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Excited to announce that the @EUCommission has updated it's follow buttons on the website footer!
What's that first platform there? Could that be #Mastodon?
And where did the link to #X go?
All the posts and comments here on Mastodon calling for this, trust me we read them!
Whether you love or hate LLMs, their longest-lasting legacy for programmers will be:
"Thank $DEITY, I do not have to write #GitHub Actions Workflows anymore."
In 2002, the US was ranked 17 in the Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index, Ukraine was at position 112.
In 2026, the US is at position 64 and Ukraine at is ranked at 55.
For the first time in the history of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index, over half of the world’s countries now fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories for press freedom. In 25 years, the average score of all 180 countries and territories surveyed in the Index has never been so low. Since 2001, the expansion of increasingly restrictive legal arsenals — particularly those linked to national security policies — has been steadily eroding the right to information, even in democratic countries. The Index’s legal indicator has declined the most over the past year, a clear sign that journalism is increasingly criminalised worldwide. In the Americas, the situation has evolved significantly, with the United States dropping seven places and several Latin American countries sliding deeper into a spiral of violence and repression.
Dutch civil servant fired because he spoke up against the takeover of #Solvinity that provides the #DigiD service. DigiD is the central system that is used in the #Netherlands to log in into official government and related services.
Solvinity, the company hosting DigiD will probably be taken over by Kyndryl, a US company. Putting the login functionality of the Dutch official digital services under US #jurisdiction.
#Meta keeps blocking Dutch queer accounts (warning, Dutch article): https://nos.nl/artikel/2611716-meta-blokkeert-opnieuw-tientallen-queer-accounts-op-instagram
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but it's time that we move away from these platforms that only fuel division & hate and destroy the fabric of liberal/democratic society.
@NOS and Omroep Gelderland report that a Dutch frigate could be tracked using a 5 Euro tracker sent by military mail (only packages are scanned, not letters):
However, the simple BLE tracker would be a paperweight if there weren't smartphones nearby to pick up the beacons and report them. So the real problem seems to be that people on board carry smartphones, which can be followed by... a lot of companies/governments (US, South Korea, possibly China)?
@stasdigi kunnen jullie ervoor zorgdragen dat de leeftijdsverificatie middels de NL ID app ook met smartphones zonder iOS of Google Play Integrity werkt?
Het zou zonde zijn als gebruikers die een soeverein alternatief gebruiken als bijv. GrapheneOS uitgesloten worden. Als de app remote attestation moet doen, dan kan dit ook prima zonder Play Integrity. Voor de technische mensen op het ministerie:
https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide
Een aantal banken doen dit voor niet-Google apparaten en dat werkt prima!
GrapheneOS
Hannah Grace
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