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This blog post is a few weeks late, but here it is! Happy to be part of the 2025 cohort of the SOAM Residency Program to work on the theme of funding public interest technology. I'm focusing specifically on how we can make Open Hardware just as big and successful as Open Source Software, so we can gain back control of our technology where it really matters: chip by chip. I wrote about here, interested in your thoughts as always:

Tara Tarakiyee - Techverständiger

How can Open Hardware catch up with Open Source Software?

First off- excited to announce that I’ve been accepted into the SOAM Virtual Residency program with the theme “”RE:FUND OUR DIGIT...

75% of web traffic flows through Google's Chromium. Apple controls Safari. American companies control how billions access the web. Building a competitive browser alternative: ~€50-70M annually, 3-4 years. @npub1nvfu...cpws proves it's technically possible with a small team. The challenge isn't technical, it's institutional: can democratic societies coordinate long-term tech projects? Read more:

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Digital Sovereignty in Practice: Web Browsers as a Reality Check

Reading in Servo’s latest weekly report that it’s now passing 1.7 million Web Platform Subtests, I started wondering: How much investme...

#DigitalSovereignty

A kind reminder that the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Bill Gates used his and his foundation's time to aggressively lobby against lifting patents on vaccines, hindering efforts to prevent millions of infections, deaths and long term disabilities in Global Majority countries. Whatever thoughts he has on the future, whether right or obviously wrong, he can shove it.

Delta Chat has been affected by the funding cuts by the Trump administration. We need messaging technology that is secure, usable and not tied to Big Tech infrastructure. Please donate to the project if you can afford to:

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Delta Chat (39c3) (@delta@chaos.social)

Bummer. Last week our OpenTechFund contract was not signed but suspended along with OTF itself. Shit happening overseas. However, we wouldn't deli...

I wish more people would understand this about the "potential of AI". Thank you @Baldur Bjarnason "This is science-fiction. There is no path that can take the current text synthesis models and turn them into super-scientists."

Knowledge tech that's subtly wrong is more dangerous than tech that's obviously wrong. (Or, where I disagree with Robin Sloan.)

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

The Semantic Web was supposed to bring a meaningful, intelligent internet. Instead, we got brute-force AI, passing off probability as insight and filling the web with shallow, recycled content. The future could be profound, but for some reason some are opting for the fast and destructive path. Thanks, I hate it. #SemanticWeb #AI

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The Future is Meaningless and I Hate It

“The Semantic Web promised a meaningful digital future—one where the internet would understand, connect, and deliver true insight. But here we ...

I started a couple of forest fires to heat my burrito and I'm surprised by the results! It was still frozen in the middle by the end of the experiment, so it's far from perfect, but I think forest fires have a lot of potential and will revolutionize the burrito heating industry!