GDMR: this one simple regulation could end surveillance capitalism in the EU

GDMR: The regulation EU citizens deserve. No, you didn’t misread it and, no, it’s not a typo. GDMR – the General Data Minimisation Regulation – can end surveillance capitalism in the EU. The problem is that no such regulation exists. So, let’s change that, starting now. To be effective, GDMR must be succinct and precise. The essence of it can be expressed in a single article with two paragraphs:

Aral Balkan

Fits on a Floppy - A Manifesto for Small Software

https://fitsonafloppy.com/

#Software #SmallTech #Performance

Fits on a Floppy - A Manifesto for Small Software

A Manifesto for Small Software

picked up a tiny e-reader last week. installed some custom firmware (crossink), and finished mistborn today. 10/10.

#reading #mistborn #smallTech

2 days with my #Fairphone running #e_os and I can do ALL of my essentials (and more) in life without Google. For the handful of apps trying to send analytics data to Google, it's refreshing to see how the Advanced Privacy is blocking all of those connections.

Folks, it's time to #degoogle Big Tech has exploited us long enough.

#eos #android #google #bigtech #smalltech #foss #keepandroidopen

Next time I am on vacation I am moving to GrapheneOS. And as such I am required to begin using a lot of dark web, selling drugs and paying for coffee in bitcoin.
#privacy #freedom #smalltech

Quite happy with how the page/component lifecycle log messages are coming along as part of my push to get the new stateful components over the line in Kitten¹.

This should make it very easy to ensure that things are happening as you think they are and to conceptualise the behaviour of your stateful component hierarchies. (You can also use stateless components, of course, as is the currently documented workflow.)

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org

#Kitten #devNotes #SmallWeb #SmallTech

Did I write about me getting my Gemini protocol capsule online again after a 20 months hiatus? No? Well, here it is, with mostly Gemini content:

gemini://michaelnordmeyer.com/

#GeminiProtocol #SmallNet #SmallTech

(One) Good AI Is Here

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Anil Dash
*Fully agentic coding contained entirely on his own laptop, he declared agentically. #onprem #smalltech #Chinese #DropDeadBigFive