echo_pbreyer, to random German
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇩🇪Dank neuer EU-Regeln () lässt sich der Facebook Messenger künftig separat und unabhängig von Facebook nutzen. https://about.fb.com/news/2024/01/offering-people-more-choice-on-how-they-can-use-our-services-in-the-eu/
Nächster Schritt: Ihr könnt zu anderen kooperationsbereiten Messengerdiensten wechseln und trotzdem mit euren FB-Messenger-Kontakten dienstübergreifend in Verbindung bleiben () - endlich eine echte Wahlmöglichkeit, ein Ende des Anbieter Lock-Ins, und natürlich immer noch sicher Ende-zu-Ende verschlüsselt!

echo_pbreyer,
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇬🇧Thanks to new EU rules (), Facebook Messenger can now be used separately and independently of Facebook. https://about.fb.com/news/2024/01/offering-people-more-choice-on-how-they-can-use-our-services-in-the-eu/
Next step: You can switch to other cooperative messenger services and still stay in touch with your FB Messenger contacts across services () - finally a real choice, an end to provider lock-in, and of course still securely end-to-end encrypted!

grickle, to drawing
@grickle@mstdn.social avatar

It was a partnership that both baffled and terrified the rest of the seas.

echo_pbreyer, to random German
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇩🇪Vertrauenswürdiges Journalistenkonsortium sucht nach (auch anonymen) Hinweisen über Fehlverhalten von Europaabgeordneten - wenn ihr was habt: https://www.ftm.eu/share-your-tip

sagen: Käuflichkeit und Korruption dürfen sich nicht lohnen!

echo_pbreyer,
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇬🇧Trustworthy consortium of journalists is looking for confidential or anonymous tips on misconduct by MEPs - if you have any: https://www.ftm.eu/share-your-tip

say: Misconduct and corruption must not pay off!

echo_pbreyer, to random German
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar
echo_pbreyer,
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar
echo_pbreyer, to random German
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇩🇪Heute hat der EU-Rat final zugestimmt: Auf -Initiative wird der Europäischen Gerichtshof so transparent wie nie! Gewechselte Schreiben und Argumente vor dem EuGH werden künftig systematisch veröffentlicht. ⚖️ https://www.patrick-breyer.de/piraten-initiative-macht-europaeischen-gerichtshof-so-transparent-wie-nie/

echo_pbreyer,
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇬🇧Today EU Council approved: initiative will make the European Court of Justice (ECJ) more transparent than ever before. Letters and arguments submitted to the Court in preliminary ruling procedures will be published systematically in the future in the absence of objections! ⚖️
ℹ️https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/pirate-party-initiative-makes-the-european-court-of-justice-more-transparent-than-ever-before/

echo_pbreyer, to random German
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇩🇪Wichtige, vernichtende Kritik am geplanten jetzt vom gesamten Reclaim Your Face-Bündnis mit Digitale Gesellschaft, Digitalcourage, Amnesty, D64, FifF:
"Mit diesem neuen Gesetz [wird] die EU absegnen." https://reclaimyourface.eu/eu-ai-act-will-fail-commitment-to-ban-biometric-mass-surveillance/

echo_pbreyer,
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇬🇧Important, scathing criticism of the planned now from the entire Reclaim Your Face alliance including EDRi, AccessNOW, La Quadrature, Amnesty:
"Under this new law, ... the EU will have rubber-stamped ." https://reclaimyourface.eu/eu-ai-act-will-fail-commitment-to-ban-biometric-mass-surveillance/

Trush, to Nintendo Spanish
@Trush@tkz.one avatar
echo_pbreyer, to random German
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇩🇪Jetzt reagieren 21 NGOs auf meine Recherchen zur -Anti-Verschlüsselungsgruppe und prangern Einseitigkeit und Intransparenz an. https://netzpolitik.org/2024/going-dark-mal-anders-zivilgesellschaft-bleibt-im-dunkeln-bei-eu-beratungen-zu-verschluesselung/

Wir bleiben hier hartnäckig - versprochen!

echo_pbreyer,
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇬🇧Now 21 NGOs react to my research on the anti-encryption and pro group, denouncing one-sidedness and lack of transparency: https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Civil-Society-Letter-to-HLG-Going-Dark-on-Transparency-and-Participation.pdf

