Angeles Rios
War and Peas 🧿
A maté 🧉 addict with strong opinions about technology, food and sustainability, and a passion for photography.
A programmer by trade, working for an open-source foundation.
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@pluralistic The metabolic cost of participating in systems optimized for a different cognitive type is real and largely invisible. What exhausts most people energizes the architects of the game — which is also why the rules stay the way they are. The hagglers don’t experience the market as a burden. They built it to feel like home. Especially the financial architects in tech — they didn’t just learn to haggle. They refined what counts as the table.
Anarchist QuotesThe domination of man by the creation of man is even more ridiculous than the domination of man by man.
-- George Woodcock
Security Writer 
Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”
Me: “My account is 23 years old”
Valve: “That just proves your account is old”
Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”
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Fight Chat Control🎉 The critical amendment 34 (rejecting automated assessment of unknown photos and texts) PASSED by ONE vote, paving the way for the extension of Chat Control 1.0 to be overwhelmingly REJECTED!
Initial analysis by @echo_pbreyer : https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/end-of-chat-control-eu-parliament-stops-mass-surveillance-in-voting-thriller-paving-the-way-for-genuine-child-protection/
VladyslavApril 6, 2026, will mark a historic turning point. The European Parliament has ended Chat Control 1.0—the proposed legislation that would have mandated mass scanning of all private messages across the European Union.
For two years, the debate raged. Proponents argued that mass scanning was necessary to combat child exploitation. Opponents—including digital rights organizations, technology experts, and millions of ordinary citizens—argued that security cannot be achieved at the cost of freedom, and that infrastructure designed for mass surveillance inevitably expands beyond its stated purpose.
Germany became the center of resistance, joined by Austria, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic. Their constitutional arguments, combined with public pressure and technical evidence about the impossibility of mass scanning without destroying encryption, forced the European Commission to retreat.
What does this mean for ordinary people? Starting April 6:
Email remains private correspondence, not subject to automatic analysis
Chat messages will not pass through AI filters
Personal photos and videos will not be automatically scanned
Encryption remains the foundation of digital privacy
This victory proves that civil society can effectively resist government and corporate efforts to establish total control. But experts warn that new versions of Chat Control are already being prepared under different names with similar objectives.
Privacy is not a state. It is a constant process of defense. Today, we won one battle. Tomorrow, we must remain vigilant.
https://newsgroup.site/eu-chat-control-1-0-ended-privacy-victory-2026/
#ChatControl #privacy #digitalrights #EU #surveillance
Arne Brasseur@hanshuebner @can seriously Hans, I am in no mood for this. Yes, the force of capital is overwhelming, and there's little that a bubble of old timers on the fediverse is going to do about it. We're all going to have to reckon with that and figure out what choices we have left. That's life under capitalism. The least we can do is speak our truth, and call things out for what they really are. At least we won't feel like we're the only ones who think this shit sucks, or who see it for what it really is. There's a reason I talk about hegemony. The defeatism only hastens the process.
It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.
How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.
But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.
Robert@pluralistic this is one of the things I like about the open social web, you can get multiaccount apps. Imagine one where you can search for a ride on Uber, Lyft and any local coop!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plebstr.client&hl=es
