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+++ Under the guise of child protection: EU plans digital identity enforcement +++
The European Commission has introduced an age verification app, supposedly to protect children online. However, criticism is mounting: this creates the technical foundation for far-reaching digital identity checks – well beyond its original purpose. Under the pretext of child protection, a system risks emerging that effectively forces users to disclose their identity in order to access online services.
Experience shows that what starts as “voluntary” quickly becomes the norm. Protecting children is fundamental, but must not be used as a pretext to undermine anonymous internet use. Clear limits are needed: no indirect real-name requirements, no gradual expansion of identification obligations, and no centralization of powers at the EU level. A free internet requires data protection, proportionality, and real choice – not infrastructure for control.
https://t.me/christineanderson/1340
The European Commission has introduced an age verification app, supposedly to protect children online. However, criticism is mounting: this creates the technical foundation for far-reaching digital identity checks – well beyond its original purpose. Under the pretext of child protection, a system risks emerging that effectively forces users to disclose their identity in order to access online services.
Experience shows that what starts as “voluntary” quickly becomes the norm. Protecting children is fundamental, but must not be used as a pretext to undermine anonymous internet use. Clear limits are needed: no indirect real-name requirements, no gradual expansion of identification obligations, and no centralization of powers at the EU level. A free internet requires data protection, proportionality, and real choice – not infrastructure for control.
https://t.me/christineanderson/1340
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Fun fact!
Did you know the people in Montenegro are called Montenegroes (the negroes from the mountain)! 💡
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🚨🇪🇺 BREAKING: EU FLAG REMOVED in Poland during debate on security and independence
Flags being DUMPED across Europe.
People are DONE with Brussels control. The backlash is REAL and GROWING.
More countries want OUT.
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As an former Ubuntu fan boy, for well over a decade, I second the recommendation of MXlinux over Ubuntu.
Lighter weight and Debian base is great. It is also friendly to Linux newbies with helpful tools, community and documentation.
I use Devuan on many of my computers, which is also based on Debian.
#Linux #Debian #Devuan #mxLinux
Lighter weight and Debian base is great. It is also friendly to Linux newbies with helpful tools, community and documentation.
I use Devuan on many of my computers, which is also based on Debian.
#Linux #Debian #Devuan #mxLinux
Vilken nostalgitripp! Hittade precis fiendens fiende från 1990 på youtube. Fascinerande hur mycket landet försämrats sen dess.
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I messed up
That LineageOS Samsung S20FE I got running was intended for one of the kids, as their first phone.
Now I know that Samsung has their own IMS that isn't compatible with AOSP and thus you cannot do voice calls in countries where VoLTE is the only option available.
Like Sweden.
Sure, this information is "known" if you're into degoogled Android phones - but I wasn't. The only way to get voice working on this hardware is to restore it back to Samsung's - no longer security updated - Android.
ffs
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@h4890 @Soy_Magnus @verita84 yah it’s worse than the US as far as marketing laws lol. Damn data privacy ruining everyone’s good time
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Well played sir, well played. Viva Hungry.
HUNGARIAN CHESS THAT MAKES BRUSSELS CRY🤣
🇭🇺 Viktor Orbán places his trusted “traitor” and the EU falls into the perfect trap: the checkmate that has left Brussels, Soros, and Obama humiliated.
In a display of political chess so brilliant it borders on the comical, Viktor Orbán sniffed out long ago that the European Union, George Soros, Obama, and the whole globalist club were gunning for him. With no worthwhile left-wing opposition left in Hungary (none of them cracked the laughable 5% electoral threshold), the Hungarian prime minister decided to solve the problem his own way: he took his top ally and right-hand man, Péter Magyar, and sent him out front as a deluxe “opponent.”
The plan was as simple as it was genius: Magyar, who until 2024 was a key piece of the Orbán government, dramatically jumped ship, played the dissident, eagerly accepted funds from the very Eurocrats who despise Orbán, and positioned himself as the great hope for “change.” The European left and their patrons fell into the trap like flies into honey. “At last!” they shouted in Brussels, as they cracked open the checkbook. No one understood a thing, of course, because hardly anyone speaks Hungarian and the headlines in Western media were too flattering to question.
The result? Magyar won. And the moment he set foot in power, the “traitor” revealed his true face. He declared that the border “isn’t strong enough,” rejected 90% of Ursula von der Leyen’s demands, prioritized the rights of ethnic Hungarians, and in practice, stuck to the same sovereigntist line that so irritates the EU.
The European Union, Soros, Obama, and company bit the bait, shelled out the cash, and now stare in stunned disbelief as the “change” they celebrated so much is exactly the same old Orbán—just with a different name. Masterstroke. 5D chess at its finest. And the best part: all of it legal, all of it clean, and all of it right under their noses.
HUNGARIAN CHESS THAT MAKES BRUSSELS CRY🤣
🇭🇺 Viktor Orbán places his trusted “traitor” and the EU falls into the perfect trap: the checkmate that has left Brussels, Soros, and Obama humiliated.
In a display of political chess so brilliant it borders on the comical, Viktor Orbán sniffed out long ago that the European Union, George Soros, Obama, and the whole globalist club were gunning for him. With no worthwhile left-wing opposition left in Hungary (none of them cracked the laughable 5% electoral threshold), the Hungarian prime minister decided to solve the problem his own way: he took his top ally and right-hand man, Péter Magyar, and sent him out front as a deluxe “opponent.”
