The EuroStack initiative aims to establish Europe’s digital sovereignty by advancing key industries like AI, cloud computing, and quantum technology. I’ve spent the weekend reading it, …| Tara Tarakiyee - Techverständiger
Ever since its eponymous report was published nearly a decade ago, the “roads and bridges” metaphor has dominated how many working with FOSS software, including I, think about open source sustainability. Nadia Asparouhova’s influential 2016 report painted a picture of critical digital infrastructure that is prone to crumbling and neglect, drawing parallels to our physical […]| Tara Tarakiyee – Techverständiger
Reading in Servo’s latest weekly report that it’s now passing 1.7 million Web Platform Subtests, I started wondering: How much investment would it build it into a competitive, independent browser, in the context of all this talk on digital sovereignty? Servo is an experimental web browser engine written in Rust, originally developed by Mozilla Research […]| Tara Tarakiyee – Techverständiger
Open Knowledge Foundation Germany has just released a new report titled: “From Software to Society: Openness in a Changing World” by Dr. Henriette Litta and Peter Bihr (I was also interviewed for it). The report talks about what openness means in our digital ages, both from the history of openness and evaluates current challenges. One […]| Tara Tarakiyee – Techverständiger
this is a totally work of fiction not inspired by any events that happened today or anytime or by any people. In the bleak January of 2035, Huda Ziade stared at her terminal, the blue light casting harsh shadows across her face. The air around her smelled like burnt silicon and broken dreams. Her breath […]| Tara Tarakiyee – Techverständiger
As longtime readers of this blog might be aware, I’ve long been skeptical of machine learning and its so-called “intelligence”. The AI industry, aided by clueless futurists and grifters, has abused our tendency to anthropomorphize what are essentially statistical processes, whether it’s transformer architectures, diffusion models, or large language models (LLMs). Scientists and politicians, out […]| Tara Tarakiyee – Techverständiger
(this is fiction based on fictional events that never happened any comparisons or similarities to real life events or people or computer programs are a sign of an over active imagination) Dramatis Personae Act I Scene 1 Lysse sits before a bank of glowing screens, his brow furrowed with strain. A robotic figure, Xzlibius, stands […]| Tara Tarakiyee – Techverständiger
Last night, I attended an insightful and well-organized Bits & Bäume Policy Lab event at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. Cecilia Rikap delivered an expert breakdown of Big T…| Tara Tarakiyee - Techverständiger
another internet is possible| Tara Tarakiyee - Techverständiger
The United Kingdom has just delivered the world’s most expensive demonstration of why throwing technology at social problems doesn’t work. After two years of ignoring expert advice and …| Tara Tarakiyee - Techverständiger
I’m writing this article within the context of the SOAM “RE:FUND OUR DIGITAL FUTURE: REIMAGINING FUNDING ARCHITECTURES FOR PUBLIC INTEREST TECHNOLOGY” residency program I’m taking…| Tara Tarakiyee - Techverständiger
First off- excited to announce that I’ve been accepted into the SOAM Virtual Residency program with the theme “”RE:FUND OUR DIGITAL FUTURE: REIMAGINING FUNDING ARCHITECTURES FOR P…| Tara Tarakiyee - Techverständiger
