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🇩🇪US-Konzerne & Lobby-NGOs wollen unsere Chats scannen! 🛑 MORGEN (Tagesordnung) können wir die #Chatkontrolle endgültig killen!
📧 Mails gehen unter.
📞 ANRUFE wirken!

Stoppt die Lobby, ruft JETZT Abgeordnete an: fightchatcontrol.de

Faktencheck: patrick-breyer.de/entscheidung…

CHATKONTROLLE STOPPEN - RUF JETZT DEINEN ABGEORDNETEN AN! TELEFONSKRIPT: „Guten Tag, mein Name ist […], ich rufe aus […] an. Ich rufe wegen der skandalösen Wiederholungsabstimmung zur Chatkontrolle an. Wie positioniert sich Herr/Frau [Name] dazu? Das Parlament hat am 11. März entschieden, das massenhafte Scannen zu beenden. Es ist ein undemokratischer Trick, eine erneute Abstimmung zu erzwingen. WICHTIG: Herr/Frau [Name] soll am Mittwoch (25. März) DAFÜR stimmen, die Neuabstimmung von der Tagesordnung zu streichen! Falls am Donnerstag abgestimmt wird, muss er/sie Änderungsantrag 35 unterstützen, der anlasslose Massenscans verbietet. Wir schützen keine Kinder, wenn wir die Polizei mit Datenmüll überfluten (die Hälfte der BKA-Meldungen sind Fehlalarme). Geben Sie der US-Tech-Lobby nicht nach. Wird [Name] das Briefgeheimnis verteidigen und gegen das Scannen stimmen? Bitte bestätigen Sie das per E-Mail.“ Link unten: fightchatcontrol.de

Entscheidungsschlacht um die Chatkontrolle: Wie EU-Regierungen und Tech-Lobby das Nein des EU-Parlaments kippen wollen – Der große Faktencheck

In dieser Woche fällt im Europäischen Parlament die Entscheidung darüber, ob die anlasslose Durchsuchung privater Chats und E-Mails durch US-Techkonzerne (Chatkontrolle 1.0) doch noch fortgesetzt wird. Nachdem das Parlament am 11.
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#Chatkontrolle

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🇫🇷Les géants de la tech US & les lobbys veulent scanner nos messages ! 🛑 DEMAIN (vote de l'ordre du jour), nous pouvons tuer #ChatControl pour de bon !

Stoppez les lobbys, appelez vos eurodéputés MAINTENANT : fightchatcontrol.eu

Fact-check : patrick-breyer.de/en/the-battl…

Capture d'écran avec le texte : STOPPEZ CHAT CONTROL - APPELEZ VOTRE EURODÉPUTÉ MAINTENANT ! SCRIPT TÉLÉPHONIQUE : « Bonjour, je m'appelle [...] j'appelle depuis [...]. J'appelle concernant le scandaleux nouveau vote sur le Chat Control. Quelle est la position de M./Mme [Nom] ? Le 11 mars, le Parlement a décidé de mettre fin à l'analyse de masse. Forcer un nouveau vote est une manœuvre antidémocratique. URGENT : M./Mme [Nom] doit voter POUR retirer ce vote de l'ordre du jour demain (25 mars) ! Si le vote a lieu jeudi, il/elle doit soutenir l'amendement 35, qui interdit l'analyse de masse indiscriminée. Inonder la police de données inutiles ne protège pas les enfants (les autorités signalent près de 50% de fausses alertes). Ne cédez pas au lobby américain. M./Mme [Nom] défendra-t-il/elle nos correspondances privées en votant contre ? Merci de me confirmer sa position par e-mail. » Lien en bas : fightchatcontrol.eu

The Battle Over Chat Control: How EU Governments and the Tech Lobby Are Trying to Overturn Parliament's Vote — A Comprehensive Fact Check

This week, the European Parliament faces a decisive vote on whether the indiscriminate scanning of private chats and emails by US tech companies (Chat Control 1.0) will be allowed to continue.
Patrick Breyer
#chatcontrol
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🇮🇹Le Big Tech USA e le lobby vogliono scansionare le nostre chat! 🛑 DOMANI (voto sull'ordine del giorno) possiamo affossare il #ChatControl per sempre!

