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I'd love to know if your political stance has changed at all over the past 5 years. 🗳️
This isn't about whether you're on the left or right on the spectrum, but more about how your position has shifted.
The poll is multiple choice, so I included a checkbox for people to tick if they live in Europe 🇪🇺
#poll #politics #EUpol #Europe
- ⬅️ I moved left. (52%, 116 votes)
- ➡️ I moved right. (2%, 5 votes)
- ⏸ The same as before. (31%, 70 votes)
- 🇪🇺 I live in Europe. (51%, 114 votes)
Wishing everyone a great time at The #Matrix #Conference by The Matrix.org Foundation starting today in Mitosis LAB in #Berlin, #Germany
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#TheMatrixConference #TheMatrix.orgFoundation #foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe
‼️ The Free Software Foundation Europe needs your help ‼️
The EU Commission aims to remove funding from free software projects which are crucial to our digital lives.
We spoke with the #FSFE to learn more.
👉 youtu.be/mNZgSCvg6Ew
Please share this post with your friends to spread the message and rally support for free software! 📣
#freesoftware #opensource #eu #europe #freedom
#XSF Announcement
XMPP Standards Foundation has decided to sign the Open Letter to the European Commission:
xmpp.org/2024/08/the-xsf-signs…
#jabber #chat #interoperability #standards #rtc #Europe #europa #OpenSource #EU #Brussels
Ukraine Daily Summary - Wednesday, July 10 2024
Wednesday, July 10
Russia’s war against Ukraine
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg delivers remarks during the opening of the NATO 75th anniversary celebratory event at the Andrew Mellon Auditorium on July 9, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
US, NATO allies to deliver 'dozens' of air defense systems in coming months, including 4 Patriots. The U.S. and at least nine other NATO allies have agreed to send dozens of air defense systems in the coming months to Ukraine, including at least four Patriot batteries, according to a joint agreement issued on July 9.
US supplies Ukraine with Metal Shark high-speed boats. The boats are equipped with modern navigation and control systems, automatic fire extinguishing, as well as a video surveillance system, making them maneuverable, fast, and ergonomic, the State Border Guard Service said.
F-16s in Ukraine may 'create conditions for counterattack,' Polish general says. "Ukrainian aviation should receive long-range missiles to destroy Russia's infrastructure, including airfields. When this happens, the logistics of the Russian army will be cut off from the main forces. If this is done, Ukraine's army command should form a strike group and strike back," Kraszewski said.
NATO summit communique to describe Ukraine's path to alliance as 'irreversible,' CNN reports. The question of how strong guarantees to give Ukraine regarding its future membership in NATO has become a key source of debate inside the alliance, CNN reported. The final version of the document may contain changes, CNN wrote, but the presence of the "irreversible" Ukraine's accession to NATO would be "a significant signal to Kyiv and Moscow."
Ukraine struck airbase, oil depot, and energy facility in Russia overnight, source says. Ukrainian intelligence agencies carried out an attack against a Russian military airfield, an energy substation, and an oil depot in three different regions overnight on July 9, a military intelligence source told the Kyiv Independent.
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UN assessment suggests Kyiv children's hospital suffered direct hit by Russian missile. Evidence from the scene of the children's hospital in Kyiv indicates "a high likelihood" of a direct hit by a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile on July 8, the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMUN) said on July 9.
Republican Party committee approves 2024 platform, makes no mention of Ukraine, Russia. The 16-page document, which must be still approved at the upcoming Republican National Convention, focuses primarily on domestic issues.
Zelensky says Indian PM's embrace with Putin a 'huge disappointment' after Russian mass attack on Ukraine. "It is a huge disappointment and a devastating blow to peace efforts to see the leader of the world's largest democracy hug the world's most bloody criminal in Moscow on such a day," President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on X.
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Ukraine war latest: Rescue operations end at Kyiv children's hospital, at least 33 killed in capital overall
Search and rescue operations at the site of a Russian missile attack on Okhmatdyt hospital in Kyiv concluded on July 9, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.
Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Anadolu via Getty Images
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F-16s, multi-billion pledge, more Patriots, 'irreversible' membership – what Ukraine will and won't get at the NATO Summit
While 75th birthdays are usually a cause for joy and celebration, NATO's marking of this milestone at a three-day summit in Washington from 9-11 July is likely to be a rather more muted affair.
Photo: Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images
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Russia probes for air defense gaps to wreak havoc on Kyiv
Rather than evidence of some technological edge on Russia's side, experts linked the destruction wrought by the attack to Moscow's consistent probing for weaknesses in Ukrainian air defenses.
Photo: Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images
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Russian propagandists spin conflicting disinformation in bid to evade responsibility for missile strike on children’s hospital
As some Russian talking heads call for more Ukrainians to be killed, Zelensky’s top aide urges more Western help to stop a war of ‘genocide.’
