Notices by Walter van Holst (whvholst@eupolicy.social)

Now that the Knesset has voted for a death penalty that effectively will only be applied to Palestinians, now is as good a time as any to sign the EU Citizen's initiative calling the European Commission to suspend the EU-Israel Association Treaty: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2025/000005_en

@futurebird What is being mourned is the loss of a shared frame of reference. And yes, a lot of that shared frame of reference was propaganda.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@corporateeurope/116017501789516472

Time to donate to your local @edri member or @edri itself.

@aral @jmaris @nlnet @NGIZero I am not affiliated with them either. But If I were I would not fund Kitten since it is not obvious what its added value is over other microframeworks like Flask. Also, a robust internet needs less Javascript, not more.

Using Google Forms to gather nominations for a privacy award is a tad... ironic, isn't it?

@holdenweb @aral You may want to look into NGI Zero https://nlnet.nl/NGI0/ which is mostly funded by the EU.

@aral Hegseth has a good haircut...

https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/

So, that Signal fork the Trump regime is using turns out to have security issues...

@VeroniqueB99 @ErikJonker This is pretty much what France did to Haiti, considering the slave's freedom a loan that had to be paid off...

@HerraBRE @rysiek It is fantastic for helping people write in a second or third language, I get told by my migrant partner.

From a comment on Fark.com

"If you look up 88 into a ASCII table you see that it is X. While in the past I'd just say it's a weird coincidence I now have serious doubts about it being a coincidence. "

@je5perl Yes, it was about Tiktok. So the recommendation for using VPNs is even more useless than I already thought.

Am seeing ProtonVPN mentioned to circumvent certain regional bans on certain platforms. Do know that their CEO is aligned with the incoming US regime and that this may not work for platforms disliked by said incoming US regime. See https://archive.ph/McxeT

As far as VPNs go, I would go for MullvadVPN, but in general VPNs fundamentally are a band-aid with their own risks attached.

@bumi @rysiek That the speaker is part of an active group of oligarchs pushing for fascism.

For those who are attending #FOSDEM this year, this link to the lyrics of Bella Ciao might come in handy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_ciao#Partisan_version

@rafi0t @th There is a French taco place in my town as well. Time for American champagne, methinks.

@rafi0t @th But to be fair, Vietnamese baguettes are delicious.

@rafi0t @th Yes, báhn mí, but they are sold as "Vietnamese baguettes" at a Vietnamese place around the corner here.

@rafi0t @th See, there are *upsides* to colonialism 😛

Phrase of the day: "matroshka of unsavoury tech-messiahs" - MB