@rysiek
Obligatory
https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/113164265867849348

Also regulations can be regulated.
Unregulated corpos cannot.

@rysiek
I work IT in the US for an EU company. When our US company lawyers want to pull an employee's email for upcoming litigation they are quite surprised (and pissed) that they can't get everything they want since our mailservers are located in France and follow GDPR for all users, even the US ones.

@rysiek while i believe that regulations are a helpful tool: from an international competition's pov they give companies less room to emerge from within the EU, weakening it in the process. this lets US support for GDPR etc appear plausible

Q: You're just some rando on the Internet, what can you possibly know? 🤔

A: I used to work for the .IS ccTLD registry. I currently work for Quad9 DNS resolver. I happen to know a thing or two about DNS.

Q: Okay, but you don't have personal stake in this, do you? So of course you're not worried! 🤷‍♀️

A: My home domain – where my blog is, where my personal infra is, and where my hobby projects are hosted – is rys.io. Yes, a .io domain. I have a very personal stake in this.

@rysiek@mstdn.social

But .su domains still resolve

@rysiek you pretty much said it. If France can still have what is effectively just another ccTLD for .aq, certainly the UK will not have a problem keeping .io alive for their claim.

That's not even mentioning .gb exists and hasn't been used for decades, with the UK only last year giving their intention to retire it

@rysiek I blocked Javascript from medium.com years ago because it was so annoying. Will try scribe.rip, thanks for the tip.

@rysiek Oh, shit, this is brilliant

@rysiek

12ft.io also works with medium and a lot of other paywalls: https://12ft.io/https://medium.com/
...
Also archive.is
@Nonya_Bidniss

@rysiek im rolling my system back to win10, fk this noise

@rysiek Because the last time Microsoft made something stupid part of the Windows shell it turned out so well.

@rysiek @patterfloof Next, custom UEFI for machines to disable the parts needed to run recall, as IIRC your pc needs to be "copilot+" rated. I can see mods to break that rating being produced...

Krzysztof Izdebski, prawnik z Fundacji im. Stefana Batorego:

> możemy mieć w tym przypadku do czynienia z tzw. SLAPPem

> W interesie publicznym jest, aby dziennikarze i organizacje społeczne bacznie przyglądały się tej sprawie i weryfikowały czy faktycznie mamy do czynienia ze SLAPPem i z próbą tłumienia wolności wypowiedzi i prawa do prawdy

Podczas środowej rozprawy, Newag zawnioskował o utajnienie całego procesu. Sąd wniosek odrzucił.

@rysiek okay this is the one I was stalking through your feed for. Gonna need to talk to some friends about switching off Telegram.

@rysiek When the Russian State media makes a press release saying how secure Telegram is, I'm guessing it's probably not.

Just sayin.

Awarie się zdarzają (mimo, że oczywiście nie powinny).

W tym konkretnym wypadku środki są prawie na pewno bezpieczne, dotknięte nią są tylko konta firmowe, a problem zostanie rozwiązany w ciągu paru godzin. Więc bez paniki.

Ale podobna awaria w przypadku e-wyborów byłaby katastrofą, podważyłaby zaufanie do ich wyniku. Wybory to nie e-banking.

Przypominam mój tekst z czerwca:
https://oko.press/e-bankowosc-e-wybory-sprawdzamy

@rysiek Mnie na ćwiterzu, ktoś próbował wmawiać podobną historię. Może jakaś akcja PR⸮

@rysiek "Nie ma jak umożliwić nawet nam samym sprawdzenia, czy nasz głos został indywidualnie poprawnie zarejestrowany i policzony, bez porzucenia zasady tajności głosowania."

Szczerze mówiąc, to jest do zrobienia, ale już samo tłumaczenie tego osobie znającej kryptografię jest dość skomplikowane, a próba wytłumaczenia opinii publicznej, że to bezpieczne + dlaczego i jak to działa jest IMO skazana na niepowodzenie.

Ale prawdą jest to co piszesz dalej (przykład z przemocowym partnerem).

