I've just tried the new #thunderbird Beta and... wow, I'm completely blown away. It looks amazing, seems to have threading, and is blisteringly fast on my terribly overloaded inboxes. Bravo to the @thunderbird team!

#QT - https://eupolicy.social/@euractiv_tech/111453829666035506

So glad to see the European Parliament has adopted the #RightToRepair proposal with a large majority #CircularEconomy

@abolitionniste @pmroman @elCelio @HistoPol @nooartur @Veza85UE honestly the issue with being concise in the EU is that involves leaving things out, the treaties are the best place to look.

What is not written: the European Council is also where important issues that could not be resolved in the Council of the European Union are resolved.

In fact, some (me) consider the EC to simply be a special configuration of the Council of the EU

@abolitionniste @elCelio @HistoPol @nooartur @pmroman @Veza85UE formal are legally recognised provisions of the treaties.

Informal are practices built around those provisions, but not formalised.

@abolitionniste They have none. The European Council is, however, supposed to provide the Commission with guidelines on policy direction.

Essentially it is equivalent to a Resolution of Parliament, but for member states

@elCelio @abolitionniste officially, yes. But declarations still serve as de facto guidelines.

I'm all for criticising #Meta and #Threads, but this post is seriously misleading.

The data described in the privacy policy is what is necessary to federate comments. Whether this implies they can then use this data for other purposes is still up for debate.

Doing so would likely be illegal in the EU though.

#QT - https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/111585528118111249

Judge finds "reasonable evidence" Tesla new their autopilot was defective.

Surprise Surprise...

#QT - https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/111474193954851506

@aral I saw this. Just goes to show we have let Google accumulate way too much power over the web. We're lucky it is just chrome now, and not the chromium engine, but I suspect it is just a matter of time...

@aral that does sound like it is on purpose. Do we know if chrome communicates installed add-ons to any of Google's sites ? They might eliminate the wait when chrome reports no Adblock

@aral there is no imaginable way that code can be a bug. We're that to be the explanation given I would have to kindly ask them not to take the piss.

@aral I'm now hearing the 5 second wait is due to Adblock détection...

@aral you seem to think we are having a lot more fun than we actually are. The first thing I'll be doing when I'm back in the office is calling Google and demanding an explanation.

@aral @EU_Commission @EDPS @noybeu have a good one :)

@aral @EU_Commission @EDPS @noybeu

There are so many fediverse projects that have received funding, including relatively new entrants, so perhaps it's not as systematic a problem as you might believe

https://www.ngi.eu/blog/2022/11/24/how-ngi-supports-open-interoperable-decentralised-and-trust-based-internet-applications-through-fediverse-projects-like-mastodon/

@aral @EU_Commission @EDPS @noybeu They didn't fund it from the beginning because they didn't know about it, and I never said they funded it from the beginning, please stop it with the strawmen...

@aral @EU_Commission @EDPS @noybeu as is the EU, one of the key funders of the software we are communicating on now.

@aral @EU_Commission @EDPS @noybeu I don't use facebook, and very rarely log into instagram. I'm also unsure it is possible to freely consent if the alternative is paying, in particular in light of case law on this issue.

As for your views on our ability to exact change through politics, they are dangerously cynical, and incorrext.. I'd invite you to look into the excellent work EDRi and AccessNow are doing in Brussels, and the positive changes they have made to laws.

@aral @EU_Commission @EDPS so what is it you want to change about the underlying legislation (the GDPR)? Because either you are changing the law, in which case it is Commission, Council, and Parliament, Or you are applying the law, in which case it's DPO's, the EDPB and the EDPS.

As for your opinions on Parliament, they are completely flawed. Parliament should have initiative, but it not having that doesn't make it the "kids table of parliaments". Parliament's successes speak for themselves.

@aral @EU_Commission it has nothing to do with the commission. You're looking for the @EDPS