We will not relent to dig up what we can on this covert anti-privacy plotting - promise!

echo_pbreyer, to random German
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇬🇧 💶 "Digital euro": amendment calls for real digital cash! 💻🏴‍☠️ In the digital age we should be able to pay as freely and anonymously as with notes and coins.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/digital-euro-pirate-amendments-want-to-enable-real-digital-cash

echo_pbreyer, to random German
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇩🇪EU-Parlament ignoriert NGO-Beschwerden über Axel Voss (CDU) und Angelika Niebler (CSU) wegen Interessenkonflikten zwischen ihren "Nebenjobs" und ihrer Parlamentsarbeit. EU-Ombudsstelle setzt Parlament jetzt Frist: https://politico.eu/newsletter/politico-eu-influence/polish-power-post-pis-2/

im Amt geht gar nicht!

echo_pbreyer,
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇬🇧EU Parliament ignores NGO complaints on German MEPs Axel Voss (CDU) and Angelika Niebler (CSU) over conflicts of interest between their "side jobs" and their parliamentary work. EU Ombudsman now sets deadline. https://politico.eu/newsletter/politico-eu-influence/polish-power-post-pis-2/

Lobbying in office is not acceptable!

echo_pbreyer, to random German
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇬🇧 Great news for students: Following a initiative, an EU-funded study is being launched on how we could systematically borrow and read books online in the future. Libraries must finally enter the digital age!
https://www.visionary.lt/spotlight/va-kicks-off-a-study-on-copyright-in-distance-education-and-research/

echo_pbreyer, (edited ) to random German
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇩🇪Instagram will junge Leute mit völlig unzuverlässigen vor Selbstverletzungen, Suiziden, Essstörungen schützen? https://www.heise.de/news/Facebook-und-Instagram-verbergen-mehr-Inhalte-vor-Teenagern-9592449.html

Funktioniert kaum, und die Grundprobleme bleiben:
Überwachungskapitalistisches Geschäftsmodell, Überwachungswerbung, selbstverstärkende und süchtig machende Timeline-Algorithmen pushen Aufreger, Wut und Hass.

So könnten wir die "sozialen Medien" wirklich sicher machen:
☑️Kontextwerbung statt Nutzerüberwachung
☑️Echte Wechselmöglichkeit (auch zu nichtkommerziellen Netzwerken) durch Plattform-Interoperabilität
☑️selbstverstärkende Timeline-Algorithmen nur auf Wunsch
☑️Kontrolle über unsere Timeline durch ein Recht, nicht-kommerzielle und einstellbare externe Sortieralgorithmen einsetzen zu können, die für uns arbeiten und nicht für Zuckerberg's Profit

Wir müssen endlich vom Produkt zu den Nutzern der Plattformen werden - dafür stehen wir !

echo_pbreyer, (edited )
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇬🇧Instagram wants to protect young people from self-harm, suicide, eating disorders with completely unreliable ? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/09/teenager-content-restriction-instagram-facebook

Hardly works, and the fundamental problems remain:
Surveillance capitalist business model, surveillance advertising, engagement-based and addictive timeline algorithms push agitation, anger and hate.

This is how we could really make "social media" safe:
☑️contextual ads instead of surveillance advertising
☑️real option to switch platforms (also to non-commercial networks) by mandating platform interoperability
☑️engagement-based timeline algorithms only on user request
☑️control over our timeline by introducing a right to use non-commercial and customizable external timeline algorithms that work for us and not for Zuckerberg's profit.

We must finally stop being big tech's product and become their users - that's what we stand up for!

echo_pbreyer, to random German
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇩🇪Schwache Antwort des selbsternannten "digitalen Sheriffs" @ThierryBreton auf meine Frage, ob Youtubes Anti-Adblock-Krieg gegen EU-Datenschutz verstößt. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2023-003265-ASW_DE.pdf

Die irische Datenschutzbehörde prüft.

Youtube muss endlich auf faire, überwachungsfreie Werbung umstellen!

echo_pbreyer,
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇬🇧Weak and vague response by self-proclaimed "digital sheriff" @ThierryBreton to my question on whether Youtube’s anti-adblock war violates EU privacy rules. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2023-003265-ASW_EN.html

DPC complaint is pending.

