@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