Nostr notes by Ingo Wichmann

hardware is out of date within weeks/months? Can you elaborate on ...

2026-07-16T21:55:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…xna3
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hardware is out of date within weeks/months?
Can you elaborate on that?

The Greens in the European Parliament have published a paper on ...

2026-05-29T04:42:11Z

The Greens in the European Parliament have published a paper on ‘European Tech Sovereignty Policy’ with many sensible proposals:
https://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/public/media/file/1/9255

But when it comes to software, we should offer a better response than protectionism. And that better response is open source.

The European Greens are calling for “the development of a full European digital stack”. I hope they don’t mean it quite as it’s written there. We don’t need to develop the software all over again. From the Commission down to local authorities, should simply stop paying for licences.
The approach proposed is expensive and complicated: “… non-European providers should be…, subject to a formal justification process”. That sounds like pointless bureaucracy. It is complicated for the purchaser to verify a provider’s exact ownership structure. And it is pointless, because a European provider could be sold next week.
In contrast, it is simple to require the provider to ensure that all software supplied must be open-source.

#fairphone contributed more lines of code to the 6.17 Linux ...

2025-10-14T01:00:38Z

#fairphone contributed more lines of code to the 6.17 Linux #kernel release than Microsoft or Arm

See complete list at LWN https://lwn.net/Articles/1038358/

hi @npub1sfg…fqh4 , I'd be glad to get your firmware ...

2025-05-05T21:01:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…88z6
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hi TUXEDO (npub1sfg…fqh4) , I'd be glad to get your firmware updates via fwupd. Instead of an encrypted zip file.