You know who will never mine your private communications to train an LLM?
Better yet, you know whose words you don't need to trust, because you aren't obligated to use any particular server? And the software is open source? And regularly audited by security researchers?
Matrix.
It's not perfect, but no tool is. It's a matter of what trade offs you're willing to accept. Just sayin' ¯_(ツ)_/¯
@josh@whitequark then I hope you are happy „at the core“ - where you seem to presume that you understand people‘s problems based on some stereotype, without asking.
I don‘t feel unsafe or unwelcome in that local crowd. I don‘t even believe in that „welcoming and safe“ stuff very much. It‘s simply too narrow a selection of people, with mostly self-centered interests. way to dig yourself into nerdcore, and looking nice to the neo-libs, without actually engaging society.
#Vietnam#DataCenters#DigitalSovereignty: "Viettel projects the south-east Asian country’s data centre market will expand 15 per cent a year for the foreseeable future, possibly more if a big cloud company such as Alibaba invests there, the company said.
The expansion is fuelled in part by the data localisation rules, which Hanoi admits violate its free trade agreements but which ease the one-party state’s ability to access data.
The rules have been a boon for cloud providers that already have server farms in Vietnam, including gaming unicorn VNG and IT company CMC, which said it would construct at least two data centres in the next few years, potentially doubling its capacity."
#EU#SocialMedia#Fediverse#Mastodon#Peertube#DigitalSovereignty: "Providing public services through infrastructures under the control of the public (e.g., through the decentralized approach of the fediverse) would operationalize the idea of building and securing Digital Public Spaces. On paper, policymakers have already embraced this concept, as indicated by the inclusion of a section on “Participation in the Digital Public Space” in the European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles for the Digital Decade, which was adopted by EU co-legislators in late 2012.
The story of the EU’s Mastodon and Peertube servers is a litmus test for whether EU institutions are truly committed to the idea of a Digital Public Space and to addressing the challenge of a digital space dominated by a few corporations.
For all the talk of “digital sovereignty,” it would be unfortunate (to put it mildly) if the EU proved incapable of running a couple of servers to host a decentralized service and provide an alternative to its X and YouTube social media accounts."
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@josh The extensive use by universities, public institutions, governments, the police and other comparable places really underlines why the design of the main client Element is so unintuitive and detached from the common chat program structure.
Especially the whole "Spaces" concept instead of communities will probably work well for them, but is a complete mess for many users trying to distinguish communities and groups, or who just want a damn voice channel. It simply is awful for personal use.
To me #DigitalSovereignty is about the empowerment of the individual to be informed and in control on the use of data concerning that individual using #OpenSource and #OpenStandards.
To others it is about some weird form of data patriotism based on „us versus THEM“. I remember those arguments from the times of „we must create national clouds“.
This typically resulted in a grab for taxpayers money that got distributed with no real results. Let’s not go there again.
@alxlg@jwildeboer Also, I do not get how a copyleft license would prohibit any company from making use of a certain #FOSS library or tool; for example you can use an AGPLv3 licensed library in your proprietary product similar to how you can use an MIT licensed library, no?
The only difference being that companies are required to share their improvements or extensions being made to the given library or tool.
But OP made it sounds like it's a dumb decision to use MIT for publicly funded software and it is not. If the purpose is maximizing adoption you use MIT. Nothing in return? Well, the State doesn't need anything in return.
Also, if I could make one person aware that "taxpayer money" doesn't make sense at the cost of making 100 people forget about copyleft I would make that choice for sure.
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