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Strakke column van @miekevanstigt
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Uiteraard ligt het weer aan de "practisch" opgeleiden.....
@AngelaScholder Dat is dus juist niet wat het stuk zegt.
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Mozilla right now.
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I changed to Brave and it's very nice..... but the default search engine still has some AI stuff, but DuckDuckGo is still there.
posting this here, just because there's still hope: mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdev…
I'm not asking for faith in our direction - the thing I love about the Firefox community is how open, honest, and technical it is.But I do ask that you don't have the opposite of faith. Like, try not to be determined that we're going to do the wrong thing here.
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I do not trust this hysteria about it. Mozilla has been making the right choices for the past 20+ years; I believe it will continue to be so.
qu'est ce qu'il se passe ?
I lament that the fox you created is cute, gives it a juxtaposition.
But maybe it’s actually brilliant? After all, we want to save the fox, from itself.
Either way, I’m never paying for browser AI, and if that means ads/privacy invasions I’m out. Such a sad state of affairs. :(
at first I thought that was Thunderbird who cut herself loose and was flying away. One can dream...
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AI slop is why I dumped firefox for DuckDuckGo.
I'm really not happy with the situation either... :(
Maybe a workaround would be looking at the code and find every single url/ip that FF is supposed to call and block them in a firewall... but that's both not very casual user friendly and time consuming because if it's efficient they would just have to regularly change subdomains or whatever to make things hard.
Maybe a workaround would be looking at the code and find every single url/ip that FF is supposed to call and block them in a firewall... but that's both not very casual user friendly and time consuming because if it's efficient they would just have to regularly change subdomains or whatever to make things hard.
For a second I thought Avian Intelligence had escaped confinement
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this is why you're my favorite 
I'm sure all Mozilla's strategy is not in any way an intentional act of self-sabotage coincident with a period of minimal regulatory oversight.
I actually like how Firefox has handled AI - small local models, no spying to train AI on my data. For users who insist on using a mainstream online chatbot, it lets them do it without forcing it on others. (And there are more such users than I thought. People who I thought are way too computer illiterate to use AI surprised me by using ChatGPT.)
Firefox lets me translate text locally without big tech spying on my translations. Is this bad because it happens to use neural networks?
I already moved to LibreWolf on my desktop, but I'm still looking for an alternative for Firefox on my phone.
or capitalism overall.
Yep. As a user since before it was Firefox, it’s totally disappointing.
And another in a long line decisions messing around with the frills while not dealing with the core product.
Pretty sure they know they're alienating their core users, hoping to get a larger group of less privacy-savvy users.
lmao you draw fast
also perfectly accurate 
also perfectly accurate
@adra Thank you! 💜
To be fair, I could paint this one quickly because I only painted the fox and the parrot over a scene that I had already painted for Reddit when they had their API change controversy back in June 2023. The artwork is hosted somewhere in this directory: peppercarrot.com/en/artworks/m…
Misc - Pepper&Carrot
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.Pepper&Carrot
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Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.Pepper&Carrot
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@futureisfoss @adra infinitely reusable
This looks so beautiful for commentary on tech!
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The fact that they're already sawing. Yep, that's the Mozilla I know and tolerate
you can check web browsers privacy at privacytests.org/ @privacytests
but there is nothing yet about AI.
but there is nothing yet about AI.
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No cloud-based AI is enabled by default as far as I understood. Yes there are menu options but until they're configured nothing happens. And even when configured that's not working automatically but following a specific user action.
A global switch is in the making too, the plan is to ship it in February.
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Hello !
I don't know if it can be done that easily, and I seriously doubt that it would be anyway, but what about implementing some kind of temporary welcome screen/popup in the next version with a poll about adding AI feature in FF ? That way you would have a clear view about what your user base thinks. If 75% or more is against it, then maybe avoiding such a waste of resources would be a good idea ?
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I don't know if it can be done that easily, and I seriously doubt that it would be anyway, but what about implementing some kind of temporary welcome screen/popup in the next version with a poll about adding AI feature in FF ? That way you would have a clear view about what your user base thinks. If 75% or more is against it, then maybe avoiding such a waste of resources would be a good idea ?
@Kampfdiestel @Gynux there is (maybe) some hope with that mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdev… (and this kill switch will maybe make the job to remove it easier) but the worst thing is that (a good part of) the remaining FF devs will spend a lot of time on these features instead of improving more important things...
Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features.We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.
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That's not true Philippe. We're hiring to work on these things, this means this doesn't change what the other engineers are working on. You could say that this money could be used elsewhere, sure, but still I hope this reduces your concern.
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That's not true Philippe. We're hiring to work on these things, this means this doesn't change what the other engineers are working on. You could say that this money could be used elsewhere, sure, but still I hope this reduces your concern.
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Seeing how the AI crap already in Firefox is enabled by default and has to be disabled in about:config, no, it does not reduce my concern.
Start with opt-in for the already integrated AI crap and an easy way to disable it.
There are people at Mozilla doing user research, I think they're doing a great job. I don't know if they planned such a survey. I believe there's such a thing inside Firefox, that can ask questions to a subset of the users, but I'm not so sure.
You sir are the wisest of illustrators..... Insta-meme!
I'm not sure so far. ML has valid applications, and so far what Mozilla has brought to the table seems very reasonable to me. Most important thing for me is that everything is local and privacy friendly. And the features they have are very reasonable: An alt-text generation model makes a lot of sense for people to whom alt-texts matter. And local translation of websites also sounds like a really nice feature. As far as I see such features will make the web more accessible with better privacy.
For me the most important things are:
1. ML should be local and not send arbitrary data to shady third party services
2. ML should be build to only affect performance when you actually need it
3. ML should provide specific tools, not general purpose blackboxes
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4. ML should be trained in a responisble way, which means:
1. Responsible source of training data
2. Resource use of training should be justified by the benefit of the functionality
I remember the time when ML was mosty an exciting University thing, where results were shared, and not some big corporation BS. I am not against going back in that direction.
But you know, digiKam has been using public models for facial recognition and matching for years now. And I don't think anything bad came from it.
I am currently in the position of saying: Wait and see what mozilla does. And if it turns out the wrong way, there are forks. That's the beauty of open source.
@lazy Plenty of good ML research going on at Unis. LLMs and Stable Diffusion are just a microscopic slice of ML and there is a lot of cool stuff you can do with the part that do not require you to steal all intellectual property in the world.
@j_bertolotti @lazy I totally agree, and although I often take shortcuts for the sake of efficient communication, my position on LLMs is nuanced.
What worries me the most is that 'AI browsers' have a larger scope by definition. If Firefox wants to join that group, it would also mean getting a built-in assistant that can browse the web automatically, fill in forms and purchase items on the user's behalf.
I know users will be able to turn it off, but I see it as a source of security breach.
this is so sad
oh no, poor fox ☹️ great work as always, though.
Unfortunately also very accurate, but won't get me to move to anything Chrome based, since imho a Browser engine monopoly would be even worse.
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@FoxbrushTailwag Same here, and it makes it even more frustrating. I'm still using Firefox after a couple of months of using LibreWolf, which was educational because I could understand many of Firefox's privacy and options that LibreWolf activates by default.
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@cybird hehe, nice PP, and no offense : it's a character from my recent weekly webcomics, check my TL to read them 😊.
I have never seen a more true comic filled with such comedic sadness.
sadly accurate.
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Firefox is shooting itself in the foot with this. Most Firefox users are users of the browser because of privacy reasons and to escape the big brother tech.
Implementing ai in the browser is repulsing idea. Nobody want that. I believe sooner than later people are going to avoid AI in the most parts.
People who are supporting Firefox are cutting the branch
@cybird It's an artificial parrot... which is imo a more accurate perspective than calling llms anything like AI/IA
Also, the running gag from their other comics is that it's "Avian Intelligence," an alternate expansion of the acronym "A.I."
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heh ,yeah... I somehow always expect the witch to call it bird brain one day.😀
lol David, please make this happen. XD
@rl_dane @cybird hmmh, not sure about innocence. Maybe it's naiveness or it falls more into the category: Ignorance is bliss.🤷♀️
otoh it is already sawing the wrong side of the branch it's sitting on, which isn't a particular sly plan from the beginning... (and which is also an good observation on moz.com's track record).
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Yeah, I guess "innocence" is more a descriptor of the empathic emotion it evokes (in terms of what is desired) than what is actually there.
But also, the extreme juxtaposition of the cute fuzzy "innocent"-looking animal with the horrendously clueless and villainous TESCREAL reality of what Mozilla has become. Ugh.
