Posts by expat@mamot.fr
(DIR) Post #AOWP0AkstVdXPaq8q8 by expat@mamot.fr
2022-10-13T10:22:52Z
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@EU_Commission The problem is you have a court in #Austria doing the opposite, ensuring that #GDPR compliance is voluntary: https://noyb.eu/en/alarming-court-justice-may-severely-limit-enforcement-europeans-privacy-rights
(DIR) Post #AOz8rOTaVTUZ8wUnFg by expat@mamot.fr
2022-10-27T07:08:54Z
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@EU_Commission That’s all good, but getting asses on bicycle seats is also key to energy independence. Which means tax write-offs on corporate cars must stop and parking in public spaces should be €3k/yr (not €30/yr). #fuckCars
(DIR) Post #APsTZnOFGz1LN1VXMm by expat@mamot.fr
2022-11-22T23:46:03Z
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@SuperDicq @darius That’s actually the norm in #Belgium. The /government/ actually uses outlook.com for official business. Most people don’t realize it because they mask it with a vanity domain. If you do an MX lookup you’ll find most Belgian gov agencies use MS #Outlook. Even the Belgian data protection office! But they are a bit more sneaky-- you only see MS in the headers if they email you.
(DIR) Post #ATRizRNCWllqZ2Wc8u by expat@mamot.fr
2023-03-09T17:33:32Z
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@EU_Commission Improving the cycling infrastructure is spot on. But let’s scrap the protectionism. EVs also harm the evironment. #fuckCars means all cars. It’s misguided to try to create or sustain European jobs w.r.t EVs. Just focus on bikes. And let them be made anywhere. The world population needs jobs so from a humanitarian PoV it’s wrong to try to give an advantage to 1st world workers.
(DIR) Post #AVdIW7ozl4F5Hp4Nf6 by expat@mamot.fr
2023-05-10T22:30:13Z
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Second-hand clothing charities should really not be so fussy. There are several drop boxes in #Brussels & yet there’s rampant dumping of clothes on the street. I wonder if the people dumping them just could not be bothered to wash them.Some cities have recycling facilities for clothes. The clothes are finely shredded & made back into fabric. AFAIK, Brussels does not have that. Why don’t all clothes go to charity & the charity decide what they sell & send the rest for recycling?
(DIR) Post #AWGvB1JrcEUBYFEGW0 by expat@mamot.fr
2023-06-02T06:05:56Z
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@strypey Perhaps, but I can’t say it’s that clear-cut.#cottoncons:1. 2700 liters of water to product 1 t-shirt2. necessarily uses farmland & heavily consumes soil nutriants3. highly absorbant of water which encourages people to tumble-dry their clothes (thus copious energy waste)4. dyes leech into the seas & drinking water when dumpedpros:5. naturally resists perspiration bacteria according to Gent university, thus can be worn multiple times between washes
(DIR) Post #AWH4Xsa1Aqhah6lB3I by expat@mamot.fr
2023-06-02T07:47:23Z
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@EU_Commission Suppose I don’t want to exploit my idea for financial gain. #FreeSoftware style, I would like the patent to explicitly allow others to use it. But exceptionally, I would like to bar certain unethical corps whome I boycott from benefitting from the otherwise open patent. What are the options? $5k is unreasonable for this scenario since I would not be profitting from it. #askFedi
(DIR) Post #AWIOv3U0zjonPaEyXY by expat@mamot.fr
2023-06-02T06:19:25Z
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@strypey #microfibercons:1. no bacteria resistence so clothes get stinky fast, thus frequent washing needed2. microplastics leech into the water with every wash sending microplastics to city sewer systems which don’t typically filter microplastics so they go into rivers. (Perhaps non-issue for septic tanks)pros:3. needs no tumble drying; air-dries in an hour; huge+ in the US where all tumble dryers are vented4? do the dyes of plastics leech out? Plastic colors seem to be baked in
(DIR) Post #AWYBktFA1KLVspTRaK by expat@mamot.fr
2023-06-10T09:07:45Z
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@strypey I was recently at #Lidl & saw someone walk up to the trash bin & dig out a receipt. She then walked into the store with the receipt. I know from past drug addicted friends what she was doing. She was going to pull something from the shelf that matched an item on the receipt & return it. I went on the Lidl website to report it. A CAPTCHA was pushed. I don’t do CAPTCHAs.
