Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 73

@aspensmonster @onepict @NGIZero And, just to stress, “open source” doesn’t cut the mustard. If the openness is not protected via “share alike” licensing (AGPL, etc.) then we’re talking about privatisation, where code created from the commons can be enclosed by corporations. The FSF in Europe doesn’t currently make this distinction (and has its own issues, just like the US one does in other areas).

@onepict @NGIZero One can hope.

@jon Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’ve given up thinking anything I’ll say or do will change anything at the EU level. I can’t compete with their lobbyist neighbours next door. I’m building the tech I want to see—Small Tech and, specifically, the Small Web. And we haven’t gotten a single euro cent of EU funding (not for lack of trying). But hey, we’re still able to build it (not fun, but possible with sacrifices) so I guess you could say the EU’s cluelessness is sad but irrelevant.

“30% of EU startup businesses that had grown to be valued at more than €1bn—known as unicorns—had moved abroad, and mostly to list on stock markets in the US.”

– “hard-hitting report by the former Italian prime minister Mario Draghi”, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/09/eu-mario-draghi-report-spending-boost

“Have you heard about Silicon Valley’s unpaid research and development department? It’s called the EU.”

– Me, 2019

https://ar.al/2019/06/22/have-you-heard-about-silicon-valleys-unpaid-research-and-development-department-its-called-the-eu/

And what I told them at the #EU parliament, also in 2019: https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/

#funding

@onepict @NGIZero Literally what I told them to their faces at the parliament (for all the good it did):

https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/

Also: https://ar.al/2019/06/22/have-you-heard-about-silicon-valleys-unpaid-research-and-development-department-its-called-the-eu/

So, yes, this, 💯

This sucks.

Afaik, #Ireland hasn’t announced its plan yet but if it’s anything like before it’ll mirror this but *WITHOUT* the ability to buy a booster shot if you’re not eligible for the free shot.

Meanwhile, they’ve had to destroy €86.5 million worth of unused vaccines.

I’d say the Irish government is run by clowns but clowns don’t mass disable and kill people due to incompetence.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/hse-dumps-865m-worth-of-covid-vaccines-as-taxpayer-foots-the-bill/a1542279498.html

#Ireland #COVID #UK https://mas.to/@statsguy/113084136352874298

@Tattooed_Mummy It’s the fascism that fills the intellectual vacuum that’s left when you take away all the books.

“A year after Texas turned school libraries into discipline centers in Black and Latino neighborhoods, librarians have lost their jobs and teachers are quitting.”

“Texas turned school libraries into discipline centers in Black and Latino neighborhoods”

“Texas turned school libraries into discipline centers”

…

What. In. The. Actual. Handmaid’s Tale. Is. This?

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2024-09-12-what-happens-when-a-school-closes-its-library

#Texas #education #libraries #dystopia #USA #UnitedStates #PreludeToHandmaidsTale

@samuel @lihram @signalapp @konstellationen Thank you :)

@lihram @aral @signalapp It is even more important now do contact the member countries MEPs because we still need to create a blocking minority in the EU council.

One organization in Sweden, @konstellationen, sent some questions to all the parties in the parlament.

Here are the questions (in Swedish though):

https://konstellationen.org/2024/09/12/chat-control-enkat/

And they also encouraged people to email the parties.

Would be nice if more organizations did that

@colonel @signalapp Not if #Signal is forced to block access to people in the EU as they have said they won’t comply with #ChatControl if it passes. Unless this was a “I’m not based in the EU, haha” post, in which case, guess what other jurisdictions will be looking to justify using this as precedent if the EU passes it.

@aral @signalapp For a list of EU representatives that EU citizens can contact: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/full-list

@redsad * not to mention exploitation of our habitat

@JulianOliver Will do; thanks 💕

@streetcoder (I haven’t tried Accessible Coconut; please do share your experience of it if you can/if you do.)

@streetcoder Any distribution that ships with x11 by default. (Orca is fully functional under x11.) Of course, x11 has its own downsides (security, or lack thereof, being the major one).

@overanalytcl @system76 Yep. But after recent interactions and how they responded to me calling out the lack of a fully functional screen reader in the major Linux distributions, I’d rather not have anything to do with them.

https://ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-been-shipping-with-a-broken-screen-reader-for-nine-years-but-the-real-problem-is-me/

@martycoote Yeah, that’s a great example. Also: looking forward to seeing what you make :)

If you want to keep using @signalapp in the EU, say no to #ChatControl

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/take-action-to-stop-chat-control-now/

#Signal #ChatControl #EU #surveillance

🇩🇪Neuester EU-Vorstoß zur #Chatkontrolle geleakt +++ Beratung schon am 23.9., es wird knapp... +++ Werden Messenger-Dienste in Europa gesperrt? https://www.patrick-breyer.de/neuester-eu-anlauf-zur-chatkontrolle-werden-messenger-dienste-in-europa-gesperrt/

Hilf jetzt mit Druck auf die Bundesregierung zu machen: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/hilf-jetzt-mit-die-chatkontrolle-zu-stoppen/