I'm still concerned but the Python Software Foundation's post about the #EU's Cyber Resilience Act (#CRA) makes me optimistic that it could work for #FreeSoftware. I do agree with the core idea that #commercial #software companies should be held more accountable than they currently are. The key is getting it just right so that anyone can write whatever free software they feel like writing, and share it on the internet, without having to get a lawyer first.

pyfound.blogspot.com/2024/01/C…

EU’s Cyber Resilience Act Passes with Wins for Open Source

Back in April, we wrote to the community about our concerns for the future of the open source ecosystem generally and CPython and PyPI spec...

^{Python Software Foundation Blog}

European Commission on accessibility overlays: commission.europa.eu/resources…

#EU #a11y #overlays

Accessibility overlays

Web accessibility overlays are tools or technologies that aim to improve the accessibility of a website. However, claims that a website can be made fully compliant in an automated fashion are not realistic.

^{European Commission}

European Commission makes statement on accessibility overlays.

"Claims that a website can be made fully compliant without manual intervention are not realistic"

"overlay tools may make a website less accessible for some users"

commission.europa.eu/resources…

#eu #a11y #accessibility #overlays #fail

Accessibility overlays

Web accessibility overlays are tools or technologies that aim to improve the accessibility of a website. However, claims that a website can be made fully compliant in an automated fashion are not realistic.

^{European Commission}

The #UPowerWAD project is an #EU project to empower disabled users to exercise their rights regarding the Web #accessibility directive and report issues regarding public sector websites: funka.com/en/projekt/upower-wa…

#a11y

Die #EU will und wird künftig ihre BürgerInnen überwachen über Webbrowser!

"Browser müssen künftig Zertifikate von EU-Staaten akzeptieren, das öffnet Tür und Tor für Überwachung des Netzverkehrs."

Wurden bislang nur von Firmen wie Apple, Google oder Meta Daten von Nutzern gesammelt und weitergegeben geht es hier um die aktive Überwachung der BürgerInnen im Netz.

Die EU wird zum Polizeistaat. Stichwort: Festung Europa ...

derstandard.at/story/300000019…

"Blankoscheck zur Überwachung": EU einigt sich auf scharf kritisierte eIDAS-Novelle

Hunderte Expertinnen und Experten hatten im Vorfeld gewarnt. Browser müssen künftig Zertifikate von EU-Staaten akzeptieren, das öffnet Tür und Tor für Überwachung des Netzverkehrs

^{DER STANDARD}

❗ 🗣️ The interpreting services of the #CJEU, the @EU_Commission and the @Europarl_EN regularly need freelance interpreters.

❗ Join our @LanguageShow webinars today and tomorrow to find out what it takes to become an accredited freelance #interpreter at the #EU institutions 👉 languageshowlive.co.uk/

Say NO to broken browsers! ⛔

The EU is preparing a very dangerous law that would undermine the security of every browser.

Speak up now! 🗣️

@Jeremiah has more on how you can help to protect the web! 💪

jeremiahlee.com/posts/2023-eu-…

#EU
#privacy
#security
#webdev
#eIDAS

🚨 Another EU mass surveillance attempt. Will kill privacy on web. Must not pass. 🚨

“[A]ll web browsers distributed in Europe will be required to trust the certificate authorities and cryptographic keys selected by EU governments.

These changes radically expand the capability of EU governments to surveil their citizens by ensuring cryptographic keys under government control can be used to intercept encrypted web traffic across the EU.”

last-chance-for-eidas.org

#eu #privacy #surveillance #eidas

The EU bans Meta's use of personal data for behavioural advertising.

The European Data Protection Board said Wednesday it had adopted a binding decision that will ban Facebook and Instagram owner Meta from using the personal data of users for targeted advertisements.

