The commentaries and analysis of those unjust laws continues. The motives behind the people pushing for them are getting clearer and it isn't pretty.

This is definitely a disturbing result. It indeed makes democracies more fragile, all the more reason to build more democratic resilience.

Interesting model for bringing architectural and organisational changes. This is indeed at least in part political games... so you need some political capital to spend.

What could possibly go wrong? This is really a weird appointment.

This planned giant data center by Meta shows how the big players are grabbing land to satisfy their hubris. So much waste all around.

There's clearly a regulation gap for satellites. We've been putting way too many of them in orbit the past decade and it's currently going to accelerate. This jeopardizes the night sky, astronomy and the possibility of space exploration. Clearly we're making the wrong choices here.

The previous piece about the disagreement with Cory Doctorow was a good one even though I didn't put it in my review. This one is more important though! It's a necessary reminder that we can't put allies on a pedestal and then scream at them making mistakes or having different opinions. We can't afford this kind of purity culture... Especially right now.

Interesting lessons indeed. Especially the first one: "Technology is inherently political, and anyone telling you otherwise is trying to hide their politics." As tech people we too often forget this is all "sociotechnical", no tech is designed and used in a vacuum.

Indeed, don't assume they misunderstood the sci-fi and fantasy they read and you know. Clearly they just got different opinions about it because their incentives and world views are different from your.

There's really a problem with journalism at this point. How come when covering the tech moguls they keep leaving out important context and taking their fables at face value?

Despite clearly being an advertisement for Proton's offering, this shows how reliant European companies are on vendors showing strategic problems. We can cheer at the EU policies when they go in the right direction. It's probably not enough already, but the European companies are clearly asleep at the wheel.

What a surprise... No really who would have expected this could happen? I heard so many times "I have nothing to hide" over the years. When something like this happens you suddenly wish you were a bit more careful with your privacy and the privacy of the people around you.

Need inspiration for your answer to the European Commission call for evidence on open source? This is a good one.

Clearly the regulators don't really understand the level of intrusiveness they're unleashing with mandating age gates. This is one more layer of surveillance for large parts of the population.

They'll do anything to further their grip on tech. The European Union is sleep walking on this one.

Go and get your voice heard! This is important matter, especially if you're interested in Free Software.

Email encryption is indeed still an open issue. There's no fix in sight for it. It's mostly a lack of political will though, so none of the big players are going to change anything.

Probably one of the most important talks of 39C3. It's a powerful call to action for the European Union to wake up and do the right thing to ensure digital sovereignty for itself and everyone else in the world. The time is definitely right due to the unexpected allies to be found along the way. It'd be a way to turn the currently bad geopolitical landscape into a bunch of positive opportunities.

Looks like Europe is finally waking up. It needs to pick up the pace now.

Interesting research. Can it give insights on the pervasive views of the time?