NEW: Today, White Rose Intelligence announced the appointment of Gabriel Wilson [@gabriel] as our new Digital Liberty Advisor.

https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/blog/gabriel-wilson-joins-white-rose-intelligence-as-digital-liberty-advisor/ #digitalautonomy #cybersecurity #osint #liberty #onlineprivacy

Did you ever have a look at the excellent #documentation of #Purism products?

https://docs.puri.sm/

One of the products of Purism is the #Librem5. The Librem 5 is a #Linux phone that runs the #PureOS operating system.

This phone is built up from the bottom to provide #privacy and software #freedom. No #surveillance by the manufacturer, free and #opensource (#FOSS) is their standard.

I use a Librem 5 as my daily phone.

I reviewed US sanctions on IT services to better understand how they work and determine ways to reduce the impact. By sharing, I want to help other IT professionals evaluate and address this risk. https://nicorikken.eu/blog/2025/07/01/impact-of-us-sanctions-on-it-services/ #DigitalAutonomy

Someone who dreams about "the next internet"

An interconnected self-configuring, robust, redundant, delay and disruption tolerant, transport layer agnostic, local-first network, owned, grown, & maintained (for the common good) by communities & individuals, forever providing #DigitalLiteracy, #DigitalAutonomy, #ForwardSecrecy, #PrivacyAndSecurity, supporting being offline, portability, & roaming, without any permanent record, blockchain, middlemen, or any (global) authority getting in the way

Bonfire Social 1.0 release candidate has landed!

Curious about what the fediverse could look like with real community control?

Try out features like custom feeds, nested discussions, shared profiles, circles, and boundary-based permissions — then let us know what breaks or needs improvement.

More details and video demos: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire_social_rc/

Are you already collecting wireless information like wifi points and GSM antennas for #beaconDB?

Building a #bigtech independent database with such information is important for #DigitalSovereignty.

The #MobileLinux eco system already uses beaconDB for determining the position of devices when there is no #GPS.

Learn here how you can contribute to this #crowdsourced project:

https://beacondb.net/

Looking forward to participating tomorrow in the Digital Sovereignty panel at Drupaljam in Utrecht. See you all there?

"Microsoft, for example, cancelled Khan’s email address, forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider, ICC staffers said. His bank accounts in his home country of the U.K. have been blocked."

When you mention to companies or other people the power the U.S. government has over Microsoft, you usually come across as paranoid. We need to get back control.

As an individual user try https://cryptpad.fr (CryptPad) for your personal documents.

Jeg tror på digital autonomi fra USA.

Det udmærker mig ikke særligt og er ikke noget at prale af. På Mastodon er det vel et flertalssynspunkt.

Jeg har heller ikke forstået alle konsekvenserne, og jeg kender ikke alle vejene dertil. Jeg er ikke et tech-hoved; nærmest en analog spiller i en digital verden.

Men nu siger jeg det alligevel: Jeg tror på digital autonomi fra USA. Og jeg tror, at det er vigtigt.

“Meta invests $72 billion, where are the European tech giants? Bureaucrats can’t match Elon Musk. Europe has no unicorns, no AI centers, no talent cult. Maybe we’re just not made for this.”

I recently heard this reaction to my European Digital Autonomy Initiative (EDAI). It’s not ill-willed — it’s a brutally honest summary of the skepticism many feel. And you know what? I get it. That’s exactly my starting point.

My EDAI doesn’t pretend that Europe is leading the digital race today. We’re not. But accepting this reality isn’t the same as surrendering to it.

Europe doesn’t need to copy Silicon Valley. We don’t need to outspend Meta or worship “techbro” hustle culture. What we do need is to recognize that this is not just a technological game — it’s a cultural and political one too.

Our digital ecosystem should reflect who we are: privacy-conscious, democratic, multilingual, inclusive. It’s not naïve to build on those values — it’s strategic. Long-term trust and legitimacy matter.

Yes, we lack the capital of the Big Five. But we have regulation, infrastructure, community, and a vision of the public good. That’s a different kind of power.

So no, we’re not going to give up. And no, I’m not walking away.
I’m building — slowly, collaboratively, and with purpose. Join me.

Explore the full strategy and share your thoughts: European Digital Autonomy Initiative

Follow me on Mastodon:
TechTonicShift (@TechTonicShift@vivaldi.net) – Vivaldi Social
Gabor Hrasko (@ghrasko@mastodon.social) – Mastodon

#EDAI #DigitalSovereignty #EuropeanAlternatives #TechForEurope #OpenSource #DigitalAutonomy #EuropeanValues #BuyEuropean #TechTonicShift

https://techtonicshift.vivaldi.net/2025/05/08/why-even-try-a-european-answer-to-digital-pessimism/

Podcast "De Grote Tech Show" with Brad Smith Vice-Chairman at #Microsoft. It seems ongoing discussions on digital autonomy in the EU & NL have reached Microsoft HQ:
https://omny.fm/shows/degrotetechshow/brad-smith-microsoft-amerikaanse-rode-knop-scenario-voor-europa-moeten-we-zo-voorkomen

Quite interesting, especially for things not said out loud, but which you can derive or hear between the lines. Apparently MS is worried enough to send their Vice- Chairman on a European goodwill tour.

PS: it starts in Dutch, but continues in English.

"In the unlikely event we are ever ordered by any government anywhere in the world to suspend or cease cloud operations in #Europe, we are committing that #Microsoft will promptly and vigorously contest such a measure using all legal avenues available, including by pursuing litigation in court."

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/04/30/european-digital-commitments/

I've a huge problem with the concept of digital "sovereignty", because it evokes (and in fact push) some very reactionary political ideas.

I prefer to talk about #DigitalAutonomy or independence from Big Tech.

Just announced: XWiki's CEO & Founder, @ldubost will lead the 2025 Open Source Experience Program Committee as President!

This appointment recognizes both his personal journey and XWiki's longstanding commitment to open-source values and European digital sovereignty.

The 2025 program promises to showcase projects that maintain open-source principles while delivering tangible impact.
Read more: https://www.opensource-experience.com/en/program/program-committee/
#OpenSource #OSXP #DigitalAutonomy #FLOSS #FOSs #NEWS #Events

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This afternoon, @nextcloud are launching Hub 10.

How do we get public bodies, government departments, etc., to make the change from proprietary/closed source platforms to open source options like #NextCloud?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkGd_pNuYww