Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #DigitalSovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

If you care about digital sovereignty and want to see your government join the #fediverse, contact them to say that #ItsTimeToAbolishX.

Help us make a list of how to get in touch with a representative in your area under this post, and don’t forget to #hashtag so your neighbours can find it 👇🏽 we’ll start:

#EU: https://commission.europa.eu/about/contact/representations-member-states_en

#USA: https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials

#Duck on #iPod.

Huge Victory: #ChatControl no longer forces us to break #encryption. 🎉 

🚨But: It now wants #AgeVerification.

The Trilogue starts today 🗓️ 

You've helped us stop #backdoors: https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control-criticism

Now, help us stop #AgeVerification! 👇️ 

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#contact-tool

#Fight4Privacy 

Here's a mini guide on how to bring your website to up-to-date standards! You don't even need to have AI to be an AI company

La campagna 1% al software libero… spiegata in 2 minuti

https://video.linux.it/videos/watch/75c305db-3f98-495b-be0e-1536399a4fa5

Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream

https://media.fsfe.org/w/j1c6LQVZ8qnCLLwpXMuw3M

Ada & Zangemann - Una fiaba che parla di software, skateboard e gelato al lampone

https://media.fsfe.org/w/truAn16kstE9qiv6sKJGDt

[1/2] https://www.republicworld.com/business/google-faces-lawsuit-over-alleged-secret-data-tracking-via-gemini-ai

https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(google_gemini_workspace)

A lawsuit accuses Google of activating its bullshit generator, Gemini, by default for various widely used apps, as a way of snooping on what users say in them. It's not impossible to deactivate Gemini, but Google has set up a "dark pattern" to make it so inconvenient that people will give

[2/2] up. Snooping, and dark patterns, are typical ways nonfree programs mistreat users. If you run a nonfree program, yo are helplessly at the mercy of any nonfree program's developer.

#deltachat PSAs regarding the last 24 hours:

1) If you messaged someone about 20-30 hours ago, and did not get an expected response/receipt better "resend" (long-tap or right-click the message to resend). Unfortunately, not all queued messages at the crashing nine.testrun.org server made it to the new one.

2) 2.33+ app releases are rolling out, supporting using "multiple relays" so that failing relays (like happened above) will not cause lost messages anymore. See https://support.delta.chat/t/how-to-migrate-your-profile-to-another-relay-version-2-33/

“Donate to open source projects to support their maintainers!”

[project asks for donations with a notification]

“How dare you?! What’s next, taking my pets hostage?! Shame on you for having the gall of asking me money!”

I always find it odd when people talking about high level policy stuff like EuroStack completely ignore end-user devices - Like, if you have fully sovereign EU AI cloud apps, where are you going to access them from? Your iPhone?

https://ecfr.eu/publication/get-over-your-x-a-european-plan-to-escape-american-technology

Cory Doctorow on why regulation of Big Tech consistently fails to deliver good outcomes.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/13/uncle-sucker/#willing-marks

'It's true that technology can give rise to novel regulatory challenges, but it's also true that claiming that a technology is so novel that existing regulation can't resolve its problems is just a way of buying time to commit more crimes before the regulators finally realize that your flashy new technology is just a boring old scam.'

Jesus fucking christ.

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨

Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!

Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.

🗳️ Cast your ballot: https://twsu.forms.app/worst-person-tech-2025-round-one

GNOME bans AI-generated extensions https://www.theverge.com/news/844655/gnome-linux-ai-shell-extensions-ban