Despite clearly being an advertisement for Proton's offering, this shows how reliant European companies are on vendors showing strategic problems. We can cheer at the EU policies when they go in the right direction. It's probably not enough already, but the European companies are clearly asleep at the wheel.
What a surprise... No really who would have expected this could happen? I heard so many times "I have nothing to hide" over the years. When something like this happens you suddenly wish you were a bit more careful with your privacy and the privacy of the people around you.
Need inspiration for your answer to the European Commission call for evidence on open source? This is a good one.
Clearly the regulators don't really understand the level of intrusiveness they're unleashing with mandating age gates. This is one more layer of surveillance for large parts of the population.
They'll do anything to further their grip on tech. The European Union is sleep walking on this one.
Go and get your voice heard! This is important matter, especially if you're interested in Free Software.
Email encryption is indeed still an open issue. There's no fix in sight for it. It's mostly a lack of political will though, so none of the big players are going to change anything.
Probably one of the most important talks of 39C3. It's a powerful call to action for the European Union to wake up and do the right thing to ensure digital sovereignty for itself and everyone else in the world. The time is definitely right due to the unexpected allies to be found along the way. It'd be a way to turn the currently bad geopolitical landscape into a bunch of positive opportunities.
Looks like Europe is finally waking up. It needs to pick up the pace now.
Interesting research. Can it give insights on the pervasive views of the time?
Very powerful talk from Bruce Sterling about design and the startup culture. The most impactful part starts somewhere in the middle (where the URL leads you).
I think I prefer friction as well. It's not about choosing discomfort all the time, but there's clearly a threshold not to cross. If things get too convenient there's a point where we get disconnected from the human condition indeed. I prefer a fuller and imperfect life.
Long but excellent opinion piece about everything which is wrong with the current AI-mania.
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.