Met meer dan 250 vertegenwoordigers in heel Europa voeren we politiek op basis van dezelfde idealen en ideeën. Een stem op Volt is een stem voor de nieuwe generatie. Hard nodig, vindt ook de voormalig president van Estland, die onlangs lid van onze partij is geworden. 💜

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

10 Quarkus Boosts for Spring Developers
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#Java #quarkus #springboot

“We are in our documentary moment”
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Open source LLMs hit Europe's digital sovereignty roadmap | TechCrunch Large language models (LLMs) landed on Europe's digital sovereignty agenda with a bang last week, as news emerged of a new program to develop a series of

"Large language models (LLMs) landed on Europe’s digital sovereignty agenda with a bang last week, as news emerged of a new program to develop a series of “truly” open source LLMs covering all European Union languages": Open source LLMs hit Europe's digital sovereignty roadmap

"Open Source at its core, is building on the shoulders of giants". #redhat #techtribes

Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js—now it wants that ignored Oracle filed a motion to dismiss in response to Deno’s petition to cancel its “JavaScript” trademark. But instead of addressing the real issue—that JavaScript is an open standard with multiple indepen...

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Oracle has responded to Ryan Dahl's petition to cancel the JavaScript trademark owned by Oracle last year.

A clam with a spring attached to the shell. The spring has a magnet placed above a sensor.

Hardly new info, but BSky should know:

Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply.
Thank you, little guardian molluscs.

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Okay, okay, I now finally also have made the switch from WhatsApp to Signal. Prioritizing privacy and security, got fed-up with all the big-tech influence. #PrivacyFirst #SignalSwitch

If you are using Signal or other messaging apps: a gag order by the US government was just rendered ineffective, and Google and Apple have both confirmed that governments have been using the unencrypted contents + metadata of push notifications to spy on us! So if you use Signal, for example, be sure to change this settings (other apps may have similar). Setting for Notification Content set to "No Name or Content".

The gag order was lifted in late 2023 - so I'm coming at this late, but this is the first I'm hearing of it, so sharing in case others didn't know.
So if you use Signal, for example, change the setting for Notification Contents to "No Name or Content". 🧵 /1

Falling in love with D3js, what a powerful library for data visualisation. Definitely going to work more with this.

Frozen channel #Sneek

Morning! Woke up with ice on the water #Sneek

I was interviewed at CES this morning. We mentioned that consumers will decide whether they want to be on a platform that is “unfiltered free speech “ or “ moderated”. I mentioned that I loved @bsky.app , and spontaneously people started clapping 🔥.