Right, I should have mentioned despite being French I live in Germany. Still, can’t hurt to join any demonstrations against this.

This is good… but partially admits defeat. It’s a good fallback though.

Money: yes Bodies: no thank you

How could I most effectively monetarily hurt politicians, who are specifically voting for chat control? I am already boycotting the US, but that’s a much bigger/easier target than specific parts of the French government.

Typo, meant to write “party” The French party against it that replied to me is le groupe des Verts/ALE. They will have my vote on the next election.

What can I, as a EU citizen, do to stop this? I already sent (handwritten) emails to my French representatives several times, but only got one response from a minority part^ that agrees.

Thank you.

This will be my first christmas since moving to Aachen, looking forward to it! Hope it’s not too crowded :)

Yeah, we use Windows servers primarily. Thankfully what I do doesn’t require much interaction with them, though every once in a while I am subjected to SMB file sharing.

My work self hosts Gitea because Forgejo doesn’t support Windows. While I agree with Forgejo’s decision, it sucks to be basically stuck with an old pre-fork version of the forge I self-host.

Outer Wilds! 🥲

Yet enforcing your copyright is exclusive to the rich. I had to move off of GitHub because of Microsoft infringing my code licenses and selling them as “GitHub Copilot”, and I have no way of fighting back/recover my losses.

I often have performance issues with Jitsi (“video has been turned off to save bandwidth”). Might this be down to which instance I use? Perhaps it’s time to self-host.

FUTO are the ones changing the meaning of words. The Open Source Definition has existed for a long time and clearly explains what it means. While Grayjay is “source available”, and that’s good, it definitely is not open source.

Grayjay is not open source though.

Interesting! Maybe it’s worth switching banks, at least once I get the courage to move to Linux mobile.

None of my banks (a couple French and Belgian ones) seem to support anything but auth via app. Can’t log in on my computer without my phone.

I’m personally really excited for Linux phones and want to move to one relatively soon. They’ve done amazing work on the experience of using them. What I’d really miss, based off of talking to folks and trying them at conventions, is:

• battery life. My Pixel 3a lasts over a day on Android, likely much less on pmOS
• UnifiedPush for notifications. I only see a Matrix client listed as WIP. Every other app (Fediverse, Signal) I would have to keep running in the background
• Notifications while in sleep mode. Looks like we don’t have “Doze Mode” from Android, so only calls & SMS work while asleep
• Fingerprint sensor. More of a QoL but I kept my phone model specifically for the ergonomics of the sensor on the back, and being able to scroll with it. Communication with the sensor is not yet figured out

What kind of collective action are you thinking of?

Cool! Hope it works out.

I did not enjoy finding out only at the end that the images in this blog post are generated/made using AI.