At the individual scale, self-hosting is not a good way to “be in control of my data.”

It’s like saying I do a vegetable garden to be in control of my food. I need much more than I can grow, it’s an inefficient use of my time, and I’m one bad season away from losing it all.

Resilience and transparency are key to be in control of my data and I can’t achieve this alone. This is a social problem, we need to bring solutions as a society.

#sovereignty#selfHosting #gardening

In that post I talk about the importance of governance for projects that aim to solve social problems

https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/02/28-prosthetics-that-dont-betray/

#privacy #sovereignty

Here I write about why I want to own my music and play it locally without depending on a service provider that could take it away from me, and how I do it

https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/02/14-you-can-own-music/

#music #privacy #sovereignty

At the individual scale, self-hosting is not a good way to “be in control of my data.”

It’s like saying I do a vegetable garden to be in control of my food. I need much more than I can grow, it’s an inefficient use of my time, and I’m one bad season away from losing it all.

Resilience and transparency are key to be in control of my data and I can’t achieve this alone. This is a social problem, we need to bring solutions as a society.

#sovereignty#selfHosting #gardening

The president of #Brazil — a leftist in his 3rd term who is arguably this century’s most important Latin American statesman — has been hitting back at #Trump in speeches across Brazil. His social media pages have suddenly become filled with references to Brazil’s #sovereignty. And he has taken to wearing a hat that says “Brazil belongs to Brazilians.”

#law #geopolitics

In the interview, Lula said that the American president is infringing on Brazil’s #sovereignty.

#law #geopolitics

Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data #sovereignty - https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/microsoft_admits_it_cannot_guarantee/ "Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled – however unlikely – to pass local customer info to US admin" and there we have it... #trump

Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data #sovereignty - https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/microsoft_admits_it_cannot_guarantee/ "Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled – however unlikely – to pass local customer info to US admin" and there we have it... #trump

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).

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html

#AI#LLM#ETH#EPFL #switzerland #eu #sovereignty #digitalsovereignty #opensource #osi #openwashing #privacy #gdpr

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).

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html

#AI#LLM#ETH#EPFL #switzerland #eu #sovereignty #digitalsovereignty #opensource #osi #openwashing #privacy #gdpr

Is there a reason why the European public sector shouldn’t use @Codeberg instead of GitHub?

Are there technical or legal/compliance reasons not to do so?

I would love to see the public sector contribute to the maintenance of @forgejo and to the health @Codeberg

#sovereignty #foss#publicSector

If the @EUCommission is unable to cut ties with #Israel and stop considering it like if it were a European State, which obviously it is not, what does it say about Europe complicity in a #genocide and what does it say about our #sovereignty?

Denounce EU-Israel Association Agreement and step away from these criminals! You should have done it long ago. History will be judge.

Are Foreign Ministers blind? Sanction first, then we can see how "things improve on the ground". Are we Israel's slaves?