Guardian Project @guardianproject@librem.one

It is so disappointing to see @ubuntu reverting to #DarkPatterns and #Microsoft-style fear-mongering to increase sales.

The entire message is designed to make people believe that there are #security updates they're not getting without #UbuntuPro (which as far as I understand is not true). #DeceptiveDesign
CC @beuc @finnmyrstad

The #gatekeepers have huge resources as compared to the regulators, so regulators must be strategic and pool resources. Also, communities based on tracking and reviewing the actions of the #gatekeepers can also play a role here. #Developers know the APIs they have to work with, and can report fishy business. Bloggers can report on key technical details that steer things towards the #gatekeepers. #Hackers can show when things ate technically possible, despite what #gatekeepers say. #DMAWorkshop

So far no mention of #FreeSoftware at the #DMAWorkshop but I guess that's not surprising since it opens with in-app payments as a central topic. It would be great to see free options like #Liberapay and #OpenCollective represented. I was happy to meet @murena here, so I know I'm not alone as an #FLOSS-based implementer.

#DMAWorkshop has started, many more suits than I'm used to. The first interesting insight I gathered in conversation: "sideloading" is a loaded word which serves the monopolists. On other platforms, this is called "installing". Sideloading highlights that there is a main source, and installing outside of that source. Of course, many people don't want to think about the source, but we need choice over which is the main source.

Over the last few months, I put a lot of work into the @fdroidorg app. Here's what's new: https://f-droid.org/en/2023/03/01/new-repo-format-faster-smaller-updates.html

🕵️‍♂️ Today, the Open Source Programme Office (@EC_OSPO) held a Secrets Management Hackaton for the developers from the 🇪🇺 Commission.

The goal was to remove secrets from the internal projects' codes so that more 🇪🇺 projects can become #opensource and be shared on http://code.europa.eu.

#DMAWorkshop
I have to observe that the stakeholders who only sent a lawyer to this messaging interoperability workshop are clearly indicating their intent by doing so. The people who want to make it work sent people to talk about solutions.

#DMAWorkshop
Meta speaker is a lawyer who has just spent his full slot pouring cold water on any approach to messaging #interoperability on every imaginable ground and dismissing all the existing entities running client=side bridges (e.g. iMessage and Matrix).

#DMAWorkshop
Matrix speaker @matthew not only explains the four architectures for messaging #interoperability and then demonstrates one of them bridging WhatsApp and Google Chat via #matrix

Meta speaker next up "is new to all this" and just reads a prpepared statement.

I wonder what the problem is going to be.... ?

#DMAWorkshop
I asked what ability the DMA art 7 offers citizens who run their own messaging servers access to interoperability. Most speakers were confused by the idea of "users with servers" but EDRi's @ilumium noted that there is no minimum size of enterprise entitled to interoperability and it will be a matter of enforcement by @EU_Commission to ensure they are not blocked by gatekeeper bureacracy.

#DMAWorkshop
EDRi speaker @ilumium a breath of fresh air explaining the problems blocking messaging interoperability are not a lack of technology or standards but a lack of will by the gatekeeper platforms. Now showing UI mockups of how to do it.

Seeing the utopia that is promised just around the corner with AGI @clarkesworld closing submissions because of inundation by "AI" generated submissions. Feels like a DDOS attack.
https://dair-community.social/@clarkesworld@mastodon.online/109871320720975169

Predictive policing programmes has increasingly been touted as the next frontier in tech-enhanced policing, yet their use by police forces across the globe lacks transparency, a clear legal basis, oversight or remedies.

Basically, a black box.

HUGE news in Germany! 🇩🇪🎉

The German Federal Constitutional Court declared the use of Palantir software by German police unconstitutional 🤯

🇩🇪 https://freiheitsrechte.org/en/ueber-die-gff/presse/pressemitteilungen-der-gesellschaft-fur-freiheitsrechte/erfolg-fuer-die-freiheitsrechte-nach-gff-verfahren-bundesverfassungsgericht-weist-automatisierte-datenauswertung-durch-die-polizei-in-die-schranken

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 https://www.wired.co.uk/article/palantir-germany-gotham-dragnet

4️⃣ Freedoms explained in under 3️⃣ minutes. #FreeSoftware guarantees you the freedoms to use, study, share, and improve the software.
These rights help support other fundamental freedoms like freedom of speech, press, and privacy.👏

Find it in German🇩🇪, Italian 🇮🇹, Spanish 🇪🇸, Dutch, French 🇫🇷 and in English 🇬🇧:

https://media.fsfe.org/w/p/9gYSyoEYggsqBExLWjRejL

We’ve joined the American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries & other library organizations in asking the US Supreme Court to preserve library rights online. Read more at http://blog.archive.org/2023/02/21/internet-archive-joins-library-groups-at-the-supreme-court/