In case anyone was still under the assumption that US Big Tech and the Trump regime aren't one and the same:

The US has ordered its diplomats to lobby against EU attempts to regulate US tech companies 🚨

We need ethical open alternatives.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-orders-diplomats-fight-data-sovereignty-initiatives-2026-02-25/

Finland's "Scam call and payment fraud prevention" has won 2025 European Crime Prevention Award:

https://www.eucpn.org/document/finland-scam-call-and-payment-fraud-prevention

While this scheme works it naturally hasn't prevented call-based fraud fully. However, at least the scammers can't easily call from outside of the country with forged #callerid

#fraudprevention #scamprevention #calleridspoofing

By principle I:
- won't click any news articles with clickbait titles.
- skip every video that has AI generated images, funny faces or cleavage in the thumbnail.

I skip a lot of stuff.

The "Open source developers don’t care about UI" trope is incredibly insulting.

It’s like telling the forth runner across the finish line at a marathon they clearly don’t care about winning.

Nobody wants their app to look bad. We can and do look at other apps and try to follow trends. Trends change rapidly and UI development is difficult and time consuming.