elgregor @elgregor@librem.one

🇬🇧🚨#ChatControl is back on the agenda: As soon as next Wednesday representatives of EU governments will resume work based on a secret document. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/documents-publications/public-register/public-register-search/?DocumentNumber=12319%2F24

This is what you can do now to help: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/take-action-to-stop-chat-control-now/

If you're an EU citizen and you hate DRM and planned obsolescence, here's an easy petition for you to sign:

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci

TL;DR: If online-only DRM servers shut down, publishers would be required to keep your game working regardless.

Only targets video games because that is where this practice is by far the most prevalent today, but it would set a precedent that we might soon need for things like phones, cars, and all the other things that are increasingly getting CPUs shoved inside them.

1 year to reach 1 million signatures.

Another war crime, another low. How much longer are allies going to tolerate the deliberate killing of Ukrainians? Meanwhile, the number of victims in Kyiv has increased to 11.

This is how Russia treats its prisoners of war. Ukrainian servicemen Roman Horilik returned home on May 31. He was one of the national guards, protecting the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and got captured in March 2022. You can see how starved he is. His body is skin and bones.

A critique of Cara.app: the 'No AI' Instagram and Artstation copycat child.
blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1032/a-critique-of-caraapp-the-no-ai-instagram-and-artstation-copycat-child

#cara #caraapp

What are the responsibilities and liabilities of #FreeSoftware developers?
🚨 A potential threat to Free Software developers looms in the form of an ongoing lawsuit in the UK involving Bitcoin and its core developers.

https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240417-01.html

#SoftwareFreedom #Bitcoin #BitcoinCase

@darl sent me this, idk the original source

This is a great series from our friends at @eff on the current state of news media and how big tech has contributed to creating the current landscape dominated by an "oligarchy of gatekeepers" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech