🇪🇺The EU Commission seriously claims: "There is no such thing as #ChatControl.”

Their fantasy: A magic, 100% perfect algorithm that only finds CSAM.

The reality: To find anything, you must scan everything.

Stop the mass surveillance lie! #StopScanningMe

https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115180569539039179

Germany is AGAINST Chat Control as currently proposed!

This is a critical step, securing the blocking minority required to stop this illegal mass surveillance for now! However, the LEWP meeting is tomorrow: do not stop fighting!

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

Source: https://www.bundestag.de/presse/hib/kurzmeldungen-1108356

We have an official new announcement from #StopKillingGames!

See:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StopKillingGames/comments/1nfvxk1/campaign_update/

In summary:

- Verification of the ~1.45 million signatures are now underway. Early reports from several countries show ~97% valid signatures

- Signature verification will take ~3 months.

-The next phase is:

• Legislative outreach to Members of @europarl_en@respublicae.eu and the @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

• Countering misinformation and industry lobbying.

• Strengthening our community structures

- Expect more frequent updates

🇪🇺EU Commission on #ChatControl: "We just scan like a spam filter; your messages are still encrypted." It's a Trojan horse! 🐴 That's like someone reading your letter before it's placed in your mailbox!

EDRi mythbuster: https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Briefing-on-the-fundamental-differences-between-spam-malware-filters-and-CSA-detection-in-private-communications.pdf #StopScanningMe

Danish Minister of Justice and chief architect of the current Chat Control proposal, Peter Hummelgaard:

"We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone's civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services."

Share your thoughts via https://fightchatcontrol.eu/, or to jm@jm.dk directly.

Source: https://www.ft.dk/samling/20231/almdel/REU/spm/1426/index.htm

🇬🇧👍Estonia won't be approving #ChatControl either.

👎But Germany's vote on Oct. 14th is still up in the air, risk of a dangerous coalition compromise.

💪28 days left to increase the pressure on your government and defend digital privacy and security: https://chatcontrol.eu

Linux phones are more important now than ever

Link: https://feddit.org/post/18353777

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45256651

Despite the bad news with Germany, there is still some good news:

MEPs
🇨🇾 Fidias PANAYIOTOU
🇪🇸 Alvise PÉREZ
🇷🇴 Cristian TERHEŞ
🇸🇪 Abir AL-SAHLANI
🇸🇪 Emma WIESNER
🇵🇹 Bruno GONÇALVES
🇸🇰 Ľubica KARVAŠOVÁ
🇸🇰 Martin HOJSÍK
🇸🇰 Ľudovít ÓDOR
🇸🇰 Michal WIEZIK
🇸🇰 Lucia YAR
🇳🇱 Dirk GOTINK
🇩🇪 Jan-Peter WARNKE
🇧🇪 Sara MATTHIEU
🇸🇮 Irena JOVEVA
🇸🇮 Vladimir PREBILIČ
🇮🇹 Cristina GUARDA
🇮🇹 Benedetta SCUDERI
🇪🇪 Jana TOOM
🇩🇰 Morten LØKKEGAARD
🇸🇮 Matej TONIN
🇮🇪 Michael MCNAMARA

all OPPOSE Chat Control!

If you use an adblocker on YouTube, please click 'like' on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kDGWrm9P-U

I'm trying a small test on 2nd channel, want to see impact from a large desktop audience, as I've seen a 30-50% decline in views (without a drop in other metrics).

This is a Dystopian timeline: My wife was let go after 25 years working for the same bank this morning. In an apparent oops, the bank's IT department hard wiped ALL her IOS devices remotely, while she was on the road driving, relying on the GPS function.

The screw you cherry on top? Our apartment building in its infinite wisdom a couple years back switched all building locks to the Latch app.

So she was LOCKED OUT OF OUR HOUSE.

Oh, and the Latch maintained intercom at our front door is out of order.

Thanks for that. Sheesh.

I have never liked #Signal, being centralized is enough for me to consider it not an option at all, enshittification is bound to happen to any centralized service, and this doesn't sound good already:

"Signal just rolled out centralized backups, and the guy who announced it has quite the resume. Jim O'Leary, Signal's VP of Engineering since 2019, spent the previous eight years building surveillance infrastructure at Twitter and Facebook."

https://www.sambent.com/the-surveillance-architect-running-signal-engineering/

#decentralization is the way

liquid glass isn't bad because ew ew new ui no likey ew it's bad because of this:

thank god there’s just so much room for my content, in the phone call screen

#Mastodon , l'organizzazione no-profit che gestisce il software più usato nel #Fediverso, ha un nuovo piano per finanziarsi

Invece di affidarsi esclusivamente a donazioni e sovvenzioni come in precedenza, l'azienda ha annunciato che offrirà servizi di hosting, moderazione e supporto a pagamento per le organizzazioni che desiderano aderire al social web aperto.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/19/mastodon-has-a-new-plan-to-make-money-hosting-and-support-services-for-the-open-social-web/

@fediverso

Just leaving this here because it's interesting and fun https://github.com/UMSKT/UMSKT

🇩🇰 Stine BOSSE
🇩🇰 Asger CHRISTENSEN
🇩🇪 Tiemo WÖLKEN
🇩🇪 René REPASI
🇨🇿 Filip TUREK
🇪🇸 Ana MIRANDA PAZ
🇭🇺 Zsuzsanna BORVENDÉG

and all 🇫🇷 Rassemblement national MEPs OPPOSE Chat Control.

Windows 10 support ends on October 14.

Help the people around you continue to be protected by helping them switch to Linux. They don't need to go buy a new computer just because Microsoft made a decision for them.

Follow @Endof10@floss.social for success stories and resources for how to help people switch!

Learn more: https://endof10.org

#EndOf10 #Linux #OpenSource #Fedora

Stop Killing Games update - UK petition to see a debate Parliament
#StopKillingGames #Gaming #PCGaming

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/stop-killing-games-update-uk-petition-to-see-a-debate-parliament/

This site does considerably better than just asking "Is this the year of the Linux Desktop?".

It lists and breaks down the current status of major software support in Linux, so you can decide whether the switch is right for you at the current moment, as well as a guide to help you make an informed choice on distro and know what else you might be getting into.

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