@rysiek na razie niech ogarną system zapisywania się na głosowanie w konsulatach, bo przynajmniej w Helsinkach im nie wyszło. @TOrynski nie był w stanie zagłosować

@rysiek GIMP and Inkscape?

@rysiek While I agree with the sentiment, I’ve tried again and again for over twenty-five years to use FLOSS photography apps they’re generally outright unusable for me

No doubt they work for other people but Gimp, Darktable, and every tool for photography I’ve tried is just UI hell for me, even when they have the actual functionality (which is rare). Even the ones that are somewhat learnable (they’re never actually usable) tend to break on HiDPI screens

Krita and Penpot are great, though.

@rysiek What’s wrong with #Affinity?

@rysiek does this mean the social.network.europa.eu instance is being shut down? @EU_Commission

@rysiek I think we should start a petition. I tried but I can't get through the preliminary questions. Looks like I need to find 1 million people first or something? Its confusing, @EU_Commission

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/en/petition/readit

@rysiek Surely there has to be some internal body that runs PR for the EU that can take over running the servers day to day and the same contractors that did operations for the pilot can carry on as normal.

My impression was that it was basically treated as a one way operation anyway and the rest of us were just a comments section so the EUI could just set it and forget it

@rysiek yeah this platform is TOTALLY dead /s

@rysiek@mstdn.social this article gives me the same vibes as that one cuphead review

@rysiek I use https://www.ecosia.org/

@rysiek SearXNG.ca is what I use.

@rysiek @noracodes thank you, this is a useful contribution.

@rysiek @noracodes

Thanks for this. It's a good rendering of the situation. I think the truth is that some people don't want to communicate. They just want to pontificate. And if you don't fall in line with their expectations, you're to be demonized. Also, there's the self-appointed police who report rather than block. The last point is reading comprehension. A lot of people can read, but they lack the requisite comprehension skills to understand what they are reading.

@rysiek@mstdn.social @noracodes@weirder.earth
The Fediverse is dead. Long live ghe Fediverse!

@rysiek bonk!!

@rysiek Best Dad joke this week :)

@rysiek

Is this why:

Donald Trump
Tucker Carlson
Sean Hannity
Mike Johnson
Joe Rogan
Margorie Taylor Green
Matt Gaetz
and more...

double down on their lies and disinformation campaigns?

@rysiek All of them died from not enough love.

Not enough love for the Greatest Leader of all Humanity, Putin. And unconditional surrender to his orders.

@rysiek
The Dead

> Jeśli głosowanie nie jest w pełni godne zaufania, różne siły polityczne mogą zacząć podważać wynik wyborów

> Żeby głosowanie było godne zaufania, konieczne jest, by osoby głosujące rozumiały, jak system wyborczy działa.

> To jest niełatwe nawet przy korzystaniu z papierowych kart wyborczych.

> Zastąpienie urny wyborczej komputerem znacznie utrudnia zrozumienie i audyt systemu.

🧵/2

@rysiek bardzo ciekawy, rzeczowy artykuł, oraz fajna dyskusja tutaj na Masto.

@rysiek
Dobry artykuł. Temat wymaga rozwinięcia i kontynuacji.

@rysiek And now, if I'm allowed to be more cynic and sceptic - this initiative is pioneered by the head of our Belgian Socialist party. We have elections coming up soon and they have been pushing this initiative quite hard. With how unlikely the initiative's success is, it really gives me vibes of a political stunt.

But then again, whether or not my vote goes to them depends mostly on how well the initiative does (and on a secondary note - on how much the greens push the state reforms).

@rysiek unfortunately this is difficult to do in the EU framework as taxes is one of those things that member states have full sovereignty over.

Hope it does happen though!

@rysiek @luca Thanks for sharing and the writeup! 👏
Let’s gooooooo.

@rysiek Between 9th and 11th century the word "Gift" started shifting its meaning so it could become "poison" in the modern German language.

@rysiek whenever I talk about my past my therapist says there's a lot to unpack there so you might have a point