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JD Vance arrives in Hungary to back Orbán's re-election bid The US vice-president's visit is the latest show of White House support for the Hungarian leader.

don't forget: weakening europe is a declared goal of the national security strategy of the US.

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2 weeks ago 58 18 2 0

Today is the first #DigitalIndependenceDay. 🙌

This initiative encourages Internet users to question their reliance on Big Tech platforms and consider privacy-respecting alternatives. www.euractiv.com/news/german-...

3 months ago 52 18 2 1

Good morning dear astonishing Blueskyroonies of this n that🌞☕
1st Moonday of 26, -14,8°c n snow covers the city, 1st workday of 26 on Odinsday😉
I wish yous a fabulous day full of happiness, kindness, optimism, magic, insight, camaradery, love, funs, joys, smiles n laughter😊🤙

3 months ago 10 2 3 0

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«Hayek, whose company is the world’s largest watchmaker, said the CEOs’ visit sent a signal of weakness. Instead, he suggested that Switzerland — the seventh-largest investor in the US — should retaliate by threatening to cut investment, or ditch a deal to buy US-made F-35 jets.

“Are we William […]

5 months ago 3 3 1 0

Gesetzentwurf: Dänemark pocht auf Entscheidung zur Chatkontrolle Morgen entscheiden Innenminister Dobrindt und Justizministerin Hubig die deutsche Position zur Chatkontrolle. Am Mittwoch bereiten die EU-Staaten ihre Abstimmung vor, die nächste Woche stattfinden sol...

Dabei kommt es auf Deutschland an. Bleibt die Bundesregierung bei ihrer bisherigen Position, gibt es keine ausreichende Mehrheit für die Chatkontrolle. Ändert Deutschland seine Meinung und stimmt zu, kommt die Chatkontrolle auf EU-Ebene. netzpolitik.org/2025/gesetze...

6 months ago 3 3 1 0

Deutschland, bleib bitte standhaft... #NotoChatcontrol

6 months ago 18 5 2 0

🇪🇺 Die #Chatkontrolle steht einmal mehr auf der Agenda.

🚨 Bitte helfen Sie mit, Massenüberwachung in der EU zu verhindern, und rufen Sie Ihre Abgeordneten auf, diese brandgefährliche Vorlage abzulehnen: fightchatcontrol.eu/de/#contact-...

6 months ago 59 33 0 2

I'm old enough to remember when Republicans said government talking with a technology company about removing content was censorship.

6 months ago 10 2 1 0

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as you cancel disney subscriptions, please remember to support your favorite independent media. there are amazing people doing critical work with very little support, and things are only getting harder.

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7 months ago 547 176 9 10

Good morning dear astonishing Blueskyroonies of light n shade☕🌞
Tyrsday morning, coffee, morning message, week is rolling on🤭
I wish yous a spectacular day full of happiness, kindness, positivity, optimism, wisdom, knowledge, insight, hopes, funs, joys, smiles n laughter😊🤙

7 months ago 25 2 5 1

Trump is warning Europe that any digital taxes or regulations seen as targeting U.S. tech firms could trigger retaliation, including new tariffs and tech export restrictions. It's a shot at GDPR, Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, AI Act, ideas for digital services tax.

7 months ago 12 6 1 0

May I ask you a a favour? If you have bought one of my books, and you liked it, would you consider submitting a review on Amazon? If you have feedback for me, please DM me, I am always looking to improve.
https://twp.ai/9PUohM

8 months ago 1 3 0 0

Swissquote - Apps on Google Play Trade, invest and bank! Your all-in-one banking solution for smarter finances.

Swissquote has launched official support for GrapheneOS for their main app instead of it only being available for Yuh:

play.google.com/store/apps/d...

> What’s new
> - We now officially support GrapheneOS!
> - Bug fixes and minor improvements

They're verifying GrapheneOS via hardware attestation.

8 months ago 90 18 4 2

There is enough #EU alternatives to get rid of #US products.  #BoycottUSA

8 months ago 2 0 0 0

Giving a try to #vanillaOS #linux #distrohopping

9 months ago 0 1 0 0

Possible End to End to End Encryption: Come Help - Bert Hubert tl;dr: The European Commission is honestly asking for experts to advise them on ways to institute “effective and lawful access to data for law enforcement”. If you are an expert, I urge you to apply t...

Europeans with credible expertise in cryptography and/or computer security should participate in this call by the 🇪🇺 Commission to explain to them, in terms that politicians can understand, why providing access to communications data to law enforcement … berthub.eu/articles/pos...

