elgregor @elgregor@librem.one
Joined Jan 2021
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1/3 🕵🏽 Looking for updates on the highly criticised and controversial #CSARegulation #ChatControl
Three years on, the law is still at an impasse in the Council of EU member states 🚫
🇵🇱 Poland tried a new approach to build a bridge between the two camps – but ultimately failed because the countries supporting #MassSurveillance and breaking #encryption refused to meaningfully engage 🙅🏽♀️
Read our blog to learn more about the Polish approach and the future of #ChatControl ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/16-countries-burned-polands-bridges-on-the-csa-regulation-what-now/
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We hacked Gemini CLI, Vertex AI, Assistant, and other AI systems by embedding prompts into images that are not visible to users.
When these systems auto-downscale images, the hidden prompts emerge from previously invisible pixel patterns. https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/21/weaponizing-image-scaling-against-production-ai-systems/
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Ukrainian intelligence reports that Russian forces are executing captured Ukrainian soldiers, quoting orders to “zero out” those who surrender. This is further evidence of a systematic policy of war crimes encouraged by the Russian command. Previously similar conversations between commanders in Russia's 155th brigade were intercepted.
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Google Tightens Android Sideloading—At What Cost to Digital Freedom?
Google has begun blocking sideloaded Android apps in Singapore, citing security concerns over apps requesting sensitive permissions like SMS and accessibility services.
Read more at Purism: https://puri.sm/posts/google-restricts-android-sideloading-what-it-means-for-user-autonomy-and-the-future-of-mobile-freedom/
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Zachęcam do zajrzenia, zwłaszcza jeśli jesteś użytkownikiem Windows 10.
W razie potrzeby służę pomocą 🙂
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Prezes UODO zwraca uwagę że charakter pisma w sytuacji, gdy można go powiązać z określoną osobą fizyczną, stanowi danę osobową. Administratorzy powinni za każdym razem zwracać uwagę czy w publikowanym dokumencie nie ma informacji, które pozwalają na chociażby pośrednią identyfikację danej osoby.
👉 https://www.uodo.gov.pl/pl/138/3810
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🇬🇧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/
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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*
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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.
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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
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θΔ ⋐ & ∞
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🇧🇪 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 !
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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
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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."
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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%.
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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/
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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
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@EUCommission
"Good evening, police. Your unlocked phone please."
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@noelreports imagine if Ursula VDL called an American congressmen and told him how to vote in Congress.
Joined Jan 2021