Earlier this year Norway imposed a ban on sending Facebook and Instagram users targeted advertisements based on their personal data.

france24.com/en/live-news/2023…

#EU #Privacy #EDPB #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Advertising

EU bans Meta's use of personal data for behavioural advertising

^{France 24 (FRANCE 24)}

📢 The EU Parliament will not be moving forward with chat control! The indiscriminate mass surveillance measures have been removed and secure end-to-end encryption will not be compromised! 🥳

💪Let's keep pushing for strong privacy rights!👇
tutanota.com/blog/chat-control
#chatcontrol #eu #privacy #datenschutz #encryption #politics #goodnews

If you're an #EU citizen, I strongly encourage you to take a look and consider signing this European Citizen's Initiative (ECI) that calls for the establishment of a #tax on great #wealth to fund a just ecological and social transition: citizens-initiative.europa.eu/…

Boosts very welcome.

#environment #policy #taxation #TaxTheRich

It's #InternationalCoffeeDay!

As many of you are big fans, we want coffee placed on the #EU market to be environmentally friendly.

This year, a new EU law came into force, requiring companies to confirm that #coffee and other products were sourced from land free of #deforestation.

Companies will also have to verify that these products comply with relevant legislation of the country of production, including human #rights.

#EUGreenDeal

„Es gab keinen Hinweis darauf, dass sie Amerikanerin war. Wir dachten alle, sie sei Irin“, berichtet ein Hoher Beamter der französischen Libération und versichert, niemand habe eine Ahnung gehabt, worüber da eigentlich abgestimmt wurde. „Wir haben erst auf Twitter herausgefunden, dass wir etwas Inakzeptables akzeptiert hatten“.

blog.fefe.de/?ts=9a485f1a

#EU #Kommission #Chefökonomin #Generaldirektion #Wettbewerb #ScottMorton #USA #Tech

Today, two open letters from academics on the scientific arguments against the current #CSS (client side scanning) initiatives have been released:

* The first (in English, internationally coordinated) one is online at tinyurl.com/CSAScientistsLette… and still open for additional signatures.

* The second (in German, by #Austrian academics) one is online at ins.jku.at/chatcontrol/ and explicitly includes law experts in addition to the arguments from a security, privacy, and AI perspective.

This debate is expected to gain new steam with #Spain taking over the EU council presidency, given recently leaked statements like "Ideally, in our view, it would be desirable to legislatively prevent EU-based service providers from implementing end-to-end encryption" (wired.co.uk/article/europe-bre…).

Please boost on any channels you deem adequate. The discussion is still open, and we have little time to bring it to a more rational level.

#csam #law #eu #privacy #dataprotection #privacy #humanrights #messenger #chat #chatcontrol #signal #whatsapp #telegram #threema #e2ee

Leaked Government Document Shows Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption

In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country's officials said it is “imperative that we have access to the data.”

^{Lily Hay Newman (WIRED UK)}

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

Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in the EU as energy transition hits ‘hyperdrive’

^{Rosie Frost (Euronews.com)}

BREAKING NEWS!

❗️The US and its allies plan to provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets as part of long-term efforts to strengthen Kyiv's security, — a senior White House official commented to NBC News
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Russian #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany #Poland #France #Turkey #Finland

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…

#Europe #RightsRetention

EU ready to back immediate open access without author fees - Research Professional News

Provisionally agreed position also expresses support for non-profit publishing models

^{Rachel Magee (Research Professional News)}

Die EU hat eine Umfrage zu den
Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung von Reisedokumenten gestartet. [1] Nehmt teil! Im Forum gibt es dazu einen passenden Thread von FrauTux. [2] 👇

[1] ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-r…
[2] kuketz-forum.de/t/hinweis-eu-u…

#eu #reisen #biometrie #umfrage #datenschutz

European Commission - Have your say

^{European Commission - Have your say}

Es ist ja nicht so, dass wir nicht schon länger vom Vendor-Lock-In gewarnt hätten. Nun hat Microsoft ihren Cloud-Kunden am 1. April ganz unironisch ein Preiserhöhung-Ei gelegt.

