Just going to leave this here...

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France launches "LaSuite," an open-source office suite for digital sovereignty, reducing reliance on foreign proprietary software. 🖥️
Built on Matrix/TChap, LiveKit/Visio, Grist, and Drive—all MIT-licensed for any organization to deploy. 🇪🇺

🔗 sinologic.net/en/2026-01/franc…

#TechNews #OpenSource #France #French #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #Matrix #Privacy #EU #Security #Software #Linux #SelfHost #Government #Europe #Data #IT #PublicSector #Microsoft #Office #Tech #Cloud #LibreOffice

France chooses Open Source to secure European Sovereignty.

According to many European media outlets, the French government has just announced its commitment to a busines

^{Elio Rojano (Sinologic)}

Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026)

#AI tags (and the #lobster everyone is going crazy over), software updates and launches, a spotlight on #VanillaCookbook - a simple #recipe platform, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

selfh.st/weekly/2026-01-30/

#selfhost #selfhosting #newsletter #foss #opensource #fosdem #homelab #privacy #security #sysadmin #devops #smarthome #fediverse #clawdbot #moltbot #openclaw #immich

Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026)

Lobster-themed AI assistants, milestone releases, and the latest NAS operating system launch

^{Ethan Sholly (selfh.st)}

I can't help it, I love beautiful, modern, minimal designs. Most user interfaces just don't appeal to me. Book apps, in particular, often feel old-fashioned. There's nothing wrong with old things though; retro tech from the 80s and 90s has its own charm, and people really knew how to make beautiful things back then.

But bad UI is a different story, it's clumsy, built with off-the-shelf frameworks without much thought, and often lacks proper design guidelines, plan or structure. That's why I can't use Bookwyrm, for example.

I read a lot and have mostly been using getbookshelf.com on iOS along with a CSV file since leaving Goodreads. Right now, I'm checking out alternatives. Even StoryGraph doesn't quite do it for me. margins.app looks promising, and Bookcover is okay but missing some features.

So, if in another world I decided to make my own fork and app, contribute to Bookwyrm, and completely refresh its UI like I did for Mastodon with the Mastodon Bird UI - what would you think of that?

#Books #BookApps #Margins #BookWyrm #UI #UIDesign #FrontEnd #BookTrackers #OwnYourData #SelfHost

Bookshelf: Library & TBR Tracker

Bookshelf is the only reading tracker app that helps you track your library, build a lasting reading habit, and better remember what you read. Beautiful. Fast. No signup required.

^Bookshelf

Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.

You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.

AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.

Reject this future.

Keep your hardware local.

Run #Linux.

Own your data.

The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.

#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich

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