Notices by Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 (pojntfx@mastodon.social)

@onepict It's so well written it even got my nonexistant attention span to respawn

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

Everyone should read this.

Today is another day of me doing the loosing my glasses in the morning speedrun any%

@inthehands @Unlikelylass True, that's a good point. I'd love to do an analysis of Chinese spending on manufacturing infrastructure and clean energy build-outs vs. the American investments in inference hardware at some point

Damn, I fell for graph 1) again. Turns out that data centre capex actually isn't all that unusual?

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116408720976324749

Doesn't work without a Google/Apple-tied device btw. There is absolutely no story for how this would work on a desktop, anything without a Google/Apple account, or open source OS at all either.

If a German citizen gets sanctioned by the US government, once this is implemented (later this year), that means they will no longer be able to be a participating member of German society, e.g. to show their (digital) driver's license to traffic police

https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/116345725515845020

A bit of an explanation

I've said it before an I'll say it again: This entire project of identity verification with Apple/Google-account bound mobile devices is going to lead the continent down a dark, dark path into full technological submission to the US

@tdelmas The whole remote attestation thing should be dropped from the proposal. The rest of it is unfortunate (no ZKs at all, just signed credentials), but the remote attestation part is truly asinine. I have no idea how and why that decision was made. The people behind this are adding a path dependency on Google/Apple on something as simple as showing your ID to buy alcohol.

https://bmi.usercontent.opencode.de/eudi-wallet/wallet-development-documentation-public/latest/architecture-concept/06-mobile-devices/02-mdvm/

So, it turns out the German implementation of eIDAS (electronic ID wallet for e.g. age attestation) will require an Apple/Google account to function

Absolutely pathetic

@alvan I mean I totally understand that. Idk in my mind Euro-prefixed stuff implies "transnational and universal" and e.g. Deutschland-prefixed stuff implies "nationalistic and specific to one population" in a way Euro-prefixed stuff doesn't

I will defend the GDPR to death but I will smash the DSGVO and Telemediengesetz with hammers

The fact that I can use a Linux phone in China and be a fully participating member of society, including mobile payments and everything, but I can't do that in any EU country, the US or Canada due to the payment methods there requiring SafetyNet and China not requiring that, has really broken my brain a little bit

@m The 2020s are the decade of regulatory capture

@dansup Hahahaha

@dansup Hmmmm :P

@dansup @amanda Yeah, but criticism without an ability to point it out where whatever is being criticised is being done is not particularly effective. People might read the comment section on a post. People are much less likely to specifically seek out other posts criticising something on their own.

@amanda @dansup Hmmm, I see your point. I guess I'd personally take the position of "I should be able to criticise something" over "safety" in this case, personally. In case someone is genuinely harassing someone I'd much rather have that be a "report -> warning -> ban -> potentially defederation" escalation.

@dansup Idk. "Anyone can quote and reply to an opinion I post to the internet" feels like a core characteristic of ... the internet to me.

I'd expect a post to be removable by a neutral (to whatever conversation is going on not in general) instance moderator if it's against instance policies, adding one side of an argument to that seems like a recipe for desaster ...

Maybe it's just "moderation scoped to one's own replies though" and I'm just framing it incorrectly to myself?

@dansup Wouldn't that essentially be a way to shut down any unwanted criticism of your post and isn't this what moderation is for?