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https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-countries-reject-epp-proposed-amendments-deforestation-rules-trade-environmental-law/
EU countries reject Parliament’s proposal to gut deforestation rules
The decision is a slap in the face to the center-right European People’s Party, which proposed the changes.Louise Guillot (POLITICO)
📣 Attention all custom ROM users and advocates for digital rights! 📣
Google's Play Integrity is limiting access to certain functionalities and applications for those using custom operating systems. This is a direct attack on the open-source community and a step towards further consolidating Google's monopoly in the mobile ecosystem.
The European Commission is aware of the situation, but has deemed it a low priority: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PETI-CM-757267_EN.pdf
It's time for us to take action and show Google and the EU how much we care about this issue! 💥
Sign the petition now to stop Google from limiting access to custom ROMs: https://www.change.org/p/stop-google-from-limiting-custom-roms
#StopGoogleMonopoly #CustomROMs #DigitalRights #OpenSource #PlayIntegrity #Google #deGoogle #privacy #right2repair #rightorepair #r2r #EU
Let's unite and fight for our right to use and develop custom operating systems! 💪
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/parties-gutting-eudr-received-donations-from-companies-tied-to-illegal-deforestation-report/
Parties gutting EUDR received donations from companies tied to illegal deforestation: Report
Parties members of the European People’s Party (EPP), a large center-right political party, received political donations from influential companies linked to illegal deforestation and which are likely to benefit from changes to a key EU forest protec…Latoya Abulu (Conservation news)
#News: #COP16's great promise concluded in confusion. Experts pointed to a lack of leadership from #EU, China, #Canada and #Australia to arrest the #biodiversity crisis. One watershed moment was the inclusion of #indigenous representation in the UN's biodiversity process. Consensus in decision-making was weak and inadequate #ClimateActionNow #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife
Cop16 ends in disarray and indecision despite biodiversity breakthroughs
Conservation summit agrees to global levy on drugs from nature’s genetics, but developing nations furious at unmet funding promisesPatrick Greenfield (The Guardian)
Paraquat: Banned in EU, Destroying Lives of Palm Oil Workers in Indonesia
The dangerous pesticide Paraquat is banned in the EU however continues to destroy the lives of palm oil plantation workers in Indonesia. Read this story below originally published in Geographic Mag…Palm Oil Detectives
NGOs push EU to label Sarawak as ‘high risk’ source of timber, palm oil
A coalition of Indigenous and human rights groups are hoping new European Union trade regulations could help pressure timber and oil palm industries in Malaysia’s Sarawak state into respecting Indigenous land rights and implementing better land-use c…Isabel Esterman (Conservation news)
Paraquat: Banned in EU, Destroying Lives of Palm Oil Workers in Indonesia
The dangerous pesticide Paraquat is banned in the EU however continues to destroy the lives of palm oil plantation workers in Indonesia. Read this story below originally published in Geographic Mag…Palm Oil Detectives
#Paraquat #pesticide is deadly and causes respiratory illnesses, #Parkinsons #disease. It's banned in the #EU yet used in #Indonesian #palmoil. Palm oil workers are paying with their lives #Boycottpalmoil #humanrights @geographicalmag @palmoildetect
Paraquat: Banned in EU, Destroying Lives of Palm Oil Workers in Indonesia
The dangerous pesticide Paraquat is banned in the EU however continues to destroy the lives of palm oil plantation workers in Indonesia. Read this story below originally published in Geographic Mag…Palm Oil Detectives
https://sei.org/features/eu27-countries-in-the-spotlight-for-deforestation-exposure/
EU27 countries in the spotlight for deforestation exposure | SEI
EU imports of cocoa and palm oil drive major global deforestation, new Trase research shows.Stockholm Environment Institute
Paraquat: banned in Europe, on sale in Indonesia - Geographical
The dangerous pesticides destroying the lives of palm oil plantation workers in BorneoGeographical Contributor (Geographical)
Preserving competition is essential to foster innovation.
Today we have informed Microsoft of our preliminary view that it has breached EU antitrust rules by tying Teams to its popular productivity applications included in its suites for businesses, Office 365 and Microsoft 365.
Our preliminary findings indicate that the changes made by Microsoft since July 2023 are insufficient to address our concerns and more changes are necessary to restore competition.
