Get Trump out of our politics.
The UK’s over reliance on US tech companies to deliver our digital systems gives him a foothold to exert power.
It opens the way for service withdrawal and provides leverage to influence domestic polices.
Or we can choose Digital Sovereignty.
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Debian has been releasing every other year since 2005. That is actually quite impressive.
@GossiTheDog how many of the "Mythos Preview has already found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser," were created by Claude?
It’s not our ability to love that makes us human—it’s our ability to select all the pictures that include a bus.
“Tech Giants and Giant Slayers”- UK Digital Sovereignty
The Open Rights Group has produced a report on ‘The Case for Digital Sovereignty and the Digital Commons‘, with forwards by Lord Tim Clement-Jones CBE, Siân Berry MP and Clive Lewis MP.
Well worth a read, particularly by policy makers. Some of the suggestions have alternatives which are worth considering.
Visio is, as of April 2026, under construction, whereas Jitsi is operational, Open Source, hostable and stable.
Matrix is a good solution for large scale Messaging projects where integrity is vital, but XMPP is more readily deployed at small scale, is an IETF standard, and a better fit for a WhatsApp replacement.
@stevefenton I like to think of the Internet as Ecosystem (had this in Drafts for ages). and the mixture of large and small fits with that. The number of software niches completely dominated by one product seem unhealthy to me.
"Every procurement decision that embeds foreign dependency, every compromise of sovereignty in the name of convenience, accumulates into strategic vulnerability."
Lord Tim Clement Jones supports our #DigitalSovereignty report to reduce dependency on proprietary vendors and restore public sector control.
With greater investment in #OpenSource, we can balance innovation with resilience, economic opportunity with democratic accountability.
Electromagnetic Field and Snikket
Mythic Beasts @beasts are sponsoring Electromagnetic Fields 2026 @emf. Potentially many people could experience #XMPP if every attendee received a Snikket @snikket_im invite for an instance set up for the camp. 'Send Location' is really useful, Concerned families can use Limited Invites for under 18s, programmers could try wring XMPP applications etc.
@yassie_j unfortunately I find Harry Harrison's War with the robots is probably closer to the way things will turn out.
I sign up to mailing lists and accounts with 'plus' addresses, except when disallowed, when I create aliases with a minus sign. Was interested to see two fail2ban postfix-sasl failures, close in time, but completely different sources for the same 'user', who only exists as a mail address. Suspect the attack sources are part of the same group,. Looking at logs for development of secinfo-xmpp, where if a system is attacked rest of group blocks
* Power plugs mostly solid, have internal, changeable fuse, so plug density lower. Techy friends have similar mess of extensions , but theirs take up far less space.
* Due to the shuttering mechanism in the socket, some can become almost impossible to insert or worse remove if they have been in place for decades.
* Switched sockets are good, though the switches can be a failure point.
* My aunt, in her late 90's switches gadgets on/off with her walking stick!
* Friends ditto
* Access to good fish and chips makes us aware that there are also many places with disappointing fish and chips
* Railway ticketing is almost incomprehensible, even to Brits, public transport integration is almost non-existent, timetables semi-fictional. Dutch friend directions from outer Haarlem, bus, train to Gronigen 5 min gaps, worked perfectly.
Wondering how long it will take for someone to appreciate that sprinkling the magic privatization pixie dust on everything is not a universal solution.
On that link I offer small UK charities donations towards trying out Snikket as a major issue is the nobody has heard of any alternatives, and 'if everyone uses it then it must be OK'
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