for browser development. Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency represents another model for public investment in digital infrastructure for the public interest.
With all that being said, browsers represent one of the more achievable digital sovereignty goals. They’re built on open standards, rely heavily on open source components, and face fewer network effects than platform-based services. Other areas of the technology stack would be far more challenging, and far less open.
Success here would demonstrate that democratic societies can coordinate effectively on complex technical infrastructure and pass the first hurdle. Failure would reveal institutional gaps that need addressing before attempting more ambitious digital sovereignty goals. Democratic digital sovereignty is challenging but feasible, if societies are willing to think institutionally, invest sustainably, and build incrementally rather than trying to recreate Silicon Valley with different ownership structures.
Ultimately, the real question isn’t whether democratic societies can build alternative technologies, but whether they can build the democratic institutions necessary to govern them effectively across the complex realities of international coordination, competing priorities, and long-term sustainability. I believe browsers offer an ideal place to start testing these institutional innovations. The technical challenges are surmountable. The institutional ones remain to be proven.
Views expressed are personal and do not represent any organization.
#digitalSovereignity #funding #internetStandards #openSource #publicInterest
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Well done Schleswig-Holstein/DE!
Following the examle of DK this German county is fading out Microsoft to "take back control" over data storage and ensure "digital sovereignty". -
Can, should the #EU step in with filling the gap left behind by #MITRE & #CVE ?
Sure: this is clearly for the public good, and plays nicely with the work on #CRA #PLD #NIS2 etc.
A key problem is the sheer velocity: destruction via tyranny&fascism is fast, building up structures via democratic processes relatively slow.
The EU needs a Fast Track Program to respond to the chaos of the US. The time is ... yesterday.
#OpenSource #Software #ITSecurity #CyberSecurity #DigitalSovereignity
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#DigitalSovereignity needs #StructuralPower
"Who enforces digital standards such as those that come from the #IETF or the #W3C?
In a few cases, it is state power (e.g. accessibility in some jurisdictions) but that's rare. In some other cases, it's market discipline… But most of the important areas of the #digitalsphere have stopped being open, competitive markets over a decade ago so that the market no longer has a credible disciplining function to enforce #standards. What matters is who has the #structuralpower to deploy the standards they want to see and avoid those they dislike."
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#DigitalSovereignity: "The real power move for #creators is #ownership and control of their work and livelihoods. This freedom is actually closer for more people than ever before! Learn from two #fediverse futurists [@molly0xfff & @mike] how #decentralizedsocialmedia facilitates #betterpublishing, #community, and #businessmodels.
Speakers will cover where creators should focus their energies, and how they might thrive with or without #walledgarden social platforms."
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@theregister I can't follow. The risks did not change that much with #Trump. 🤔
Dependency to the #cloud was a bad move in many cases already before. It wasn't about risks, it was about prioritizing money as long as #outsourcing was cheaper. Now, companies often aren't in a position to self-host any more because we've lost #knowhow or resources.
You can blame many things on Trump but not this.
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@kuketzblog Super, das ist auch für einige #Solawi und deren IT-lern interessant! Und bestimmt für viele andere Organisationen, insbesondere #NGO und #Vereine
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We spoke with our Head of Sales, Eloy Crespo, at the Open Source Experience in Paris, to learn more about how the French market is developing and what he wants others to know about #CollaboraOnline.
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This may sound controversial but…
For suppressed people who value basic #digitalSovereignity, knowing that almost all #banks in #Australia are being man-in-the-middled (#MitMd) by the likes of #Amazon, CloudFlare et al. We propose a weirdly radical solution…
Start using #cheques.
Call the bank and ask for a #chequeBook. The current #MitM attackers cannot stop us from paying with a cheque and we can sign with a message of our choosing. *wink
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This may sound controversial but…
For suppressed people who value basic #digitalSovereignity, knowing that almost all #banks in #Australia are being man-in-the-middled (#MitMd) by the likes of #Amazon, CloudFlare et al. We propose a weirdly radical solution…
Start using #cheques.
Call the bank and ask for a #chequeBook. The current #MitM attackers cannot stop us from paying with a cheque and we can sign with a message of our choosing. *wink
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This may sound controversial but…
For suppressed people who value basic #digitalSovereignity, knowing that almost all #banks in #Australia are being man-in-the-middled (#MitMd) by the likes of #Amazon, CloudFlare et al. We propose a weirdly radical solution…
Start using #cheques.
Call the bank and ask for a #chequeBook. The current #MitM attackers cannot stop us from paying with a cheque and we can sign with a message of our choosing. *wink
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This may sound controversial but…
For suppressed people who value basic #digitalSovereignity, knowing that almost all #banks in #Australia are being man-in-the-middled (#MitMd) by the likes of #Amazon, CloudFlare et al. We propose a weirdly radical solution…
Start using #cheques.
Call the bank and ask for a #chequeBook. The current #MitM attackers cannot stop us from paying with a cheque and we can sign with a message of our choosing. *wink
