Gabriel R.

@gr
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People do react in theaters …in Berlin.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@k0bin/114282888440091876

The EU initiative Going Dark has now been launched by the EU Commission. They call it ProtectEU.

It’s a rebranding of Chat Control. New name. Same old propaganda.

The EU Commission’s goal is to “access encrypted data in a lawful manner, safeguarding cybersecurity and fundamental rights.”

Read the full release from the Commission here:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52025PC0148

EUR-Lex - 52025PC0148 - EN - EUR-Lex

Stack Overflow takes itself a little too serious.

https://stackoverflow.com/posts/77693648/revisions

Revisions to Pull (rebase) deleted all files of the project

Stack Overflow | The World’s Largest Online Community for Developers

Stack Overflow
So yes, Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads How to fix it? Switch to Firefox. Not to Edge. Alternatively, if you need Chome for work. Visit chrome://settings/adPrivacy and turn off each setting. Of course get Adbloker too ;)

It gets more absurd every day for Big Journalism to keep pouring its work into Saudi-government-funded Twitter, which is controlled by a right-winger who hates real journalism and boosts extremists.

It gets even more absurd for journalism orgs to keep embedding tweets in their stories, given Musk's unfathomable destruction of the platform's usefulness.

I keep wondering when journalists will discover that big tech is not their daddy.

Did Twitter fire their designers too? The Blue logo and signup page look something a marketing intern or Elon would do in PowerPoint 

Holy crap, Nilay Patel just ruthlessly corners Substack’s CEO Chris Best on moderating racist content and I love it

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR35o66A/

TikTok - Make Your Day

Apple Maps got so much better over the years, I actually prefer it over the icky one.

But once in a while, it still has a nasty WTF moment where it misses and address or an *entire city* because it gets hang up on a keyword in the query.

Like a couple weeks ago when I took me and the family in another part of the city.

Join us this Tuesday (4/11) at 3pm ET for Clarence Thomas' Secret Life of Luxury

This free virtual event will give you the inside story of how ProPublica reporters got the bombshell story of Thomas’ undisclosed luxury trips provided by GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.

RSVP here:
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Clarence Thomas’ Secret Life of Luxury

Hear the inside story of how ProPublica got the bombshell story of Thomas’ undisclosed luxury trips provided by GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.

ProPublica

After 25 years, DPReview will be shut down by its parent company, fucking Amazon.

Oh no! It was THE source truth for photo gear since forever, and will be missed dearly.

The site will be frozen on April 10th 2023, available in read-only mode for a limited period afterwards.

https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close

#dpreview

DPReview.com to close

After nearly 25 years of operation, DPReview will be closing in the near future. This difficult decision is part of the annual operating plan review that our parent company shared earlier this year.

DPReview