Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak - and I'll show you how it's done
www.zdnet.com/article/your-kindles-not... 📚 #Amazon #Kindle #eBooks #eReader #Books #Reading #Tech #Jailbreak
Phorm went bust 12 years ago today, my calendar is reminding me. They wanted to scrape your web visits and inject ads into web pages at your ISP. What lovely #adtech
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorm
The French government says it's ditching Windows in favor of the Linux operating system, in an acceleration of its digital sovereignty initiative. Here's more from @TomsHardware.
https://flip.it/dgBaTe
#France #Technology #Tech #Linux #DigitalSovereignty
#DigitalSovereignty when you think #BuyEuropean is the solution:
Germany’s Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger wants a European alternative to American data analytics giant #Palantir, he told @POLITICOEurope.
“My preference is that we develop our own products and companies in #Europe that are […]
@simonzerafa Further discussion here www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1sifb7t... and https://github.com/cloud-gouv/securix - but the PR seems to say European OS's rather than any single distro across government
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@Gina/116379170038576801
@simonzerafa See this below, not yet, basically
Which is mind blowing, although the French Gendarmarie have been using Linux on 10,000 desktops since 2008.
See: https://www.numerique .gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu
A strengthened commitment of the State In line with the recent directives communicated by the Prime Minister, in particular the circulars on numerical public control and the generalization of the video conferencing tool "Visio", the seminar made it possible to set a clear objective: to reduce the non-European digital dependencies of the State. Several concrete first steps already illustrate this ambition: Regarding the evolution of the workstation, DINUM announces its release of Windows for the benefit of Linux operating system desktops. Regarding the migration to sovereign solutions, the Caisse nationale d'Assurance maladie announced a few days ago the migration of its 80 000 agents to tools of the inter-ministerial digital base (Tchap, Visio and FranceTransfer for the transfer of documents). Last month, the Government announced the migration of the health data platform to a trusted solution by the end of 2026.
This seems to be the crucial bit: "Regarding the evolution of the workstation, DINUM announces the exit of Windows in favour of #Linux operating system desktops."
I really want to hear more about France's plans to migrate government to #Linux as part of their #DigitalSovereignty strategy.
linuxiac.com/france-launches-governme...
Photo of a wind turbine. Text: This machine stops wars. Smaller text: (It's a big fan of peace)
via Greenpeace:
The Netherlands is building a "digital emergency kit" in case the internet shuts down nationwide.
Meanwhile the UK is providing every home with the opportunity to rent a bag of Microsoft Copilot sand to put your head in. #digitalsovereignty […]
bmi.usercontent.opencode.de/eudi-wallet/wallet-devel...
So, it turns out the German implementation of eIDAS (electronic ID wallet for e.g. age attestation) will require an Apple/Google account to function […]
RE: social.openrightsgroup.org/@JamesBaker/116331730134...
The current model of bans and AV leads to escalation of controls on users and content, as each round of restrictions fails to deliver. And each set of restrictions embeds state reliance on Big Tech's power, and barriers to […]
Screen grab of BBC social media story
E-safety commissioner in Australia is upset their isn’t a system to snitch on teens who are on social media. Wanting children to be safe is a reasonable thing but it isn’t healthy or normal behaviour to want a society where people report each other […]
[Original post on social.openrightsgroup.org]
if you get a chance to see The Secret Agent while it's in the cinemas, do it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Agent_(2...
"Sovereignty as a Service": Palantir and NVIDIA Launch ‘Sovereign AI’ Operating System.
No: do what the French are doing with Albert API https://albert.sites.beta.gouv.fr/
techweez.com/2026/03/12/palantir-nvid...
Anyone can spill their beer, trip over a kerb. Could happen to anyone. www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/27/ref...
The #digitaleuro might be the first real step towards European #digitalsovereignty
www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/digital_euro_...
Not content with giving #Palantir access to the UK's health data and defence secrets, now they will know about people's finances as well: www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/22/p... #digitalsovereignty
Ah, how will "Nigel cut my bills?" By "cutting Government quangos and making them more efficient." Like Environment Agency cuts helped water Companies to pour sewage into rivers unimpeded? Maybe the ICO could be helped to be more useless? Or the Competition Authority?
https://nigelcutmybills.com/
That is the only way to explain the unlimited US investment in UK tech and AI infrastructure, the strategic relationship with Palantir, the deepening of US tech deployed in the UK government. What joy. Did anyone vote for this?
My guess is that the government does in fact know and understand how dangerous the situation is. But "in for a penny, in for a pound", they think the best way to manage the risks to the UK is to deepen the UK's attachment to the USA.
And through other datasets such as the NHS, it can build a picture of individuals, the article explains. How is this not understood by the security apparatus?
#Palantir is skimming insights and conclusions about the UK's defence posture, up to and including national secrets. Where assets are deployed, what is working, what is not.
‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn #Palantir’s role at heart of government is threat to UK’s security #digitalsovereignty
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-technologies-...
Israel and the US appear to want to do to Tehran what they have done to Gaza: reduce a busy and complex society to a toxic wasteland.
Poverty, punishment, marginalisation are full of feedback loops as per Systems Dynamics, often with government in the middle, cutting benefits and publicly generating demand for the persecution of benefit cheats and the like.
What is the small boats and borders policy if not an enormous set of […]
For example, crime.
Crime rises. Government joins demands for punishment of crimes.
More people go to prison, for longer times.
When they are released, they commit more crimes.
The Government pursues popularity by demanding more punishments because crime is rising.
That's a "feedback loop".
I would get excited about the civil service's interest except that I see little actual sign of systems thinking in the work that comes out of government. Worse, they are usually a big part of the problematic feedback loops
@ret A bit; they've grabbed at one theory widely used in the health sector (Systems Dynamics). And added some power mapping tools, presumably for political context.