Photo: Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images
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Human cost of war
Rescue operations end at Kyiv children's hospital, at least 33 killed in capital overall. In total, at least 33 people, including four children, were killed in Kyiv as a result of the July 8 attack, officials said the following day. Another 10 children are among the 117 injured.
International response
Saudi Arabia issued vague threats to G7 against seizing frozen Russian assets, Bloomberg reports. Saudi officials reportedly made "veiled threats" to Group of Seven (G7) nations hinting that the kingdom would sell some European debt holdings if Western allies seized about $300 billion in frozen Russian assets, Bloomberg reported on July 9, citing its sources.
North Korean military trainers travel to Russia weeks after signing of partnership agreement. A delegation of North Korean military trainers led by the head of a prestigious military academy in Pyongyang has begun a trip to Russia, North Korean state media reported on July 9.
'When innocent children killed, the heart bleeds,' Modi comments on Russian July 8 attack after meeting with Putin. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Moscow on July 8 in what was his first trip to Russia since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Threat of Russian sabotage led to heightened security at US military bases in Europe, CNN reports. The heightened security alert was first reported earlier in July as being connected to a possible terrorist threat directed at several U.S. military installations across Europe, including the facility in Germany where the U.S. European Command is based.
US announces moves against Russia-linked bot farm aimed at spreading disinformation. According to the Justice Department, the bot farm was organized by a Russian national who worked as the deputy editor-in-chief of RT in 2022, and expanded with funding from the Kremlin and collaboration with an official from Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).
Moscow court orders arrest in absentia of Yulia Navalnaya. A Moscow court said that it had "approved the request of the investigators and decided a preventive measure in the form of detention for two months." Yulia Navalnaya currently lives outside of Russia, but would face jail time if she returns.
Bulgaria sues Russian Gazprom, seeking compensation of more than $430 million. In 2023, the Russian gas giant suspended Bulgargaz's long-term contract, which covered 90% of the quantities of natural gas delivered by Bulgargaz to customers.
Switzerland announces new sanctions against Russia. Switzerland announced new sanctions against Russia on July 8, bringing the country further in line with the EU's 14th round of sanctions adopted in response to the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Moscow agrees to discharge all Indians recruited into Russian army, Indian outlet reports. Moscow agreed to release all Indians serving in the Russian army and facilitate their return after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met President Vladimir Putin, Indian news publication NDTV reported on July 9, citing unnamed sources.
US provides Poland with $2 billion for financing of F-35s, Patriots, Abrams. The U.S. will provide Poland with a second $2 billion Foreign Military Financing loan to purchase defense equipment from the U.S., the State Department announced on July 8.
In other news
Ukrainian state defense company opens office in US. Ukraine's state-owned defense company Ukrainian Defense Industry, also known as Ukroboronprom, has opened a representative office in Washington as Kyiv seeks to strengthen defense partnerships abroad amid Russia's war.
Nearly $37,000 stolen from bank accounts of fallen soldiers in Dnipro. The suspects, with the help of an employee of the Regional Bureau of Forensic Medicine, stole payment cards and mobile phones registered in the online banking system from dead soldiers in a morgue.
Ukraine to be represented at 2024 Olympics by smallest number of athletes in history. Only 140 Ukrainian athletes will compete at the Olympic Games in Paris this year, the smallest number in the history of the country's participation in the games, as Russia's war has damaged or destroyed sports' facilities and frequent air raid alerts interrupt training.
EU freezes $32 million in defense funds for Georgia, halts accession process amid ‘low point’ in relations. Brussels has frozen 30 million euros ($32 million) in defense sector funding for Georgia after halting its EU accession process in June, EU Ambassador to Georgia Pawel Herczynski said on July 9.
Bloomberg names 12 oligarchs who earn billions in payouts from Russia's war economy. Russia's wartime economy has earned a dozen oligarchs $11 billion in dividends as Russian natural resource and finance giants earn record profits during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Bloomberg reported on July 9.
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Bloomberg names 12 oligarchs who earn billions in payouts from Russia's war economy
Russia's wartime economy has earned a dozen oligarchs $11 billion in dividends as Russian natural resource and finance giants earn record profits during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Bloomberg reported on July 9.Elsa Court (The Kyiv Independent)
Another good day in #Europe: #Apple could be fined 10% of revenue for violating developers' rights.
👉 arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
It looks like the EU is taking notes from our CEO's comment Matthias Pfau on Apple's malicious compliance.
👉 tuta.com/blog/apple-eu-dma-mal…
New on // foss.events: The #Matrix #Conference by The Matrix.org Foundation on 19-22 September 2024 in Mitosis LAB in #Berlin, #Germany
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Call for participation is running until 26.06.2024
#TheMatrixConference #foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe
It’s time to start using a privacy focused browser! 👩🏻💻🔐
The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) is forcing Apple to give users a default browser choice.