«EU-Cloud-Wettbewerber: Microsofts Preissteigerungen reichen an Erpressung»

🥚 heise.de/news/EU-Cloud-Wettbew…

--
#microsoft #cloud #vendorlockin #eu #erpressung #IToldYouSo

EU-Cloud-Wettbewerber: Microsofts Preissteigerungen reichen an Erpressung

Zum 1. April hat Microsoft die Preise für Cloud-Produkte um elf Prozent erhöht. Betroffenen und Konkurrenten stößt die Teuerung verstärkt äußerst übel auf.

^{Stefan Krempl (heise online)}

Ukraine Daily

Tuesday, January 24

Russia’s war against Ukraine

Ukrainian emergency service workers extinguish a fire in a garage after Russian shelling in Chasiv Yar, 23 Jan. 2023. (Photo by Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Poll: Record 86% of Ukrainians support joining NATO. Meanwhile, 87% of Ukrainians are currently in favor of their country's aspiration to join the European Union, according to a new poll by the Rating Group.

Foreign minister: Western tanks are coming to Ukraine soon. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Jan. 23 that Ukraine is in the final stages of convincing allies to provide Western main battle tanks, including German-made Leopard 2s.

NGO: Most convicts recruited by Wagner killed, wounded or deserted. Of the 50,000 convicts recruited by mercenary company Wagner Group from the Russian prison system, only 10,000 remain in the ranks of the military, according to Olga Romanova, head of Russia Behind Bars, an NGO that protects the rights of convicts.

General Staff: Ukraine downs two Russian aircrafts, helicopter over past day. The General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported on Jan. 24 that Ukraine's military shoot down two Russian Su-25 aircrafts, one Ka-52 helicopter, an Orlan-10 drone, and two guided air missiles Kh-59.

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Zelensky: Security council bans state officials from leaving Ukraine, except for business trips. Under martial law, Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 are banned from leaving the country during the war, except for cases when they obtain special permits from the government. Some Ukrainian state officials and businesspeople have routinely abused this system and bypassed the restrictions.

Anti-Corruption Court seizes assets of Russian billionaire. The High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine seized the Ukrainian assets of Russian billionaire Mikhail Shelkov. The assets include multiple apartments, vehicles, company shares, and money in Ukrainian bank accounts.

Zelensky's deputy chief of staff Tymoshenko resigns. President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree dismissing Deputy Head of the President’s Office Kyrylo Kyrylo Tymoshenko on Jan. 23.

Ukrenergo: Emergency blackouts introduced in 5 Ukrainian regions on Jan. 23. The power deficit in Ukraine's energy system has increased as the consumption rises, the country's state grid operator Ukrenergo reported on Jan. 23. Emergency power outages have been introduced in Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv, Zaporizhzhia, and Volyn oblasts where consumption limits have been exceeded.

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‘They were real beasts’: A farming couple describes what occupation looked like in their village.

The darkness setting over the muddy street of the small hamlet in Kharkiv Oblast did little to hide the destruction Russian soldiers left behind.

Photo: Alexander Query/Kyiv Independent

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How kindergarten morning in Kyiv suburb turned into tragedy.

The crash in Brovary, a city just east of Kyiv, killed 14 people, including one child and several parents of preschoolers, turning what was supposed to be an ordinary day for the kindergarten into a nightmare.

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Ukraine war latest: Kyiv expects battle for Donbas to intensify in February-March amid Russia's desperate attempt to capture the region.

Russian forces will likely intensify their offensive in eastern Ukraine in the coming months, Deputy Military Intelligence Chief Vadym Skibitsky said on Jan. 23.

Photo: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images

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The human cost of Russia’s war

Russian attacks across 7 Ukrainian oblasts kill 1, injure 8 over past 24 hours. Russian attacks were reported in Donetsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Luhansk oblasts in the east, south, and north of Ukraine.

