elgregor @elgregor@librem.one

🇬🇧On the very first day of its EU Council Presidency, Denmark presented a text proposal on #chatcontrol - content not disclosed, but Denmark is a radical supporter. https://www.parlament.gv.at/gegenstand/XXVIII/EU/26877

Planned adoption: October 14.

I updated my briefing: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

Sometimes, I receive questions which leave both me, and the person asking, bamboozled.

> Your website loads so quickly! What CDN do you use?

There is no CDN. It is just really small and simple, mostly text.

> Sure, but is that Cloudflare, or...?

None. It is a tiny website, just a few kilobytes per page, on a tiny server, at my home, connected to the Internet via my ISP, Andrews & Arnold.

> But are you / they in the cloud?

No. The webserver is in Newbruy, in my garage.

> Neil, pease can you pass my questions to your technical person? I don't think you understand, your website cannot be in your home. It must be in the cloud or have a CDN.

*Neil puts on glasses and false nose and moustache*

Save future videogames from planned obsolescence!

There is an initiative asking the EU to regulate or at least clarify video games being made inaccessible remotely by publishers.

The initiative is on an official channel provided by the EU itself, if it reaches one million signatures the European Commission will have to look into the matter and provide a response, there is still a month until 31 July.

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

#stopdestroyinggames
#stopkillinggames #retrogaming #gaming

The European Commission must once and for all abandon the ghost of data retention that’s been haunting EU policy discussions for decades, and shift its focus to rights respecting alternatives. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/eff-european-commission-dont-resurrect-illegal-data-retention-mandates

you are a fucking EMAIL CLIENT you can't say that shit

🇧🇪 Belgian appeals court rules #TCF's #consent framework that enables 80% of the internet's #SurveillanceAds is illegal.

What a fantastic win for the complainants (@edri members) @panoptykon, @bitsoffreedom, and #ICCL !

https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling-tracking-based-advertising-by-google-microsoft-amazon-x-across-europe-has-no-legal-basis/

#TrackingFreeAds #RTB #tracking #GDPR

Polska, kraj z...

Formularz dopisania do listy wyborców nie działa, nie podaje przyczyny, po prostu wygaszony guzik.

Dlaczego? Bo nie pozwalam na tracking google i recaptcha od Google nie działa.

Czyli jak nie wyślę danych do Google to się nie zarejestruję w spisie wyborców.

https://ewybory.msz.gov.pl/nowa-rejestracja

CC: @Watchdog_Polska @icd

Russians eliminating their own – new intel confirms. Ukraine’s 63rd Brigade intercepted Russian comms, revealing plans to execute retreating assault troops during their offensive near Lyman.

"If the schoolkids (likely inexperienced troops) move somewhere, they will be taken out by drones–Our own insisted on it."

The US lied, claiming no tariffs on Russia due to lack of trade, says Le Monde. America still trades with Putin: the 2024 trade balance hit $3.5B, more than with Mauritius or Brunei.

If Belarus and Russia were on the list, tariffs would be 42% and 24%.

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2025/04/03/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-kiev-rapporte-avoir-ete-attaquee-par-39-drones-russes-durant-la-nuit-de-mercredi-a-jeudi-le-point-sur-la-situation_6588243_3210.html

Ukrainian officials have compared the new U.S. proposal on minerals to “lifetime reparations,” according to WP. One senior official said the deal looks as if “Ukraine was at war with the U.S., lost, was occupied, and now has to pay lifetime reparations.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/28/ukraine-us-mineral-deal-russia-war/

28 March 1921 | A Pole, Jerzy Bielecki, was born. A prisoner of #Auschwitz no. 243 (first transport of Poles). On 21 July 1944 he escaped from the camp in an SS uniform taking with him a Polish Jewish female prisoner Cyla Cybulska. They were in love. https://www.jfr.org/rescuer/jerzy-bielecki

@EUCommission
"Good evening, police. Your unlocked phone please."

@noelreports imagine if Ursula VDL called an American congressmen and told him how to vote in Congress.

Checkmate.

11 March 1892 | A Pole, Tadeusz Tański, was born. An engineer & designer of the 1st Polish serially-built car, the CWS T-1.

In #Auschwitz from 1 February 1941.
No. 9455
He perished in the camp on 23 March 1941.

Peekr is a volunteer-run noncommercial project and we're only able to run on voluntary donations. The donations' money stream is extremely low (it's barely at 20 PLN monthly which amounts for 5-6 EUR with two people pledging) and with that in mind we're unable to pay ourselves with this, let alone hire someone else to help us bring the new crawler version alive.

So if you can spare money or even just boost this, we would be EXTREMELY grateful for your help. We're at Patronite (supporting only Polish IBANs to my best knowledge): https://patronite.pl/peekr, and if you want to use something else such as direct bank transfer (at least PLN and EUR supported) contact me and we'll sort things out.

5 March 1945 | Shlomo Dragon, former Sonderkommando prisoner, recovered the manuscript of Załmen Gradowski near the ruins of gas chamber & crematorium III at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. This unique account is published based on a new translation: E-book: https://books.auschwitz.org/en_US/p/E-BOOK-Zalmen-Gradowski-From-the-Heart-of-Hell.-Manuscripts-of-a-Sonderkommando-Prisoner%2C-Found-in-Auschwitz/680

“Your driving data goes to a half a dozen companies you’ve never even heard of for reasons you’d perhaps never agree to if asked directly,” EFF’s @Thorin told @ConsumerReports. https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/personal-information/how-to-stop-your-car-from-collecting-sharing-driving-data-a1233378612/