3? I understand it's a start, but it's not so impressive.

I'm more interested in actual user feedback because a product like that is quite an ambitious use case and advertised as ready to use with tons of features.

Rent isn't theft. It's payment for a service

Sure there's a service and the owner has costs, but it's actually quite unrelated to the rental price in most places. I think the question is about the regulation of markets for basic life requirements. Alternatives aren't very appealing IMHO: social aids (taxes on the rich), charity (by the rich), or persistent homelessness.

Who actually tried this?

Open source is not only about publishing code: it's about quality, verifiable, reproducible code at work. If LLMs can't do that, those "vibe coding" projects will hit a hard wall. Still, it's quite clear they badly impact the FOSS ecosystem.

Techbros got a bit too excited with Moore's law: they want everything they touch to grow exponentially. Specially money.

The European Commission claims to promote open source and freedom from foreign tech abuses, etc. It now seeks feedbacks from communities: "Towards European open digital ecosystems".

It seems to be perfect timing for getting rid of that article 6 which turns

Not sure i understand the idea taking over an open source project when one can contribute or even fork it.

Anyway, it looks like France is quite Open Source friendly. For ex. the "DINUM" (gov. IT agency) has quite a few FOSS projects, finally could support financially Matrix, and there's also quite a push for open data (https://www.data.gouv.fr/). About surveillance i suppose it's quite bad indeed, but i don't think it matters if the software has a licence like AGPL.

Finally, i doubt there's a safe haven for privacy nowadays, but please prove me wrong :)

AI as a tool for unleashing the devastating power of unregulated capitalism against its enemies, what a brilliant coup by the techbros and banksters. Not to mention the actual breakdown of community sites by AI scrapers, mostly using dirty botnet hacking techniques. This poison will eat itself one way or another. The question is: what can we do to make this happen sooner than later?

Looks more and more like a vulgar Ponzi scheme. Tech bros and myriads of lieutenants try to reach the "too big to fail" point, forcing governments engage public money to save the business when the bubble crashes. Brilliant.

A bit of patience, the burst of that bubble is coming... (https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2025/10/15/ai-bubble-may-pop---wiping-out-40-trillion-learn-what-could-happen-and-what-to-do/)

This article is so bad, take it with a pinch of salt. There's a very long history of bogus announcements around Aadhaar, governments (remember it was introduced by Congress in the name of anti-corruption) pushing it down the throat of people despite Supreme Court rulings that it cannot be compulsory.

But in India maybe more than in most places, so many people seem to believe this is a good thing to comply to such stupid use of the worst technologies, as long as the can showcase their shiny latest smartphones.

EU on fast track to absolute madness: "Risk mitigation" is so vague that virtually anything can be arbitrary enforced to anyone, reports and deliberations kept secret, yet the French reps mentioned being "hostages" of data protection laws.

By the way, the charter still mentions:

Article 7

Respect for private and family life

Everyone has the right to respect for his or her private and family life, home and communications.

Article 8

Protection of personal data

1. Everyone has the right to the protection of personal data concerning him or her.

2. Such data must be processed fairly for specified purposes and on the basis of the consent of the person concerned or some other legitimate basis laid down by law. Everyone has the right of access to data which has been collected concerning him or her, and the right to have it rectified.

3. Compliance with these rules shall be subject to control by an independent authority.