Russian artillery kills 1 civilian**, wounds 2 others in Sumy Oblast.** Russian artillery shelled a residential building in Sumy Oblast on Jan. 23, killing a woman and wounding two other people, Sumy Oblast Governor Dmytro Zhyvytsky said on Telegram.

Russian Jan. 23 attack on Kherson Oblast kills 1. Russian forces struck Kherson Oblast’s village of Antonivka, killing one person, Governor Yaroslav Yanushevych reported on Jan. 23. The killed man was in the yard of the building when Russian projectiles fell there, according to Yanushevych.

Russian shelling of Chasiv Yar kills 1, wounds 2. Donetsk Oblast Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko reported late on Jan. 23 that Russian shelling killed one person and injured two others in Chasiv Yar near Bakhmut in Donestk Oblast.

Russian attacks injure 4 civilians in Donetsk Oblast over past day. Russian attacks in Donetsk Oblast injured four civilians over the past day, Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko reported on Jan. 23 on Telegram. Three people were injured in Bakhmut and one in Avdiivka, the governor said.

UN: At least 18,483 civilian casualties in Ukraine due to Russia’s war. According to the United Nations human rights agency, Russia’s war against Ukraine has killed at least 7,068 civilians and wounded at least 11,415 from Feb. 24 to Jan. 22. The agency reported that the actual figures are likely considerably higher since the information from places with ongoing hostilities is delayed, and many reports of civilian casualties still need to be confirmed.

General Staff: Russia has lost 121,480 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24. Ukraine's General Staff reported on Jan. 23 that Russia had also lost 3,150 tanks, 6,276 armored fighting vehicles, 4,936 vehicles and fuel tanks, 2,146 artillery systems, 447 multiple launch rocket systems, 220 air defense systems, 287 airplanes, 277 helicopters, 1,894 drones, and 18 boats.

International response

Reuters: EU approves 542 million euro military aid package to Ukraine. The European Union on Jan. 23 approved another 500 million euro military aid package to Ukraine, along with an additional 45 million euros earmarked for non-lethal equipment for the EU's training mission in the country, Reuters reported, citing unnamed diplomatic sources.

Russia, Estonia expel each other’s ambassadors due to ‘destroyed relations.’ Russia has summoned Estonian Ambassador Margus Laidre, ordering him to leave the country by Feb. 7, followed by Estonia making the same move under "the principle of parity," the AP reported, citing the countries' foreign ministries.

Estonia to give Ukraine all its 155-mm howitzers in largest aid package so far. "We want to create a precedent so that other countries will not have any excuses why they cannot provide Ukraine with the necessary weapons to win the war," said Estonian Ambassador to Ukraine Kaimo Kuusk.

Sweden to provide Ukraine with equipment to restore energy supply. The Swedish government allowed the state-owned grid operator Svenska Kraftnat to transfer the materials that can be used to restore Ukraine's power system.

VOA: Bradley fighting vehicles to arrive in Ukraine within few weeks. U.S. Bradley infantry fighting vehicles will arrive in Ukraine within the next few weeks, Voice of America reported, citing an anonymous Pentagon official.

PM: Poland to apply for Germany's approval to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine. “Even if we did not get this approval, we would still transfer our tanks together with others to Ukraine," Morawiecki said at a news conference, saying that Germany's consent is "of secondary importance."

German defense minister: Decision on Leopard tanks for Ukraine to be made 'soon.' German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told ARD that a decision on supplying Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine will be made "soon" but called for patience in this matter. "The 'Leopard' is a heavy, armored weapon that can also be used for offensive purposes. And you have to think very carefully about when you bring them," said Pistorius.

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Last week, we disbursed €3bn from our Macro-Financial Assistance package.

This financial support will help Ukrainians:

- maintain public services running

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So far, we have helped with €10.2bn. More will come later this year.

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A yellow kitchen in Dnipro, #Ukraine 🇺🇦 🏠.

Once a symbol of warmth and family, it now stands as a reminder of the devastating effects of Russian imperialism.