J'espère qu'il sera aisé de désactiver l'IA et qu'elle ne s'activera pas à chaque maj.
Tous les firefox sont concernés?(esr, fennec)
Tous les firefox sont concernés?(esr, fennec)
For some reason I thought the cyber parrot was on a deforestation mission ignoring #FireFox lol
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I must've missed latest developments. What's the Mozilla's story behind this comic?
@vismantas Just the new CEO at Mozilla communicating enthusiastically about AI in general on Mozilla's blog for Firefox (eg. "It will evolve into a modern AI browser") src: blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/le…
Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company
Today, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation, focusing on becoming the trusted software company.Rebecca Smith (The Mozilla Blog)
I moved to librewolf it’s feels faster and the ui for it feels like a traditional browser
I’m very happy with my choice
They should have one of Zen browsers developers as Firefox CEO. Not a finance bro. Firefox should focus on only being a decent browser. They are a foundation, not a for profit corporation and need to act as so.
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DucDuckGo make a poll asking if you want AI or not ?
Are you YES AI or NO AI? Vote now.
Big Tech doesn't care if you want AI or not. They should.voteyesornoai.com
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George Clooney is an actor.
Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained.
Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery.
This is a post about LLMs.
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I understand this but I object to this metaphor. Clooney is a *skilled* actor.
Put George Clooney in an operating theatre and he would have the self-knowledge to say 'WTF I'm not a real doctor I can't help you, you need to get a real doctor in here right away!'. LLMs not so much.
@stefanmuelller AI = Advanced Imitation
I hear he just signed on for two seasons of the medical drama "Surgeonish."
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Apartheid
Veel aandacht gisteren voor de dood van John Fentener van Vlissingen, de miljardair die zo romantisch elke maand naar Frankrijk vloog om "met zijn vrouw een kopje chocola te drinken op de Champs-Élysées", waar ze die maand ook waren op de wereld.
NOS meldt dat "hij geloofde dat succes een sociale verantwoordelijkheid met zich meebrengt. De investeringsmaatschappij noemt in dat verband steun aan kinderen in nood, bescherming van de natuur en steun aan jonge, veelbelovende kunstenaars."
We zouden we bijna vergeten waar een belangrijk deel van zijn fortuin vandaan kwam.
Zijn familie richtte de SHV op - hij was er zelf ook decennialang commissaris - en de SHV investeerde grootschalig in Apartheid in Zuid Afrika. Alle goede doelenwerk naderhand zijn vooral te zien als een poging om zichzelf weer wit te wassen.
SHV, eigenaar van de Makro, bleef het Apartheidsregime steunen, tot RaRa er een einde maakte met een serie brandaanslagen op Makro's. (niemand raakte gewond)
Ook na de eerste paar Makro vestigingen die in vlammen opgingen, bleef Fentener van Vlissingen Apartheid steunen. Ze eiste dat de Nederlandse regering voor haar schade opdraaide, maar toen Nederland dat weigerde, bond de familie uiteindelijk in.
Op 19 januari 1987 maakte SHV bekend dat ze ging 'toegeven aan terreur' en zich terugtrok uit Zuid Afrika.
Frappant genoeg is dat in Nederland vrijwel verdwenen uit de geschiedenis. Als je er online krantenartikelen over zoekt kom je vrijwel alleen nog Engelstalige berichten tegen. Wij noemen Fentener van Vlissingen tegenwoordig "een ziener en innovator met oog voor de komende generaties." (NOS)
John Fentener van Vlissingen, miljardair uit handelsfamilie, overleden
Fentener van Vlissingen was oprichter van zakenreisbedrijf BCD. Zijn voorouders stonden aan de basis van de Steenkolen Handels Vereniging (SHV).NOS Nieuws
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Een van zijn kinderen is het nauwgezet opgezette natuurgebiedje ten noorden van Amsterdam al weer een tijdje aan het verkloten...
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“witwassen” is natuurlijk wel een geniale beeldspraak ivm apartheid.
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Dit is serieus: onze sociale zekerheid staat op het spel. D66 en CDA presenteerden hun plannen voor Nederland en willen de WW en WIA 'activerender' maken. Dit is verhullend taalgebruik voor verdere afbraak. Een regelrechte aanval op onze werknemersrechten om gaten in de begroting te dichten.
