Remember, the web is for everyone. It's meant to weird and diverse.

This is indeed one of the big issues of the computer science research community. It's also something of importance in fields relying on simulations... which is almost all scientific fields nowadays. Peer reviewing the paper is well practiced, but the software is another story entirely. It'd require some investment in research... but that's not where we're headed at all.

Unsurprisingly the big tech players want their own information bubble too. This kind of propaganda machine isn't really new, but they feel like they need their own now.

A paper showing that social media algorithms foster political polarization and societal division. Who knew?? Sarcasm aside, the real value of the paper is showing that by modifying those algorithms we could quickly have positive effects. Most of the participants didn't even notice they changed how they perceive others.

This debate around licensing, politics and making our FOSS efforts sustainable need to happen. It looks like for now to some people the path forward is defensive licensing? I wish at least we'd first attempt to have more strong copyleft use...

The trend has been clear for a while. This is a well crafted job of clearly mapping it out. Time for Europe to wake up maybe?

It's a bit of a sour article but it rings so true... We let Open Source take the mantle in companies which are mostly free loaders and churn closed products, or even worse have them closed and DRM protected. There's really quite some work to still realize the Free Software goals.

Good opinion piece, I wholeheartedly agree with the author on the topic. Like it or not, politics happen in organizations. Ignoring this fact is an enabler for bad decision making.

The European Commission plans are indeed short sighted... Hopefully they'll come to their senses and prioritize funds for FOSS.

When the European tech regulations encounter the changing geopolitical landscape... can we expect sparkles or the European Commission will cave in? I honestly hope it's the former.

It won't disappear that easily... Clearly the most radical supporters and architects of the Chat Control proposal won't let go. They don't want to respect people privacy and freedoms. Keep fighting!

The full report is really chilling. The amount of shady practice around that surveillance apparatus is staggering. It's apparently becoming somewhat successful commercially too.

Se might have dodged a bullet here... Until next time. Thanks to the coalition of countries which opposed this bill.

Interesting point of view. We point to China's system, but it's of course already in Western countries too... we just like to lie about it.

The approach is good, the results are encouraging as well. Not much effort and a very visible change. We need more such initiatives.

The situation is still complicated for maintainers... And companies benefiting from their free labor don't get it. This leads to really stupid situations.

Looked like a very bad idea in theory... now everyone can see how bad it is in practice. It's disappointing that the UK government decided to go that path.

A change in culture and political will is indeed necessary. The relationship between organisations and US cloud providers isn't healthy.

An old paper which is still very relevant today. It's very much written in the context of the early women's liberation movement, and yet the lessons a much more broadly applicable.

A long but important report in my opinion. Reading the executive summary is a must. This gives a good overview of the AI industrial complex and the type of society it's leading us into. The report algo gives a political agenda to put us on a better path.