Notices by bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺 (bert_hubert@fosstodon.org)

@vaurora this happens a lot to me, most recently in a policy paper from the municipality of Amsterdam, https://amsterdam.raadsinformatie.nl/document/14694106/1 - somewhat proud about that ;-)

Single sourced story so far, good to keep an eye on. "Sol-Ark OEM reportedly disables all Deye [solar panel] inverters in the US"
https://solarboi.com/2024/11/17/sol-ark-oem-disables-all-deye-inverters-in-the-us/

After every terrible election result we get 100s of pieces telling us exactly why this happened. But the supposed reasons are all different & conflicting. Below I argue we should take a leaf out of the UK's Home Intelligence WW2 project, where they fought propaganda & tracked "the vibes" to keep everyone on board with the war effort. We only have a few elections left to get to grips with populism, so we should stop the amateur hour sleuthing & figure things out:
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/we-dont-know-why-people-are-voting-like-that/

People, I'm writing a piece on how we still don't understand why people vote for Trump. To do so, I need a ton of links to articles that DO attempt to explain why Trump won. They don't need to be right! I just need a lot of articles. Could you send me any links you encountered recently? I already have these:

"Journalism has begun to feel like an enjoyable paid hobby which serves no apparent social purpose. Assembling facts and arguments has probably been a waste of a career. British lawyer and writer @davidallengreen concludes: “There is no point, in and of itself, showing a candidate to be a liar, fraudster, insurrectionist and/or a fascist if people do not actually care if that candidate is a liar, fraudster, insurrectionist and/or a fascist.” - https://www.ft.com/content/b7134905-3b6f-4aee-98a9-71bab6f9b29a (gift links available)

Hard to come to terms with the US abandoning European defense & Ukraine at a point when we aren't implementing our energy independence/climate plans, while simultaneously our Internet/Software AND manufacturing industries are dying. And to top it off, all our defense systems come from the US since we *somehow* decided to buy all our stuff there. I hear we still make great cheese though & provide world class tax avoidance schemes. Oh and Ozempic and high-end semiconductor machines (for now).

Thank you Mastodon and the Fediverse for being an example of communicating without billionaires and US venture capitalists calling the shots. We're going to need more of this.

“Don’t say “Europe should invest in secure communications”, write out that the European Commission should procure a secure email solution that does not fall under US spying legislation” https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/europe-must-invest-in-xyz/

And inb4 all the upcoming posts and articles on what “Europe should do”, please ponder: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/europe-must-invest-in-xyz/

If as it appears likely that 🇪🇺will have to start defending itself against Russia 🇷🇺 alone it may be good to realize our IT systems and society aren’t remotely ready for that. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cyber-security-pre-war-reality-check/

Organizations still have a very hard time dealing with people not affiliated with something. Can't wait to see what my badge will look like!

With increasing worries about (US) big tech dominance, people often mention Open Source as an alternative. But you can't just posit Open Source *software* as a replacement for a vast industry providing IT *services*. Much as I love Open Source, these are two completely different things:
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/open-source-by-itself-is-no-alternative-for-big-tech/

Mastodon plushie 1136 has arrived in Nootdorp, and is keeping an eye on me as I type this! #plushtodon

I love this part also. The CSAM regulation proposal is full of how it is all great for privacy, and then it hits you with this. Apparently this is scanning of all OUR photos, not of theirs: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2024-10-01-conseil-hu-csam-proposition-approche-generale-24-septembre.pdf

People, I need to tell you, The Netherlands has a database of every traffic sign! And boy are there a load of traffic signs! https://wegkenmerken.ndw.nu/verkeersborden - via @jap

The Dutch government has announced that after consultation with its civilian Intelligence & Security agency, they think the cyber resilience risks of the EU CSAM proposal are too high. This conclusion might be of use for other member states as well, so here is a translation into English together with some context: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/dutch-intel-service-csam-update/

Pro-tip if you are searching for anything HTML, CSS or JavaScript related: add "mdn" to your query. This Mozilla project really is a work of love, maintained by hundreds of volunteers @openwebdocs and @MDN staff and contractors. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn

It appears the Dutch government has decided to greenlight the EU plan to make 'big tech' force-install software on all European phones that will automatically report any questionable photos in your private chat messages to the police. This is not actually about protecting the children. This is about removing the very possibility of private communications. We can tell because governments have exempted themselves from this legislation (!). Here's something I wrote earlier: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/end-to-end-encryption-european-internet-forum/

Dutch government is attempting to declare an "asylum crisis", which would allow it to bypass parliament & exercise emergency powers directly. Meanwhile government lawyers have stated that there is no crisis that justifies such action. 90 cowards in Dutch parliament (a majority) voted yesterday that they are fine with being bypassed. Just in case you thought things were going well here.
https://nltimes.nl/2024/09/20/cabinet-pushing-declaring-asylum-crisis-despite-opposition-concerns

From https://9mmballpoint.blogspot.com/. #boeing