🚨 D66 en CDA dreigen onze WW en WIA-rechten verder af te breken. Wij betalen, zij bezuinigen. Bescherm ons sociale vangnet en teken de petitie 👉 fnv.nl/acties/stop-de-afbraak-…
Als deze plannen doorgaan, verliezen duizenden mensen hun bestaanszekerheid bij werkloosheid of arbeidsongeschiktheid. Dit mag niet gebeuren. Terwijl de politieke partijen hun plannen in de formatie uitwerken, moeten wij massaal duidelijk maken: sociale zekerheid is ons recht, geen bezuinigingspost.
Onze rechten staan op het spel, maar jij kan het verschil maken
Jouw stem is belangrijk. Help mee om de petitie zo groot mogelijk te maken. Hoe meer mensen tekenen, hoe groter onze vuist tegen deze afbraak. Vraag vandaag nog minstens twee mensen in jouw omgeving om ook te tekenen. Je buur, vriend, familielid, collega, het kan iedereen overkomen dat ze hun baan verliezen of ziek worden.
Teken en verspreid deze oproep!
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Stop de afbraak van de WIA en WW
Wel premie betalen, maar steeds minder ontvangen? Dat laten we niet gebeuren!www.fnv.nl
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🇪🇸 Spain hits back: Masks are mandatory again
Spain’s Health Ministry warns of rising flu and COVID this winter and mandates masks in hospitals, primary care, long term care, and elderly facilities in high-risk areas to protect at risk people, prioritizing nursing homes and immunocompromised patients.
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Spain hits back: Masks are mandatory again
Spain’s Ministry of Health has issued a warning over rising flu cases as winter approaches, preparing to require masks in hospitals, health centres…Molly Grace (Euro Weekly News)
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We could house everyone. We could feed everyone. We could care for everyone. We could build devices designed to last as long as possible. We could align our manufacturing around the needs of the people and the planet.
We materially have the resources to do so.
That's why leftists are so angry. The resources we need to build a world everyone can thrive in literally already exist. We are just using them mostly to pamper the rich or murder the poor.
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In the UK it was "known" that we could not house everyone. Then for a while we could because covid. It's a choice.
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You will just need something other than humans to run your utopia. If we ever get that sort of world, it will have to be fully automated at the top.
You may say "but if I was in charge I'd be nice." And if that's true, you won't be in charge. The biggest asshole of the bunch will be in charge.
The worst humans always rise to the top of hierarchies. That is why we don't have the sort of world you want.
Maybe AI will solve this, but humans will not.
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Especially the dead end technology currently being marketed as "AI". No atrociously inefficient autocorrect is going to solve anything no matter how many words you shove into it. Even if we ignore how unethically sourced those words are, which we definitely should not
Especially the dead end technology currently being marketed as "AI". No atrociously inefficient autocorrect is going to solve anything no matter how many words you shove into it. Even if we ignore how unethically sourced those words are, which we definitely should not
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Ik zie er al 2 jaar en 18 dagen niet ziek uit. Ik kan niet werken, niet sporten, niet naar koor, en moet dagen leeg plannen om bij te komen als iemand drie kwartier op bezoek is geweest.
Er is geen behandeling. Er is na volgend jaar geen budget meer voor onderzoek. Terwijl er al decennia(!) mensen met ME, post-sepsis en chronische Lyme zijn. Waarvan een deel euthanasie heeft gekregen. Maar de politiek lijkt te denken dat het vanzelf overgaat?
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Ik doe vandaag mee aan het online #PAISProtest en roep de overheid op tot:
1. Structurele financiering tbv onderzoek en adequate behandeling en
2. Preventie: Betere voorlichting en maatregelen om nieuwe gevallen (LongCovid!) zoveel mogelijk te voorkomen. Want #CovidIsNotOver
"Empathy is not enough without the Action of Solidarity."
"Spread the word, not the virus."
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👏 Goed dat je preventie blijft benoemen!!!
@Sjtaal Nobrainer wmb. 😭
Ik wil geen herinfectie met achteruitgang/terugval. Mijn lotgenoten denk ik ook liever niet.
Om het nog maar niet eens te hebben over het dweilen met de kraan open.
