RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@digitaleu/116685519347209645

Welcome to Fediverse, @digitaleu! 💜🐘
Follow them for content about #DigitalSovereignty, #OpenSource, #Tech and much more!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116686738841941842

According to the @EUCommission #TechSovereignty package, released today, the #EU is currently reliant on foreign providers for over 80% of its critical digital products, services, and infrastructure. We're thrilled to see the Commission acknowledge that this is an issue, and lay out a strategy to fix it.

We view this announcement as validation of Mastodon’s mission at the highest level; the Commission’s strategy is grounded in European values that Mastodon shares including security, sustainability, and human-centric design.

What’s more, the EU's explicit strategy is to build and deeply invest in #OpenSource offerings across the entire technology stack. The significant nature of this commitment provides institutional validation and will bring significant policy, funding, and competitive advantages to open source projects like #Mastodon.

#Fediverse #OpenWeb #SocialWeb #SocialMedia #FOSS #OSS

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Mastodon » 🌐 2026-06-03
@Mastodon@mastodon.social

The @EUCommission just released a statement positioning open source as central to #Europe’s #TechSovereignty.

We couldn’t agree more. #OpenSource is critical to a robust and independent society.

Here’s our full statement: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/europes-new-tech-strategy-puts-open-source-front-and-centre/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb #OpenWeb #DigitalSovereignty

The @EUCommission just released a statement positioning open source as central to #Europe’s #TechSovereignty.

We couldn’t agree more. #OpenSource is critical to a robust and independent society.

Here’s our full statement: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/europes-new-tech-strategy-puts-open-source-front-and-centre/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb #OpenWeb #DigitalSovereignty

The EU #OpenSource strategy is out!

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/communication-european-tech-sovereignty-accompanied-eu-open-source-strategy

Link to the PDF: https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/129100

Link to the Annex: https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/129101

At this occasion the @EUCommission also opened a new Mastdon account. Shout out to @digitaleu!

The #EU is about to release its #Tech #Sovereignty package. You can listen to @HennaVirkkunen 's press conference here.

I'll be livetooting in this thread as soon as it gets started 🧵 ⬇️

https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/ebs/grid?ebs=yes&ebsplus=yes&date=20260603

#EUpol #OpenSource

There are so many initiatives within the Dutch gov to choose ethical tech, and then you find out about this..

The NL Wallet, the Dutch gov version of the identification service that's being build by all EU member states, will only be available for citizens with a Google or Apple account 🤦‍♀️

I thought we wanted to be less reliant on US Big Tech companies, not more. @MinisterieEZK

#EUpolicy #opensource #digitalsovereignty #NLwallet #TheNetherlands

https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/nl-wallet-werkt-niet-zonder-amerikaanse-tech?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebuttonleden&share=G4nvC6vWSCbzwq8A%2B6mPAeOUUkMWKyz6RuWpwtIFbY9OlPelnCzqbZK8Vl8ww3U%3D

Be kind to open-source developers.

Behind most open-source projects is a person donating their time and energy to help others.

They are often working on these open-source projects after their day jobs, family obligations, and everything else life demands of them.

#OpenSource

https://prikbord.page was just launched!

Super iper cool federated calendar for events in Rotterdam (and potentially beyond!) built with @11ty on top of @gancio, including a print function powered by @pagedjs ❤️‍🔥

Still WIP but already working (wonderfully) at @relay 👀

All the code is 100% Free Software, available at https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/prikbord.page 💕

#Prikbord #Gancio #11ty #Eleventy #BuildAwesome #Rotterdam #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #StimuleringFonds #events #Rotterdam #Fediverse #launch #MVP #software #OpenSource #PagedJS #WebToPrint #Web2Print

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Roos showing the initial slide of a keynote presentation

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Example of printed agenda

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Sticker miscellaneous, including Prikbord and AntiFascist Fediverse

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People voting ideas for future plans and features

Flathub moves to ban nearly all apps and submissions made with generative AI https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/flathub-moves-to-ban-nearly-all-apps-and-submissions-made-with-generative-ai/

#Linux #OpenSource #Flathub #AI #GenAI

Flatpak’s future sandboxing design may rely more heavily on systemd services, raising questions about compatibility with non-systemd systems.
https://linuxiac.com/flatpaks-future-may-leave-non-systemd-distros-behind/

#linux #opensource

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Flatpak’s future sandboxing design may rely more heavily on systemd services, raising questions about compatibility with non-systemd systems.

Guten Morgen! ☕

Erinnerung an mich selbst: `man <befehl>` ist immer noch schneller als ChatGPT zu fragen, was `tar -xzvf` macht. Und nebenbei lernt man, dass `tar` über 80 Optionen hat – wovon man genau drei jemals benutzt.

Die anderen 77? Existieren wahrscheinlich nur, um in Quizfragen aufzutauchen.

#Linux #OpenSource #CLI

Liebe Free and Open Source Community, ihr seid der Wahnsinn.
Vor zwei Wochen haben wir um Hilfe gebeten, weil uns 30.000 € und Partner für die Konferenz fehlten. Dank eurer Spenden, Reposts und neuer Partner stehen wir jetzt bei knapp der Hälfte.
Die gute Nachricht: Die Konferenz findet statt!
Für den gewohnten Umfang brauchen wir aber weiterhin Unterstützung. Jede Spende und jeder Repost bringt uns näher ans Ziel.
Danke, dass ihr Teil davon seid. 💚🐸
https://froscon.org/en/cfp/cfpartners/
#OpenSource

Run your own decentralized social platform on shared hosting or a tiny VPS WITHOUT Redis, PostgreSQL, or complex infrastructure.

What it makes so special to me? It looks awesome, comes with a great admin web interface and does not require a VPS instance where it can also be operated on a cheap shared hosting systems. By the given requirements, it also easily runs on a #RaspberryPI and all kind of systems, including #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #Illumos and more!

This all makes it perfect to everyone and even beginners to run their own instance. With relay support (e.g., fedi-relay.gyptazy.com) it even can consume and post content over non-directly connected instances in the #fediworld!

Kudos to the author of Starling: @df@s.dfaria.eu

More information:
GitHub project: https://github.com/dfaria-eu/Starling
My blog post: https://gyptazy.com/blog/starling-simple-fediverse-server/

#fedi #fediwall #opensource #decentralized #social #socialmedia #alternatives #mastodon

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Starling as a Fediverse/ActivityPub Server

Da Pope has dropped an #encyclical. An encyclical is a pastoral letter issued by the #Pope.

Historically encyclicals serve as a key instrument of the Pope’s ordinary magisterium to guide the faithful on matters of faith, morals, devotion, or social discipline, they are generally not infallible pronouncements ex cathedra.

I’m still reading and digesting, but a quick skim suggests that this is the biggest thing to drop from the #Vatican in my lifetime.

There’s, #AI, there’s transhumanism, there’s social contract, he apologizes for the Church’s blind eye to #slavery, he declared that “just war” is no longer a thing…in a change of policy held since the Crusades. He calls for #OpenSource, he quotes #Tolkien. (I like Da Pope.)

There’s a lot. You can read it here. It’s gonna take me a while to map it all out.

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html