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   kravietz 🦇 (kravietz@agora.echelon.pl)'s status on Friday, 01-Aug-2025 01:20:13 JST kravietz 🦇

   Traditional shitstorm about #Android device attestation in EU Identity Wallet with Age Verification project:

   https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/discussions/19

   Previously, I have commented on the project stating that it’s neither right nor necessary to rely on a single commercial proprietary function (Google Play) for the device attestation and I hold this.

   But in this thread there’s plenty of voices who contest the whole idea of attestation, the argument boiling down to “I own my device and nobody’s going to tell me what to do!!!” which is just as naive as incorrect:

   1. Ownership doesn’t imply 100% control over every single aspect of your hardware. Starting from WiFi hardware enforcing legal transmitting power limits and DFS feature required in your region, because messing with the latter would interfere with tons of other, often safety critical communications, or air traffic safety.
   2. The fact that you own e.g. a car doesn’t mean you are allowed to freely modify its hardware and firmware beyond the legal limits, and this is right because that’s the point where the safety of other road users depends on your brakes, lights etc. So yeah, you can even build your own car from scratch in your garage and control every single bolt in it, but you won’t be allowed to drive it on the public roads - and I’m personally fine with it.
   3. As can be implied from the examples, about the device you own is not always only about you. When you enter mutual legal relationship with another party - be it private individual or the government - both of them want to have assurance about the legal effects of the agreement.
   4. For example, using Polish app mObywatel you can legally sign a binding contract with another private person - and as the other person I don’t want you to sign an intellectual property sale contract with a fake identity from a phone that is really an Android emulator running in China or Russia.
   5. That’s why I, as the other party, I’m interesting in you being forced to use chain of trust as strong as technically as legally possible. If you don’t like it, that’s fine, we can sign the contract in person too.
   6. As far as I’m aware, nobody makes you to “have a phone similar to an ATM”. The argument is that if you want to enter mutually binding legal agreements with assurance higher than today using your phone, then this phone will need to be attested. If you don’t want your phone to be attested, then the status quo remains, you won’t be able to enter these agreements, just like you are today. Sounds fair to me.

   In other words, freedom to tinker - which I generally agree with - ends where other humans are expected to interact and potentially bear consequences of your tinkering.

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@mastodon.futurist.info)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Jul-2025 21:04:09 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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   FoolishOwl (foolishowl@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Jul-2025 08:36:50 JST FoolishOwl

   in reply to

   @typeswitch This reminds me of Murray Bookchin's idea that usufruct should be primary: that property should belong to the person who uses it and only insofar as they are using it.

   As I understand it, that's in contrast with the concept we inherited from ancient Roman law.

   https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-janet-biehl-the-murray-bookchin-reader#toc18

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   Burn This Dyspho Out 🏳️‍⚧️ (testoceratops@disabled.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Jul-2025 06:10:27 JST Burn This Dyspho Out 🏳️‍⚧️

   I always feel bad talking about anorexia, but I really need help with something.

   I don't know how many kg I've lost exactly, but I've lost two sizes in clothing.

   All my pants are way too big, even with a belt. I got a smaller belt, but it still shows that it's not my size at all, and I feel bad about it.

   As for the shirts, it's not really bothering me. I'm asking about the pants only, because of dysphoria.

   Thanks for any help!

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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 30-Jun-2025 22:36:23 JST Rich Felker

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   @foolishowl @sidereal Not only that they're basically all illegally misclassified employees, and the law isn't enforced because tech companies are allowed and supposed to be able to break arbitrary laws as long as the law for an say "with computers" in it.

   As one of the few *actual* contractors, I see how painfully obvious this is every time I have an engagement and have to fight with a "vendor onboarding" process that was obviously intended for employees not independent third parties.

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   Julien Barnoin (julienbarnoin@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 00:00:59 JST Julien Barnoin

   Okay, I feel the need to share this because people who only speak english may not realize it.

   As a french speaker, I'm seeing more and more websites auto-translating their content, because I guess now there's #AI translation and people think it works?

   Guess what: the translations are still shit. It was not okay to publish Google-translated websites without a native speaker checking it if you didn't want to be ridiculed, and it's still not okay now, despite all the hype.

   Please don't do this.