Tbh I just duckduckgo the company and product if I find it in Amazon and order directly

Small buisnesses and more so consumers can flex on what they use. Academia can choose what they teach and require Governments can choose what they pay for

We have power

Learn from the best of the US example and leapfrog from using opensource and the best of the Chinese example using open hardware.

There are so many places where good FOSS and FOSH investments can act as public infrastructure for an entire economy. After that just fostering good education so that more people can leverage and improve on it and we might really see a Renaissance

Tech workers Coalition is closest we have I think

Would absolutely love to see the EU fix the fedual kingdom style Interfaces of US cloud offerings. Like you can use things like Rancher to create a open interface that Interfaces with the absolute mess that is AWS/Azure/GCP/VMWare but it’s just because they want to pretend their all just so special, which it’s just network and compute for 99% of the time and the other one percent established open source software preconfigured on network and compute

Don’t get me wrong hyperscailing infrastructure is fucking impressive to me (and the EU should lean with Open compute there IMHO), but the Interfaces I swear are intentionally garbage to lock people in.

OpenID is still a supported standard with an active standards body.

For real I started on Ubuntu and nearly a decade later I still would be on Ubuntu if it wasn’t for their migration to snaps with the proprietary back end.

I feel like they only support this in a one way transaction kind of way.