Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org

Leaked docs indicate the European Commission will publish a plan tomorrow to gut the GDPR and amend the AI Act. This will hurt European competitiveness and further advantage US and Chinese tech firms that dominate Europe’s digital market by breaking our law.

Gutting GDPR would also undermine national security, children’s mental health, and everyone’s privacy.

Breve guida in italiano su come pubblicare le proprie chiavi pubbliche PGP in modo che siano facili da scoprire e reperire per chi ci scrive.

Se disponete di un dominio e uno spazio web da qualche parte, è veramente semplice.
E ai tempi di #ChatControl, chiedere ai nostri corrispondenti di scriverci mail cifrate è un atto politico importante, che permette di instaurare conversazioni serie sul tema e diffondere consapevolezza.

https://www.tesio.it/2025/11/16/crittografia-end-to-end-chiavi-pgp-via-web-directory-key-wkd.html

#E2EE #Cryptography #GPG #PGP #email #security #FreeSoftware #Crittografia #Sicurezza #Tutorial #Fediverse

@chrysn@chaos.social

If users use a browser that does not help them protect their privacy, it's a personal, or market, or regulation failure.

This is victim blaming.

We are not talking about a browser that "does not help people protect their #privacy", but a protocol designed by #Google (that produce #Chrome) and open washed by their geek-friendly pr dept, #Mozilla (that produce #Firefox) with the goal to track people even when they disable or delete #cookies.

The technical concern is not new to #QUIC: even #TLS 1.2 had resumption options with similar properties...

Yet the innovation here is exactly 0-RTT, that hook a user identifier on the first ip packet.

Sure #TorBrowser does the right thing since 2019, and so do #LibreWolf disabling security.tls.enable_0rtt_data in about:config.

But why such obvious low-level tracking tool has been allowed in an Internet standard aimed at consumer usage?

I agree with you, it's not for lack of awareness if mainstream browsers support this "feature".
But it should be up to IETF to not let such user hostile feature enter in a protocol standard.

They let it pass instead.
It was not because of lack of engineering awareness.
As many other formally independent institution, #IETF was subject to regulatory capture by #BigTech. The few independent engineers (like you) are there to preserve the public illusion of independence, so that #Surveillance can leverage the public trust. A sort of #EthicsWashing or #OpenWashing at protocol design level.

Well @chrysn@chaos.social, I really appreciate your good intentions and will to fight for users' #privacy.
But I was not talking about you or the few independent developers who still volunteer at #IETF these days.
I was talking about IETF effects on the Internet standards as a whole.
I'm afraid the impact of a few independent engineers is not going to balance the power of organized and well funded #BigTech lobbyists.

As an example, let's stay on topic and look at RFC 9001, "Using #TLS to Secure #QUIC".
All that is said about the impoved ability of the server to identify (and thus track) the user are in two lines about session resumption (emphasys mine):

Session resumption allows servers to link activity on the original connection with the resumed connection, which might be a privacy issue for clients. Clients can choose not to enable resumption to avoid creating this correlation.

Now please notice the #hypocrisy: the wording is set up as if clients should opt-in, but it's pretty unlikely that users will be given a choice between a personal data leak at protocol level and an imperceptible increase in connection time, in particular with 0-RTT where " Endpoints cannot selectively disregard information that might alter the sending or processing of 0-RTT".

So while I'm pretty curious about @bagder@mastodon.social's perspective, I see that #Google managed to get a protocol designed to thwart user privacy and reduce its own server costs (even just the energy consumed during TLS hadshakes, amount to thousands dollars each day).

This way, if EU would decide to forbid tracking cookies at all, Google would get a competitive advantage over all other #AdsTech companies.

Now a properly working IETF would have rejected such shit, knowing that it would have been leveraged against people (and democracies) though #Chrome browsers and #Android defaults.

CC: @daniel@gultsch.social @lorenzo@snac.bobadin.icu

grazie di aver condiviso questo articolo, @quantumquia@poliversity.it: risponde alla mia domanda molto meglio della teoria di Shannon che personalmente ritengo riduttiva, utile esclusivamente a valutare la largezza di banda disponibile su un canale di trasferimento dati, ma che nulla dice dell'informazione.

