How to design a GDPR-compliant cookie banner:

- Have a 'reject all' button that is as easy to press as the buttons that grant consent.
- Test your site with no consent for user tracking.
- Realise that all of the tracking bits are unrelated to site functionality.
- Remove them.
- Remove the cookie banner.

OK now that could be a very fitting printer for your MNT Reform series computer :D https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer

only nit: license is CC BY-NC-SA (non commercial), so not open hardware in the sense that someone else could build on top of this work + sell it

🇪🇺#ChatControl 👁️ threatens secure messengers: Signal 💬 & WhatsApp could be shut down in the EU 🇪🇺 & you'll lose all your contacts! 🛑

🔗 https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/digitales/signal-app-rueckzug-europa-100.html (Article in German)

Say NO to #ChatControl and call now to protest: ✊

👉 https://fightchatcontrol.eu

🇮🇹Il #ChatControl 👁️ minaccia le app di messaggistica sicura. Signal 💬 & WhatsApp potrebbero essere chiusi nell'UE 🇪🇺 e perderai tutti i tuoi contatti! 🛑

🔗 https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/digitales/signal-app-rueckzug-europa-100.html (tedesco)

Dì NO al #ControlloChat e protesta ora: ✊

👉 https://fightchatcontrol.eu

Google being clear that, if you want to distribute an app for Android, whether via another store (such as F-Droid) or just for side loading, you will need to register with Google.

Time to push harder against this restriction.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets-talk-security-answering-your-top.html

#Android #FDroid

Join & create SimpleX groups!

The directory can now be viewed on our website: https://simplex.chat/directory

Am KDE-pilled now. I didn't realize just how customizable it is, bet I'll spend this whole week just looking through and customizing stuff.

Funnily enough Juxtopposed's video helped me open my eyes to the scale of customization of KDE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prG9xFkvlNg

#KDE

While classic cleartext email providers, also Thunderbird with its Thundermail efforts, are aiming to be a more trustworthy alternative to Gmail/calendar/drive etc ...

#deltachat and #chatmail efforts go all-in on end-to-end encryption and metadata minimization, with decentralized transport relays playing much lesser roles than #Signal's Amazon/Microsoft/Google servers. At the same time, #webxdc apps provide unprecedented extensibility, eg checkout the great TOTP app https://webxdc.org/apps/#rtn-totp

It's going well at Whatsapp it seems:

https://techpolicy.press/breaking-down-the-whatsapp-whistleblower-lawsuit

https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/my-family-and-i-got-hacked-through-whatsapp-please-read/15454

https://cybersecuritynews.com/whatsapp-0-click-vulnerability-exploited/

https://www.whatsapp.com/security/advisories/2025?lang=en_US

#signal #whatsapp #XMPP #deltachat

UK Gov Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

Currently at 2,632,577 signatures and rising fast

Which countries in Europe already have a digital ID cards? https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/09/30/which-countries-in-europe-already-have-a-digital-id-cards

"Why does windows auto update"

This Is why

🇮🇹🚨 NOTIZIA ENORME: il voto su #ChatControl è stato rimandato! 🎉 Le proteste funzionano! https://x.com/SeppTyvaert/status/1973788987442803023

Ma è solo un rinvio. Molti governi indecisi. ⏰ Dite al VOSTRO di unirsi e votare NO! https://fightchatcontrol.eu 🔐💪

🇪🇺🚨 HUGE NEWS: #ChatControl vote reportedly to be postponed (unconfirmed) because there is no majority yet! 🎉 Our protests are working! https://x.com/SeppTyvaert/status/1973788987442803023

But it's just a delay. Many governments are still undecided. [UPDATE] Germany could reportedly decide Tuesday to make a majority for #ChatControl. ⏰ Tell YOUR GOVERNMENT to join the resistance now and vote NO for good! https://fightchatcontrol.eu 🔐💪

🤖 Italy has updated its copyright law to address the surge of AI!

In our latest blog post, COMMUNIA member Deborah De Angelis summarises the two main changes:

1. a clarification that only works of human authorship qualify for copyright protection, and

2. a confirmation of the application of the exceptions for text and data mining to AI training.

Read Deborah's post now:

https://communia-association.org/2025/10/01/italy-updates-its-copyright-law-to-address-ai/

🇮🇹Un segnale forte dalla Slovenia! Il governo rifiuta il #ChatControl dopo le proteste del Partito Pirata e di altri. I diritti fondamentali vincono sulla mania di sorveglianza.

Quando seguirà l'Italia? La lotta non è finita! #Mancano12Giorni

https://n1info-si.translate.goog/novice/slovenija/slovenija-vendarle-sprejela-odlocitev-o-uredbi-chat-control/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

🇪🇺A strong signal from Slovenia! The government rejects #ChatControl following protests from the Pirate Party and others. A victory for fundamental rights over surveillance mania.

When will Germany/Italy follow suit? The fight isn't over! #12DaysLeft

https://n1info-si.translate.goog/novice/slovenija/slovenija-vendarle-sprejela-odlocitev-o-uredbi-chat-control/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/germany-chat-control.pdf

🇮🇹L'Interno 🇩🇪 spinge la coalizione 🇩🇪 al "sì" sul #ChatControl martedì, con un emendamento-farsa per la maggioranza in Consiglio. È un trucco! https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#danishproposal

Agite ORA e mettete pressione sul VOSTRO governo: https://fightchatcontrol.eu

🇪🇺Germany's Interior Ministry is pushing a sham amendment to bully the 🇩🇪 coalition into approving #ChatControl on Tuesday - securing a Council majority. Total trick: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#danishproposal

Act NOW and ramp up the heat on YOUR government: https://fightchatcontrol.eu