One day a little girl celebrated her birthday with her family in this kitchen. The next day, the kitchen and the family are no more, destroyed by Russian imperialism.

This is what Ukraine is standing up against. This is what we are all standing up against.

📸 © Getty, Yellow kitchen in Dnipro, Ukraine

#StandWithUkraine #EuropeanUnion #EU

A leak from the European Data Protection Board reveals that the #EU's top #privacy regulator is about to overrule the Irish Data Protection Commission and declare #Facebook's business model illegal, banning surveillance-based #ads without explicit consent:

noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-personaliz…

1/

Does anyone have a contact we can talk to at Hetzner to get them working with Fedora CoreOS so it’s supported as a first-class citizen on their platform?

The Fedora CoreOS folks are on board, now we just need someone from Hetzner.

github.com/coreos/fedora-coreo…

#hetzner #fedora #coreOS #vps #hosting #web #germany #eu #europe #linux

Platform Request: Hetzner · Issue #1324 · coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker

In order to implement support for a new cloud platform in Fedora CoreOS, we need to know several things about the platform. Please try to answer as many questions as you can. Hetzner: https://www.h...

^GitHub

@aral
#EU are kinda blinded like all people hamishcampbell.com/?s=Nlnet the funding is poured down the drain.

#nlnet guys at least fund "better" unless tech projects ;)

I have tried talking to um about this, my thought is the people picking the projects are a self reflecting #geekproblem so they are unlikely to fund let alone see value outside this narrowness.

It's the mess we look at from outside, likely nice bunch of people as individuals though

“I’m not bluffing on nuclear weapons”, says Putin

What a Grade A cunt.

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

#putin #russia #nuclearWar #ukraine #eu

Ukraine war latest: 'I'm not bluffing on nuclear weapons', Putin warns West

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that 300,000 reservists will be drafted into the army in a partial mobilisation, as he warned West he was not "bluffing" over nuclear weapons.

^{The Telegraph}

The Queen was a “legend” with the power to speak “to the soul of the whole world”, European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen said.

inkl.com/a/xoYWbGivVXv

“Y’know… the world… aka white folks like me… the sons and daughters of colonisers and slave owners. She really spoke to our souls.”, she continued.

#monarchy #aristocracy #nobility #uk #eu

EU chief in tribute to Queen who ‘spoke to the soul of the world’

Ursula von der Leyen said the Queen ‘found the right words for every moment in time’.

^inkl

Just submitted my grant application for our Domain project to NLnet for their User-Operated Internet Fund.

I believe the process for public funding should itself be public so you can read the entire submission on my blog (with better formatting than the text-only original submission, a video, and pictures) and I’ll be posting future communication there also:

ar.al/2022/07/29/nlnet-grant-a…

#nlnet #eu #funding #grant #foss #smallWeb #smallTech #domain #kitten #publicMoneyPublicProcessPublicCode

in german one says cattle trade , is it #NuttyTrade ? #eu #cognitivedissonance

#kuhhandel

Strengthening digital infrastructure: A policy agenda for FOSS

"A @EU_Commission sponsored report found that in 2018, #EU companies invested roughly €1 billion into #FOSS creation, which resulted in up to a €95 billion benefit for FOSS users in the EU. Similar estimates for the #USA investment in FOSS were $33 billion in 2019. However, despite these attempts we have only scratched the surface of truly understanding the value FOSS provides to the economy and modern life"

brookings.edu/research/strengt…

Strengthening digital infrastructure: A policy agenda for free and open source software

Frank Nagle discusses free and open source software and its role in the future of digital infrastructure.

^{Frank Nagle (Brookings)}

Nice, the #EU gave #Mozilla money to develop an offline, privacy friendly translation engine, and it's been released!

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/lo…

Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot

The translations add-on is now available in the Firefox Add-On store for installation on Firefox Nightly, Beta and in General Release. 

^{Rebecca Smith (The Mozilla Blog)}