9 months ago 14 12 1 0

It’s #CyberMentoringMonday!!!! Are you looking for a professional mentor or to learn more about InfoSec? Are you experienced and willing to ‘give back’? Use this thread and hashtag to connect!!

10 months ago 3 2 1 0

Good morning dear breathtaking Blueskyroonies of ups n downs🌞☕
It's once again Moanday n we're having another chance of a perfect week🤟😉
I wish yous a magnificent day full of happiness, optimism, kindness, wisdom, hope, insight, knowledge, funs, joys, smiles n laughter😊🤙

10 months ago 16 2 6 0

Good morning dear astonishing Blueskyroonies of this n that🌞☕
Saturnday n sunshine, not much planned but to rest n enjoy😉
I wish yous a fantastic day full of happiness, kindness, optimism, magic, wisdom, insight, hope, knowledge, rest, calm, funs, joys, smiles n laughter😊🤙

10 months ago 9 2 3 0

You can hardly get online these days without hearing some AI booster talk about how AI coding is going to replace human programmers. AI code is absolutely up to production quality! Also, you’re all fired. But if AI is so obviously superior … show us the code. Where’s the receipts? Let’s say, where’s the open source code contributions using AI? This week’s AI coding hype came courtesy Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, furiously talking up AI programming. The headlines said that 30% of code at Microsoft was AI now! Huge if true. [_e.g,,__TechCrunch_] Of course, Nadella didn’t quite say that. What he actually said was: [_YouTube_ _, 45:00-45:08_] > maybe 20 to 30 percent of the code that is inside of our repos today in some of our projects are probably all written by software. Maybe “20 to 30 percent”? In “some projects”? At least three or four, who knows! “Written by software”? Lots of projects use code generators. “Probably?” He’s not sure either. This is a good example of CEO weasel wording — where you make a very hedged claim that’s barely claiming _anything_. Then you let your media cheerleaders misrepresent your very particular claim for you. _You_ didn’t lie! Nadella would have asked his staff for something, anything, he could say to pump AI coding with. And that’s the _best_ claim they could find that wasn’t technically a lie. Mark Zuckerberg said, on Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast, talking specifically about engineering at the Llama LLM project — not anything else at Facebook or Meta: [_Dwarkesh Patel_ _, 12:51-13:02_] > I would guess that sometime in the next 12 to 18 months, we’ll reach the point where most of the code that’s going toward these efforts is written by AI. And I don’t mean autocomplete. Of course, Patel’s YouTube headline was “AI Will Write Most Meta Code in 18 Months.” [_YouTube_] Let’s assume the boosters are right, and AI coding is so good now that it really will substantially take over the job of programming on live Facebook code that makes money and live Microsoft code that makes money. So why don’t we see it in places we can actually check? Open source code is developed out in the open. You can see all the code, you can see every individual change, you can read the project discussions. Some of the best minds in programming work in open source. If AI coding really is just better, they’d be using it and recommending it. We should see AI coding all through open source — it’s the one place we won’t have to rely on some AI booster saying “our great AI code is proprietary, but … trust me, bro.” Ben Evans, currently at Red Hat, is a Java programmer. He’s written several popular books on Java. [_O’Reilly_] Ben asked the obvious question: where are the pull requests? [_LinkedIn_ _,__Mastodon_] > Share some AI-derived pull requests that deal with non-obvious corner cases or non-trivial bugs from mature F/OSS projects. I’ll also accept high-quality documentation that isn’t just the sort of wasted space and slop that I always tell juniors not to write. > > No talk, no rhetoric. I won’t respond to any comment that doesn’t have a link to an accepted & merged PR that was produced by an AI model. The closest response, over on lobste.rs, was one contribution to the Rails project in 2023, and that needed work before it was up to scratch. [_GitHub_] It wasn’t a response to Ben, but there’s also one experiment with AI coding in the Servo web browser project. That went through 113 revisions before it was acceptable. The first version included sloppy errors like a check condition being the wrong way around. [_GitHub_] The general comments that Ben received were that experienced developers can use AI for coding with positive results because they know what they’re doing. But AI coding gives *bad* results when it’s used by an inexperienced developer. Which is what we knew already. Some replies to Ben’s question — “show me the pull requests” — complained that this question sets an _unfairly_ high bar — ”non-obvious corner cases or non-trivial bugs” in “mature projects.” [_Lobste.rs_] I don’t buy that. If all these big companies are shouting from the rooftops that AI is up to production code the money relies on, then _zero_ open source contributions of substance is a glaring absence. Some projects give the bots a serious tryout. The Cockpit project tested GitHub Copilot and sourcery.ai’s ability to do bot reviews of human-submitted pull requests. It didn’t work very well: [_Mastodon_ _;__PiWare_] > TL/DR: a lot of noise, a lot of bad advice, and not enough signal, so we switched it off again. > > … About half of the AI reviews were noise, a quarter bikeshedding. The bots gave a lot of “nitpick suggestions” or ones that were unfounded or even damaging to the codebase. They simply weren’t helpful. It’s true that a lot of open source projects really hate AI code. There’s several objections, but the biggest one is that users who don’t understand their own lack of competence spam the projects with time-wasting AI garbage. The Curl project banned AI-generated security reports because they were getting flooded with automated AI-generated “bug bounty” requests. [_LinkedIn_] More broadly, the very hardest problem in open source is not code, it’s people — how to work with others. Some AI users just don’t understand the level they simply aren’t working at. One user of the LLVM compiler complained that his AI-generated pull requests were not being taken seriously — by a compiler project, where correct computer science and knowing precisely what the heck you’re doing is profoundly important. The user considered it was the unpaid volunteer coders’ “job” to take his AI submissions seriously. He even filed a code of conduct complaint with the project against the developers. This was not upheld. So he proclaimed the project corrupt. [_GitHub_ _; Seylaw,__archive_] This is an actual comment that this user left on another project: [_GitLab_] > As a non-programmer, I have zero understanding of the code and the analysis and fully rely on AI and even reviewed that AI analysis with a different AI to get the best possible solution (which was not good enough in this case). You can see why people don’t really want to deal with this sort of contribution. But maybe we’ll get a flood of obviously excellent AI code — and AI code submitters — _next_ year. * _Video version_ ### Share this post: * * * Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit * Tweet * Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon * Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * ### Like this: Like Loading... ### _Related_