The plan was as simple as it was genius: Magyar, who until 2024 was a key piece of the Orbán government, dramatically jumped ship, played the dissident, eagerly accepted funds from the very Eurocrats who despise Orbán, and positioned himself as the great hope for “change.” The European left and their patrons fell into the trap like flies into honey. “At last!” they shouted in Brussels, as they cracked open the checkbook. No one understood a thing, of course, because hardly anyone speaks Hungarian and the headlines in Western media were too flattering to question.
The result? Magyar won. And the moment he set foot in power, the “traitor” revealed his true face. He declared that the border “isn’t strong enough,” rejected 90% of Ursula von der Leyen’s demands, prioritized the rights of ethnic Hungarians, and in practice, stuck to the same sovereigntist line that so irritates the EU.
The European Union, Soros, Obama, and company bit the bait, shelled out the cash, and now stare in stunned disbelief as the “change” they celebrated so much is exactly the same old Orbán—just with a different name. Masterstroke. 5D chess at its finest. And the best part: all of it legal, all of it clean, and all of it right under their noses.
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I am using this right now on my ThinkPad T470s laptop.
#Linux #Artix
RT: https://floss.social/users/9to5linux/statuses/116338866113698886
#Linux #Artix
RT: https://floss.social/users/9to5linux/statuses/116338866113698886
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Sitter med deklarationen igen som en revisor skulle behöva göra pga lantbruksfastighet och tänker på att det inte skulle behöva vara så här. "Ingen i Estland behöver en skatterådgivare, ingen behöver lägga pengar på att deklarera, skattespecialisterna har förlorat sina jobb". https://timbro.se/smedjan/sa-byggdes-varldens-basta-skattesystem/
Upon some reading in reddit it seems like there's some kind of youtube bug where rss feeds just stop working from time to time. Let's hope for the best!
What a lovely dinner! I had a nice medium rare tuna belly, that just melts in your mouth, starter and desert for 55 EUR. A pretty good price!
Hmm... did youtube just close down its rss feeds? I hope its just a temporary glitch, because otherwise, my rss-based youtube consumption days seem to be over.
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ok, I've bit the bullet. PR asking for a signing certificate made and thus my WIP source is now public on Codeberg too.
I've had a horribly patched together shellscript-thing running on my own Nextcloud instance on and off before, but converting it to an actual ExApp has done wonders. It's right now creating EXIF, Nextcloud tags and ALT text for _all_ images & photos (many tens of thousands) in the family's photo storage.
That server has an Nvidia A2000 GPU. 12GB of VRAM means it can run a competent vision model (unsloth/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_XL) and churn through the images somewhat rapidly, whilst not using more than ~65W of power doing so.
The end result is, IMHO, absolutely awesome. Let's see if I can manage to clean it up, conform to guidelines and make it public ...
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The truth comes out... it's all about censorship of the masses:
" The EU says a new age-verification app is technically ready and could let users prove they are old enough to access restricted online content without revealing their identity or personal data. Deutsche Welle reports:
Once released, users will be able to download the app from an app store and set it up using proof of identity, such as a passport or national ID card. They can then use it to confirm they are above a certain age when accessing restricted content
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The app is expected to support enforcement of the bloc's Digital Services Act, which aims to better regulate online platforms. This includes restricting access to content such as pornography, gambling and alcohol-related services. "
And will there be source code available for this app? Will it work on GNU/Linux? Will it work on FreeBSD? Will it work on OpenBSD? Will it work on VxWorks? Will it work on NetBSD? Will it work on a yet-to-exist operating system????
We already know the answer to this without looking into it. The answer is no. UK GNU/Linux users are already unable to access half the internet now thanks to sites only supporting a subset of the most popular operating systems, browsers, and similar. If your 'unknown' (since GNU/Linux has thousands of versions and releases alone) the default is to block you.
VPNs are more critical today than ever before as a consequence of dumb legislation like this.
You might try and arrest your way into it working by going after developers who don't comply as the US is trying to do with similar legislation and has done even where developers clearly broke no law (cryptocurrency wallet cases like Samourai Wallet).
It won't work. Development will go elsewhere and underground.
meeting a boring little bureaucrat, who gets to live a life of luxury on my tax money, and who is most likely a socialist?
I mean, if I was offered to throw pies at his face, like the clown he is, I'd probably do it, but seriously?
But this just shows how disconnected our revolting civil servants are, and how the fact that they just coast along on tax payers money, stolen money, has completely warped their view of reality.
Sometimes I feel like the people in the public sector live on another planet, completely separated from reality.
I was invited by the embassy to participate in a survey to "map the business climate" of the country I'm in.
As a reward for this, wait for it... I get to enter a _lottery_, and.... wait for it.... the lottery, if I won, would result in a 30 minute meeting with the ambassador.
Jesus Christ, do they have a high opinion of themselves!
Why on earth would I want to waste my life
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Soooo... you're complaining about the noise from a nightclub that's been open for forty years when you bought a flat opposite eight years ago?
Why am I unsurprised this guy is a property developer?
Joined Apr 2026
