Der größte Angriff auf die Transparenz in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik: Union und SPD wollen die Informationsfreiheit abschaffen.

Mit ihren Plänen schotten die Regierungsparteien Politik & Verwaltung von der Öffentlichkeit ab und schaffen ein Gesetz, das Korruption begünstigt.

Informationsfreiheit darf keine Verhandlungsmasse in einem Reform-Deal sein. Hier geht es um unsere Demokratie.

Setz Dich mit uns dafür ein, dass das IFG nicht abgeschafft wird!

https://fragdenstaat.de/artikel/policy/2026/07/spd-und-union-planen-abschaffung-des-ifg/?pk_campaign=mastodon

Procedural trick: Governments try to rush the European Parliament with a fast-tracked procedure on #ChatControl 1.0. 🚨 Already next week they want to force yet ANOTHER vote.

This way, they try to break the resistance of the European Parliament against mass surveillance in the negotiations on a permanent Chat Control 2.0 law.

@heiseonlineenglish has the details:
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Partial-victory-with-a-catch-EU-Parliament-temporarily-defies-chat-control-11349760.html

Urgent procedure, right before EP summer break & during world cup: every vote counts now
📢 Spread the word! 📢

Diesem Ende wohnt ein Anfang inne

Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦

"Be unable to change what runs on your phone or it turns into a brick that can't even be used to pay for food and transit" but sure, I can verify whether the OS and app was built by a "trusted" hyperscaler in a hostile foreign country, isn't that so worth it?

The fight against root-based remote attestation and mandatory code signing with vendor-provided keys are the defining software freedom issues of our time. Nothing else even comes close

https://globalnews.ca/news/11942659/harry-styles-collapses-on-stage-choking-on-water-u-k-heat-wave/

2026 moment

@pojntfx 100%.

we built a multi-variate experimentation platform once while i was at nilenso. seeing how a (relatively innocent e-commerce) website sees users was enlightening.

we are rarely aggregate. most of the time, one is seen by corporations and governments as their race, language, purchases, decisions, history, behaviour, ip addresses, device ids, and identity markers. targeting is emergent and (because statistics) unintuitive.

i struggle to explain to even my most hardcore privacy nerd friends that no one gives a shit about their actual identity. each of us is stalked, manipulated, and harmed as hundreds of variables.

the one thing my privacy nerd friends do grok in that equation (that the general public doesn’t) is that if any entity has access to one variable, we should assume they all do.

i wish there were better, cartoonier explanations of this. maybe benn jordan or kzurgizagt will make one.

🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦

German speakers in Vancouver where are u

Wow, I'm actually starting to lose the ability to do German grammar correctly

🇬🇧 ⚠️ IT EXPERTS WARN before tomorrow's trilogue: A deal could mean #ChatControl via backdoor + ID checks for messengers!
Source: https://cepis.org/cepis-warns-eu-against-backdoor-chat-monitoring-in-child-protection-debate/
🕛 24h to go. ✉️ Email tonight, 📞 call tomorrow! https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#contact-tool

The other day, I attended @pojntfx's talk, and in it, she mentioned Salish Mesh.

I'm looking forward to participating in this network.

https://salishmesh.net/

The Greens-led govt in Germany is one of those phases that absolutely felt like it sucked when living through it but also in retrospect feels like a positive fever dream

Grüne fordern Sofortprogramm für Klimaanlagen

Die Grünen drängen auf einen Aktionsplan gegen Hitze. Fraktionschefin Dröge warnt vor mehr lebensgefährlichen Hitzetagen. Helfen sollen auch Klimaanlagen in öffentlichen Einrichtungen. Von Dietrich Karl Mäurer.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/gruene-hitze-klima-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Grüne #Hitze

Not saying carbon capture will never work, but so far, well…

I have submitted my suggested storm names to the Met Office: ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron and Gazprom.

In "Reason for name choice(s) (optional)" I wrote:

These are the corporations whose deliberate actions have caused the storms. They deserve credit.

Make your own recommendations at https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names

Firefox 153 (still in beta, to be released July 21th) will ship DevTool's "Local Mode", allowing you to very easily load files from local folders using custom origins.
So you can use have https (and use all APIs requiring Secure Contexts, like Wasm, Service workers). And have custom storage per folder for cookies and LocalStorage.

Documentation: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/local_mode/index.html
(also have a look at screenshot's alt-text)

“For most of history, surveillance ran into the same wall: payroll. A Soviet censor could open your letter. He could not open everyone’s letter, because steaming envelopes takes hands and there were never enough hands. The Stasi got closest, running files on a share of the East German population large enough that historians still argue the exact fraction, and it took warehouses of paper and a network of informants the size of an army to do it. The ceiling was human. Reading you cost a person a day, and a person’s day costs money.”

“What protected the ordinary person was the price of attention. You were boring, and boring was expensive to read.”

“AI removed the ceiling. A model reads every message at a cost rounding to zero, sorts them, flags the interesting ones, and never asks for a raise. The thing that made mass reading impossible was arithmetic, and the arithmetic just inverted. Two variables remain: who holds the data, and what they say when the state asks.”

(Denis Stetskov)

https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-cost-of-reading-everyone-just

#ai #surveillance

I miss the Europapa era