L'interpretazione del messaggio infatti dipende dal contesto culturale di chi lo scambia, dalle informazioni già presenti nelle menti di mittente e destinatari che si sincronizzano (in modo sufficientemente preciso, se la comunicazione ha successo) attraverso il messaggio.

Al momento la definizione che preferisco di informazione continua infatti ad essere "un'esperienza soggettiva di pensiero comunicabile", ovvero un fenomeno oggettivo con miliardi di manifestazioni soggettive diverse (una per ciascuna mente umana che vive tale esperienza).

Ho ideato questa definizione qualche anno fa, cercando di spiegare come l'informatica si occupi dell'informazione e solo strumentalmente dei dati (o dei computer, che sono meri specchi per la mente umana che li programma e soprattutto debugga).

In altri termini, non c'è messaggio senza mittente e non c'è mittente senza mente umana, con buona pace di #OpenAI, #Meta, #Google e vari venditori di fumo (#LLM e #AI, che pur essendo legali di THC devono averne molto, viste le allucinazioni che procurano!).

Credo comunque che l'articolo che hai linkato possa essere di interesse anche per @danielatafani@poliversity.it e @mcp@poliversity.it con cui talvolta ragioniamo di queste materie.

@jones@todon.nl
@strk@puntarella.party

bluntly, POSIWID: "open source" is a social system for corporations to externalize infrastructure costs, and, materially, not much else. there are of course principles involved and possible future benefits, but *today*, that's mostly what is going on in the "community"

OpenAI’s Nvidia, AMD Deals Boost $1 Trillion AI Boom With Circular Deals – Bloomberg https://blog.quintarelli.it/2025/10/openais-nvidia-amd-deals-boost-1-trillion-ai-boom-with-circular-deals-bloomberg/

@ber@social.tchncs.de

Uh, yeah for 3 years out of 11 #FSFE got less then 10% of its whole budget from Google, while in the other 8 years they got more then 10%... but hey! At least it was less then 20%!

🤢

Yeah, #BigTech like a thing or two about #FSFE for sure!

For example you take their money, while the #FSF refuse them.
And when you get more then 10% of your budget (but less then 20%!) you are eagger to join shitstorms against other #FreeSoftware activists on demand, lobbying another indipendent organization to adapt their board's decisions to your sponsors' desires.

You are not simply "aware" of "potential" conflict of interests, you activelly sell #US BigTech unsuspectable #EU legal-lobbying as a service!

That's what @edri@eupolicy.social should be aware of: whatever legal advice you get from @fsfe@mastodon.social, they aren't going to bite the hands that feed them.

🔠 In Google’s Alphabet, C stands for control, not compliance.

That’s why with @article19, @fsfe, @HomoDigitalisGR @vrijschrift, we have filed a formal #DMA complaint vs. Alphabet.

Despite clear rules, Android users can’t uninstall pre-installed Google apps, only disable them.

This is deceptive design that limits real choice.

📣 We urge @EU_Commission to act & enforce the #digitalmarketsact.

Read the full complaint ➡️ https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Joint-DMA-complaint-Alphabet-for-publication.pdf

Cerco figurine da scambiare degli #AmiciCucciolotti: offro le figurine annerite nel tabellone allegato in cambio di quelle ancora bianche.

I numeri delle figurine che mi mancano sono: 21 25 52 53 67 77 82 113 115 119 121 122 123 134 142 155 161 166 167 170 173 175 191 194 202 205 210 219 234 240 248 249 256 261 273 298 304 307 308 312 318 323 345 351 385 392 393 398 408 410 425 432 443 451 455 456 457

Inoltre mi mancano le cards: 11 12 15 47 52

Se qualcuno è interessato allo scambio, risponda qui che troviamo il modo di spedircele reciprocamente.

(boost please)

#fedimercatino #figurine #collezionismo #bambini

Dear Fedi friends,

I'm really proud to share with you a video I made: "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

In this 4-minute video I explain what the #fediverse is to people not familiar with it, mentioning some of its great features and benefits (interoperability, no ads, no surveillance...) and I set it in contrast to the world of Big Tech social platforms. I argue that, with the rise of Big Tech oligarchs and the current political climate, there has never been a better time to join the fediverse.

