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Alexandre Roure of the Computer & Communications Industry Association, whose members include many Big Tech groups, says the debate about blunt market access restrictions for non-EU tech companies “only distracts policymakers from the real task: finally delivering a functioning digital single market with clear, simple and practical rules”.

In private conversations, several Big Tech lobbyists and executives also express confidence in their ability to continue dominating the European market given the paucity of homegrown alternatives and the lack of urgency among many consumers.

by Barbara Moens for FT: archive.is/20250725082920/http via @Ruth_Mottram 🧵

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Cloud migration converts universities “from being a source of technical innovation and knowledge distribution to consumers of services”—a fundamental shift that undermines academic independence and transforms knowledge-producing institutions into service-consuming clients.

@C__CS writes on tensions between public interest and tech: techpolicy.press/clouds-over-p 🧵

Tech Policy Press · Clouds Over Public Infrastructure: Rethinking Internet Governance in the Hyperscaler Era | TechPolicy.PressDutch resistance to Amazon Web Services storage highlights global risks of hyperscaler cloud dominance, writes Dr. Corinne Cath.
Replied to Eric Maugendre

How can organizations transition to open-source software?

Advices include:
• Start small with pilot programs.
• Rethink the procurement process.
• Invest in open-source education and training.
• Measure success in terms of the greater control over your digital infrastructure and the sustainable growth that open-source adoption brings.

xwiki.com/en/Blog/why-governme

xwiki.com10 questions (and answers) on using open-source software in public institutionsLearn how open-source software adoption in governments can foster European innovation, reduce Big Tech reliance, and strengthen digital sovereignty. Read more!

"Solus is an unusually stable, unusually simple to use rolling release distribution. Everything is pretty straight forward, everything works (at the lower levels), everything installed and updated smoothly."
(But choose your desktop!)

a review of @Solus 4.7 and #Budgie 10.9 by @distrowatch: distrowatch.com/weekly.php?iss

Solus origin: #Ireland
website location: California

distrowatch.comDistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
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@rbreich The greatest geopolitical catastrophe since WWII was democracies' 'coupling' (i.e. financing and empowering) with the military-expansionist CCP dictatorship of China in the first place.

USA handing that dictatorship its "Most Favoured Nation" trade status in 1994 and greenlighting its accession to the WTO in 2000.

They were epoch-making *bi-partisan* mistakes, sponsored by your business/donor interests' greed.

Now both sides of your two-party system have to some extent realized what globally powerful monster you created over the last 30+ years.

Trump is a narcissist-fascist moron and his motley crew of sycophant morons are naturally doing it idiotically, but moaning about the fact that the USA is now engaging "trade war" (instead of rightfully moaning about the disastrous tactics!) feels a little rich.
(The CCP was *always* manipulating trade and tech transfers to its sole benefit)

Democrat administrations since the Tiananmen massacre of 1989 at the latest should all have tried building a *global coalition of democracies* that rewarded democracy and shunned all despots.

Instead putin was emboldened watching how the CCP regime got away with literally everything, just like all other dictators. 🤷‍♂️

This rant wasn't your finest hour.

Analysis of the "Great Rupture": The current US-China economic conflict (tariffs >145%!) isn't just a trade war; it's a geopolitical earthquake marking the end of Pax Americana & the chaotic emergence of a multipolar order.

We explore economic shocks, military consolidation, technological bifurcation, potential "Third Way" (EU/AU/ASEAN), and principles for navigating this new era.

10billion.substack.com/p/the-g

@SheDrivesMobility

Vielen Dank für den Hinweis! Mal bitte den Realitätscheck machen:

Wenn #Musk die #Ukraine mit #Starlink erpresst, um die ukrainischen Bodenschätze zu plündern, dann ist das ein Angriff auf ganz #Europa mit seiner US-Abhängigkeit!

Z.B. kann Trump MS, Apple, & Co. anweisen, uns die Stecker zu ziehen, falls wir ihm beim Angriff auf China "von der Fahne gehen"!

Musks Arschigkeit führt uns vor Augen, dass die #EU gefordert ist, ggü. den #USA #Decoupling & #Derisking zu starten!

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"Decoupling"? It's possible but extremely unlikely (authors being politic here); "the post-growth field suggests taking a precautionary approach, given the historical record and the rapid narrowing of the window to prevent ecological breakdown. Post-growth, it should be emphasised, does not state that decoupling economic activity from emissions and getting to net zero emissions is impossible, just that it is made harder by economic growth. For energy and material use, which can only be reduced and never brought to zero, the necessary reductions are easier to achieve with post-growth."

#DeGrowth #PostGrowth #Decoupling

thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/

Did you ever wonder how to set up a VM dedicated exclusively to dev work, so your computer could remain unaware of node, npm, and any other tool you use regularly?

For the longest time, me too! I'm extremely happy to say that I finally figured it out: soledadpenades.com/posts/2025/

And coming soon... the rest of posts 😌

soledadpenades.comIsolating developer environments with VirtualBox in Ubuntu | soledad penadés
More from supersole

Registrations are open for our #SpringSchool on #Decoupling and More

24.-28.03.2025 at the @migoettingen

uni-goettingen.de/en/692597.ht

We are especially looking forward to the mini courses:

- An introduction to #DecouplingTheory (Zane Kun Li, North Carolina State University)
- A high-low method in decoupling theory (Changkeun Oh, Seoul National University)
- Counting #RationalPoints Near Manifolds (Niclas Technau, Bonn University)

Georg-August Universität GöttingenRTG2491 Spring School on Decoupling and More - Georg-August-University GöttingenWebsite of the Georg-August-University Göttingen