We have to get a bit more independent from Big Tech IT – now everyone seems to agree. The German Heise Verlag, which thankfully now produce most of their content in both German *and* in English, reports about Palantir and openCode for instance, which deal with that topic. I’ve recently seen a two-hour-long discussion and expert hearing about it, which I can recommend in case you understand German and have those two hours for the topic. The Linke party even invited an expert from FSFE, the Free Software Foundation Europe (.org), who deal with that since long before someone started a topic like #UnplugTrump on Mastodon.
Another more or less important topic from IT: Google just stopped support for Android 12, see the heise topic here, so think about changing your OS which is mentioned in the comments – or better, get something like GrapheneOS on a still supported device. I’m still happy with that on my Pixel 6a as long as it will be supported; too bad that I can’t change to the now deceased DivestOS after that period…
As always, thanks for reading.
Update, same day:
Seems like the EU Commission is extra careful regarding the US by now – and maybe we all should be.