The European Commission claims to promote open source and freedom from foreign tech abuses, etc. It now seeks feedbacks from communities: "Towards European open digital ecosystems".

It seems to be perfect timing for getting rid of that article 6 which turns

Looks more and more like a vulgar Ponzi scheme. Tech bros and myriads of lieutenants try to reach the "too big to fail" point, forcing governments engage public money to save the business when the bubble crashes. Brilliant.

Open source is not only about publishing code: it's about quality, verifiable, reproducible code at work. If LLMs can't do that, those "vibe coding" projects will hit a hard wall. Still, it's quite clear they badly impact the FOSS ecosystem.

A bit of patience, the burst of that bubble is coming... (https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2025/10/15/ai-bubble-may-pop---wiping-out-40-trillion-learn-what-could-happen-and-what-to-do/)

Techbros got a bit too excited with Moore's law: they want everything they touch to grow exponentially. Specially money.

AI as a tool for unleashing the devastating power of unregulated capitalism against its enemies, what a brilliant coup by the techbros and banksters. Not to mention the actual breakdown of community sites by AI scrapers, mostly using dirty botnet hacking techniques. This poison will eat itself one way or another. The question is: what can we do to make this happen sooner than later?

• "The web" is an open protocol aimed for interoperability
• "The AI" is a bunch of competing, mostly closed and private services

That will be interesting to see how this difference impacts the bubble explosion.

Recommend Veracrypt.

Or Luks which is well integrated with Linux. Are there significant advantages with Veracrypt?

Not sure i understand the idea taking over an open source project when one can contribute or even fork it.

Anyway, it looks like France is quite Open Source friendly. For ex. the "DINUM" (gov. IT agency) has quite a few FOSS projects, finally could support financially Matrix, and there's also quite a push for open data (https://www.data.gouv.fr/). About surveillance i suppose it's quite bad indeed, but i don't think it matters if the software has a licence like AGPL.

Finally, i doubt there's a safe haven for privacy nowadays, but please prove me wrong :)

This article is so bad, take it with a pinch of salt. There's a very long history of bogus announcements around Aadhaar, governments (remember it was introduced by Congress in the name of anti-corruption) pushing it down the throat of people despite Supreme Court rulings that it cannot be compulsory.

But in India maybe more than in most places, so many people seem to believe this is a good thing to comply to such stupid use of the worst technologies, as long as the can showcase their shiny latest smartphones.

Sure, but it's all about 12 digit figures, not about making sense.

EU on fast track to absolute madness: "Risk mitigation" is so vague that virtually anything can be arbitrary enforced to anyone, reports and deliberations kept secret, yet the French reps mentioned being "hostages" of data protection laws.

By the way, the charter still mentions:

Article 7

Respect for private and family life

Everyone has the right to respect for his or her private and family life, home and communications.

Article 8

Protection of personal data

1. Everyone has the right to the protection of personal data concerning him or her.

2. Such data must be processed fairly for specified purposes and on the basis of the consent of the person concerned or some other legitimate basis laid down by law. Everyone has the right of access to data which has been collected concerning him or her, and the right to have it rectified.

3. Compliance with these rules shall be subject to control by an independent authority.

What sounded like impossible in absurdity few years ago seems to be today's norm. Is that a competition of apocalyptic claims, a new religion? Actually these guys keep on trying to convince themselves and others in order to inflate the bubble till the end. It seems to be like coke, they're so high on the power it gives them.

The "money" used to buy bread is a very practical medium to exchange resources. These figures with too many digits are not real: that "money" is a result of sums of products of virtual values based on credit and speculation. The fact that the same symbol ($) is used for these two very different things sounds like a systemic bug.

https://youtu.be/y3RIHnK0_NE

Those figures are just as virtual as the "success" of these fools. Sadly the damage done by this gigantic bubble is already very concrete, but its explosion might have terrible consequences for a lot of honest people.

As i understand, Linux is under a license (GPL) which explicitly prevents closing the reuse of its code. So it's all about legal interpretation of "reuse" and so far the GPL stands up against abuses. I suppose that a company specifically targeting the source code for the intend of creating another OS might need to hire more lawyers than developers with far from certain results. But who knows, in a world where billions $ are free as soon as "AI" is mentioned in a business plan.

Oops 🫩. It's the EU's anti-circumvention law.

Source:

Thanks but strangely i didn't recognize that same token ;)

Seriously i doubt that Nadella was just talking about strings of chars. An interesting paper was published the day before Nadella's talk (https://www.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/topics/emerging-technologies/ai-tokens-how-to-navigate-spend-dynamics.html):

Business leaders should treat AI economics with the same rigor as energy or capital allocation, recognizing tokens as the new currency

Wait, it could actually be a great opportunity mein Führer... i mean Mr. President. https://youtu.be/zZct-itCwPE