Fermate le lobby, chiamate i vostri eurodeputati ORA: fightchatcontrol.eu

Fact-checking: patrick-breyer.de/en/the-battl…

Grafica con testo: FERMIAMO IL CHAT CONTROL - CHIAMA ORA IL TUO EURODEPUTATO! SCRIPT TELEFONICO: "Buongiorno, mi chiamo [...] e chiamo da [...]. Chiamo per la scandalosa ripetizione del voto sul Chat Control. Qual è la posizione dell'onorevole [Nome]? L'11 marzo il Parlamento ha deciso di fermare la scansione di massa. Forzare un nuovo voto è un trucco antidemocratico. IMPORTANTE: l'onorevole [Nome] deve votare A FAVORE della rimozione di questo voto dall'ordine del giorno domani (25 marzo)! Se il voto si terrà giovedì, dovrà sostenere l'emendamento 35, che vieta la scansione di massa indiscriminata. Inondare la polizia di dati inutili non protegge i bambini (le autorità segnalano quasi il 50% di falsi allarmi). Non cedete alle lobby USA. L'onorevole difenderà la segretezza della corrispondenza? Vi prego di confermarlo via email." Link in basso: fightchatcontrol.eu

The Battle Over Chat Control: How EU Governments and the Tech Lobby Are Trying to Overturn Parliament's Vote — A Comprehensive Fact Check

This week, the European Parliament faces a decisive vote on whether the indiscriminate scanning of private chats and emails by US tech companies (Chat Control 1.0) will be allowed to continue.
Patrick Breyer
#chatcontrol
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Thank you Calyx Institute (@calyxinstitute) for supporting Keep Android Open at keepandroidopen.org/open-lette… @keepandroidopen #KeepAndroidOpen

An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution

Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distribution
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#keepandroidopen @The Calyx Institute @Keep Android Open

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Microsoft spent 4 years stuffing Windows 11 with unwanted ads, forced Copilot integrations, stealing data to train its shity AI and other bloatware, now they want applause for promising to remove it. Reasons for a Change of Heart:
1 Increased Linux gaming
2 Apple's entry into the low end PC market with 0 forced AI
3 The "Microslop" social media shaming campaign
4 Increased costs due to AI leading to almost 0 ROI since there is no consumer demand sambent.com/microsofts-plan-to…

Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating

Microsoft spent four years stuffing Windows 11 with ads, forced Copilot integrations, and bloatware, now they want applause for promising to remove it.
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#Windows #Apple #macos #microsoft #macbook #neo #windows11 #debloat #macbookneo
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#Capitalism #trade #assholedesign #TradeRuinsEverything #plannedobselecence #enshifification

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Dynamic pricing is such a scam. I was at Best Buy looking at something and in 10 min it jumped $200. lol

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GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account. GrapheneOS and our services will remain available internationally. If GrapheneOS devices can't be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.
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GrapheneOS

@stavpup The whole point of the partnership is those devices meeting our requirements and providing official support for GrapheneOS. There's nothing about our statement specific to any particular devices. Our partnership with Motorola isn't to bring a non-GrapheneOS operating system to their devices. It will be regular GrapheneOS with the same things it has elsewhere. The only difference will be the hardware support code being for Snapdragon and the other hardware in the devices.
@stavpup
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Allow me to introduce #MLL coding, the counterpart to #LLM vibe coding. MLL (Manual Labor of Love) coding allows one to spend more time doing a thing, and lets one get better, faster, and 100% understood code.
#LLM #mll
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@psu_13
That was a great blog post, good read 🙂 The idea of manual labor of love and slow code reminds me of the trade-free movement. When everything's made for profit then it will naturally lead to a place where all they care about is that, to make a profit. There are still some good trade-free projects out there, like the ones listed here - directory.trade-free.org/

