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Xamanismo Coletivo

#DigitalSovereignity needs #StructuralPower

"Who enforces digital standards such as those that come from the #IETF or the #W3C?
In a few cases, it is state power (e.g. accessibility in some jurisdictions) but that's rare. In some other cases, it's market discipline… But most of the important areas of the #digitalsphere have stopped being open, competitive markets over a decade ago so that the market no longer has a credible disciplining function to enforce #standards. What matters is who has the #structuralpower to deploy the standards they want to see and avoid those they dislike."
@robin

berjon.com/digital-sovereignty

Robin BerjonDigital SovereigntyDigital sovereignty has a bad reputation. In internet governance circles, sovereignty is considered awkward enough to be referred to by as the "s-word." It is often associated with misguided attempts at returning to the era of national champions, like building a French search engine or a European Google, or worse with the eternal boogeyman that is the "splinternet." It doesn't have to be this way!
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Xamanismo Coletivo

"Both for #datagovernance and #standards, what matters is #structuralpower. If you have it, you can meaningfully steer both, if you don't, you can't. I am not claiming that discussing these topics today isn't useful, it can be, but hoping that they will have transformative impact without access to structural power is wishful thinking.

The #urgency created by the #technoauthoritarian alignment between #BigTech and the #Trumpregime is the driving priority: first, reclaim structural power. Once that's done, we can debate the rest."
@robin

berjon.com/digital-sovereignty

Robin BerjonDigital SovereigntyDigital sovereignty has a bad reputation. In internet governance circles, sovereignty is considered awkward enough to be referred to by as the "s-word." It is often associated with misguided attempts at returning to the era of national champions, like building a French search engine or a European Google, or worse with the eternal boogeyman that is the "splinternet." It doesn't have to be this way!
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@Dianora And I'm shure #Canada is more able and willing to align it's #standards to the #EU (which is an upgrade) than the EU would even consider #downgrading to #ChlorinatedChicken & #YellowNumber5 standards that were already bad 50 years ago!

Maybe the EU could rebrand to like #LeagueOfFreeNations or #UnionOfFreeNations and define itself by common #Values beyond #economy, like #HumanRights and #CivilRights!

  • Something the #USA is illegally attacking even beyond it's borders which is as much of a violation of diplomatic conduct as an ambassador personally insulting the head of a government.
Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)@RachelC_Y@piaille.fr @thorsheim@mastodon.social just demanding that would likely be a *triple felony* in #Germany: - #Blackmail - #Extortion - #Discrimination I just hope @Bundesregierung@social.bund.de , @AuswaertigesAmt@social.bund.de and @antidiskriminierung@social.bund.de [remind](https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114290467686346855) the #US #Ambassador they are mere #Guests and that #Diplomats are expected to *comply with local laws and customs* or they get expelled! #NotLegalAdvice #Sarcasm #DEpol #USpol
#usa
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gcvsa ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭

Two big problems in #IT that I don't see anyone trying to solve, and very few people even thinking about, let alone talking about:

1. a comprehensive set of #professional #standards regarding the #ethical operation, administration, moderation, and #oversight of public discussion forums.

2. a comprehensive set of professional standards regarding the ethical storage and transmission of personal #data and #information.

I don't think people even understand why these are #problems.

#ethics
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Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:

The Microsoft-Dilemma - #Europe as a #Software Colony (43min)
kolektiva.media/w/cbb9f78a-970 (or
youtube.com/watch?v=duaYLW7LQv if you don't mind YT using/stealing your data)

This is how the #EU is paying a secret number of Millions to #Microsoft in order to stay less secure, more dependend, less self-empowered, and more corrupt.

And this was known even before the US went totally crazy, risking our future big time.

So let's change and take back control using #FOSS software and open standards for true competition and actually according to our own rules for a change.

PeerTubeThe Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony | Full DocumentaryBy solarpunk
#Windows#Word#Excel
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Terence Eden

🆕 blog! “How to prevent Payment Pointer fraud”

There's a new Web Standard in town! Meet WebMonetization - it aims to be a low effort way to help users passively pay website owners.

