Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-39. --- Why Europe’s new tech laws have the world on edge Tags: tech, law, politics When the European tech regulations encounter the changing geopolitical landscape… can we expect sparkles or the European Commission will cave in? I honestly hope it’s the former. https://edri.org/our-work/why-europes-new-tech-laws-have-the-world-on-edge/ The EU’s €2T budget overlooks a key tech pillar: Open source Tags: tech, politics, foss The European ...| ervin
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-37. --- 🇪🇺YES: Germany is not supporting ChatControl Tags: tech, surveillance, politics Se might have dodged a bullet here… Until next time. Thanks to the coalition of countries which opposed this bill. https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/115184350819592476 How Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks Tags: tech, wikipedia, knowledge, processes, culture, community, bias Very nice article on the Wikipedia success. O...| ervin
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-36. --- Your Phone Already Has Social Credit Tags: tech, surveillance, politics Interesting point of view. We point to China’s system, but it’s of course already in Western countries too… we just like to lie about it. https://www.thenexus.media/your-phone-already-has-social-credit-we-just-lie-about-it/ The Web We Lost Tags: tech, web, social-media, criticism, culture This is already an old article now. Still the core of it rings true. The o...| ervin
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-34. --- Google is killing the open web Tags: tech, google, web, xml, xslt, html, history, vendor-lockin Or why the XML roots of the web are important to keep in shape. I’m not necessarily in love with how verbose XML is, but it’s been a great enabler for interoperability. That’s indeed the latter reason which pushed Google to try to get rid of it as much as possible. https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web/ Is Germany on t...| ervin
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-32. --- Big Tech’s “Sovereign Cloud” promises just collapsed — in their own words Tags: tech, cloud, privacy, law Indeed, you can’t trust claims of the big cloud players. If asked by they will hand out your data, wherever it is hosted. https://nextcloud.com/blog/big-techs-sovereign-cloud-promises-just-collapsed-in-their-own-words/ Does Free Software Restore Dignity? Tags: tech, foss, education, ethics This is an old one, but I think tha...| ervin
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-31. --- Europe’s Self Inflicted Cloud Crisis Tags: tech, cloud, vendor-lockin, politics A change in culture and political will is indeed necessary. The relationship between organisations and US cloud providers isn’t healthy. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/our-self-inflicted-cloud-crisis/ The Future is NOT Self-Hosted Tags: tech, self-hosting, criticism There is some truth to this. Self-hosting isn’t for everyone just for the skills and c...| ervin
