Leaving mainstream social media immediately improves the quality of the posters you interact with

🇪🇺✅ SUCCESS: We've prevented mandatory #ChatControl through the back door!🎉 A big win & THANKS to everyone! 🙏

But ⚠️: Anonymity-breaking age checks & "voluntary" mass scanning are still planned. The fight continues next year!

https://chatcontrol.eu

Our users asked many questions about Chat Control, as discussions were restarted in the EU this week.

SimpleX Chat is an open-source app where users control the code and the servers they use.

Therefore it is impossible to implement any client-side scanning, and it will not happen. (1/2)

If the law is passed, two options are possible:

- we might need to stop offering preset servers to the EU users.

- we will not need to change anything - this is the most likely outcome.

Our operations are always consistent with our Privacy Policy (https://simplex.chat/privacy), and we would rather shut down than do anything that contradicts this agreement with our users. (2/2)

The Linux circlejerk has a "Great Man/Company theory" problem.

Every time there is an issue, they all go around clinging to the one company that "finally" will put some resources into fixing them. Endlessly hyping them up and elevating them to a deity status.

It happened with Canonical in the past and how it was "single handedly fixing GNOME".

More recently its Valve and how "they have graced us with gaming and fixing Wayland"

Like sure I appreciate everyone, but its a team effort you know.

What happened to modern software...

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#ai #technology #aislop #aiart

Learning about cloudflare outages through fedi because I don't use any cloudflare services.

Down detector is down. Truly the end of times

Our Founder, @Gargron@mastodon.social is stepping down from his position as CEO. He shared a reflection on his time building and growing Mastodon on our blog.

We want to take a moment to express the Mastodon team’s deep gratitude and admiration for Eugen, and for the technology and community he has built here. We’re thrilled he’s staying on in an advisory capacity.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

Link: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963949

Alle 3:48 PT, l'azienda ha rilasciato una dichiarazione sulla sua pagina sullo stato del sistema, affermando di essere a conoscenza del problema. "Cloudflare è a conoscenza e sta indagando su un problema che riguarda diversi clienti: errori 500 diffusi, Dashboard e API di Cloudflare non funzionanti", ha affermato. "Stiamo lavorando per comprendere appieno l'impatto e mitigare il problema. Ulteriori aggiornamenti seguiranno a breve".

@informatica

#Mastodon, il social network decentralizzato che ha sfidato #X durante il caos dell'era #Musk, sta affrontando la sua più grande trasformazione dalla nascita. Il suo creatore e volto pubblico, Eugen Rochko, ha annunciato che lascerà il ruolo di CEO come parte di una profonda ristrutturazione che vedrà l'organizzazione trasformarsi in un ente #non-profit.

L'obiettivo di questa transizione è rendere Mastodon un'istituzione duratura e indipendente, slegata dal destino di un singolo leader e, soprattutto, a prova di miliardario. Rochko ha sottolineato come piattaforme come X, Threads e Facebook siano controllate da individui immensamente ricchi che possono influenzare il dibattito pubblico, mentre Mastodon, con la sua nuova natura non-profit (con sede legale in via di definizione in Belgio), vuole garantire un'alternativa libera da queste influenze.

https://www.hdblog.it/mercato/articoli/n638780/masotodn-ceo-dimissioni-riorganizzazione/

🇪🇺EU governments are removing #ChatControl from today's COREPER agenda because a majority has not yet been reached. For the reasons, see this leaked cable, especially regarding Spain's demand: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/LEWP-Meeting_12-November-2025.pdf

🇮🇹I governi dell’UE rimuovono il #ChatControl dall’ordine del giorno del COREPER di oggi perché non è ancora stata raggiunta una maggioranza. Per i motivi, vedi questo dispaccio trapelato, in particolare riguardo alla richiesta della Spagna: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/LEWP-Meeting_12-November-2025.pdf

🔐 From April 2026, only verified devices can send or receive end-to-end encrypted messages on Element.

This further ensures you can trust every message and stay protected from potential malicious activity, following the Matrix spec update announced at #MatrixConf2025.

Prepare by reading the actions required! https://element.io/blog/verifying-your-devices-is-becoming-mandatory-2/

RE: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115575997104456188

European News outlets continue their campaign aimed at smearing GrapheneOS, first the Spanish and now the French.

The latter suspiciously quiet on their low privacy and low security government funded offerings.

Read more below the break.