Which default browser did you pick and why? 💻
Read more here: tuta.com/blog/apple-default-br…
Apple is finally giving you the choice: Take it and install a private browser right now!
The Digital Markets Act requires Apple and Google to give users a browser choice. I call on everyone reading this: This is time to join the privacy revolution!Tutanota
Wishing everyone a great time at Gnome 46 Release Party by Volunteers starting today in Offline in #Berlin, #Germany
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#gnome46 #foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe #gnome
European Court of Human Rights (#ECHR) bans weakening of secure end-to-end #encryption - the end of EU‘s chat control #CSAR mass surveillance plans?
eureporter.co/world/human-righ…
#e2ee #europe #privacy #csar
European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-endencryption - the end of EU‘s chat control CSAR mass surveillance plans? - EU Reporter
The European Court of Human Rights yesterday banned a general weakeningof secure end-to-end encryption.EU Reporter Correspondent (EU Reporter)
Spain set to slash work week to 37.5 hours
Spanish Labour Minister Yolanda Díaz has said her ministry will soon reduce the working week by two and a half hours, a decision which will improve the work-life balance of 12 million employees across the country.
thelocal.com/20240123/spain-se…
#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #Spain
Police raid Moscow gay bars after top court’s LGBTQ ‘extremist’ designation
Russia’s Supreme Court ruling has been the most drastic step against the LGBTQ movement under Putin’s rule.Al Jazeera
Great news for the Right To Repair:
"EU: Smartphones Must Have User-Replaceable Batteries by 2027 | PCMag"
#RightToRepair #EU #Europe #phone #batteries #tech
pcmag.com/news/eu-smartphones-…
EU: Smartphones Must Have User-Replaceable Batteries by 2027
The European Parliament just caused a major headache for smartphone and tablet manufacturers.Matthew Humphries (PCMag)
Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in the EU as energy transition hits ‘hyperdrive’
The EU is on track for a 'huge collapse' in fossil fuel power this year, says energy think tank Ember.
euronews.com/green/2023/06/08/…
#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #EU #EuropeanUnion #FossilFuels #Renewables #GreenEnergy #ClimateChange
May get even more impossible if #America keeps trying to become #Iran 2.0 especially in terms of #digital rights: Having a secure smartphone gets in the way since thought control is hard, how can we "fight crime" if people are able to think and communicate so freely?!
Also difficult to purchase one in #Europe at least my side of it. Not because of laws thankfully, but because devices like #Librem #Purism #PinePhone aren't readily sold in stores here even online which sucks horribly.
This is big. No #embargoes. No #APCs.
"The #EU is ready to agree that immediate #OpenAccess to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, w/o authors having to pay fees & that the bloc should support #nonprofit scholarly publishing models.
In a move that could send shockwaves through commercial scholarly #publishing, the positions are due to be adopted by the Council of the EU member state governments later this month."
researchprofessionalnews.com/r…
EU ready to back immediate open access without author fees - Research Professional News
Provisionally agreed position also expresses support for non-profit publishing modelsRachel Magee (Research Professional News)
European Disability Card
EUSurvey is an online survey-management system built for the creation and publishing of globally accessible forms, such as user satisfaction surveys and public consultations.ec.europa.eu
#XMPP Summit and at #FOSDEM in #Brussels
It was a great pleasure with everyone of you in Brussels since Wednesday - until we meet again!
#opensource #jabber #standards #interoperability #europe #community
#RealTime Communications #Devroom Talk:
#Scaling Open Source Realtime Messaging System for Millions by Floris van Geel
fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…
Start at 16:45. Building: K, Location: K.3.401
#RealTime Communications #Devroom Talk:
Social #audio applications with Janus - #Using WebRTC broadcasting [...] by Lorenzo Miniero
fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…
Start at 14:40. Building: K, Location: K.3.401
#opensource #europe #rtc
#RealTime Communications #Devroom Talk:
Performance #optimization for #VoIP services by Henning Westerholt
fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…
Start at 14:30. Building: K, Location: K.3.401
#opensource #europe #rtc
#RealTime Communications #Devroom Talk:
Build you#r own Real Time Billing using CGRateS by Dan Christian Bogos
fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…
Start at 14:20. Building: K, Location: K.3.401
#opensource #europe #rtc
The #RealTime Communications #Devroom
#opensource #jabber #europe #rtc #standards #decentralisation #interoperability
#RealTime Communications #Devroom Talk:
OpenSIPS 3.3 – Messaging in the IMS and UC ecosystems by Liviu Chircu
fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…
Start at 14:10. Building: K, Location: K.3.401
#opensource #jabber #europe #rtc
Real Time Communications #Devroom Talk:
Media #Streaming Mesh
Real-Time Media in #Kubernetes by Giles Heron
fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…
Start at 13:30. Building: K, Location: K.3.401
#opensource #rtc #Europe
Real Time Communications #Devroom Talk:
#W3C RTC Working Group Update by Romain Vailleux
fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…
Start at 13:10. Building: K, Location: K.3.401
#opensource #decentralisation #interoperability #rtc #jabber #europe #standards
Find the Real Time Communications devroom overhere: fosdem.org/2023/schedule/track…
Start at 13:10. Building: K, Location: K.3.401
#opensource #decentralisation #interoperability #rtc #jabber #europe #standards #brussels
Come over to our nice #Realtime Lounge!
