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“War upon end-to-end encryption”: EU wants Big Tech to scan private messages

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/war-upon-end-to-end-encryption-eu-wants-big-tech-to-scan-private-messages/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/war-upon-end-to-end-encryption-eu-wants-big-tech-to-scan-private-messages/

#news #programming #technews #technology

My 2022 predictions from 2012

Exactly a decade ago, I asked "Why Can't Red Dwarf Predict The Future?" That is - sci-fi writers can imagine interstellar travel and sentient computers, but they think the future will still involve developing film photographs, library fines, and 3-pin electrical plugs.

At the end of the post, I said:

Here are my thoughts on some trivial aspects of our l

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/05/my-2022-predictions-from-2012/

#/etc/ #future #predictions #scifi

I've noticed some otherwise very smart people have developed an almost cult-like antipathy to blockchains. The closed loop logic looks like;

Them: blockchains are evil and wrong because use huge energy

Me: point to peer-reviewed evidence that different blockchains have wildly different energy usage and that usage per user or transaction actually drops off after a certain scale is reached

Them: blockchains use huge energy for no legitimate uses

#BlockChains

Fucking NIMBYs. Honestly.

'Mr Lukashenko also said that any suggestion that Russia might use nuclear weapons against Ukraine was "unacceptable because it's right next to us".'

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61339742

Remember the outcry for Microsoft buying GitHub and developers (allegedly) leaving en masse? It didn't happen and GitHub is as a monopoly today as it was back then. Musk/Twitter is analogous. We need to make federated alternatives better than centralized ones. Outcry won't do it.

Wow, so many new #Rust people here!😍

Of course, other new people, who don't do Rust, are welcome as well.❤️

I for one am energized by the coincidence of billionaire and centralization anger and think we should JUICE IT FOR ALL IT'S WORTH. I am new to the fediverse, but am also a tacticalist and unionist, and naïvete is useful: can we pool examples of "amazing things fedi can do that platform social media can't" as messaging material!?!?!? !/

Former NHS AI leader joins US spy-tech firm Palantir

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2022/04/22/nhs_ai_leader_joins_palantir/

John Oliver on #SurveillanceCapitalism and Data Brokers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxlEaLTG42I

From Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. Excellent episode and a real call to arms for those who are not aware.

CalyxOS releases test builds for Fairphone 4, OnePlus 8T, and OnePlus 9 - https://calyxos.org/news/2022/04/01/fairphone4-oneplus8t-oneplus9-test-builds/

We're debating ways that Safe Network can reward creativity without the burden and downsides of having to use walled gardens, advertising, gatekeepers and other problematic business models.

Like to earn from your creativity (writing, music, code etc)? https://safenetforum.org/t/ptp-ptd-and-or-pt-megathread-pros-and-cons/35799/82?u=happybeing

RT @punk6529@twitter.com

19/ The idea that the Europeans can rest on their laurels for 50 years while the Americans and Chinese do the work of digital industrialization...

and also expect that the Europeans will have the best lives in the end, well that is a fairy tale.

A bedtime story for children.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/punk6529/status/1509832420450881542

German State Malware Company FinFisher Is Bankrupt

https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2022/etappensieg-finfisher-ist-pleite

I had one of those “Why didn’t that ever occur to me before?” moments. The time between the #Equinoxes is not symmetrical. It’s about 186 days between the #March and #September equinoxes and about 179 days from September to March. This is because the speed of the #Earth in its #orbit varies as it’s #elliptical rather than circular. I never bothered to count the days and yet it’s “obvious” when you look at the calendar. This gives an eccentricity of the orbit to be around 0.015.