Uitstékend plan.

38 gemeenten (waaronder grote steden) willen verbod op sigarettenfilters

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/03/23/38-gemeenten-waaronder-grote-steden-willen-verbod-op-sigarettenfilters-a4920919?gift_token=4920919~1774895530~Z5s-qJ0IEeKfgABQVoV_mg~bOTtI1YXJX_xuuGrng2tHF7hFeWvWYdIxWMs9zTmlcE

GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information

Doesn’t care if its devices can’t be sold in regions that require ID verification.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/grapheneos-refuses-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws

#GrapheneOS #AgeVerification #IDVerification #privacy #surveillance #technology

Acteur Chuck Norris (86) overleden, bekend van Walker, Texas Ranger

De Amerikaanse acteur Chuck Norris is op 86-jarige leeftijd overleden. Volgens zijn familie overleed hij donderdagochtend in Hawaï.

https://nos.nl/l/2607092 #nieuws #nos

#Android is dying.

We all know that #Google wants to kill the “unverified/sideloaded” apps (names carefully selected by Google’s professional gaslighters to give a negative connotation to “apps that are not distributed by Google’s own store”).

We all know that the new “verification process” amounts basically to a ransom where you need to give Google your keys and your money if you want to build apps for Android.

It involves developers handing their signing keys to a user-hostile American company (so they will sign your package for you and will also able to decrypt your secrets) and paying them a $25 fee for each app.

Even if you don’t even use the Play Store to distribute your apps.

This is not a price to pay to get the app distributed through them, nor for using any of their services. It’s a price to pay just because they want to control the whole ecosystem end-to-end, and they know that they can get away with that because you’ll keep using their shitty OS even if you’re outraged at them.

We all know that they got a lot of backlash. And after the backlash they reiterated that they “listened to the community” and would have made a process to still allow people to “sideload apps”.

Well, today that process has been finally unveiled. And it sounds even shittier than I thought.

That’s because Google is currently filled with the best professional enshittificators in the world: the job role of these people is not to build new things, nor to listen to customers and build what they want. No, their job is specifically to find the sweet spot where they can make things as shitty as possible, add as much friction and user frustration as possible to prevent them from doing a certain thing, while still being able to tell regulators “well, it’s not that shitty, you see? We still give users an option - buried under 10 layers of dark patterns”.

In order to install apps external to the Play Store you will have to:

• Activate the developer settings (the usual “tap the build number 7 times to show the hidden menu” thing)

• In the developer settings, enable “Allow Unverified Padckages”

• Confirm that you are not being coerced (seriously, how much malware did they actually see installed by people being coerced or tricked to download and install random APK files?)

• Restart your device

• Wait 24 hours

• Return to the unverified packages settings

• Scroll past 3-4 additional warnings whose sole purpose is to scare you off

• Select either “Allow temporarily“ (7 days) or “Allow indefinitely“ (and I’ve got a hunch that the Allow indefinitely option will probably be gradually phased out)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/google-details-new-24-hour-process-to-sideload-unverified-android-apps/

Morgen 19 maart is een mijlpaal voor MijnBureau. Ongeveer 50 Collega’s van Financiën, VWS, SZW, BZK, RViHH en SSC-ICT komen samen voor de Pilot van MijnBureau waarbij ze de werkplek kunnen uitproberen

Het doel? De onderliggende producten kritisch beoordelen.

Maar MijnBureau is meer dan een verzameling tools. Het geeft de regie terug over de werkplek, waarbij data volledig in onze overheids datacenters blijft.

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@bert_hubert/116245525628375677

Er zijn inmiddels 14 bijlagen verschenen bij deze brief, Dit is een boel informatie, misschien kunnen we dit #crowdsource-en? Zit er nog iets spectaculairs bij waarom de btw naar Amerika sturen een extra dom idee is? https://berthub.eu/tkconv/document.html?nummer=2026D12169