Notices by Tara Tarakiyee (tarakiyee@mastodon.online)

@cwebber the old men and the sea

Audre Lorde's "master's tools" speech was not about tech platforms. So why does tech discourse keep citing it as if it were? I write about what happens when a Black feminist theorist's words get borrowed, stripped of context, and made to do work they were never meant to do.

https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/ #enshittification #AudreLorde #techpolicy

75% of web traffic flows through Google's Chromium. Apple controls Safari. American companies control how billions access the web.

Building a competitive browser alternative: ~€50-70M annually, 3-4 years. @servo proves it's technically possible with a small team.

The challenge isn't technical, it's institutional: can democratic societies coordinate long-term tech projects?

Read more: https://tarakiyee.com/digital-sovereignty-in-practice-web-browsers-as-a-reality-check/
#DigitalSovereignty

🔹 Technologist (all genders):
💻 Contribute your technical expertise to help inform the team and our various stakeholders and stay up to date on the cutting-edge of critical open source technologies that underpin the digital world.

https://www.sovereign.tech/jobs/technologist

#FediHire #Jobs #OpenSource

Cybersecurity Program Lead (all genders):

🔒 Lead our Sovereign Tech Resilience program to enhance the security of open source software and developing strategies to manage vulnerabilities in critical digital infrastructure through audits, bug bounties and more.

https://www.sovereign.tech/jobs/cybersecurity-program-lead

#FediHire #Jobs #OpenSource

🎉 Happy New Year! Come work with us🎉

At @sovtechfund we’re passionate about empowering the open source ecosystem, and we’re excited to share some incredible opportunities to join our team. If you’re inspired by the idea of strengthening open digital infrastructure and supporting the people behind the code. Thread incoming with the roles we are hiring for:

#FediHire #Jobs #OpenSource

Are you as tired as I am from people bringing up Munich’s Linux phase as a bad example?

Well, the European Commission's Open Source Observatory released a case study that comprehensively tells the whole story.

Instead of just sharing it like a reasonable person would I went full Charlie Day in a blogpost about how it applies to Open Source in Public Administration efforts today: https://tarakiyee.com/lets-talk-about-open-source-in-munich-and-everywhere-else/

Wow, the German government spends 197.7 million euro on Microsoft licenses. Think how many open source developers you can pay with that much money. https://www.heise.de/news/Bund-Lizenzkosten-fuer-Microsoft-auf-hohem-Niveau-insgesamt-neuer-Rekord-9744319.html

I wish this article came out before I wrote this blog post: https://tarakiyee.com/lets-talk-about-open-source-in-munich-and-everywhere-else/