If all those "100x" developers would give 1% of their newly gained productivity to Open Source software, OSS progress would immediately double or triple, at least.
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11 months ago 10 3 1 0

Macron shook one hand.

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Maybe someone from EDRi.org, @amnesty.org or @noyb.eu can help or connect.

1 year ago 3 0 0 0

Ich suche ein/e Expert:in, die/der einen Überblick hat über alle Überwachungsinstrumente in Europa (Vorratsdatenspeicherung, Echtzeitüberwachung), also pro EU-Land...

1 year ago 6 13 3 0

Ha! Endlich wird mit dem Mythos "Schweizer Standort" aufgeräumt... Das Technikfachmagazin c't sieht diesen kritisch (es geht um Threema) und nennt es sogar indirekt als Malus. Wieso? Die Schweizer Überwachungsgesetze sind das Problem. Und werden es noch viel mehr mit der Revision VÜPF.

1 year ago 38 7 4 0

Face à l’instabilité des Etats-Unis, le Conseil fédéral remet à plus tard la réglementation des plateformes numériques - Le Temps Le projet de loi était à l’ordre du jour de la séance du gouvernement, mais celui-ci a préféré ne pas prendre position dans l’immédiat. Les réactions sont partagées entre compréhension et indignation

Attendre encore un mois, le temps que le CF tire toutes ses cartouches pour essayer d’éviter la pénurie de chips IA en Suisse? Ok. Sacrifier entièrement la régulation🇨🇭des plateformes? Hors de question.

1 year ago 3 2 0 0

Deafening Silence From The Cybersecurity Industry Chris Krebs affirmed the 2020 election was secure. Now he's the target of an Executive Order—and the cybersecurity industry’s silence is enabling a dangerous precedent.

Deafening Silence From The Cybersecurity Industry by Forbes senior contributor Tony Bradley; links to Luta Security CEO's recent blog post @k8em0.bsky.social @lutasecurity.bsky.social
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1 year ago 74 34 1 3

EFF on the U.S. cybersecurity industry’s striking silence as one of its leading figures is attacked by the White House.

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1 year ago 17 9 1 0

«Die US-Regierung hat die Möglichkeit, auf viele Politikermails in Europa zuzugreifen» Was Europa dagegen tun kann, erklärt der Geheimdienstexperte Bert Hubert

"Es ist Zeit für europäischen Patriotismus" - und Schleswig-Holstein geht bei der patriotischen Digitalisierung voran #Linux
www.republik.ch/2025/03/31/d...

1 year ago 72 22 0 1

People do have power. ❤️

I’m just sorry for the collateral damage on American people.

1 year ago 46 2 7 0

Unless he goes for a third term (and a fourth, and a fifth and... ah no wait, he's already 78yo)

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