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Gods I'm too fucking old and tired to rehearse the 'don't break E2E encryption' debate AGAIN, but here we are. This time the novel twist is 'client...

Well this is admirably concise and direct by Germany's justice ministry. "Chat control without cause must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law. Private communication must never be under general suspicion." THANK YOU. Without Germany's support, Chat Control is dead in Council. For now at least. Some serious introspection now needed by DG HOME for its antidemocratic draft law and illegal lobbying. www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Zitate/DE/2025/1008_Chatkontrolle.html (h/t @npub1cewa...lmfe View quoted note →

Gods I'm too fucking old and tired to rehearse the 'don't break E2E encryption' debate AGAIN, but here we are. This time the novel twist is 'client side scanning' of every European's device for CSAM, just in case. I no longer make many arguments on principle. This open letter to the Irish minister who supports pre-emptive surveillance for everyone merely asks him to imagine how he'll feel when, inevitably, the powers are used against him:

Chat control in Europe, an open letter to the Irish Minister who wants to scan all our messages — Crooked Timber

I'm officially writing a book! "Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London. It uses ecology to show why we've got such a toxic technology monoculture through almost the whole tech stack, and how to change that. And crucially, the people who already are. Hell, most of them are here in the Fediverse. The more power we take from tech oligarchs, the more we take from Trump and other authoritarians. I plan to show how.

So I started using LibreOffice. Did an OS update on my macbook today. Come to find out today, that LibreOffice was not saving properly on my mac, nor was it backing up uncorrupted to my proton drive. I've lost EVERYTHING from my hardest and most significant day's work, impossible to reconstruct (TCP/IP ancient history who said what when and multiple sources) and I'm fucking despairing. LibreOffice online help page won't resolve. Anyone out here can help get back corrupt ODT files?

hey @npub1fdrp...lvhs did you see this? the ultimate enshittification yarn of the German bikepacking/routing company (a knowledge commons to its users and employees) that sold out to VC and ended up spreading BS AI-generated 'route maps'. and how the extractivised community is starting all over again to regenerate its knowledge commons, but this time it's open and interoperable:

BIKEPACKING.com

When We Get Komooted

Following the sale of Komoot to private equity, Josh Meissner explores the broken relationship between corporate capital and our communities...

I want to use Jitsi for interviewing people in my book research, but there seems to be no way to schedule meetings in advance and send out invitations to people. Does anyone know of third party clients that can do this and don't require a CS degree to use..? Really really don't want to have to use effing zoom... but scheduling in advance and not just sharing meeting details on the fly is a must. This stuff is stressful enough as it is! Any suggestions gratefully received.