This looks cool - and I had no idea it existed before reading a post by @npub19450...2lkl. It's useful to have a thing like this to point when you're arguing for public money to spent on stuff other than Palantir or AI factories, because if you are talking about digital skills, then stuff like this is arguably much more directly helpful.

MDLS

MDLS

Helping to tackle digital inequality by developing a Minimum Digital Living Standard (MDLS) for households with children covering all four UK nations.

WOW - The French government announced a project simple called Docs: “A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentationZendisorm that scales. Built with Django and React. Opensource alternative to Notion or Outline." It’s even offline-first, using the CRDTs under the hood (Y.js). LOL, does this mean I get to roll out the "Liberté, Egalitité CRDTé” Dad joke? I think it does. Link below

Docs

Docs: Your new companion to collaborate on documents efficiently, intuitively, and securely.

V interesting joint project between DINUM (🇫🇷) and Zendis (🇩🇪)

hi folks, can I get your help? Where I work, at the Green Web Foundation, we're looking for a #Django developer to join our small but ambitious team working towards a fossil free internet. We're looking for someone to help me with maintaining and developing our platform. Almost everything we do is open source, you'd be working with grown-ups. Job link below:

Green Web Foundation

Jobs - Green Web Foundation

If you know someone who might enjoy working with us, would you let them know, or share this in your networks?

Dear Brussels fediverse peeps. If you have a fave quiet cafe near Bruxelles MIDI/Zuid that you like and *have personal experience with*, and is within walking distance, would you share a recommendation. I can Google, but I’m looking for recommendations based on personal experience if possible. I thought I would arrive in time to make it to the hotel I’m staying at, and I’ve learned the train was delayed overnight (I’m on a sleeper train from Berlin to Brussels for #FOSDEM)

I want to take this article and replace every mention of the term word “AI”, with “Expensive External Consultants and Systems Integrators”, because it's strategically about as smart. Sure, there are some places where AI and machine learning can be helpful and very valuable, but this blind faith in a piece of tech, when you see something like an 80% failure rate for internal AI projects (see the rand corp report in next post) should be ringing SO many alarm bells.

the Guardian

‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI

Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data

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I posted yesterday about air quality in packed rooms at #FOSDEM, and this came up in my feed here. I think it's serious, and if I'm gonna go through the faff of learning about some of the HVAC and HEPA jargon, I figure it might be worth repurposing what I'm learning along the way into an article for the conf if nothing else, right?

social.cryptography.dog

FluConf (@fluconf@social.cryptography.dog)

You don't need to write your own code for your opinion on FOSS to matter. We want to hear from people organizing communities, operating their own s...

This is such a good piece by [@bert_hubert](

Fosstodon

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org)

8.05K Posts, 1.12K Following, 941 Followers · Software developer, entrepreneur, former government regulator, current government advisor, amateur s...

) - it really clearly lays out why so many projects to adopt open source alternatives to big tech products fail, and why we see so many large organisations adopting abysmal products like Microsoft teams and so on in the face of cheaper, less terrible software - it's about so much more than the software. It also lays out a set of sensible things you need before even starting a project to adopt OSS alternatives in orgs:

Bert Hubert's writings

Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech - Bert Hubert's writings

Now that we’re increasingly concerned about the dominance of ‘big tech’, Open Source is often mentioned as an alternative, especi...

I must be missing something obvious. Is there a nice way to do threads in one go with Mastodon? There isn't an obvious UI element see in Ivory, nor the official Mastodon client, and yet I see people like [@molly0xfff](

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Molly White (@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io)

6.35K Posts, 671 Following, 128K Followers · crypto researcher & critic, software engineer, wikipedian • @web3isgreat@indieweb.social creator �...

) doing absolutely epic long ones. I think this is because very post has to be a reply to the previous one, so there's no ID to link to, but surely this has been solved already, right? If there's a good published how to, I’d really welcome a link to it. 👍 ?