Europe
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@moo
France makes the first move to get rid of US software. Industrial base, not regulation, drives the self sovereignity of Internet.
The software replacing video conferencing is comes from a government department called Dinum.
"The notice will be published “in the next few days,” a spokesperson from Dinum said. That follows an announcement on Sunday by the Minister for State Reform David Amiel that France would target the adoption of a home-grown videoconferencing platform by 2027."
As reported by Politico: https://www.politico.eu/article/france-ban-officials-us-video-tools-zoom-teams-visio/
Late last year Dinum joined Matrix, an open source collective: "DINUM, the French Interministerial Digital Directorate, has officially announced that they were joining the Matrix.org Foundation as a Silver member and becomes the first government to join the Matrix.org Foundation."
https://matrix.org/blog/2025/10/dinum/
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@azbest
“According to German daily Bild, the military police fired practice ammunition at the arriving police officers, believing this was part of the military exercise.
The police officers then reportedly fired back with live ammunition, hitting one of the soldiers.”
Umm errm, let’s hope Estonia saves us all.
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@azbest
Can any native European speaker share some useful phrases? The book is unfortunately out of stock.
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@azbest
“What’s the biggest problem in your country?”
Everyone: Corruption, housing crisis, the fissiparous spectre of war crawling inexorably toward us
The Netherlands: Hmm, we’re too direct
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@fcago.eth
Germany blocks ChatControl (for the time being)
https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/115184350819592476
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@aviationdoctor.eth
Congratulations to Victor Orbán for proving once again that the Streisand effect is real
https://apnews.com/article/budapest-pride-march-defies-ban-orban-hungary-6919758b70c812bfe95dddb589e44132
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@marissaposner
European department stores are the dumbest like why can I not try on everything from all the different stores in 1 dressing room? I guess it’s a rent a space model but it’s so inconvenient
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