Comment Get the videos online (Score 0) 6
Very much looking forward to seeing the video of Richard's 17 March speech and the Right To Repair keynote!
I guess they'll arrive here: https://media.libreplanet.org/...
Very much looking forward to seeing the video of Richard's 17 March speech and the Right To Repair keynote!
I guess they'll arrive here: https://media.libreplanet.org/...
I'm obfuscating nothing. Here's a brief to the European Commission with my name on it:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/...
Medical data is covered in the GDPR, cloud stuff is in the DMA, the Data Act, and hardware stuff in the Directive on Defective Product Liability. Those are all ongoing if you'd like to get involved.
There might be some things that aren't covered and maybe a CRA is necessary, but the current proposed text says you cannot publish or import software unless it follows the requirements of the CRA. So, people in the EU will be hesitant to publish software and software from outside the EU that didn't follow the CRA during the design phase will not be available to people in the EU.
Even security patches. If there software being used in the EU and it has a vulnerability, and if someone outside the EU produces a patch or an updated version of the software, then this fix will not be available to people in the EU if the author did not provide all the documentation required by the CRA! People in the EU will be stuck using known-vulnerable software because of the CRA!
The W3C has indeed done fantastic work. With the new status, will they be more involved in policy work?
The EU is working on a new regulation on standard-essential patents. The legislative procedure is advancing on the Cyber Resilience Act, which makes it difficult to publish software (and serving a webpage with javascript seems to fit into that). And there's the issue of DRM (which shouldn't have been given support in the W3C standards, but what's done is done, let's look for how to improve the situation).
If W3C will be more active in policy, I'll be looking forward to working with them!
Remember, FSF isn't telling you to buy these things, it's just a guide for *if* you insist on buying tech. You can always get people socks or a jumper.
FSF's guide is also for people who put a lot of value on freedom. And I hope a lot of people do. But if you want to make a small effort, another interesting list is Mozilla's "Privacy Not Included":
Whatever it is, we have been dealing with this and a host of other issues from them for years.
Absolutely love the boards, and some of the staff is really cool, but the company really is abusive when it comes to this sort of stuff.
Most of the major supermarkets in the UK do delivery, so losing Amazon wouldn't be an issue.
At the start of the pandemic when lots of people switched to using it they did have trouble meeting demand as it took a while for them to scale up.
Sure, I can buy that misinformation is a societal problem. People like to repeat what they want to believe.
However, social networks would appear to have massively magnified the problem. Firstly by optimising for engagement which leads to promoting controversial content and secondly by normalising the "sharing" of a post to broadcast it to all of your contacts.
Someone is using cryptocurrency in a fraudulent way? Colour me shocked.
Presumably if some sucker had outbid them we'd never have known?
Common sense would lead to banning all forms of cross-website tracking.
Somehow I doubt that's what they have in mind.
They take all your contacts, they tell everyone that you've joined and they can contact you, which is exactly what the article is complaining about.
The fact they do it in a cryptographically secure way does mean they haven't got your contact list stored on their servers for someone else to steal is good, but the shitty user experience of "hey we just messaged all your contacts for you" is still shitty.
They're hardly the only messaging app which is quick to advertise how seriously they take the privacy of your messages but think nothing of uploading your entire contact list to their servers and sending a push message to all of them already on the service to tell them you've joined.
Looking at you Signal and Telegram...
To do nothing is to be nothing.