David Meyer

Tech journalist and presenter of Tech Gets Real. Covers digital sovereignty quite a lot these days. Sings and plays guitar in a band called The Board. Signal: superglaze.66

Sometimes I feel unsure of myself, while other people go around in 2026 claiming to have invented the Afro
safe space☁️🦂🇹🇹 @peaceofkrys.bsky.social
knockin all this shit over
If you're a socialist with money, you're a hypocrite. If you're a socialist without money, you're a failure.
Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social
What is this framing my times?!
Yesterday’s Bluesky outage made it really difficult to promote my interview with Eurosky about providing an alternative to Bluesky’s infrastructure, so youtu.be/FgTemyBFpgc
whoever this is, they are amazing
I am optimistic that in the future we will see, for those users who want that, an automatic and permanent, complete bridge and #interoperability between #Bluesky and #Mastodon after our discussion today at the #IJF26 in #Perugia with Rose Wang Felix Hlatky Björn Staschen. See Video of our […]
RIP Andy Kershaw, folk and world music champion.

May his memory be a blessing.
Important point here from Risky Business on why NIST ending its work of generating CVSS scores for CVEs "opens the door for a lot of infosec drama." risky.biz/risky-bullet...
DOJ demanded voter files from all 50 states.

DOJ sued 31 states for refusing their demand.

My law firm intervened to protect voters in those cases.

DOJ is now 0-5.

My firm is 5-0.

Lesson: When we fight we win.
I never understand why anyone tells people to “learn AI” - the whole damn pitch of generative AI is that it saves you from having to have any kind of expertise
Los Angeles Times @latimes.com
Authors are slamming Reese Witherspoon for telling followers 'it's time to learn A.I.'
Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (RIP in this case)
Cat with sausage in mouth, looking less guilty than annoyed at having been caught
Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social
Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet
This is the line the Commission is taking. Thomas Regnier at today's midday briefing: "Why did we decide to have it open source? To be transparent and to allow for... developers, to test it, to play with it, to potentially help us to improve it... That open source code will be constantly updated..."
David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social
This is… good? I mean, isn’t this the kind of timely scrutiny you want from open source?
Yesterday Bluesky went down. @eurosky.social servers worked but we couldn't communicate as we don't have an app.

Our next step is to build everything we need to operate without Bluesky. We're raising €100,000 to build a European app backend supporting 100k+ users.

Let's do this

fund.eurosky.tech
This is… good? I mean, isn’t this the kind of timely scrutiny you want from open source?
POLITICO Europe @politico.eu
Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it took them 2 minutes to break it.
A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market

New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader

Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here

And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol
A lot of digital sovereignity is technical and boring. For non-tech people the distinction between platforms and infrastructure feels a lot like eating your veggies.

That is why I am happy
@eurosky.social somehow finds a way of making this exciting.

Check out this interview! 👇🏼
David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social
Yesterday’s Bluesky outage made it really difficult to promote my interview with Eurosky about providing an alternative to Bluesky’s infrastructure, so youtu.be/FgTemyBFpgc
Felix, CEO of Mastodon, and I hope to collaborate more. Mastodon has wide adoption in Europe and 8k communities (servers) running independently. The customization they give communities is inspiring to me. Public squares should be a gathering place for you to discover cozier corners/communities.
Panel with Bluesky and Mastodon at the International Journalism Festival
"selling off cielo24’s 13-year digital footprint—every Slack joke, every Jira ticket, emails documenting internal victories or frustrations sitting in employees’ multi-terabyte Google Drives—as training data for the next generation of AI. For that, cielo24 received “hundreds of thousands of dollars”
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social
"Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data."
"Just like the 'one rogue reporter' defence initially protected the News of the World in the early days of the phone hacking scandal, 'Mandelson lied' did the same for Starmer."

"At least, it did until now."

www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...
For no particular reason thinking about Dylan Moran on Berlusconi "So fucking crooked he sleeps on a spiral staircase! So corrupt, every time he smiles an angel gets gonorrhoea! He’s had so many face-lifts, his face has moved to the top of his head, you have to get on a step-ladder to watch him lie"
Nine Inch Noize is a lot of fun, as was the Peel It Back tour, but the NIN Tron soundtrack was meh and I really want the band to return to the experimental road it started going down with Bad Witch

want to email me? that will be david at dmeyer dot eu

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