Posts by tastyraspberry@mastodon.online
 (DIR) Post #B5Jmss2UnBwCRg4bQ0 by tastyraspberry@mastodon.online
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       An age verification app's back end is arguably just as important as the front end. No word on that yet.And it goes without saying that nothing apart from the boolean "is user older than x" should be shared with a platform.Curious to see how this plays out. Platforms wanting age verification shouldn't have to rely on infamous contractors that leak data.But everyone is aware of the slippery slope: IDing everyone on the web isn't something we'll let happen without pushback.@EUCommission
       
 (DIR) Post #B8u1EmnqNFETD0lXcW by tastyraspberry@mastodon.online
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       Excuse me wtf?"We were thrilled to discover an impressively precise and technically accurate decision from the EU. [...] The report went down to details we only figured out by reading Android's source code ourselves."They anticipated Google would make people give up on their current voice assistant and mandated concurrent use of two different wake words? They even mandated sandboxing?You're telling me bureaucratic institutions can be competent and serve the people?!@openhomefoundation
       
 (DIR) Post #B8u1En9p3WoUJB35sW by tastyraspberry@mastodon.online
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       @EUCommission now that you've allowed a category of apps to work more seamlessly and securely on the dominating mobile OS, prevent the mobile OS from becoming a dictatorship where Google has the final say on who is allowed to make apps: @keepandroidopen And while we're at it, get rid of DRM and take @pluralistic up on his idea to make Europe the disenshittifying hub for the world's technology.@openhomefoundation
       
 (DIR) Post #B8vTeJ4oZIdj5x5HTE by tastyraspberry@mastodon.online
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       I get where you're coming from. It's important to remember that "government" is not a single coherent entity. There are MEPs for example who are aware of the risks of age verification (a euphemism for identity verification) and chat control (whether in the voluntary or mandatory variant). In votes on directives such as these there is plenty of opposition, which is why chat control kept being reintroduced, for example.@lxo @EUCommission @keepandroidopen @pluralistic @openhomefoundation
       
 (DIR) Post #B8vTeJK3ecphrEDSEK by tastyraspberry@mastodon.online
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       None of the progress we made in digital liberty and privacy (such as the cryptography wars, where it was uncertain we would even get real encryption on the web) came from governmental institutions filled with digital rights hippies. We formed coalitions with similarly aligned groups. And Cory makes great arguments for why we have an unstoppable coalition to fight DRM right now: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/@lxo @EUCommission @keepandroidopen @pluralistic @openhomefoundation
       
 (DIR) Post #B9Z8210a99rd3WD9xQ by tastyraspberry@mastodon.online
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       The @EUCommission wants to combat distracted driving. Starting this month, new #cars ship with an obligatory driver-facing camera that scrutinizes eye movements [1].The law mandates recordings be only used to minimize harm on the road. Yet time and time again, we've seen tech companies knowingly break laws. It's often just the cost of doing business.
       
 (DIR) Post #B9Z821FTFnm1nhB3AG by tastyraspberry@mastodon.online
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       And it's a hell of a slippery slope:"Once the lens is in and the software is running, the open question stops being whether cars can watch their occupants and turns into what else that watching should cover." [1]
       
 (DIR) Post #B9Z821UMMRgQXs8wN6 by tastyraspberry@mastodon.online
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       But this is an opportunity. As @pluralistic writes:"No one gets to keep the math used to calculate the load stresses on the joists holding the roof over our head a secret. We wouldn't tolerate secrecy in the characteristics of the alloys in those joists, or even the wires carrying electricity through the walls. We should not tolerate secrecy in how our digital infrastructure works, either." [2]
       
 (DIR) Post #B9Z821jbRlsPJ9H78C by tastyraspberry@mastodon.online
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       The argument to require car manufacturers to #opensource software for sensitive systems like this has never been stronger.@edri we have a game plan for this?
       
 (DIR) Post #B9Z822lPcWuyV384ae by tastyraspberry@mastodon.online
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       CC: @fsfe @fight @bitsoffreedom  @LaQuadrature
       
 (DIR) Post #B9Z8235GQinVUcPvX6 by tastyraspberry@mastodon.online
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       Sources:[1]: https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-mandates-driver-facing-cameras-in-new-cars-from-today[2]:https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/post-american-canada/