We should understand that trade is an overall negative influence on our society, and promote trade-free projects

Trade-Free Directory

These goods and services are submitted and reviewed by people like you. We cannot guarantee that all of what you see here is trade-free, since at times it is very difficult to review them all and do so properly.
Trade-Free Directory
@psu_13
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@psu_13
BTW, if anyone is interested in learning more about the trade-free movement then I recommend watching the TROM II documentary here - tromsite.com/documentaries/tro…
Or on the #peertube page directly - videos.trom.tf/w/p/fVpfZ9VfWrW…

I feel like this documentary is now more important than ever, looking at the current state of our world.

TROM 2

TROM II: A Message to the Aliens Year: 2023   /   Duration: 4 parts, 5 hours We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.
TROM
#PeerTube @psu_13
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First they ask for your date of birth,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for your full name and location,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for a copy of your passport,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for your facial scan,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for your fingerprints,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for your palm scan,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for a scan of your iris,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for ...

#MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism #AgeVerification #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights

#privacy #HumanRights #democracy #authoritarianism #masssurveillance #ageVerification
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Ami

Then they leak it all and every single form of ID we have becomes useless.

Once it's all breached, leaked, compromised and useless we will end up with the one solution we could have used since day one, a solution that could have been implemented that preserves our privacy, security and identity.

Digital signing. Safe, secure, private.

Breaches and age verification will break ID as we know it and make us all far less secure.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP_…

OpenPGP card - Wikipedia

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
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My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi…

Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models/RfC - Wikipedia

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#AI #wikipedia
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🗞️☕ Are you looking for an interesting weekend read? noyb recently conducted a survey among privacy professionals to find out what kind of #GDPR simplification #European companies actually need.

🔍 One of the key findings was that most professionals don’t actually want protections to be cut back, but for documentation duties and #paperwork to be reduced. In many cases, they even ask for clearer laws instead of more ‘flexibility’.

👇 Find the full survey below 👇
noyb.eu/en/gdpr-omnibus-eu-sim…

GDPR Omnibus: EU “simplification” far removed from real business needs

The participants' responses often point in the opposite direction to the European Commission’s approach
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#gdpr #european #paperwork
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That's right folks, it is now easier to buy a firearm than to load open source software on your phone in America.

RE: mastodon.social/users/campusco…

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I need help with the server hosting all my open-source projects: #Fedilab, #HolosSocial, #HolosDiscover, and more.
The current server costs €350/year but is no longer suited for the load. I often run out of disk space. I need to migrate to a more powerful one with expandable storage. Renewal is due in a few days.
I have set a goal of €500 on Ko-fi, cost unknown.

Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/tom79

Liberapay: liberapay.com/tom79

Sharing this post helps keep my open-source projects alive.

tom79's profile - Liberapay

My name is Thomas, I use a part of my spare time to develop and maintain open source projects (Fedilab, Tubelab, UntrackMe, OpenMultiMaps, FediPlan, Mastodon comments for …
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#fedilab #holossocial #holosdiscover
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#HolosDiscover just hit 3 million indexed posts.
What matters more than the number: 145k deletions processed, 83k edits tracked, and over 1k opt-outs respected, all in real time.
Respecting people is the priority and the only way to do it right is to be a full #ActivityPub participant, receiving deletions, edits, and opt-outs as they happen. Before indexing anyone, Holos Discover follows their account, so they know they are being indexed and can opt out.

Source: discover.holos.social/stats

Holos Discover overview showing around 3 million posts indexed, 145k posts deleted, 83k posts updated, 37k users followed, 1.1k opted out, and 3.5k instances known.

