Notices by tastyraspberry (tastyraspberry@mastodon.online)

I get where you're coming from. It's important to remember that "government" is not a single coherent entity. There are MEPs for example who are aware of the risks of age verification (a euphemism for identity verification) and chat control (whether in the voluntary or mandatory variant). In votes on directives such as these there is plenty of opposition, which is why chat control kept being reintroduced, for example.

@lxo @EUCommission @keepandroidopen @pluralistic @openhomefoundation

None of the progress we made in digital liberty and privacy (such as the cryptography wars, where it was uncertain we would even get real encryption on the web) came from governmental institutions filled with digital rights hippies. We formed coalitions with similarly aligned groups. And Cory makes great arguments for why we have an unstoppable coalition to fight DRM right now: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/

@lxo @EUCommission @keepandroidopen @pluralistic @openhomefoundation

@EUCommission now that you've allowed a category of apps to work more seamlessly and securely on the dominating mobile OS, prevent the mobile OS from becoming a dictatorship where Google has the final say on who is allowed to make apps: @keepandroidopen

And while we're at it, get rid of DRM and take @pluralistic up on his idea to make Europe the disenshittifying hub for the world's technology.

@openhomefoundation

Excuse me wtf?

"We were thrilled to discover an impressively precise and technically accurate decision from the EU. [...] The report went down to details we only figured out by reading Android's source code ourselves."

They anticipated Google would make people give up on their current voice assistant and mandated concurrent use of two different wake words? They even mandated sandboxing?

You're telling me bureaucratic institutions can be competent and serve the people?!

@openhomefoundation

@politicalbeauty.bsky.social damn, this is impressive!

Immediately reminded me of "Pirate Cinema" by @pluralistic, where the protagonists do something similar. Great read.

@aral @ErikUden I enjoyed this article for ten minutes, at which point I discovered there's a paywall for the rest :(

They should really just move up the paywall to the second paragraph.

Thanks for sharing though!

@voorstad @Mer__edith See this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a26zI7xCjy0