Nice,
"Europe Launches Its First Federated AI Factory Based on a Sovereign Multi-Cloud Infrastructure"
#ai #cloud #eu #digitalsovereignty
https://www.einpresswire.com/article/829005610/europe-launches-its-first-federated-ai-factory-based-on-a-sovereign-multi-cloud-infrastructure
@ilumium running Microsoft's cloud solutions in Europe and thinking you're safe from US interference is like bringing a suitcase with NOT A BOMB written on the side onto your plane and thinking your safe because it's on *your* plane.
This is completely crazy if you think about digital sovereignty....
https://therecord.media/spain-awards-contracts-huawei-intelligence-agency-wiretaps
#spain #china #EU #digitalsovereignty #geopolitics @geopolitics
LOL
The French National Assembly is looking to move to #Microsoft-powered cloud #Bleu — a #France-based joint venture between #Orange and #Capgemini, set up with the Big Tech giant to offer its ubiquitous software suite in a “sovereign” fashion. Lawmakers seek to keep using Microsoft’s email, office and videoconferencing tools while “taking #sovereignty into account,” according to Politico.
Europe is pushing for digital sovereignty 
XWiki and OpenProject are building an open source alternative to Confluence and Jira—aimed at reducing reliance on U.S. tech and giving users more control 
Backed by public initiatives like ZenDiS, the project supports self-hosted, transparent collaboration tools.
https://news.itsfoss.com/europe-open-source-alternative-confluence/
The software side of the antifa torrent server #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism
3x 14TB datacenter drives installed so far! #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism
The #US imposes 30% of #UStariffs to the #EuropeanUnion. According to Politico, the Commission is ready to retaliate. EU OS believes that a European response with Tariffs on US BigTech services (or all services that face trade deficits) would make so much more sense if the EU had alternatives for those in place. This is why #EU_OS, #EuroStack and #DigitalSovereignty is important. It offers more leverage.
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-hits-eu-with-sweeping-30-percent-tariffs/
After spending Thursday and Friday in Philadelphia, to attend RE+, I'm back and able to get some of these new drives into the antifa torrent server. I intend to swap two of these into the server this weekend, which is good timing because another old drive is now failing as well. That's like five 2TB drives that have dropped in the last 6 months lol. Thank you all so much for your generous donations to make this project continue! #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism
ETHZ and EPFL announced the release of a Large Language Model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure: Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in 8B and 70B parameters configurations, using open-source training data, respecting web crawling opt-outs during data acquisition, and natively fluent in over 1000 languages. Quoting: "The model will be fully open: source code and weights will be publicly available, and the training data will be transparent and reproducible".
I don't know how good it's going to be, but if true for me this is the real definition of "open-source" in AI (not the ridiculous, corporate-promiscuous definition by the Open Source Initiative).
I’ve been doing some thinking on how the #fediverse, the #opensocialweb etc relate to other causes, like #privacy, or #dataportability, or #digitalsovereignty, even the #righttorepair. It appears that ultimately they all want similar things for the users of technology:
More Digital Freedom.
Some people have been using this term for a long time, I’m thinking of adopting it to describe the broader cause. Thoughts?
Discussing #DigitalSovereignty with a few people who only have gmail addresses and insist on using Microsoft Office formats to share documents. I’m not judging you. Yet. :)
@oarsi Too late. I’ve been running my own e-mail server since almost 20 years now and never understood the nay-sayers that insist one shouldn’t. Especially in times of #DigitalSovereignty discussions I’d argue the opposite: learn how it’s done and Just Do It.
Your knowledge shouldn’t disappear with your subscription.
XWiki lets you control where your docs live, how they’re structured, and how they evolve. No lock-in, no surprises.
We just published a deep-dive on knowledge sovereignty.
https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/knowledge-platform-outlives-software-subscription/
Today I'm again in Brussels to meet with Henna Virkkunen from the European Commission to discuss #EuroStack #OpenSource #Nextcloud #DigitalSovereignty #Europe
I’m delighted to learn Switzerland has taken my advice and will be launching a Swiss national LLM | …relearning the lessons of 1981 & 2005
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113668
#DigitalSovereignty #EuropeanUnion #ai #llm #quaero #switzerland
We deserve a web browser that's part of and owned by the public commons.
To be frank, I believe we deserve, need, and could easily fund two: Firefox and Servo/Verso.
The "Open Web" does not exist without a truly open browser. Most digital sovereignty initiatives collapse without one.
Mozilla is not the organizational entity to lead this.
So when will we bring back #EuroCard as truly European credit/debit card system and reduce the (IMHO dangerous) dependency on Master and Visa? #DigitalSovereignty
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Discover how this open-source, XMPP-based platform for instant messaging, group chat, voice and video calls, and file sharing can secure your data, enhance privacy, and offer unmatched customization. 
#DigitalSovereignty #Openfire #DataPrivacy #SecureCommunication
https://www.igniterealtime.org/support/articles/whitepaper_digital_sovereignty.jsp
#NAFO 
