Tara Tarakiyee

The Inventory I Should Have Done Years Ago 🖼️"Ulysses at the Table of Circe (The Odyssey of Homer)." Line engraving after John Flaxman by James Parker, 1805. Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain. Flaxman developed this outline style in It...

Today on the Autonomous Stack series: Frustrated with the slop, I finally mapped every service, every account, to try and map a way out. What I found changed the scope of the whole project.

tarakiyee.com/the-inventory-i-should-have-done-years-ago/

#DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #SelfHosting

This week on the Autonomous Stack series: why I'm doing this whole thing. I strive for digital autonomy but somehow I ended up with all these dependencies I don't control. I want to document how I'm changing that.

tarakiyee.com/why-im-doing...

#DigitalSovereignity #OpenSource #Selfhosting

visual with the headline “Call for Tenders” and subheading “Sovereign Tech Resilience” on a light purple background. Below, a photo of different bugs displayed to the ceiling as art installation. Overlaid text in a light box reads: “The call for tenders is open until March 25, 2026, 10:00 a.m. CET. Questions can be asked via the electronic procurement platform DTVP and will be answered no later than March 17, 2026” A small yellow information icon appears above the text box.

In our latest blog post, we provide some background on the Sovereign Tech Resilience Program and its results thus far, outline its core objectives, and explain the reasoning behind the most recent call for tenders.

ℹ️ Please note that the submission deadline for the current tender has been extended!

reads: This idea, that large-language models merely produce statistically plausible word sequences based on training data, without having any idea about what the words refer to, has become the baseline across much of the left-intellectual landscape. Thanks to it, fundamental questions about AI’s capabilities, now and in the future, are considered settled.

the author came so close to grasping the fundamental problem here and the inherent contradiction in his argument

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Oiling the Doors at FOSDEM Cover Photo: Detail, door-hinge, inscribed with the name of Entemena of Lagash, c. 2400 BCE, from Iraq. Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany. CC-BY-SA 4.0 Osama SM Amin FRCP FOSDEM is a two day event whe...

Wrote about oiling doors at FOSDEM: tarakiyee.com/oiling-the-d... #FOSDEM #FOSS #OpenSource

Welcome to Do Flamingos Know They're Pink This blog has a new home. After years on WordPress shared hosting, it now runs on self-hosted infrastructure. Ghost on a VPS I manage, backed up to encrypted offsite storage, federated via ActivityPub...

I'm also announcing a new series, the Autonomous Stack. It's a weekly Tuesday series documenting my migration to self-hosted infrastructure. Not a tutorial. An honest account of what happens when you try to practice sovereignitymaxxing.

tarakiyee.com/welcome-to-do-flamingos-know-theyre-pink/

Welcome to Do Flamingos Know They're Pink This blog has a new home. After years on WordPress shared hosting, it now runs on self-hosted infrastructure. Ghost on a VPS I manage, backed up to encrypted offsite storage, federated via ActivityPub...

I'm renaming my blog: Do Flamingos Know They're Pink. 🦩
Flamingos aren't born pink, they become pink because of their diet. We're all being shaped by the technologies we consume: the question is whether we notice.

tarakiyee.com/welcome-to-do-flamingos-know-theyre-pink/

"We are hiring!" on a whiteboard, with the Sovereign Tech Agency logo in the bottom right corner.

We're #hiring a new Head of the Sovereign Tech Fund! 🚀

The #SovereignTechFund is the flagship program of the Sovereign Tech Agency. Since 2022, we've invested in critical #opensource infrastructure—from curl to FreeBSD to technologies like DNS powering the web—to strengthen #digitalsovereignty. 1/3

Wir sehen uns auf der #FrOSCon!

Sa, 16.8., 14:30 Uhr – Inside the #SovereignTechFellowship mit Sarah Hoffmann (@openstreetmap.bsky.social‬, Nominatim), Stefan Eissing (curl, httpd) & Mirko Swillus (Sovereign Tech Agency).

Sie sprechen zusammen über Arbeit & Alltag als Open-Source-Maintainer*in 1/3

Stream - Policy Lab 📅 6. März 17:30 Uhr – Bits & Bäume Diskussionsabend zu resilienten digitalen Infrastrukturen.

Today at 17:30 for the Bits & Bäume Policy Lab, @kattascha.bsky.social, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social, @alexandrageese.bsky.social & Sovereign Tech Agency CEO Adriana Groh are discussing how to build resilient digital infrastructure — as the economy, society, and technology are inextricably linked. 1/2

What can Open Source do for Europe?

Open source is the basis for Europe’s critical digital infrastructure, from public services to cybersecurity. To keep it reliable and secure, we need sustainable support and long-term investments.

Last autumn in Berlin, we celebrated the launch of our research report, Bug Bounties and FOSS, under the Sovereign Tech Resilience program. Now, we’re excited to share the keynote and panel videos, the German report, and a new job opening for the program!