We are on the K building 2nd floor, beside the elevator.
Map: osm.org/go/0EoSs4ysn?m=&relati…
Chat xmpp:summit@muc.xmpp.org?join
#opensource #decentralisation #interoperability #rtc #jabber #europe #standards #brussels
Relation: Ville de Bruxelles - Stad Brussel (58274) | OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.OpenStreetMap
Some impressions from the #Realtime Lounge today!
We are on the K building 2nd floor, beside the elevator.
Map: osm.org/go/0EoSs4ysn?m=&relati…
Chat xmpp:summit@muc.xmpp.org?join
#opensource #decentralisation #interoperability #rtc #jabber #europe #standards
Relation: Ville de Bruxelles - Stad Brussel (58274) | OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.OpenStreetMap
Find &meet us + others in the #Realtime Lounge today and tomorrow!
We are on the K building 2nd floor, beside the elevator.
Chat xmpp:summit@muc.xmpp.org?join
#opensource #decentralisation #interoperability #rtc #jabber #europe #standards
The Summit if over 😢 But it was great to have it again 😃 We are at #FOSDEM from tomorrow. See you to talk about & #RTC
Read on the topics: pad.nixnet.services/s/ZOtJwmj_…
#opensource #decentralisation #interoperability #jabber #standard #europe
XMPP Summit 25 - HedgeDoc
# XMPP Summit 25 ## Day 1 ## Push 2.0 [Link to draft proposal](https://pad.nixnet.services/s/GPBR4pad.nixnet.services
A nice fact about the #international collaboration within our network can be seen by the present languages at our summit:
🇩🇪 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 🇳🇱 🇵🇱 🇸🇪 🇪🇸
🇪🇺 🌍
#openstandards #opensource #decentralisation #interoperability #rtc #jabber #europe #standards #global
After lunch a talk on the state of #PubSub is held.
Pre-notes: pad.nixnet.services/s/ZOtJwmj_…
Chat via xmpp:summit@muc.xmpp.org?join
#openstandards #opensource #decentralisation #interoperability #rtc #jabber #europe #standards
HedgeDoc - Collaborative markdown notes
The best platform to write and share markdown.pad.nixnet.services
Some impressions from the XMPP Summit 25!
Wiki: wiki.xmpp.org/web/Conferences/…
Chat via summit@muc.xmpp.org
#openstandards #opensource #decentralisation #interoperability #rtc #jabber #europe
After a short recap on #WebPush, we are continuing with the agenda: MAM
Pre-notes: pad.nixnet.services/s/ZOtJwmj_…
Chat via summit@muc.xmpp.org
#openstandards #opensource #decentralisation #interoperability #rtc #jabber #europe #standards
XMPP Summit 25 - HedgeDoc
# XMPP Summit 25 ## Day 1 ## Push 2.0 [Link to draft proposal](https://pad.nixnet.services/s/GPBR4pad.nixnet.services
We are just starting over on the 2nd day at the XMPP Summit 25!
But where are you? This way please: ⬆️
Wiki: wiki.xmpp.org/web/Conferences/…
Chat via summit@muc.xmpp.org
#openstandards #opensource #decentralisation #interoperability #rtc #jabber #europe
It is a bit of shameless promo as yours truely is one of the hosts so I hope you don't mind me and we look forward to the feedback.
In our pilot, we go over the current campaigns and initiatives the EBU is involved in, we find out about the expectations and fears of blind people regarding Connected and Autonomous Vehicles and we finish off with our correspondent's section where we go to Italy to check what is new for blind people there.
If you have suggestions of topics that should be brought up in future episodes, feel free to share.
euroblind.org/publications-and…
#Accessibility #Blind #Podcast #Europe #CAVs #AutonomousVehicles #Disability #Inclusion
The EBU Podcasts | European Blind Union
Ebu has created podcasts on topics related to our communitywww.euroblind.org
#TwitterMigration #europe #Diplomacy #Transparency
EU Voice
EU Voice is the official ActivityPub microblogging platform of the EU institutions, bodies and agencies (EUIs).Mastodon hosted on social.network.europa.eu