Holos Discover - Stats

A privacy-respecting search engine for Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey and the Fediverse.
Holos Discover
#ActivityPub #holosdiscover

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#Holos 1.0.0 is available! With this release, Holos moves from release candidate to production. This version adds a reverse timeline option to display posts oldest-first.

A lot of improvements have also been made to the relay, especially around Bloom filter performance, that are not always reflected in app changelogs.

Available on #FDroid custom repo:
fdroid.fedilab.app

Direct download: framadrive.org/s/SwXt6GbBC97pZ…

Release notes: codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-App/r…

#HolosSocial

Holos app listed on F-Droid custom repository alongside Fedilab

holos-app.1.0.0.apk

Framadrive - Hébergez vos documents en ligne
Framadrive
#fdroid #holos #holossocial

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Ditch Android. Use PostmarketOS.

Sure. If I want no touch, no wifi, no bluetooth, no camera, no GPS, no modem. A rock has more utility at this point.

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Rokosun

I've been looking into GrapheneOS as an alternative, a bit worried about banking app support tho - may need to carry a second phone in that case. In the long term I'd like to see Linux on mobiles succeed, PostmarketOS may not be very practical now but I think the work they're doing is still important.
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Thank you MetaBrainz Foundation (@metabrainz) for supporting Keep Android Open at keepandroidopen.org/open-lette… @keepandroidopen #KeepAndroidOpen

An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution

Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distribution
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История Fediverse: Рассказ о свободной социальной сети

Ремастеринг подкаста, впервые опубликованного в конце 2020 года. Ссылка на первоисточник: (сервис умер). Главным образом был откорректирован звук: по многочисленным просьбам фоновая музыка стала тише.
Мастерская Талантов (RUTUBE)
@Dr. Quadragon ❌

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Dr. Quadragon ❌

I'd *absolutely love* to make one, properly, in a voiceover!

The issue is - time and energy. It took me almost a year to make the original Russian one.

I also wanted the video sequence to go with that, in the style of Ahoy, who was my primary inspiration for the project, but I can't use Blender for shit, and there was almost no other FOSS motion design software (and I use FOSS almost exclusively).

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🫧 socialcoding..

Thank you for doing that work! FWIW here's a list of delightful creative tools around video animation, maintained by @ADHDefy

delightful.coding.social/delig…

delightful creative tools

Delightful curated lists of free software, open science and information sources.
delightful.coding.social
@𝓑Ⓡ𝐚η𝔡Ⓞ𝓷 :autism:
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#PawFed is a project close to my heart. It's a collaborative map for animal welfare that bridges the #Fediverse and #OpenStreetMap.

The idea: mention @PawFed from your Mastodon account with hashtags and a location, and your report appears on the map. No signup, no app, just your existing Fediverse account.
It's not perfect yet, but the foundation is there. I will publish the source code soon under AGPL.

More: pawfed.org/how-it-works

PawFed

Federated platform to help animals through shelters and community
pawfed.org
#fediverse #OpenStreetMap #pawfed @PawFed

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Am I correct in my understanding that this requires one to reveal their IRL location in a public toot?

I am sorry, but I am not comfortable with that, unfortunately. I can, and will, however consider setting up another account just for this purpose. Especially since I'm using a certain fediverse app that just happens to handle multiple accounts very nicely ;)
@PawFed

@PawFed
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How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?

  • Good, it is necessary for our safety and security (0%, 32 votes)
  • OK, I trust Google to prioritize user interests (0%, 20 votes)
  • Bad, it is an attempt to take complete control (57%, 2140 votes)
  • Terrible, this is the end of software freedom (41%, 1540 votes)
3732 voters. Poll end: Wednesday, March 25, 2026, 7:45 PM

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Rez

I feel that at best, it is an attempt to solve a "people problem" with a software fix. I have worked in IT support long enough to know that that never works. It only compounds the problem by creating even more new ones (while not actually solving the original problem).

The illusion of security will be quickly shattered as soon as scammers figure out how to work around it anyway.

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