Do you love FOSS and want to work to support public digital infrastructure? Come work with us! We're looking to strengthen the team through a couple of really interesting positions! Check them out below, and share this with your networks. #FOSSJobs #Hiring

Reminder 🔔 We’re hosting a devroom at @FOSDEM 2025! The "Funding the FOSS Ecosystem" devroom is for developers to gain insights into funding strategies, encourages funders to better understand and support developer needs in FOSS projects.

A cake covered with sprinkles with two candles and "STF" written on top of it.

Today, the Sovereign Tech Fund turns two years old. Since our first anniversary, so much has happened: new programs, more investments, and even more ways to strengthen the digital infrastructure and software that we all rely on.
We would like to thank SPRIND, @bmwk.de ...
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Hope to see you there!

45 unique black outlines of beetles and bugs in a grid, mostly in squares with a lilac background, but with white and green squares interspersed. The bugs are all generative art by bleeptrack.

How effective are bug bounties in making open source critical infrastructure safer? Join us on the evening of 30 Sep 2024 in Berlin for the presentation of Dr. Ryan Ellis’ research, a keynote by Sabine Grützmacher (MdB), and an expert panel, exploring FOSS, security, and the public interest. 1/3

With five new software projects on the YesWeHack platform, for a total of seven, there’s a lot of code to look at. Find and report potential vulnerabilities responsibly, in exchange for a bug bounty. 2/2

Calling All Security Researchers: Help Make Our Digital…

We’re calling on security researchers to help enhance the resilience of open digital infrastructure. Participate in the bug & fix bounties of seven critical software projects. 1/2 www.sovereigntechfund.de/news/calling...

3rd Charter of Trust Meetup Braunschweig together with ASRG | LinkedIn We will meet for the 3rd time to listen to Cybersecurity related talks and afterwards discuss the topics in a relaxed atmosphere. 🗓️ 7th of August 2024, 06:00 PM 📍 Siemens Mobility GmbH, Ackerstraße ...

STF technologist @tarakiyee.bsky.social will be speaking about memory safety and our Bug Resilience Program's approach to vulnerability management in open digital infrastructure this week with the Charter Of Trust in Braunschweig, Germany, hosted by Siemens Mobility: www.linkedin.com/events/3rdch...

Faking Git Till You Make It: Open Source Maintainers Beware of Reputation Farming This post was prompted by a discussion on the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Slack channel that was so interesting it warranted being posted to the SIREN mailing list. But this isn&#8217…

Who gives a damn about a Github reputation? We should: Reputation Farming and how it can harm OSS tarakiyee.com/faking-git-t...

What on Earth is Open Source AI? I want to talk about a recent conversation on the Open Source AI definition, but before that I want to do an acknowledgement. My position on the uptake of “AI” is that it is morally unc…

If you haven't been aware of the recent discussion about the Open Source AI definition, in this post I try to to share some initial links and give my take. Warning: there's an angry rant about "AI" in general at the beginning, feel free to skip.

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Do you maintain a critical Open Source component and wondering how a Bug Bounty Program might add value to your project and what the effort level might be? Feel free to reach out and I'll happily answer any questions you might have about our OSS friendly approach to bug bounties! bugresilience.de

Job: Kommunikations-Manager*in (m/w/d/x) | Sovereign Tech Fund

Beim @sovereigntechfund.de kommunizieren wir mit verschiedenen Stakeholdern über die Wichtigkeit offener digitaler Infrastrukturen. Wenn das nach einem interessanten Job für dich klingt, dann mach mit in unserem Kommunikationsteam!

www.sovereigntechfund.de/de/stellenan...

Let’s Talk About Open Source in Munich (and Everywhere Else) When news broke about Schleswig-Holstein’s move to replace Microsoft Office with LibreOffice, it felt like a breath of fresh air. It wasn’t just the fact that they’re switching to open …

Was Munich city's Linux phase really that bad? The Open Source Observatory released a case study that tells the whole story, and I wrote a blogpost about how it applies to Open Source in Public Administration efforts today: tarakiyee.com/lets-talk-ab...

Do you want a bug bounty program for your critical open source library but it's too expensive or you don't have the time to deal with reports? You can sign up for our Bug Reslience Program for help with both! Check out the Bug Resilience Program, we're open now for applications!

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Job: Bug Resilience Program Manager (all genders) | Sovereign Tech… The Sovereign Tech Fund is looking for an experienced program manager to establish and further develop the Bug Resilience Program.

Come work with us at @sovereigntechfund.de for a unique job opportunity. As the BRP Manager, you'll spearhead our efforts to enhance bug resilience in FOSS projects to make a meaningful impact in open source critical infrastructure.

Apply now at www.sovereigntechfund.de/jobs/bug-res...

Let's make this crystal clear: If you think you are anonymous because you
- used a throwaway number for Signal
- picked a completely random username for Wire/Matrix
- were given a random username with Threema/Session

YOU ARE NOT! You can be identified by the push tokens.

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