Tommaso Gagliardoni

🇪🇺⚠️ A perfidious trick? The EU Council Presidency wants to introduce mandatory #ChatControl through the backdoor 🚪: An Art. 4 amendment would MANDATE "all appropriate risk mitigation measures," including scanning, enforced with sanctions! 😡 […]

You will be SHOCKED to know that a NONZERO number of Italian politicians replied to the letters I sent by post last month last month to speak up against ChatControl!

https://gagliardoni.net/#20251106_chatcontrol_butti

#chatcontrol #privacy #eu #italy #politics

Great article by F-Droid on "What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading".

https://f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloading.html

A few excerpts:

> It bears reminding that “sideload” is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing” [...] the term “sideload” […]

Ah, the joys of calling my ISP's support number to complain that the new fiber modem they sent me is as configurable as a tamagotchi, and spending 15 minutes at the phone with the operator trying to let her understand that, yes, I have already tried clicking on the top white bar of my browser […]

@jtb I and most of my contacts were. I guess it depends on your geographic area.

Today's AWS debacle is the perfect example of the reason why in the last few years I started to be less enthusiastic about Signal, and more oriented to federated or even P2P solutions like XMPP and Jami. I wrote about it already:

https://gagliardoni.net/#im_battle_2025

Signal was down for few […]

Ah, the joys of half of the internet relying on AWS because "Cloud". Among too many other things, also Signal is down.

https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115405436746725236

#aws #amazon #outage #cloud #down #signal

Two command line screenshot stacked above each other. The first one is from Gemini 2.5 saying: "Given your 6.8 kernel, your losetup version (from the util-linux package) almost certainly supports the --discard flag.". The second one is from a bash shell with the commands: "sudo losetup --discard -f --show file.img losetup: unrecognized option '--discard' Try 'losetup --help' for more information. "

Here is my morning trying to convince Gemini that, no, the --discard option in Debian's losetup is pure hallucination.

#ai #ml #hallucination #linux #debian #opensource #google #gemini

@hllizi it's many different obstacles, to name three: the fact that most apps people use are deeply integrated in the Play Store, the fact that AOSP security patches are released by a Google team, and too many binary blobs. But, in general, it's really the Android model that sucks. The whole […]

The FSF has shared details on the #Librephone project:

Announcement: https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project

Website: https://librephone.fsf.org/

FAQ: https://librephone.fsf.org/FAQ.html

Documentation: https://librephone.fsf.org/site/

And you can join an IRC channel at […]

Some big news regarding mobile OSes:

First, Graphene OS has confirmed a partnership with a large OEM to bring support to non-Pixel devices (Snapdragon SoC):

https://piunikaweb.com/2025/10/13/grapheneos-ending-pixel-exclusivity-new-oem/

This is good news, but IMHO it only delays the […]

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/115343246885448739

Rumors that the fediverse can't do mobile identity have been greatly exaggerated: #FEP_1580 is now in draft status - https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/1580/fep-1580.md

This is a proposal for how to migrate all your […]

Stop calling it "sideloading". Call it "installing" instead, as it should be.

If you're "installing" from the Play Store, call it "Googleloading" instead.

Word choice is important. Make the legislators understand what's going on here.

#google #android #aosp #politics #enshittification […]

New Paper Finds That When You Reward AI for Success on Social Media, It Becomes Increasingly Sociopathic "When LLMs compete for social media likes, they start making things up." The post New Paper Finds That When You Reward AI for Success on Social Media, It Becomes Increasingly Sociopathic appeared first on Futurism.

New Paper Finds That When You Reward AI for Success on Social Media, It Becomes Increasingly Sociopathic https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-models-social-media-research

May whoever invented the "We sent a one-time login code to your registered email address" login method find a little dog turd in their sandwich.

#security #hacking #curse #rage #compliance #humor #annoying #email #authentication

Finally some good news! I feel I really needed them!

> We are finally able to write with good news! The Member States could not find a consensus in their meeting today, and the planned vote to approve a chat control regulation has been removed from next week's agenda of the ministers of home […]

Verhandlungen zu „Chatkontrolle“ vorerst gescheitert

🇪🇺 EU diplomats discussed #ChatControl today. Result: No majority, so the vote planned for next week will be called off. https://orf.at/stories/3407810/
A huge success in our fight for freedom!🎉💪
Next goal: No suspicionless scanning, not even on a voluntary basis!