The pitch is simple. A website owner places a single new line in their HTML's <head> - something like this:

<link rel="monetization"…

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/03/how-t
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#CyberSecurity #dns #HTML #standards #WebMonitization

Web Monetization The Web Monetization API allows websites to automatically and passively receive payments from Web Monetization-enabled visitors.
Terence Eden’s Blog · How to prevent Payment Pointer fraud
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C.

<ring>

Them: Hi, this is <recruiter>, at <company>. Are you currently looking for a new opportunity?

Me: I am!

Them: My client is looking for <list of skills/experience which I have>. Can I send you the job description?

Me: Certainly!

Them: Okay, I've sent it.

Me: <reviewing> ... developing agentic AI for <X part of> the banking sector ...

Me: No, thank you.

Them: Pardon?

Me: The job is developing "AI" to be used against the financially vulnerable.
That's unethical, and I won't do it.

Them: But you're looking for work?

Me: Yes, but not unethical work.

Them: ... but you're looking for work?

What is so hard to understand about having ethical standards?

#ethics#recruiting#recruiter
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gcvsa ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭

I have been saying for decades, for as long as I have been involved in the industry that the IT industry needed to establish #standards of #ethics and #professionalism regarding #privacy, #security, and data #integrity, equal to those of the licensed professions (medicine, law, architecture/engineering, etc), and that if the IT industry did not do so, it would be detrimental not just to the industry, but to the public, and to the progress and adoption of technologies. We need a data priesthood.

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Dan Q

The WebDX #CommunityGroup at @w3cdevs have reached a milestone in their efforts to catalogue #Web browser baseline features, and that's great! ❤️

But I worry that some #developers will look at graphs like this one and think "more features == better". And I'm not sure whether or not that's actually true. From some #DX perspectives (and many #UX perspectives), widespread implementation of a new feature can be a net harm, not good.

🔗 Deeper dive (choose your preferred medium!):
- danq.me/webdx-does-more-mean-b
- gemini://danq.me/posts/webdx-d
- textplain.blog/does-more-mean-

Stacked area chart that illustrates the evolution of the web platform in terms of number of features in core browsers from 2003 to 2025
#WebBrowser#WebBrowsers#browsers
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M. Götze

Wir sind an der @zlb_berlin dabei, das Metadaten-Schema für archivierte Webseiten und zugehörige Crawls und Zeitschnitte zu erstellen.
Habt ihr Hinweise auf relevante Ressourcen zum Thema?

Siehe auch: metadaten.community/t/metadate

metadaten.community · Metadatenstandards für WebarchivierungWir sind bei der Digitalen Landesbibliothek (https://digital.zlb.de) der Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin dabei, das Metadaten-Schema für archivierte Webseiten und zugehörige Crawls/Zeitschnitte zu erstellen. Als eine gute Referenz haben wir dies hier auf dem Schirm: Dooley, Jackie, and Kate Bowers. 2018. Descriptive Metadata for Web Archiving: Recommendations of the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group. Dublin, OH: OCLC Research. Descriptive Metadata for W...
#Webarchivierung#Metadaten#Standards
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Simon Phipps

Looking at the class action lawsuit by academic peer reviewers claiming publishers constitute an illegal cartel that is misappropriating funding to their research, I am wondering whether #standards professionals could mount a similar action against ISO et al for diverting payment for their work exclusively to standards publishing.

reuters.com/legal/litigation/a

fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/

#ModestProposal
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David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊

#UK #Standards #money #Phone #BT #Broadband I never cease to be amazed at the poor service from #monopolistic #Telephone #Broadband supplier. Months without a proper service so I change my server. And lo, riding over the horizon comes the bean counter, "ere, you can't do that, you owe us x zillion squid for our appalling service". Well chaps, you can sing for it. Breach of contract is 'tort' & I'll happily keep your penny pinchers busy for years. & a free plug for Zen services 🇩🇪 of course!

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