Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO

Absolutely loving @vaurora's talk on crisis engineering and digital resilience!

From moving to European services to the #meshtastic Lan! #SFScon

"Why did you do it? Because it was fun!"

A great reminder from this morning's talk at #SFSCON by Jean-Baptiste Kempf from @videolan : FOSS should also be fun!

Want to participate in our #FOSDEM #EUpolicy devroom? We have just opened the Call for Presentations! Check it out here:

https://pad.softwarefreedom.net/pad/#/2/pad/view/mR8tzh0xjZTW2iCfXMORYQB6-XwEkSGLDFeetc7zQOY/embed/

For those going to #SFScon who are interested in policy (and politics!), after my talk on the #CyberResilienceAct @webmink and I will be doing a workshop on European policy, listening for your concerns and priorities, teaching you how to influence EU laws, and giving you an idea of what is […]

Europe’s War and the Baltic Lesson: Building Resilience When the Front Is Everywhere - International Centre for Defence and Security The frontline has moved. The war is already here, and managing it by financial and policy decisions is no longer enough. To withstand the aggression and win the war, Europe needs cultural and psycholo...

To withstand the aggression and win the war, #EU needs cultural and psychological shifts. For 🇪🇪, deterrence has never been a matter of abstract ratios or force tables. It begins with people—how they think, national security is as a civic habit, not a military speciality.

icds.ee/en/europes-w...

Huge Democratic party win across the board, but a lot of European newspapers are just reporting on Mamdami

MamdaNi

Funny how Republicans get furious when democrats call them fascists, and blame them for inciting deaths, but are very comfortable labelling democrats as "communist jihadists"

#USpol

Many talented Ukrainian actors, artists, comedians, sportspeople, and others left their professional careers to take up arms and defend their country from Russian occupiers.

Russia's war against Ukraine has taken the lives of at least 240 Ukrainian culture […]

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@wolf480pl while I think a majority of startups globally meet your definition, I don't necessarily believe that to be the definition in Europe, where VC is much less generous and much more cautious

A graph showing the origin of so-called "unicorn" startups, including North America, Asia, Europe and Other. America dominates with almost half of the share, wbut over the past three years, Europe's share has grown year on year from 15 to 23%, the highest number in 8 years.

The percentage of new so-called “unicorn” startups that come from Europe has grown consistently now for 3 years, reaching its highest share in the last eight years.

#EUpol

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European #OpenSource alternative.

#EUpol

https://www.euractiv.com/news/international-criminal-court-to-ditch-microsoft-office-for-european-open-source-alternative/

Americans are on the verge of losing their ability to choose their government. But they don't seem to have realized it yet.

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it's not much, but it's something!

The #Python Software Foundation look after some of the most important software for our Digital Infrastructure. They can't get grants from the US gov.t because those now require alignment with the #Trump administration's ideology.

The #EU should step up and support our critical digital […]

Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.

When asked about Russia’s war in Ukraine, ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok all regularly cite Russian propaganda
www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

The menu of the Ukrainian cafe, detailing various dishes served

If you're based in #Brussels and haven't been to the #Ukrainian Café, you're missing out!

Try some great Ukrainian dishes and support a good cause 🇺🇦

An Eclipse Foundation "Open Regulatory Compliance" mug

@EclipseFdn also got this cool mug

Spending the day at @EclipseFdn #CodeAndCompliance it's amazing to see what a wide range of innovative ideas the communities have to rise to the challenge of the #CRA. #OpenSource has well and truly come of age!

Kill the EU corporate due diligence law, US and Qatar urge EU leaders | Euractiv The current simplification proposal “falls grossily short of its aspirations,” they wrote

Two countries built by slaves urge Europe not to do due dilligence on issues including... slavery.

https://www.euractiv.com/news/kill-the-eu-corporate-due-diligence-law-us-and-quatar-urge-eu-leaders/

#Slavery #EUpol #CorporateDueDilligence #CSDD

Finally #Eurostar

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/22/eurostar-to-run-doubledecker-trains-through-channel-tunnel-from-2031

Guys and gals, it’s not even oil executives who are killing renewables. It’s Putin. We’re losing to Putin.

🧑‍⚖️ The hearing is about to begin!

👀 Representatives from #Apple, @EUCommission and the European Parliament, as policymakers from Germany and industry representatives, are all here at @Curia

💥 This is BIG 💥

:fsfe: The FSFE's lawyer will have 10 minutes to explain to Court why #DMA requires […]

Feels like a metaphore

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/20/trump-white-house-ballroom-construction

#USpol

The wild level of dependence on #AWS is here for all the world to see.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2025/oct/20/china-economic-growth-gdp-low-house-prices-fall-stock-markets-ftse-business-live-news

Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting

"The US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier"
on.ft.com/4n9nlNd

Since it has gotten some beating recently (in particular from #Apple fanboys), I've written something about the #DigitalMarketsAct for @edri and how things are going at this front:

https://edri.org/our-work/the-dma-is-a-success-it-should-be-strengthened-and-expanded/

#DMA #competition […]

STAN4CRA · GitLab Welcome to ETSI Labs

Would you like to review the drafts of the #standards being created for compliance with the CRA (Cyber Resilience Act)? They have started to appear here:
https://labs.etsi.org/rep/stan4cra/

Yes, mostly in Gitlab and Markdown,

As free Windows 10 support ends today, consider upgrading to a Linux operating system! You will continue to be protected with security updates, but you will also gain total freedom for your device.

Doesn't have to be Fedora - look around for the Linux distro that works for you. :)

Learn more […]

As you might know, I have been in an accident. My car was deemed a total loss, even though it still drives fine and everything, it's a good, well-kept car. It would be a shame to scrap it.

But you know what? The Ukrainian army does not care about the bent tailgate! So when I get better, I'm […]