Texttafel mit folgendem Inhalt: Dr. Stefanie Hubig, Bundesministerin der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz, anlässlich politischer Diskussionen über Privatsphäre im digitalen Raum und über einen Vorschlag für eine EU-Verordnung zur Prävention und Bekämpfung des sexuellen Missbrauchs von „Anlasslose Chatkontrolle muss in einem Rechtsstaat tabu sein. Private Kommunikation darf nie unter Generalverdacht stehen.“ Datum: 08. Oktober 2025

🇩🇪Klare Ansage jetzt auch der Bundesjustizministerin: „Anlasslose #Chatkontrolle muss in einem Rechtsstaat tabu sein.“ Private Kommunikation dürfe nicht unter Generalverdacht stehen. "Solchen Vorschlägen wird Deutschland auf EU-Ebene nicht zustimmen." […]

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🇪🇺Germany's Minister of Justice today: "Suspicionless #ChatControl must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law." Private communication cannot be placed under general suspicion. "Germany will not agree to such proposals at the EU level." […]

🇮🇹Un messaggio chiaro dalla Ministra della Giustizia tedesca: « Il #ChatControl indiscriminato deve essere un tabù in uno Stato di diritto. » La comunicazione privata non può essere soggetta a un sospetto generalizzato. « La Germania non approverà tali proposte a livello UE. »

@jerry 100% this, I moved all my domains away from Gandi since it went south.

Not to Porkbun though, but to EU-based registrars instead 😛

Managed Mastodon

We appreciate that certain politicians have recently admitted their naivete in entrusting the voices of their governments to corporate / for-profit social media.

To these politicians, we say: https://joinmastodon.org/hosting

Anyone involved in the program committee or community of the International Journalism Festival? I would like to propose something but I have a few questions.

#IJF #ijf26 #ijf2026 #ijf26speaker #journalism #internationaljournalismfestival #festivalinternazionaledelgiornalismo

It looks like it started 3 days ago on Nightly even:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1nxmrec/firefox_nightly_for_android_keeps_asking_to_open/

@mozilla

What's going on with Firefox Beta on Android? Tonight my Fenix installed through Obtainium on my de-googled Graphene OS did an update, and since then I cannot open it anymore. The crash log contains an ominous:

> Caused by: com.google.android.play.core.review.ReviewException: -1: Review […]

🇩🇪🚨 Etappensieg unseres Protests🎉 Abstimmung zur #Chatkontrolle wird angeblich auf Dez. verschoben – weil 🇩🇪 zögert! https://x.com/SeppTyvaert/status/1973788987442803023

Aber SPD & Union verhandeln ständig. ⏰ Hilf jetzt ihnen ein NEIN zur #Chatkontrolle abzuringen: https://fightchatcontrol.de 🔐💪

A map of Europe titled "Help Stop #ChatControl!" shows countries color-coded by their government's stance on Chat Control in 2025. The legend indicates: green for "Not in Favour," blue for "Undecided," and red for "In Favour." Countries in favour (red) are: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Malta, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden. Countries not in favour (green) are: Austria, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Countries undecided (blue) are: Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Romania. The map includes the text "Is your government opposing it yet?" and a call to action at the bottom: "Act now! www.chatcontrol.eu".

🇪🇺🚨 HUGE NEWS: #ChatControl vote reportedly to be postponed (unconfirmed)! 🎉 Our protests are working! https://x.com/SeppTyvaert/status/1973788987442803023

But it's just a delay. Many governments are still undecided. ⏰ Tell YOURS to join the resistance […]

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Una mappa dell'Europa intitolata « Aiuta a fermare #ChatControl! » mostra i paesi colorati in base alla posizione del loro governo sul #ChatControl nel 2025. La legenda spiega: verde per « Contro », blu per « Indecisi » e rosso per « A favore ». I paesi a favore (in rosso) sono: Bulgaria, Croazia, Cipro, Danimarca, Francia, Ungheria, Irlanda, Lituania, Malta, Portogallo, Spagna e Svezia. I paesi contrari (in verde) sono: Austria, Repubblica Ceca, Estonia, Finlandia, Lussemburgo, Paesi Bassi, Polonia, Slovacchia e Slovenia. I paesi indecisi (in blu) sono: Belgio, Germania, Grecia, Italia, Lettonia, Romania. La mappa include il testo « Il vostro governo si oppone già? » e un invito all'azione in basso: « Agisci ora! www.chatcontrol.eu ».

🇮🇹🚨 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 🔐💪

Questa storia di Google che vuole bloccare lo store di app open source F-Droid mi ricorda quanto sia fragile la libertà digitale.

Il rischio è la fine degli store alternativi e la consegna del controllo delle app open source nelle sole mani di Google.

Non lasciamo che un’unica azienda decida […]

I just received this update on ChatControl from @carmelatroncoso @bpreneel @cascremers and Anja Lehmann:

> Here is a new update. As you might know, there is no consensus still on the Chat Control regulation. The next two weeks are crucial. On October 8th there will be a non-public meeting where […]