Youtube should switch to fair, surveillance-free ads now!

herhandsmyhands, to indieauthors
@herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club avatar

@romancelandia
PSA: pirating site giving away indie and self published books and asking for "donations". They even have a "mission" statement twisting Gaiman's position against DRM to justify pirating thousands of books

site address (minus spaces)
ocean of pdf.com

If your books are on kindle unlimited, amazon can ding YOU if anyone finds them elsewhere, including pirating sites.

Report the to their hosting service here:

https://abuse.cloudflare.com/dmca

Please share and boost!

herhandsmyhands,
@herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club avatar

@romancelandia ICYMI:

PSA: pirating site giving away indie and self published books and asking for "donations". They even have a "mission" statement twisting Gaiman's position against DRM to justify pirating thousands of books

site address (minus spaces)
ocean of pdf.com

If your books are on kindle unlimited, amazon can ding YOU if anyone finds them elsewhere, including pirating sites.

Report the to their hosting service here:

https://abuse.cloudflare.com/dmca

Please share and boost!

itnewsbot, to science
@itnewsbot@schleuss.online avatar

Aaarr matey! Life on a 17th century pirate ship was less chaotic than you think - Enlarge

There's rarely time to write about every cool scie... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1993048

echo_pbreyer, to random German
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇩🇪 Frankreich fordert Alterskontrolle durch soziale Netzwerke, letztlich um Jugendliche unter 15 auszuschließen. sind gegen digitalen Hausarrest! Wir fragen die EU-Kommission, ob Frankreichs Gesetze EU-rechtswidrig sind.

🇬🇧 France calls for age control through social networks, ultimately to exclude young people under 15. are against digital house arrest! We are asking the EU Commission whether France's laws are contrary to EU law.

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jendefer, to fantasy
@jendefer@dice.camp avatar

Today finished listening to "The Wicked Bargain" by Gabe Cole Novoa and read by Vico Ortiz. It's a good adventure, a historical with and magic in the Caribbean. The main character is transmasc, and the details around that were skillfully folded into the story (while being just one part of a multi-faceted protagonist). Ortiz's reading was nicely varied. I also enjoyed how Spanish is incorporated into conversations.

@bookstodon

echo_pbreyer, to random German
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇬🇧 Ho ho ho! Team Patrick wishes you a merry pirate X-mas and relaxing holidays!

echo_pbreyer, to random German
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇩🇪Zensursulas EU-Kommission ist nach meiner Erfahrung industrie- und regierungshörig. Dass die Einflussnahme aber so offen bezahlt wird, überrascht. https://www.lobbycontrol.de/pressemitteilung/bezahlte-flugreisen-zu-grosse-naehe-zwischen-eu-wettbewerbshuetern-und-beratungsfirmen-113215/

Einziges Gegenmittel für uns : Echte , eindämmen und EU-weite Volksentscheide zum Gegensteuern!

echo_pbreyer,
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇬🇧Experience shows: Von der Leyen's EU Commission is on the side of industry and government. But the fact that this influence is paid for so openly is surprising. https://www.politico.eu/article/consultants-shower-eu-antitrust-watchdog-free-flights-hotels/

The only antidote for us : Real , containing and EU-wide referendums to enforce the will of the people!

funhouseradio, to Meme
@funhouseradio@mastodon.world avatar
echo_pbreyer, (edited ) to random German
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇩🇪 : Wollen CDU und CSU ernsthaft einen Zwang zur elektronischen Patientenakte mit allen euren Behandlungen und Krankheiten? Sie haben heute gegen die Möglichkeit eines Widerspruchs gestimmt – zum Glück erfolglos.

echo_pbreyer,
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

🇬🇧 : Christian Democrats and Liberals today attempted to mandate the registration and collection of information on all medical treatments you receive in a remotely accessible system – what a feast for hackers!

anelki, to cfb

One year since Mike Leach passed away.

I don’t even remember what I said. I hope whatever I said was cute and clever and maybe even a tiny bit humorous. I hope it wasn’t mindless babble, and if it was, hopefully everyone will forget about it pretty quick.

@cfb

morettiphd, to MLB
@morettiphd@thecanadian.social avatar
FesteringFerret, to LEGO
@FesteringFerret@aus.social avatar

"Yarrrgh, me hearties! We've been invaded by a dastardly legged serpent!"

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