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In serō stat virtus Lawyer, DPO, part-time admin of some RH GNU+Linux communities for over 15 years. Also, previous RH admin. Also, NSCA-CPT by chance. Jack of many trades, master of some. Zuckerberg evil of our time. IRC and systemd enjoyer
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New article out on the pathetic response of European leaders to Trump’s Ukraine policy. After sacrificing their own interests to US hegemony, they are now posturing as the last defenders of the very policies that rendered them irrelevant in the first place. www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Quite an announcement. www.garanteprivacy.it/home/docweb/... Thanks to @luizajarovsky.bsky.social for the heads up.

One of the leading newspapers of France, @lemonde.fr, announced that it decided to stop sharing its content on X and recommends Le Monde journalists to do the same. www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Some data breaches include novel information about us, are the result of particularly noteworthy security flaws, or are just so massive they’re impossible to ignore. Here’s EFF’s list of some of the most egregious data breaches of 2024.

1/ This goes beyond a criticism of the EU Digital Services Act (on the grounds that the US First Amendment should apply worldwide). It argues the EU should not apply its *competition* law to US tech companies on the EU market either. A rejection of the very idea of the EU regulation of its market.

We created a Handbook for Civil Society: Challenging Public-Private Surveillance Partnerships Learn how to investigate a surveillance partnership and identify key concerns 🔍 privacyinternational.org/learning-resources/challenging-public-private-surveillance-partnerships-handbook-civil-society

Cyberattack on the Slovak cadastral system (ÚGKK). Critical property data is inaccessible; some may be recoverable from paper records, but some could be irreversibly lost. No proper backups available. Hackers demand a 7-figure ransom in USD.

I know I shouldn't be surprised given that this is the 'Grumpy GDPR Podcast' (and given the disclaimers) but this has perhaps the most rabid anti-GDPR takes I've heard outside of industry or not from complete outsiders who don't understand DP at all. www.noties.consulting/grumpy-gdpr-...

If you're interested in E2EE communications, metadata protection and better communication architectures, this talk is for you. I wish everything would switch to the SimpleX architecture when they figure out multi-device support (I have to look into why it's that difficult) youtu.be/Fl-QS0-qENw

“To be human is to refuse to accept the natural as naturalistic, and to take full responsibility for such a refusal.” 🤓 “A Plea for Non-naturalism as Constructionism” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Elezioni annullate in #Romania: riassunto di quanto segnalato da @[email protected] href="https://sociale.network/@gubi/113696488760319678">qui. Se la fonte rumena di Arnaud Bertrand è accurata a pagare TikTok non sarebbe stato il vincitore "sbagliato", bensì il partito al governo. Qui i […]

It is that time of year again. I need to do obligatory post 🎄. FYI, you can have or create Linux or Unix console Christmas tree and snow on your Linux desktop just for fun and profit www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/...