🇬🇧👍Estonia won't be approving #ChatControl either.

👎But Germany's vote on Oct. 14th is still up in the air, risk of a dangerous coalition compromise.

💪28 days left to increase the pressure on your government and defend digital privacy and security: https://chatcontrol.eu

Linux phones are more important now than ever

Link: https://feddit.org/post/18353777

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45256651

Despite the bad news with Germany, there is still some good news:

MEPs
🇨🇾 Fidias PANAYIOTOU
🇪🇸 Alvise PÉREZ
🇷🇴 Cristian TERHEŞ
🇸🇪 Abir AL-SAHLANI
🇸🇪 Emma WIESNER
🇵🇹 Bruno GONÇALVES
🇸🇰 Ľubica KARVAŠOVÁ
🇸🇰 Martin HOJSÍK
🇸🇰 Ľudovít ÓDOR
🇸🇰 Michal WIEZIK
🇸🇰 Lucia YAR
🇳🇱 Dirk GOTINK
🇩🇪 Jan-Peter WARNKE
🇧🇪 Sara MATTHIEU
🇸🇮 Irena JOVEVA
🇸🇮 Vladimir PREBILIČ
🇮🇹 Cristina GUARDA
🇮🇹 Benedetta SCUDERI
🇪🇪 Jana TOOM
🇩🇰 Morten LØKKEGAARD
🇸🇮 Matej TONIN
🇮🇪 Michael MCNAMARA

all OPPOSE Chat Control!

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I'm trying a small test on 2nd channel, want to see impact from a large desktop audience, as I've seen a 30-50% decline in views (without a drop in other metrics).

This is a Dystopian timeline: My wife was let go after 25 years working for the same bank this morning. In an apparent oops, the bank's IT department hard wiped ALL her IOS devices remotely, while she was on the road driving, relying on the GPS function.

The screw you cherry on top? Our apartment building in its infinite wisdom a couple years back switched all building locks to the Latch app.

So she was LOCKED OUT OF OUR HOUSE.

Oh, and the Latch maintained intercom at our front door is out of order.

Thanks for that. Sheesh.

I have never liked #Signal, being centralized is enough for me to consider it not an option at all, enshittification is bound to happen to any centralized service, and this doesn't sound good already:

"Signal just rolled out centralized backups, and the guy who announced it has quite the resume. Jim O'Leary, Signal's VP of Engineering since 2019, spent the previous eight years building surveillance infrastructure at Twitter and Facebook."

https://www.sambent.com/the-surveillance-architect-running-signal-engineering/

#decentralization is the way

liquid glass isn't bad because ew ew new ui no likey ew it's bad because of this:

thank god there’s just so much room for my content, in the phone call screen

#Mastodon , l'organizzazione no-profit che gestisce il software più usato nel #Fediverso, ha un nuovo piano per finanziarsi

Invece di affidarsi esclusivamente a donazioni e sovvenzioni come in precedenza, l'azienda ha annunciato che offrirà servizi di hosting, moderazione e supporto a pagamento per le organizzazioni che desiderano aderire al social web aperto.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/19/mastodon-has-a-new-plan-to-make-money-hosting-and-support-services-for-the-open-social-web/

@fediverso

Just leaving this here because it's interesting and fun https://github.com/UMSKT/UMSKT

🇩🇰 Stine BOSSE
🇩🇰 Asger CHRISTENSEN
🇩🇪 Tiemo WÖLKEN
🇩🇪 René REPASI
🇨🇿 Filip TUREK
🇪🇸 Ana MIRANDA PAZ
🇭🇺 Zsuzsanna BORVENDÉG

and all 🇫🇷 Rassemblement national MEPs OPPOSE Chat Control.

Windows 10 support ends on October 14.

Help the people around you continue to be protected by helping them switch to Linux. They don't need to go buy a new computer just because Microsoft made a decision for them.

Follow @Endof10@floss.social for success stories and resources for how to help people switch!

Learn more: https://endof10.org

#EndOf10 #Linux #OpenSource #Fedora

Stop Killing Games update - UK petition to see a debate Parliament
#StopKillingGames #Gaming #PCGaming

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/stop-killing-games-update-uk-petition-to-see-a-debate-parliament/

This site does considerably better than just asking "Is this the year of the Linux Desktop?".

It lists and breaks down the current status of major software support in Linux, so you can decide whether the switch is right for you at the current moment, as well as a guide to help you make an informed choice on distro and know what else you might be getting into.

https://yearofthelinuxdesktop.net

#OpenSource #Linux #windows #desktop

#Tails 7.0

https://tails.net/news/version_7.0/

#privacy #cybersecurity #anonynmity #FOSS #Tor #Linux

man when people were telling me that smart TVs are a privacy nightmare, I thought that was because they recorded what you watched using their built in media-player OS.

NOPE! Apparently Roku TV's will give you popups based on what DVDs you're watching through them, because they screenshot the HDMI-in and compare it to a database.

that's a few steps creepier than I was expecting from a garden variety privacy invasion

here's the page I was linked to (from a tumblr post I've lost track of) on how to turn this off on various TVs:

https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smart-tv-snooping-features-a4840102036/

Somehow I got involved with some coworkers at lunch and the discussion came down to someone saying "Bill Gates is one of the richest people alive and he controls all the technology. They're going to be building a T-1000 with those AI of theirs." Then someone else immediately says to him. "All of these rich people are the same. Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk, they don't care about us."

Bill Gates doesn't get involved in Microsoft anymore, because he's too busy playing with the World Health Organization to shape healthcare in favor of his investments (even though 10% of WHO isn't a whole lot). Steve Ballmer isn't going to destroy Linux anymore, he's too busy with the Lakers. Meanwhile, Satya Nadella knows Linux makes him lots of money and HE was the one to boost it in Microsoft.

Put me in coach! My conspiracies about the "readiness™" of Apple products based on the editing of their events is more legitimate than what people cook up without understanding the industry. You know they're toast this year when they have an event where the camera wandered every few seconds, no AI offerings, made a thin phone with "all day battery life" then immediately told people to buy a MagSafe less than a minute later, obsoleted their C1 modem from the iPhone 16e for the N series modems, and wasted time bragging about removing the SIM tray even though they did that years ago to pad for time.

So I looked at Tahoe release (in VM). Some UI highlights (thread):

- Window toolbar changing color from white to black for no reason

Full thread: https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/115248089319181113

IMPORTANT UPDATE

🇧🇪 Belgium now SUPPORTS the compromise proposal IN PRINCIPLE, despite contradicting promises to citizens: reverts to UNDECIDED.

🇮🇹 Italy is UNDECIDED, expressing doubts on including new CSAM in scope.

🇱🇻 Latvia is UNDECIDED but assesses the text positively, pending national support.