I spend more time on Masto than Bluesky, but I find it interesting that this guy is running almost the entire stack required for bluesky, including ingesting the firehose of all the millions of users, on a 200 USD / month server: That's not far off twice the cost of larger "galaxy” size hosted instance from Masto-host, intended for hosting low thousands of users: They're not the same thing obviously, but still, it caught my eye.
Has anyone seen more info about how this switch from Microsoft in Denmark is being implemented? The article here says they’ll essentially be giving half the gov Libreoffice but staying on Office 365 for everything else, while the other half keeps using the whole integrated Office 365 suite for a year. That feels like it’s a very uneven match up and: [@bert_hubert]( ) has a piece on why
WOOT! I pay for Youtube, to avoid the ads, and because honestly I easily use it enough to justify the cost, but paying something like couple of months of subscription fees to increase the chances of there being a viable alternative in future was an easy decision to make. Looks like I wasn't alone 💯
If you're involved in the Mastodon / Fediverse #fediscovery programme, you've worked on the project, or you've been following its progress over the last year or so and you're going to this event, would you leave a comment in this thread? It was funded as part of the EU NGI Search programme, and I think it's an interesting project. I'd like to learn more about it, and I figure others might as well: I’ll add some links in the next post. /1
This is such a good post, and does a really good job of explaining the strategic risks when going all in on what you might refer to as “deeply integrated closed cloud”. [@alberto_cottica]( ) in the context of your recent FOI to the European Commission about their use of suppliers, I think it's worth a read, and if you're not following [@bert_hubert]( ) already, I think you’d get along.
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. image
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 V interesting joint project between DINUM (🇫🇷) and Zendis (🇩🇪)