A few months ago, a Canadian judge got her #amazon , #google , #uber, credit cards accounts, etc. closed.

She was doing her job investigating war crimes made in Afghanistan, including by the #USA

That offended Americans. They decided to close all her accounts, which they have control over.

I'm expecting this behavior to become more and more common.

This is why #canada should work on #digitalsovereignty

irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/1…

‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life

Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary

^{Naomi O’Leary (The Irish Times)}

For a fantastic list of folks to add to your #noAI #AICritic follow lists, see this post by @_elena - as well as tons of great suggestions in the thread!

.. and while you're here, if you are looking for a #Canadian perspective on resisting this #grandTheftAutocomplete industry....

mastodon.social/@_elena/116210…

#digitalSovereignty #slop

Elena Rossini ⁂

2026-03-11 10:33:01

Dear Fedi friends,

I'd like to put together a list of people who are publicly resisting / calling out LLMs and AI slop.

Why? I enjoy reading my Fediverse feed in topical lists and I need something to counteract the unrelenting AI hype I see in the media.

Do you have any recommendations?

So far, at the top of my list I have:

@timnitGebru @emilymbender and @alexhanna of @DAIR

plus @cwebber @jaredwhite and @tante

Anyone else to recommend who advocates for #NoAI?

Back in May 2019, we said goodbye to SVN and Bugzilla and migrated to Git and GitHub [1]. Since then, we accumulated 188 repositories. 🙀

We're now making a list to decide which ones we're moving to @Codeberg and which are going to be archived and left behind.

While we're doing that, we signed NLnet Labs up as a Codeberg e.V. member!

[1] lists.nlnetlabs.nl/pipermail/u…

#OpenSource #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #DNS #BGP

🇪🇺 Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles

“With UnifiedAttestation, we are creating a transparent and trustworthy procedure for security checks that developers and app publishers can rely on equally. This removes the last hurdle for the use of alternative mobile operating systems,”

heise.de/en/news/Paying-withou…

#degoogle #digitalsovereignty #eu #opensource #android

Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles

Using banking and payment apps on Android smartphones with custom ROMs is a problem: A European industry consortium now wants to change that.

^{Andreas Floemer (heise online)}

A list of digital service providers located outside U.S. jurisdiction.

The list is hosted on CodeBerg — an alternative to GitHub or GitLab — based in Germany, Europe.

codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/Out…

#DigitalSovereignty #Sovereign #Jurisdiction #USJurisdiction #CodeBerg

Outside_US_Jurisdiction/Index.md at main

Outside_US_Jurisdiction - Digital Service Providers outside the jurisdiction of the United States of America.

^Codeberg.org

Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest.

In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you that I’ve been regularly updating for months.

disconnect.blog/getting-off-us…

#tech #digitalsovereignty #iran #politics #geopolitics

Getting off US tech: a guide - by Paris Marx - Disconnect

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

^{Paris Marx (Disconnect)}

I'm looking for people working at a bank in Europe who are interested in #EthicalTech and who would be interested to help us ensure that banking apps function well on European operating systems. Do you know anyone who might be interested? Please reach out to me via DM!

#DigitalSovereignty #banking #FairTech #banks #finance #tech #buyEU #DMA #DSA #SocEnt #EUtech

#Revolut #bunq #Curve #WERO #IDEAL #ING #ABNAMRO #ASN #Triodos #Rabobank #UBS #HSBC #BNP #Paribas #N26 #Wise #Qonto #BNP #Paribas

Exactly. While #snowden felt forced to reveal how the us government was illegally surveiling its own citizens, but as an aside, it also revealed the depths of its spying on all other countries, including its so called 'allies'.
But no one in the US cared about that then, and no one cares about it now. Settled opinion is that it is their right.

And to think they get angry at us when nations start decoupling #us tech.

#privacy #digitalsovereignty #eu #europe

9,500 pre-orders. Thank you. ❤️

The pre-order price is still available — but only until 28 February 2026 at 23:55 (Helsinki time). That is less than 24 hours from now.

If you have been waiting, now is the time. Secure your Jolla Phone at the pre-order price before the window closes.

🔗 jolla.com/phone

#Jolla #SailfishOS #DigitalSovereignty #PrivacyFirst #European #CommunityPowered

🎉 Big Tech alternatives are finally getting mainstream media attention! 🎉

Yesterday, The Guardian published a piece on how people and organizations can leave Big Tech behind and choose ethical, privacy-focused alternatives, a topic we’ve been passionate about at Tuta for a long time. 🙌🔐

Thank-you to Steve Rose for mentioning Tuta. It’s great to see privacy-first solutions getting recognition. 🙏

👉 Read the article: theguardian.com/technology/202…

#TechAlternatives #DigitalSovereignty

In a new review for Le Monde Informatique, writer Dominique Filippone explores Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter and highlights our performance gains coming with the ADA engine. 💪

Read the article (in French):

lemondeinformatique.fr/actuali…

#Nextcloud #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty

Nextcloud enrichit sa plateforme collaborative - Le Monde Informatique

Baptisée Hub Winter 26, cette actualisation de la plateforme collaborative de Nextcloud ajoute des des capacités de migration de données et de...

^{LeMondeInformatique}

RE: masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell/…

"It's effort worth doing. But it's effort."

On building a digital startup based entirely (or, as much as possible) on European tech.

#digitalsovereignty #EU

This is a link to an article written by someone else, not me:

"I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure. Here's the stack I landed on, what was harder than expected, and what you still can't avoid."

coinerella.com/made-in-eu-it-w…

We need more stories like this being shared in the open. You can criticise some parts of the decisions made here, but that's not the point. Someone tried, learned and shares the result. *That's* the point.

#DigitalSovereignty #Cloudless

"Made in EU" - it was harder than I thought.

I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure. Here's the stack I landed on, what was harder than expected, and what you still can't avoid.

^{Robert (Coinerella)}

#DeltaChat is a great decentralised 🇪🇺 messenger alternative to #WhatsApp and #Signal. @delta

The onboarding of a new user is ridiculously easy. Suitable for messaging w friends and family as well as security conscious users.

Just wanted to mention that. 🙂

delta.chat/en/

#DigitalSovereignty #diday #goeuropean