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Weilheim iOB, Bavaria, Germany
ex Munich, Germany
ex Espoo, Finland
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Looks like I lost 15W from my FTP over my season break.
Better get back on the bike and trails and start ramping up the training again. Not too long until the next races.
I envy cyclists how they have this pretty objective measurement (FTP) of their current form.
Much more difficult to get something similar in #running or especially in #trailrunning .
But FTP ramp tests are always so painful...
I took a rare revenge against trees who attack me every spring.
On the one hand, the United Nations embracing OpenSource this way is fantastic.
However, they really should not have events in USA right now. There is no way I’m travelling there.
Also…they really should have a proper Mostodon account.
Celebrate the #ilovefs day today by learning and sharing #FreeSoftware knowledge!
Join us in Berlin (🇩🇪) for talks on digital independence, Linux, and Free Software, with opportunities to try things out.
📍Where? At the Pablo Neruda library📚
⏰ From 14:00h
https://ilovefs.org#germany
Improving usability in Open Source is going to be a key factor in Open Source solutions becoming real alternatives to the US-based big tech and reclaiming European digital sovereignty.
In this episode of Snapp Technology Podcast, @jasperamorgan and I discuss the current state and future of Usability in Open Source.
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtW0b46G_nk
PeerTube (uploading):
https://peertube.wtf/c/snapptechnology/videos
Two stories, side by side, in the NY Times Technology section.
@Vivaldi
Yes. Deskop, Windows.
Cool, I'll take a look and see if I can find somethign there. Thanks for the tip!
@atomicpoet
This was the first game that really made you feel the speed.
A small front page teaser... it's still evolving. Next time it might be something different. Just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks.
Big Tech spent €151 million lobbying the EU last year.
That’s 890 lobbyists — more than elected MEPs.
Now key digital rights like GDPR and the AI Act are being quietly rolled back.
We looked at who’s really influencing EU tech rules — and what’s happening behind closed doors. 👇
Good article from the Matrix folks explaining that switching to Matrix doesn't necessarily mean you can avoid age verification laws.
https://matrix.org/blog/2026/02/welcome-discord/
Digital sovereignty isn’t just about buying European software - it’s about control, choice and avoiding lock-in.
Open source + open standards let governments operate independently, switch vendors, and keep control over critical tech.
Europe has strong open source foundations, but they’re underfunded. More investment in interoperable, open technologies would boost resilience and EU economic impact.
📝 Blog by @Amandine: Open source is key to Europe’s digital sovereignty: https://element.io/blog/open-source-is-key-to-europes-digital-sovereignty/
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ai, didn't read.
brilliant.
@davidculley
German #Police are completely undermining their own credibility - as you say. With one #AI-generated image they have removed credibility from all police-presented ‘#evidence’ - both future and past. That they can’t see this is astonishing. Not rocket science! More or some ethics training urgently needed. 😐
“If we allow police to use AI-generated images in their press releases, then we cannot believe them anything anymore at all. If people still believe them, anyway.”
Also amazing that their legal dept would clear this & not see the implications. 😐
If the #EU is serious about #digitalsovereignty and #privacy, #Mastodon is a meaningful step, but also a delicate one.
Supporting the #fediverse shouldn’t mean centralising it, capturing it, or over-regulating it. The real challenge is to fund capacity, standards, and sustainability without undermining #decentralization, pluralism, or community governance.
#opensource #PublicDigitalInfrastructure #europeanunion #europeancommission #european #eurosky #euroskysocial
@botteaap
The pattern I see is that people think that AI is great for everything they're clueless about...
Actually, people think that LLMs are AI in areas they're clueless about...
That's not to say that there's no use for LLMs, but AI it ain't.
I can't help but think that all these agent manager people that are loud about how they will never code again weren't great software engineers in the first place
In this episode of Snapp Technology Podcast, @jasperamorgan, @eenriquelopez and I recap our experience at #FOSDEM
We talk about Open Source, building Eurpean software and EU funding etc.
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atUJcQQ_g5I
PeerTube is down :-(
