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bert hubert πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

Mastodon plushie 1136 has arrived in Nootdorp, and is keeping an eye on me as I type this! #plushtodon
19 October at 18:19 | Open on fosstodon.org
bert hubert πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

Dutch parliament has just asked the government a whopping 102 questions about the #chatcontrol #CSAM proposal, to be answered before next week's meeting in Luxembourg. There are some piercing questions in there too. berthub.eu/tkconv/get/2024D366 (in Dutch).

3 October at 17:34 | Open on fosstodon.org
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alec timmerman πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

@bert_hubert En als het dan toch tot een stemming komt, een hoofdelijke stemming aanvragen, zodat journalisten de kamerleden dan een voor een af kunnen gaan voor hun argumenten.

3 October at 18:25 | Open on mastodon.nl
Marco van Burgsteden

@bert_hubert

Eindelijk politiek die dit onderwerp serieus wil nemen. Ook jouw verdienste om dit onder de aandacht te blijven brengen.

3 October at 18:52 | Open on urbanists.social
Stone Bear

@bert_hubert I love Question Time. It's one of the best things about an old-school parliament.

3 October at 20:04 | Open on kind.social
bert hubert πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

It appears the Dutch government has decided to greenlight the EU plan to make 'big tech' force-install software on all European phones that will automatically report any questionable photos in your private chat messages to the police. This is not actually about protecting the children. This is about removing the very possibility of private communications. We can tell because governments have exempted themselves from this legislation (!). Here's something I wrote earlier: berthub.eu/articles/posts/end-

It appears the Dutch government has decided to greenlight the EU plan to make 'big tech' force-install software on all European phones that will automatically report any questionable photos in your private chat messages to the police. This is not actually about protecting the children. This is about removing the very possibility of private communications. We can tell because governments have exempted themselves from this legislation (!). Here's something I wrote earlier: berthub.eu/articles/posts/end-
25 September at 16:23 | Open on fosstodon.org
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Cluster Fcku

@bert_hubert i think your description is misleading, this is chat control, photo upload scanning, server side, not scan software installed on your phone. Otherwise, link please.

25 September at 18:13 | Open on mastodon.social
Ianto Jones

@bert_hubert not that things are generally so much better as-is, but goddamnit that's terrifying. Surely there wouldn't be any false positives or any other hijinks associated with this "BUT THINK OF THE CHILDREN" campaign.

The company attempting to sell this bullshit to the Dutch government should be dissolved.

25 September at 18:51 | Open on mastodon.social
🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼
bert hubert πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

Last year European Parliament and national parliaments rejected the β€œEU child porn scanner” that was set to be installed on every phone. Apparently this week we’re going to ignore all that parliamentary action and mandate such a scanner once more. Here’s what I wrote earlier on how this super scary thing would work in practice: berthub.eu/articles/posts/clie

19 June at 7:11 | Open on fosstodon.org
bert hubert πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

Regarding AI *in* Firefox, this has brought us a built-in translator that does not outsource the work to the cloud. That's amazingly good work. I'd love to see the browser do more of that kind of thing. mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/feat

15 February at 9:45 | Open on fosstodon.org
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hazelnot :yell:

@bert_hubert wait is that "AI" shit? πŸ₯²

15 February at 14:01 | Open on sunbeam.city
Maddie
@bert_hubert i'm still not sure if i'm able to trust that the translation happens 100% locally without any data being sent home. while on its own i don't find this feature too egregious, i'm somewhat afraid it'll act as a gateway to add more AI "features" which are actually just useless crap, like chatbots and image generators. at least translation is an actual good feature that could come in handy for a lot of people, and if it really does happen 100% locally, it's much safer than using google translate or something similar
@bert_hubert i'm still not sure if i'm able to trust that the translation happens 100% locally without any data being sent home. while on its own i don't find this feature too egregious, i'm somewhat afraid it'll act as a gateway to add more AI "features" which are actually just useless crap, like chatbots and image generators. at least translation is an actual good feature that could come in handy for a lot of people, and if it really does happen 100% locally, it's much safer than using google translate...
15 February at 14:03 | Open on fedi.nano.lgbt
Thomas Frans πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

@bert_hubert FINALLY someone with a brain. Yes, more of this local, open source AI!

15 February at 16:52 | Open on fosstodon.org
bert hubert πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

As Dutch .NL national domain name registry SIDN decides to outsource itself to CIRA and Amazon, a good time to repost this blog post (also available as video): berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-

29 January at 21:13 | Open on fosstodon.org
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Gytis Repečka

@bert_hubert An excellent overview of actual situation of tech innovation ⚠️ Thanks for sharing πŸ‘

30 January at 7:44 | Open on social.gyt.is
Tasqa

@bert_hubert This piece is exactly my impression when I applied for the cloud engineer job there last summer. Nobody had experience, and the ignorance in the blogpost not falling into the lock-in trap is just the blissful leadership having no clue it is impossible to build agnostic in any Cloud... I'm counting down to mass resignations of people that do have actual skills.

30 January at 8:25 | Open on mastodon.social
Bruno Girin

@bert_hubert excellent post! The Boeing document you reference is no longer available, you wouldn't have a copy by any chance?

30 January at 8:27 | Open on mastodon.me.uk
bert hubert πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

So I wrote a simple "imgur" workalike, with full user/post/image management. All based on a very limited number of new lines of code (1600) and a limited number of lightweight dependencies (5). This as verification of that even in 2024 you can write "<2MB" self-hosted software distributions that are useful. In this post I write up the technologies behind "Trifecta": berthub.eu/articles/posts/trif

18 January at 15:24 | Open on fosstodon.org
bert hubert πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί
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RMcNeely

@bert_hubert well that's gross. Thanks for helping to call behavior like this out. Short of GH changing its terms for things like this, the community strongly rejecting this behavior as socially acceptable might be the best we can do.

20 Dec 2023 at 14:04 | Open on jawns.club
zepolson :antifa:

@bert_hubert This needs to be killed before it spreads

20 Dec 2023 at 14:39 | Open on paquita.masto.host
Benjamin

@bert_hubert Someone make a bot that stars that crappy project and auto-reposts every thusly closed report under its own name.

Who the F*CK looked at this and thought: This is good!

20 Dec 2023 at 14:46 | Open on toot.berlin
bert hubert πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

Had to send out the "dear corporate employee hiding behind a gmail.com address" post again today.. berthub.eu/articles/posts/anon
11 Dec 2023 at 11:15 | Open on fosstodon.org
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missed_sla

@bert_hubert Sucks that these orgs won't acknowledge the FOSS people that keep the internet, and most other things, on. I'm just one guy working somewhere that most people will never know about, but I at least appreciate all the work you guys do to keep the lights blinking.

11 Dec 2023 at 13:15 | Open on infosec.exchange
Mensch, Marina

@bert_hubert especially bigger corporations could affort to pay for open-source software. They don't get their Microsoft or Apple stuff for free either. It should be natural to pay for software they use. Even we (retired couple, private, definitely not rich) contribute to authors of software when we tried it out and decided to stick with it.
Yes, here on :mastodon: , too!

11 Dec 2023 at 13:30 | Open on troet.cafe
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