Oiling the Doors at FOSDEM

Oiling the Doors at FOSDEM

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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 where the Free University of Brussels (Specifically the ULB, or Université libre de Bruxelles, not to…

Welcome to Do Flamingos Know They're Pink

Welcome to Do Flamingos Know They're Pink

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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. The name is new too. "Techverständiger" served its purpose, but it was always more job…

Building a Digital Sovereignty Castle in the Sky

Building a Digital Sovereignty Castle in the Sky

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I'm writing this article within the context of the SOAM "RE:FUND OUR DIGITAL FUTURE: REIMAGINING FUNDING ARCHITECTURES FOR PUBLIC INTEREST TECHNOLOGY” residency program I'm taking part in to order to create a new speculative institutional model with the goal of empowering open hardware infrastructure…