Ik wil geen herinfectie met achteruitgang/terugval. Mijn lotgenoten denk ik ook liever niet.
Om het nog maar niet eens te hebben over het dweilen met de kraan open.
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@HannahCelsius Covid (behalve soms in de zin van iets dat ons jaren geleden bezighield) wordt nooit meer genoemd, moet blijkbaar uit ons gemeenschappelijke geheugen worden verbannen (en dat lijkt nog te lukken ook).
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Hoi lieverds.
Ik heb vandaag een voor mij grote stap genomen, door in het openbaar te schrijven over iets wat nog maar weinig mensen wisten.
En om mensen op te roepen om me te helpen.
Zouden jullie het alsjeblieft willen lezen en misschien delen?
Dankjewel!
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Ik draag al 37 jaar iets met me mee, wat ik aan nog maar weinig mensen verteld heb. Vandaag wil ik het graag vertellen aan jou, en aan iedereen die wil luisteren. Want het is hoog tijd om uit de...Grymt Gryn
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Chat Control is back, but slightly changed:
❌ No backdoor of encryption
❌ No forced scanning
🚨 But: Age verification (no anonymity)
The update just quietly passed in the EU Council & now needs to be discussed with the EU Parliament.
👁️Big Techs like #Gmail and #WhatsApp will continue to scan your data.
Will you keep fighting against #ChatControl?
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: ja, auch wenn der Kampf niemals endet 💪👍
Fighting against Chat Control should be everyone's priority right now most than ever since 2022!
Unfortunately, content about it is being censored on social media such as Facebook, were accounts were suspended for posting information about it... Denmark is doing their best to force any chance of votes from MEPs at their favor (as they did to pass it...) and to do it without citizens even noticing.
they addiction of chat control
So if I understand correctly, under the current proposal, if I wish to continue to use say Signal or WhatsApp to have video chats with my life partner I will need to verify my age and expect to have any communications scanned by the service providers.
But making a phone call to the same person from a dumb phone will not?
Or does the EU proposal want to extend age verification and the voluntary scanning of communications to more traditional telephony systems as well?
This is marginally better than the original proposal.
Age verification, is easy enough to circumvent by using a VPN, connected to a server outside the EU.
Age verification, is easy enough to circumvent by using a VPN, connected to a server outside the EU.
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Well, I was teaching my colleagues in Russia and Belarus how to stay anonymous and circumvent censorship. Didn't expect though, that this knowledge will become necessary in the EU
we should keep fighting, wanting to be anonymous online should be a right for many reasons
@techolsy Exactly. The more people speak up and say no the better. At Tuta we will continue to fight against Chat Control.
What's the likelihood of getting struck down in court (ECHR, perhaps?) as unconstitutional?
I'm holding out hope that if it gets hit hard enough with the ban-hammer, that'll set a precedent that prevents future attempts.
We all need to keep fighting against this sinister invasion of our privacy
dude.............. Why did you guys think the EU was a good idea
are you going to be quiet about its approval now? What changed?
what would it apply to?
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Internet age verification kills anonymity and risks your data. It's a terrible idea, and the fact the UK and the most conservative parts of the US were the first to embrace it should tell you that. The EU shouldn't let this bad idea infect you. mastodon.social/@Tutanota/1156…
You shouldn't need a driver's license to speak.
Chat Control is back, but slightly changed:❌ No backdoor of encryption
❌ No forced scanning
🚨 But: Age verification (no anonymity)The update just quietly passed in the EU Council & now needs to be discussed with the EU Parliament.
👁️Big Techs like #Gmail and #WhatsApp will continue to scan your data.
Will you keep fighting against #ChatControl?
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You shouldn't need a driver's licence to read...
@avatastic If the people who want to read your speech have to get put on a list to do so, then they have a strong disincentive to read, and maybe they just won't.
You have *always* needed an account to speak on the internet, that the rules to keep that account become explicit rather than implicit is in itself no great affront to human rights.
The idea that you are anonymous on the internet without taking special technical steps is dangerous, one shouldn't encourage that idea by pretending that this one system is the only important threat to privacy in a world where almost everyone has a google, meta and tiktok account.
Also, I'm surprised that you want to import the "infection" imagery into this policy discussion. An infection implies there's a healthy body that's become sick, and invites talk about cleansing the body of this foreign element to save it... not entirely neutral images without any history to them.
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