+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@qoto.org

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

i can't find an electronic song from the late 90s or 2000s where the melody is a klaxon like instrument that first goes sweeping up two times and then some shorter notes follow. this is repeated. the music video was anime of alert on a space station with people going to fighter jets or something.

m-) Professor and der Universität der Bundeswehr - Masala "Wenn Russland gewinnt". Hier greift Regel "Ab an die vorderste Front"

@jae @dcc @mint @nyanide @pwm @sun @newsmast Incidentally, brief update on this while I'm thinking about it. A couple of days ago, I tried to figure out how they are getting posts from FSE, since no one on newsmast.social is following anyone on FSE.

Despite having an entire instance to federate with, they actually use a scraper that fetches not just posts but also tries to get followers/following lists (which they might just do for user discovery, but see the attached PDF; incidentally, they insist in that PDF and elsewhere on their blog that they're not scraping, but my log files say otherwise: they get posts by sending requests to the outbox endpoint, and then when they've gotten those, they look at the following/followers endpoints). Probably scraped a decent chunk of fedi: people put newsmast.community onto their blocklists, but this doesn't stop backend.newsmast.org from scraping them.

The codebase is actually a pile of code fragments demonstrating their API endpoints; it's just an incomplete Rails application, basically useless on its own and produced by some offshore guys (Myanmar, according to https://www.newsmastfoundation.org/about-us/our-team/ ): https://github.com/newsmast22/mammoth . They claim to use the "Oliphant" blocklist at https://www.newsmastfoundation.org/our-blog/reimagining-the-fediverse/ . They were apparently founded in response to the war in Ukraine and Elon buying Twitter, or at least that's what they claim: https://www.newsmastfoundation.org/about-us/our-story/ .

If you want a conspiracy theory, speaking of Ukraine, the updates to their codebase slowed to a trickle in October (only one commit after 2024-10-10), same time nafo.uk stopped responding ( https://fedilist.com/instance/nafo.uk "Last successful contact: 2024-10-20"). Looks like they bought indieweb.social also: https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/03/27/the-next-stage-for-indiewebsocial.html .
Mapping-Fediverse-Communities-1.pdf

@hakui @Suiseiseki @hfaust

> "open source" is the "latinx" of free software huh

It's more like "You're *Mexican*?"
youremexican.mp4

Porsche considering making tanks again to cover for net loss of more than $22 billion — German defense magazine ESuT
https://t.me/MTodayNews/21725

Microsoft Admits Its AI Is Just Clippy on Shrooms: https://theneedling.com/2025/04/02/microsoft-admits-its-ai-is-just-clippy-on-shrooms/

https://reinettesenumsfoghornexpress.substack.com/p/exclusive-the-northern-california