🇪🇺Misleading headlines: #ChatControl is not dead, it is being privatized! 🚨

EU governments voted today for:

🔍 Warrantless mass surveillance

🆔 Mandatory ID for everyone (End of anonymity)

🚫 Digital house arrest for teens

The fight continues! 👇 https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/reality-check-eu-council-chat-control-vote-is-not-a-retreat-but-a-green-light-for-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance-and-the-end-of-right-to-communicate-anonymously/

🇮🇹Titoli fuorvianti: Il #ChatControl non è morto, è privatizzato! 🚨

L'UE vota per:

🔍 Sorveglianza di massa senza mandato

🆔 Identificazione per tutti (Fine anonimato)

🚫 "Arresti domiciliari digitali" per teenager

La lotta continua! 👇 https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/reality-check-eu-council-chat-control-vote-is-not-a-retreat-but-a-green-light-for-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance-and-the-end-of-right-to-communicate-anonymously/

not a bubble btw

The importance of appropriately putting emphasis on a subject avoids misplacing blame towards groups that have no control over a given situation. For example:

"Wayland has a lot of compatibility issues with XYZ"

This makes Wayland the subject of the sentence, thereby putting emphasis on it, which implies that Wayland is the culprit, and thus misplaces the blame on Wayland.

Wayland has existed for over a decade. Several entities with a large amount of customers have actively sabotaged Wayland development by the lack of involvement, including and especially NVIDIA. Sure, these companies are now involved with the ecosystem, but for the longest time they have refused to properly support Wayland, worked against Wayland by implementing their own "solutions", or by doing absolutely nothing, which slowed down progress for so many years.

So the proper way to phrase this is "XYZ has a lot of compatibility issues with Wayland". This makes XYZ the subject and thus puts emphasis on that, rather than Wayland.

This is very similar to putting emphasis on Linux when making a statement about hardware compatibility: "Linux doesn't work well with XYZ" — no, likely XYZ doesn't work well with Linux, not the other way around. Most of the time, the hardware is the one at fault for not properly supporting the Linux drivers.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

I signed this petition ages ago, and wrote to my MP. I got an email today, informing me that it will be debated in the UK parliament on 15 December 2025.

Specifically, the petition demands that the Online Safety Act be abolished.

I don't expect much will happen. The government seems pretty hell-bent on destroying the internet.

But hey, maybe hell will freeze over in the best way possible, and they start respecting civil liberties again. Crazier things have happened.

AI Now Has Private Data / Regulation Bans / Online Identification

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/vAG1J7cQDgXSMKkAQ5HUS2

🇪🇺New EU Commission report dismantles voluntary #ChatControl 1.0, which they now want to make permanent:

"Insufficient data", high error rates & no proof of actual convictions. 🤯

Report: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52025DC0740

My comment: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-evaluation-report-eu-commission-again-fails-to-demonstrate-effectiveness-of-mass-surveillance-of-intimate-personal-photos-and-videos/

🇮🇹Il nuovo report della Commissione UE demolisce il #ChatControl volontario, che vogliono rendere permanente:

"Dati insufficienti", alti tassi di errore e nessuna prova che porti a condanne. 🤯

Report: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52025DC0740

Il mio commento: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-evaluation-report-eu-commission-again-fails-to-demonstrate-effectiveness-of-mass-surveillance-of-intimate-personal-photos-and-videos/

The thing to realize about Wayland is that noone is out to get you.



Most of the problems people have a knee jerk reaction about were either fixed in the past few years or are being actively worked on. Sometimes it takes a long time because people want to actually do it properly and not just do a quick hack, and that can involve some experimentation and failures before a good solution is settled on. Also creating standards that all major DEs and UI toolkits will agree on can be a challenge.



X11 was made in a time where you ran your software on a mainframe but ran the GUI on a separate computer, noone thought about security yet and hardware accelerated rendering wasn't a concern.

At this point it's a massive clusterfuck full of hacks that noone wants to maintain.

This is why Wayland exists, because people actually want to work on it, and they want to use the experience from the past to make something that works much better in the modern world, where your GUI apps run directly on your computer, want hardware acceleration, and you may want them to be sandboxed for security reasons.



There is XWayland for compatibility, with implementations ranging from being built into the compositor (KWin) to being a layer on top (xwayland-satellite).

I know at least one maintainer of a Wayland compositor that specifically only supports the latter approach because they don't want to deal with implementing any cursed X11 logic.

The future's so bright, i gotta wear shades 😎

#AI #OpenAI #AIBubble

NixOS 25.11 has been released! 🎉

https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2025/nixos-2511/

#NixOS #nixpkgs

Zio yapperone, quanto cazzo odio l'IA nei motori di ricerca che racconta vere e proprie stronzate almeno metà delle volte... 🤬



Devo installare una app in Termux, e la fottuta papera mi dice di installare un pacchetto che NON ESISTE, e io lo so già che non esiste, perché ho controllato per sicurezza prima... e perché, se fosse così semplice l'installazione, per quale razza di motivo io avrei dovuto fare la ricerca in primo luogo? Se ho cercato è perché ricordo che serve una procedura di merda mezza intricata (o, al minimo, scaricare degli eseguibili da qualche parte di esterno, che comunque aiutooo, che palle...); quasi più stupido dell'utente Termux medio, sto clanker.

Cioè, va bene pure sprecare risorse del pianeta per generare testo inutile e dannoso... ma almeno non fatemelo uscire sopra ai risultati veri e utili!!! 💣

I understand why some creators, including myself, don't leave #YouTube. However it's *vital* now more than ever to also make yourself a #PeerTube server. You need an accurate archive of your work that YOU control, even if no one watches it there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrwJgDHJJoE

​​ Decembah!

MKBHD is taking down his wallpaper app https://www.theverge.com/news/835090/mkbhd-panels-wallpaper-app-shutdown

My latest blog post: We don't love #PeerTube enough.

RE: https://gabe.rocks/tech/peertube-love/

@mntmn@mastodon.social from the IBM 1970s presentation everyone likes

AI Warning: Google has been caught A/B testing replacing real article headlines with AI-generated substitutes, which are of course sometimes wildly misleading/against journalistic ethics. If you see a blatantly horrible headline in a news aggregator, check whether the site's own page matches before blaming the site! https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/googles-toying-with-nonsense-ai-made-headlines-on-articles-like-ours-in-the-discover-feed-so-please-dont-blame-me-for-clickbait-like-bg3-players-exploit-children/

with or without AI, A/B testing as practiced by Silicon Valley is unethical. It ranges from quiet gaslighting to full-on Stanford prison experiments with no ethics board or informed consent.