leinir @leinir@computerfairi.es

🔊 The @EUCommission 🇪🇺 is seeking input on #Open #Digital #Ecosystems!

The European Commission’s Call for Evidence aims to shape a strategy for open source & open digital assets, boosting tech sovereignty, security & competitiveness.

🫵 If you’re a dev, researcher, or public admin: your voice matters! 🗣️

🔗 Share your feedback: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems_en

#OpenSource #DigitalEurope #TechPolicy #Innovation

@martelinnovate @linuxfoundation @cnrs @OpenForumEurope @openfuture @ngi

The EU is working on what is in essence a new Open Source strategy for Europe, and the call for evidence is now open. This is our cue to provide feedback and input to the strategy!

If you are involved in the Open Source community in any way, if you benefit (or could benefit) in any way from Open Source, or if you're simply interested in questions about digital sovereignty, please visit https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems_en for details on how to contribute.

#FOSS #opensource

Let's ask the real question:

Firefox users,

do you want any AI directly built into Firefox, or separated out into extensions?

@firefoxwebdevs
@davidgerard
@tante

#Firefox #InformedConsent

Unfortunately my employer of 10 years had to let me go at the end of 2025. I’m still officially with them for the next 3 months, but if anyone is looking for a software developer with 25 years experience across various platforms, most recently in Android app development, please get in touch!

I’ve been officially working in human-centric application development in various forms since 2002, and I am keen that the end user is afforded the best experience possible. I enjoy working as part of distributed multi-disciplinary teams and the challenges that complex systems provide - developing a broad understanding and overview I feel is important to help with integration.

I am based in Berlin amd have a preference for working remotely for an employer within Germany (tho a local office would also be an option)

#GetFediHired #FediHire

The @dotmeow kickstarter 75% of the way there! Almost time to kick out the digital landlords behind most gTLDs!

https://kickstarter.dotmeow.org/

If you're an artist/writer/creator using AI, then no, you're not a creator. You're a client commissioning that creation and stealing the creator's attribution.

Worse, you're choosing to commission a creator notorious for plagiarism where originality is needed and for fiction where truthfulness is needed.

Yet worse still, you're choosing to commission a creator so unethical that plagiarism and misinformation are the least of its ethical failings.

#NoAI

One of the best activities to wrap up the year with? Reading over 2500 donor comments for @kde's fundraiser. Thank you to everyone who donated to make our work over the next year possible! Here are some of my favorite notes donors left with their donation. 💙 🐉

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@jmaris/115788425247106542

Not that I expect many people following me to do so, but if you think the EU's DSA is about "Censorship" (at least in a bad way) you should read this thread...

Ireland: Since the Guardian are doing the "a handful of women’s groups have started to question the “unintended consequences”" thing of Self Determination and the Irish GRA 2015, time to repost the open letter from Irish feminists telling UK transphobes to piss off ...

https://feministire.com/2018/01/22/an-open-letter-to-the-organisers-of-the-we-need-to-talk-tour-from-a-group-of-feminists-in-ireland/

#Ireland #IE #Trans #Transrights