Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
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A protected public forest in Kenya was being carved up behind closed doors; its trees cleared, its soil broken 😱
But, activists took the matter to court... AND WON!
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A sword of Damocles over F-Droid https://youtube.com/shorts/CC0ihW8aNEM?feature=shared @eighthave #DMAVoxPopuli
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Tim Sweeney signed away his right to criticize Google until 2032 https://www.theverge.com/news/889595/tim-sweeney-signed-away-his-right-to-criticize-google-until-2032
@eighthave couldn't resist the pun (Episode 1, recorded some time ago), and I couldn't resist making another short out of it! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H7QoVdmzbWI #DMAVoxPopuli
"Expanding the number of developers in Google’s database will only make it a more frequent target of legal demands."
#Google #Android #AndroidDeveloperVerification #GooglePlay #privacy #legal #developer
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Not only OpenAI donated $25m to Trump becoming their top sponsor, they also power the tools ICE uses to target people, and now they have a deal with the Pentagon.
But with them burning through money, boycotting them is easy.
Cancel any ChatGPT subscription you have. If enough people do so, it will hurt.
"Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism"
If Canadian non-profits are allowed to focus on software development, that would be great to know. Then other projects could incorporate there. @e_mydata is another similar project, they are apparently a French non-profit.
https://e.foundation/legal-notice-privacy/
I wonder how it works in France?
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An "Epic fail" - as @eighthave put it (DMA Vox Populi Podcast https://youtu.be/gDpOVo7seOo?feature=shared )? We'll know more tomorrow... https://x.com/vidushi_law/status/2028844551008653740?s=61&t=0QugWjaCheLcBNLsuiPn3w
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Remarkable initiative by @wavesblog and Isa Stasi to give technologists a channel to talk about #DMA!
Pressing issues related to app stores in environments dominated by #Apple and #Google were discussed in details by @eighthave and @marcprux.
Take some minutes to hear it, it's worthy.
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Actions speak louder than words.
I am unable to install EU Login app in my phone because I use LineageOS and not the Google Spy Android. Thus, I cannot use the double factor authentication, mandatory from the 25-02-2026 on unless I tell Google.
Stupid, no?
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What happened at the end of 2025 to a hundred million Let's Encrypt certificates?
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NVIDIA, you made USD 215.9 billion selling the chips that run Big Tech’s AI empires.
With all that power and profits, how come the AI supply chain you fuel is still running on dirty energy?
Has anyone ever found the T3010 filings for #GrapheneOS #Foundation? As far as I understand it, any Canadian non-profit is required to make their finances public. I'm curious what kind of budget it takes to run a project like GrapheneOS. It does seem clear that they are a Canadian non-profit:
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cc/lgcy/fdrlCrpDtls.html?p=0&corpId=14857577&crpNm=grapheneos
I know little about Canadian law, but I know that in the US and other places, non-profits are not allowed to focus on software development, so I'm curious how they structure things
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So let’s be clear: this type of corporate bullying is designed to rob us of our rights and freedoms.
But we will not be silenced.
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/81860/what-345-million-judgment-means-greenpeace/
"AIs can’t stop recommending #nuclear strikes in #war game simulations"
"...no model ever chose to fully accommodate an opponent or surrender, regardless of how badly they were losing. At best, the models opted to temporarily reduce their level of violence. They also made mistakes in the fog of war: accidents happened in 86 per cent of the conflicts, with an action escalating higher than the #AI intended to, based on its reasoning."
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"The zone rouge (English: red zone) is a chain of non-contiguous areas throughout northeastern France that the French government isolated after the First World War. The land, which originally covered more than 1,200 square kilometres (460 square miles), was deemed too physically and environmentally damaged by conflict for human habitation."
"According to the Sécurité Civile, the French agency in charge of the land management of Zone Rouge, 300 to 700 more years at this current rate will be needed to clean the area completely."
Instead Germany should be proud of its record of defending its citizens for the past decades using public law enforcement, instead secret forces and black ops. That is the right path, and is an example for the world.
#Germany gave the world two of the most oppressive spy apparatuses the world has ever seen: the #Gestapo and the #Stasi, one right after the other, spanning many decades. Before that, the #GermanEmpire also had such things for decades. The world really does not need Germany to increase the powers of its spy agencies
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-foreign-intelligence-agency-power-bnd/
Much of #Austria's society was also complicit in the #Nazi era abuses, and Austria keeps its spy agencies very limited, even compared to Germany's #BND.
Joined Aug 2019
