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Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/116062583296709123
The EU has overtaken the US as the top source of pushes to public GitHub repos. And that's excluding GitLab/Codeberg, where Europe's share is likely even larger. A quiet but profound shift in the geography of open-source innovation. Digital sovereignty isn't just policy—it's code.
#opensource #europe #tech
The European Union surpassed the United States as the first source of pushes to public Git repositories on GitHub, and that doesn't count the alternatives like Gitlab and Codeberg where I assume there's an even larger fraction of European contributions.
https://innovationgraph.github.com/global-metrics/git-pushes
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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@matrix Matrix is not ready for all of the discord Exodus. Needs more decentralization from the primary server and better moderation tools, and easier setup for admins. #matrix #Discord #exodus #tech #linux
“And that's...it. Element promises more, like native video conferencing, but heaven help you if you're trying to self-host it. It is technically possible, but by no means simple.
"Technically possible, but by no means simple" aptly describes up the entire Matrix experience, actually.
I ran a private Matrix server for about a year and a half. Why private? In two public Matrix rooms I had joined—including the room for Synapse admins—I experienced a common attack in which troll accounts spam the room with CSAM material. Horrible, but not just for the participants and admins in the room. Through the magic of federation, every server who has a user participating in the room now has a copy of the CSAM material, and has to take action to remove it. This requires a manual curl request on the server itself, because Synapse has an appalling lack of moderation tools. It's so bad that, without third-party tooling, you can't even ban a user outright from a server; you have to manually ban them from every single room.
Then came September 2, 2025. The outageof matrix.org caused by drive failures was not an indictment of Matrix's database management or recovery process—in fact, I was quite impressed with their response. But it did put the lie to Matrix's decentralization for me. Almost none of my friends could use Matrix, even though I was hosting my own server. The onboarding pipeline (especially via Element) is so focused on the flagship server, I daresay it comprises the plurality of Matrix accounts. It's not easy to get any statistics for all Matrix users, but that is my guess. How "decentralized" is that, really? Just because something can be decentralized doesn't make it so.
Isn't that right, ATProto?
I'm probably a little too close to this one. I so badly wanted Matrix to work, and I tried to make it work for my purposes for a long time. Ultimately, the pain points overcame the benefits. But if you care most about an intersection of message encryption, federation, and decentralization, and you're willing to put in quite a lot of admin time, Matrix can be a viable community chat platform.”
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/116062583296709123
The EU has overtaken the US as the top source of pushes to public GitHub repos. And that's excluding GitLab/Codeberg, where Europe's share is likely even larger. A quiet but profound shift in the geography of open-source innovation. Digital sovereignty isn't just policy—it's code.
#opensource #europe #tech
The European Union surpassed the United States as the first source of pushes to public Git repositories on GitHub, and that doesn't count the alternatives like Gitlab and Codeberg where I assume there's an even larger fraction of European contributions.
https://innovationgraph.github.com/global-metrics/git-pushes
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Why do cat-girls love PHP? Because 
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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Tech bros think using AI is fine even though it regularly make mistakes, some of them catastrophic, because _tech bros_ regularly make mistakes, some of them catastrophic.
Why shouldn't "Move fast and break things" apply to AIs too?
Some of us have been trying all along to preserve the early ethos that programming is fine craftsmanship and quality is key. We've been fighting the tendency toward "good enough" since decades before ChatGPT.
It's been a losing battle.
#AI #programming #tech
Tech bros think using AI is fine even though it regularly make mistakes, some of them catastrophic, because _tech bros_ regularly make mistakes, some of them catastrophic.
Why shouldn't "Move fast and break things" apply to AIs too?
Some of us have been trying all along to preserve the early ethos that programming is fine craftsmanship and quality is key. We've been fighting the tendency toward "good enough" since decades before ChatGPT.
It's been a losing battle.
#AI #programming #tech
One woman’s wedding to a chatbot reflects a quiet shift in how intimacy, commitment and companionship are starting to be redefined in Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2026/02/13/lifestyle/japan-ai-dating-marriage/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #lifestyle #ai #chatgpt #romance #chatbots #tech #loverse #gokikusunoki #dating #relationships
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The European Commission told TikTok to “change several key features, including disabling infinite scrolling, setting strict screen time breaks and changing its recommender systems. The demand follows the Commission's declaration that TikTok’s design is addictive to users.”
Now do the same for the US services!
https://www.politico.eu/article/tiktok-meta-facebook-instagram-brussels-kill-infinite-scrolling/
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France launches "LaSuite," an open-source office suite for digital sovereignty, reducing reliance on foreign proprietary software. 🖥️
Built on Matrix/TChap, LiveKit/Visio, Grist, and Drive—all MIT-licensed for any organization to deploy. 🇪🇺
🔗 https://www.sinologic.net/en/2026-01/france-chooses-open-source-to-secure-european-sovereignty.html
#TechNews #OpenSource #France #French #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #Matrix #Privacy #EU #Security #Software #Linux #SelfHost #Government #Europe #Data #IT #PublicSector #Microsoft #Office #Tech #Cloud #LibreOffice
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»Wenn du nicht alles änderst, änderst du nichts« – genau dieser Ton schreckt ab. Warum digitale Selbstbestimmung Brücken braucht: Ziele klären, Zwänge verstehen, Schritte planen. Neuer Beitrag: »Das Toleranzproblem der Tech-Szene«. 👇
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/das-toleranzproblem-der-tech-szene-menschen-mitnehmen-statt-belehren/