(DIR) Post #AWYBkv4xCFMzZkiJxA by expat@mamot.fr
2023-06-10T09:13:16Z
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@strypey So I chalked it up as #poeticJustice & did not report it. Lidl could have protected themselves in a number ways: offer electronic receipts, only give receipts on demand, post a sign asking customers not to toss out their paper receipts, have a separate paper-only trash with a thin slot, empty the trash often, arrange the customer service desk to be at the entrence, nix the CAPTCHA..
(DIR) Post #AWZqN0VNf2CajXkctM by expat@mamot.fr
2023-06-11T08:59:10Z
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#CostOfPrivacy has increased in #Belgium as #LoyaltyCards get creepy. In the past there was a paper form where you could put bogus info, or not fill it at all. #Intermarché has no paper form! You must insert your ID chip card into a machine that demands email address & mobile phone number. If you refuse to link your sensitive identity & contact info to your card, they cancel it.
(DIR) Post #AWZqN1JidsT5FfIpM0 by expat@mamot.fr
2023-06-11T09:04:46Z
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The worst part of it: we don’t get to know who they are selling the info to. The #GDPR does not require them to tell customers they are selling the data to Microsoft / Xandr.
(DIR) Post #AZV4rTO3QqB7JVfFc8 by expat@mamot.fr
2023-09-06T06:37:04Z
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The #Belgian feds have recently started blocking #Tor users from looking up laws. The website¹ worked in May but not today.#poll: Should the public have anonymous access to #law in #Belgium?1. https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/wet/wet.htm
(DIR) Post #Aap66VynTQufteFP96 by expat@mamot.fr
2023-10-16T09:16:30Z
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@EU_Commission Meh… it’s a good start but with #smartphones it misses the problem: proprietary #nonfreesoftware. Perfectly good hardware is still being destroyed with this _recommendation_. Why not recommend a #rightToRepair solution that blocks the sale of phones running non-free software so that consumers can use their phones for as long as the hardware lasts?
(DIR) Post #AbsKTzsCXg8XPS2gIi by expat@mamot.fr
2023-10-22T14:13:04Z
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@SebastienK @Fairphone @EU_Commission @Lamaskier Can’t see the video ATM but #Foxconn is the iPhone supplier who comes under fire for poor/unfair labor conditions.
(DIR) Post #AbsKU3Ux43uqeVCAcK by expat@mamot.fr
2023-11-16T18:06:56Z
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@SebastienK @EU_Commission @Fairphone @Lamaskier #Fairphone clearly comes out ahead in that video w.r.t the environement (as well as having suicide-free supply chains). Apple doesn’t make effective use of its influence. The only thing in Apple’s favor was the robotic disassembly ad that circulated 10 years ago. Fairphone already 1-ups that by supplying software updates that extend the life beyond Apple’s by a factor of 2-3.
(DIR) Post #AbsKU4LPuzspHDk4OW by expat@mamot.fr
2023-11-16T18:10:43Z
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@Lamaskier @Fairphone @EU_Commission @SebastienK It’s not the phone maker’s responsibility to scale, that’s on us, the consumers. It’s clear that if we buy Fairphones into the millions the scale would go to a more sustainable supplier who would make more effective use of the muscle it gives them. Apple is the wrong company to feed.
(DIR) Post #AbsKU6XBmCUK4JGV1M by expat@mamot.fr
2023-11-16T18:15:46Z
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@SebastienK @EU_Commission @Fairphone @Lamaskier Apple is an example of unsustainability because their closed system is not only short lived but also hostile toward community projects to extend the usefulness of the hardware. Apple has a clientel of millions selling devices repeatedly to the same people for 3—4 figures ea. and yet w/that revenue they still have not figured out how to make the sw outlast the hw. That’s pitiful.
(DIR) Post #AbsKU8a6AM0IPudqpk by expat@mamot.fr
2023-11-16T18:16:44Z
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@Lamaskier @Fairphone @EU_Commission @SebastienK In general, recycling is only better than land-filling. It’s still 2nd to reuse.
(DIR) Post #AbsKUAaAj3FccigwE4 by expat@mamot.fr
2023-11-16T18:22:30Z
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@SebastienK @EU_Commission @Fairphone @Lamaskier What happens with the old iPhones? My family is sitting on a pile of them because the phone buyback resellers have no interest in iPhones that are so old that no one would want to use them with the OS that’s trapped on them. The local mall has a phone buyback vending machine which offers zero for an iPhone 5. How would this pile of iPhones even make it to that disassembly robot?