WhatsApp is rolling out its interoperability features. There are three providers that are actually interoperable in the EU today: BirdyChat, Haiket, and Arnacon. None of them offers group chats with WhatsApp contacts as of now, which is a major obstacle for adoption, but at least there is something happening.
The CoE whose job it is to protect peoples’ human rights under the Social Charter of Council of Europa has hired an exclusive US tech giant to confine their website to Cloudflare’s walled-garden.
The rumor is that domainepublic.net treats Microsoft’s mail server with the same reciprocity of Microsoft’s treatment of other mail servers and thus blocks MS.
The rumor is that domainepublic.net treats Microsoft’s mail server with the same reciprocity of Microsoft’s treatment of other mail servers and thus effectively blocks MS.
It’s sickening enough that they use Twitter without so much as a free-world mirror. Even more in our faces when the DG MOVE (the commission’s transport branch) repeatedly references Twitter in their biennial report (linked). Note as well that the report itself is exclusively reachable only to clearnet users. Everyone else must rely on archive.org for a copy.
Although I applaud efforts like this to regulate the technofeudal fiefdoms, it’s disturbing how that movement has so much attention in comparison to the fact that Tesla’s cars impose surveillance on everyone who travels outside of their home.
Obviously it’s not smart to switch to a Cloudflare-plagued network like that of Matrix if your goal is to escape US tech giants. For strictly internal use on self-hosted instances, sure. But as soon as a matrix room becomes open public Cloudflare rears its ugly head.
If anyone could help me improve my script, it could be a way to get more posting action in Europe, instead of Cloudflare (US). What I need most is an open dataset of communities other than #Lemmyverse, which is incomplete.
i searched for https://eu-os.eu/ EU-OS and clicked on the search results that came up. there is a spanish article about this koncept https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_OS here. in there i found this other article. that was funny because these two are nice but i didnt even look for them and just found them. and i dont habla espanol! :)
We have extensive discussions about our enormous dependence on American clouds, but what exactly are we talking about? And is Europe equally dependent on all types of cloud? This article is aimed at policy makers, but it may also provide some clarity about the broader landscape to actual cloud users.
If you send an email to a recipient whose email account is hosted by Microsoft, or you share you email address with such entities, you are part of the problem.
“It’s just possible that you, a sentient being with active sensory input, have cause for concern about the security of data hosted both in the United States and by Microsoft. GitHub has been ubiquitous and indispensable for technologists. But maybe it’s time to reconsider that status.”
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