In his contribution for @ipq.bsky.social, our Senior Research Fellow @weberv.bsky.social analyses Elon #Musk's worldview and foreign policy positions, urging that 🇪🇺 must focus on accumulating tech power in response to his rise in 🇺🇸 politics. /2

Censorship will continue to get worse for a few more years; governments will eventually stop cutting off the Internet (but blackouts will continue due to conflict); the splintering of the Internet will accelerate soon; AI will empower both censors and freedom defenders, beyond software development.

Welcome! 🥳

You can listen to it wherever you get your podcasts:

- Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
- Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0Uho...
- YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kWz...
- On the Web: awala.alitu.com/episode/21fa...

I will be coming back in March with season 1. Stay tuned!

Despite global Internet freedom declining for the 14th consecutive year, I believe that we can eventually turn the tide against repressive regimes and their staggering censorship budgets.

This is precisely why I (literally just) started laibrary: github.com/contaixt/lai...

This is inspired by Aider's repo map: aider.chat/docs/repomap...

Not using LSP because I also use the LLM to reason about tech stack decisions before I even install dependencies.

Why? Is it because of o3?

Listen to it now, wherever you get your podcasts:

- Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
- Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/37t5...
- YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCQQ...
- The Web: awala.alitu.com/episode/56a2...

The episode explores how this strategic shift, whilst definitely not ideal, could ultimately help fund crucial improvements to Awala's network whilst providing immediate value to users in censored regions. I also share insights about leveraging AI to accelerate development.

Yup. My coping mechanism is to use a speech-to-text tool to get my train of thought in writing, and then use AI to convert that nonsense into something eloquent.

I knew it was going to be worth the read if you were involved. Thank you so much! 🙇🏽‍♂️

This is how you make 2025 the year of Linux on the desktop. Take that, Windows!

Ideally, there would be an easy-to-use tool that folks could use to figure this out quickly, without having to read too much and potentially misinterpret something.