I hope you will enjoy this video and that you will find it useful (maybe as a tool to introduce your friends, family, colleagues, school administrators, local government officials to it).

The fediverse has truly changed my life, making me a better, more empowered digital citizen. I am endlessly grateful for it, so this is my contribution to the cause ❤️

I am also incredibly thankful for the work of @samaaberg and @patel.riyen who helped me bring my vision to life with their amazing cinematography skills and their assistance throughout the process, providing brilliant feedback to the script / edits from the POV of fedi newbies.

And I was also moved by the generous help of people of the Fediverse who volunteered to translate the script into many foreign languages: @jan @fritjof @erikkemp @sknob @severin @clabru @tarcisiosurdi @hongminhee @danielcasanueva @ainali @nacly

Lastly, I'm thankful for the opportunity I had to premiere the video last week at #FediForum - thank you @j12t and @anca

The video is up on my self-hosted PeerTube instance (thank you @yunohost) and for now it is unlisted as I have no idea how my VPS will hold up. I also included an alternate location in the blog post.

I hope you'll enjoy it! It's been a real labor of love (a month of full time work on it)... I see it as my love letter to the fediverse 💌

Edit/update: THANK YOU for all the people who volunteered to have their avatar show up in the last shot. There were 750+ submissions and only 135 spots - sorry I couldn't include everyone 🥲

#TheFutureIsFederated

Domani andrò a votare per i #referendum.

Voterò perché lo considero ancora un dovere civico: la nostra #Costituzione, sin dal primo articolo, attribuisce la sovranità al popolo "che la esercita..."

Voterò perché lo considero un dovere morale, nei confronti di tutti i giovani che godranno di diritti che finora gli sono stati preclusi.

Voterò per dare un messaggio chiaro al #Governo.

Voterò nell'interesse mio e delle mie figlie, che fra qualche anno entreranno nel mondo del lavoro.

Voterò perché è mio diritto, e chi non esercita un diritto accetta sempre la possibilità che in futuro gli sia definitivamente sottratto.

Spero davvero, cari amici del #fediverse, che andrete a #votare anche voi.

¡Acreditad siempre a los autores! #UnaTiraCadaDia

@LegalizeBrain
Mon meme préféré :

🎉 The Swedish Administrative Court of Appeals has upheld a €5 million fine against Spotify.

🕰️ The decision is the result of a noyb complaint from 2019.

👉 IMY's update here: https://www.imy.se/tillsyner/spotify-ratten-till-tillgang/

👉 noyb press release for the original decision: https://noyb.eu/en/spotify-fined-eu-5-million-gdpr-violation

Taking a selfie.

I'm still tinkering with the website for my PL experiment. I want the styling to express "labour of love hobby project".

Choosing what program to show on the home page is really hard too. All the keywords are links like Racket.

What do you think? https://www.garden-lang.org/

Ho reso disponibile il preprint di un mio articolo su Governi privati e intelligenza artificiale:
@brideshead
@giacomo
@pirati

https://zenodo.org/records/15522002

@raccoonforfriendicaapp version 0.4.1 has been finally released! I was waiting to fix a couple of old issues but I realized I was keeping people waiting too much since almost 2 months had passed since the previous stable version.

If you were on the latest beta, the only new feature is the possibility to see in every timeline the "source platform" each post is coming from (Friendica, Mastodon, Lemmy, Misskey/Sharkey, Pleroma/Akkoma, Kbin/Mbin, WordPress, GNU Social, Pixelfed, Peertube, GoToSocial, Diaspora, generic ActivityPub and more are coming).

If you were using 0.4.0 there are a ton of improvements, the most important of which are:

feat: add per-user rate limits;
feat: suggest hashtags while typing;
feat: swipe navigation between posts;
feat: exclude stop words from timelines;
feat: add shortcuts to other instances ("guest mode");
feat: open post detail as thread;
feat: post translation;
feat: followed hashtag indication;
feat: show source protocol for posts;
enhancement: support for embedded images.

This version is also available in the production track on Google Play, so you don't have to participate in the beta program any more to get it.

Let me know what you think about it, enjoy your weekend and as always #livefasteattrash

#friendica #friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #raccoonforfriendica #kotlin #multiplatform #kmp #compose #cmp #opensource #foss #procyonproject