Developers note similar initiatives across Europe
2 Yesterday 5:15 AM · 1d ago · 5 comments · 1 source · development 2 of 4
Community members point out parallel projects in Germany (openDesk) and France (La Suite) pursuing digital sovereignty through open platforms, indicating a broader European trend toward reducing dependence on US technology vendors.
“In the same space, also check out openDesk initiated by the German Government and La Suite by the French one.”
solarkraftDutch government (Ministry of Interior/DAWO initiative) Project initiatorFrench government (Cloud.gouv) Parallel initiative creatorGerman government Related effort
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Awesome! I believe NixOS is perfect for systems you just want to work and track reproducibly, like appliances (which a lot of server software is supposed to be). I’m glad people smarter than me are actually able to realize its advantages =)In the same space, also check out openDesk initiated by the German Government (https://www.opendesk.eu/en)…
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Any move away from the abusive big tech that exists in USA is a good move in my book. Microsoft just recently made a new patent where they will monitor you via camera and microphone to block your program/game to show you ads, and per ads viewed, you then earn credit to be able to use your program/game. It is absolutely wild to me how a corporation…
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A note to the developers in the project, if anyone is reading: your repositories are in violation of the new Codeberg policy that forbids AI-generated code [1].[1]
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For a second I was worried that the actual code behind this was dead in the water ("3 months ago") but it's just one more click away:
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Nixpkgs should reduce package count. Waiting 2 days for unbound CVE patch merge is unbearable.
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