@eff
Still gonna be advocating for the use of Signal as a new current standard.
Until something better comes along. I’m personally rooting for SimpleX Chat and Matrix for this, due to the decentralised nature of both. I’m pretty sure SimpleX can be considered decentralised since you can change server in the settings.
@neutronstar @eff 👍don't forget #XMPP / #Jabber too 😀
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@james
> regulation of public spectrum (radio, TV) is partially done because it’s public spectrum and is finite
Another comment on a related media regulation thread pointed to this too. As well as making the excellent point that effective anti-monopoly enforcement in the media industry would reduce the opinion-shaping power of individual outlets. Making peer-review amongst media - both formal and informal - much more effective.
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But as I said to them, there's a consumer protection angle here too. For example, if a media outlet represents what it does as journalism, when it's actually misinformation or propaganda, that's false advertising, and arguably, unfair trading.
The service that media outlet offers is not fit for purpose. So there's exactly the same argument for public action against them as when a restaurant is routinely serving horse as beef, or giving people food poisoning.
RE: https://blog.tib.eu/2026/05/11/eingepraegte-geschichte-das-meistersiegel-wiki-ist-online/
Wer im Mittelalter und der Frühen Neuzeit etwas auf sich hielt, der führte ein eigenes Wappen oder eine individuelle Marke, mit der er auf Dokumenten oder Urkunden siegelte. Nun können erstmals Meistersiegel in einem eigens dafür entwickelten Wiki systematisch erfasst & beschrieben werden. Entstanden ist die @Wikibase@wikis.world-Instanz in einer Zusammenarbeit des @tibosl und dem Fachgebiet Bau- und Stadtbaugeschichte der @unihannover. Mehr dazu von #SimonPaulus, @inablu & #SörenWachsmuth: https://blog.tib.eu/2026/05/11/eingepraegte-geschichte-das-meistersiegel-wiki-ist-online
In this letter to his younger self, neuroscientist and former MSCA fellow Rui Rodrigues, shares the doubts, turning points, and hard-won lessons from his journey in science 🔬
Read his letter: https://link.europa.eu/TycTdN
@fluffy
Now I’m wondering also about music videos, platforms like YouTube & Peertube, and a Canimus bridge or similar 🤔
@inpc @elsemusic
One day, agriculture will understand that it's not the soil, but the organisms living in the soil, that feed the plant.
When this happens, we'll finally realize we have to stop feeding plants with fertilizers.
Instead, we will start feeding the soil organisms.
And the funny thing: we don’t really need to do that.
Because plants already do it automatically — exchanging up to 40% of their own food with soil life.
For anyone who still believes we live in a democracy...
SWR HandwerksKunst
Wie man ein Akkordeon baut
Noch 40 Mitarbeiter:innen hat die älteste Akkordeonmanufaktur der Welt. Sie stellen die vielen Einzelteile des Instruments sorgsam her. Genauigkeit ist dabei gefragt und dazu braucht es langjährige Erfahrung.
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#akkordeon #instrumentdesjahres #handwerkskunst
@eff
Still gonna be advocating for the use of Signal as a new current standard.
Until something better comes along. I’m personally rooting for SimpleX Chat and Matrix for this, due to the decentralised nature of both. I’m pretty sure SimpleX can be considered decentralised since you can change server in the settings.
floating point is weird
Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/floating-point-weird
@eff Both companies control the client applications, the operating systems, and are required by multiple jurisdictions to run client side scanning.
Never be fooled by transport encryption, even if it is end-to-end.
With the arrival of https://www.subvert.fm the list of artist-driven music platforms has become even longer. Managing a presence across all these platforms is, if not a full time job, at least a full-time distraction from actually creating music.
Perhaps what we need is to agree on an API that makes artist music data available across all these platforms and on personal sites?
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@Em0nM4stodon
Step 1: Do not take extra steps to collect data you do not need
Step 2: Remove data you collected that you no longer need
Step 3: Manipulate the data you do need so it only contains what you do need, and not what you don't.
Gràcies per la #donació rebuda! ✅👏🏼
Johnimandering: when judges ignore the law and make racist, partisan election rulings confirming they have hoods matching their robes
see also: #JohnCrow
#USSupremeCourt #Callais #RhymesWithKKK
#USpol #VotingRights #EqualRights #VRA #JohnLewisVotingRightsAct
The changing make-up of #Eurovision song topics.
Red is love, and its share has been collapsing in the last decade.
Find out more at https://puntofisso.net/eurovision
@pathunstrom Pew's stance on it (at this time at least) is at least pretty reasonable https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/05/12/qa-do-ai-and-bogus-respondents-threaten-pollings-future/
save lives ride longer
"We were taught what to think - not how. There is a difference, you know."
Black, Daniel (2022). Don't Cry for Me.
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