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Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty Guidance
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Dyne ☛ [DNG] Building your own Jitsi appliance: 11/4/2026 7pm Eastern STANDARD time
Wednesday night's meeting gives us an opportunity to see how practical a home brew Jitsi at somebody's home can be for a LUG meeting.
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Michael Geist ☛ The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 281: Mikolaj Barczentewicz on Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Push, CADA, and the Implications for Canada
Canada’s pivot to Europe took another step at last week’s Canada-EU summit in Montreal, where the two sides launched what they call an “Alliance for the Future.” The announcements ranged from critical minerals and firefighting aircraft to supercomputing and payment systems. The digital commitments received less attention, but they raise many of the same sovereignty questions that have dominated the Canada-U.S. relationship this year. Indeed, the leaders committed to reciprocal access to each other’s cloud and Hey Hi (AI) markets and concluded Canada’s first Digital Trade Agreement.
Mikołaj Barczentewicz is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Surrey, where he is research director of the Surrey Law and Technology Hub, and a Senior Scholar at the International Center for Law & Economics.
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Nicolas Fränkel ☛ From Google Drive to Syncthing over Tailscale
I used Dropbox for decades, then switched to Google Drive. Both worked for most of my files. One file never fit, though: my KeePass password database. It’s the file I need on every device and the file I want to keep private the most. After one annoyance too many, I moved it to Syncthing over Tailscale. The rest stays on Google Drive, for now. This post describes why and how. The file that made me care My password manager is KeePass-based.