More: https://europa.eu/!VB8t7t
#EU
#FediBlock snarfed.org and brid.gy for bridging fediverse folks to Bluesky against their will (and in likely contravention of GDPR in the EU) with typical Silicon Valley techbro sense of entitlement:
“[O]pt in results in far fewer users, and users are critical for a bridge to be useful.”¹
Relevant GitHub issue: https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/835
¹ https://snarfed.org/2023-11-27_re-introducing-bridgy-fed
HT @homegrown
#bridgy #snarfed #fediverse #mastodon #bluesky #bridging #optOut #optIn #consent #gdpr #eu #SiliconValley #techbros
Opt-out is a terrible default and should be reconsidered · Issue #835 · snarfed/bridgy-fed
It should be pretty obvious that a decentralized network that many use specifically to not be connected to centralized networks houses mostly people who do not wish to have their posts bridged to B...GitHub
Pornhub, Stripchat, XVideos
Today, we designated them as very large online platforms as they meet the user thresholds for stricter #DSA obligations.
It will allow for higher scrutiny and accountability of their algorithms and processes.
The Digital Services Act is here to ensure technology respects the fundamental rights of European citizens.
We will continue to designate platforms that meet the thresholds and ensure they comply with their DSA obligations.
More: https://europa.eu/!p3FJ7t
#EU
😂 Perfect when dictator Elon Musk will remove his terrible Twitter from the European market 👍
Please Elon remove also all your garbage satellites which are crossing and polluting the space above Europe
Best would be also when you stop selling your Tesla cars in Europe
Elon 🤷🏻♀️ we do not need a dictator like you so please take everything with you and go far away
#DictatorMusk #InsaneMusk #Twitter #BoycottMusk #BoycottTesla #BoycottTwitter #DangerousMusk #Europe #EU
4opens
The #4Opens The #dotcons can not be fixed. The #fashionistas who keep flocking to new “ethical-ish” ones are a problem, not a solution. The #4opens are a simple way to judge the value of an “alt/grassroots” tech project.Open Media Network
openwebgovernancebody
(OGB) This is a space for working through Governance of horizontal projects - using #KISS online tools.Open Media Network
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The #4Opens The #dotcons can not be fixed. The #fashionistas who keep flocking to new “ethical-ish” ones are a problem, not a solution. The #4opens are a simple way to judge the value of an “alt/grassroots” tech project.Open Media Network
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Three Challenges to Contribute Back to Open Source
Let’s strengthen the Open Source ecosystem together! The Sovereign Tech Fund is looking for developers who use open source and want to contribute back to it.sovereigntechfund.de
Unfortunately due to an upcoming #furlough, I will need to look for other work (full-time or otherwise). If you or someone you know need a senior #frontend / full-stack dev, in #EU (I live in Finland, remote work), please boost, ping, slide into DMs or email me (in CV).
I put together an image with some tech. info and what I do in my free time, CV posted below with link as well. Requirements and preferences in 🧵
https://joshuastrobl.com/CV.pdf
Boosts greatly appreciated ❤️
this is indeed hopless #fahernista wobbly gook, more composting needed - what happened to our #openweb outreach to the EU https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/eu-outreach-if-we-dont-tell-our-story-am-not-sure-who-will/2950
EU outreach - If we dont tell our story am not sure who will
This needs links and examples adding, feel free to edit and change, thanks. The #openweb has become an integral part of our daily lives, with almost every aspect of our existence now touched by it.SocialHub
Could all of you lovely people having EU citizenship please sign this European Citizen Initiative? 🥺🚄✨
https://europa.eu/citizens-initiative/select-language?destination=/initiatives/details/2023/000004
# that itself came out of the outreaching #activitypub to the #EU, which a group of people organized.
What would a fediverse "governance" body look like?
This reply is related to an off-topic comment in What would an ideal fediverse organization do? A formal organization can have a variety of structures and you can assign roles and power in a variety of ways.SocialHub
this is huge https://www.publicmediaalliance.org/public-broadcasters-create-public-spaces-incubator/
#eu #ca #activitypub #fediverse
Public broadcasters create "Public Spaces Incubator" - Public Media Alliance
Four public broadcasters are partnering to develop solutions to address increasingly toxic, polarized and unsafe online discourse.Harry Lock (Public Media Alliance)
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/if-we-dont-tell-our-story-am-not-soure-who-will/2950 Draft story about our #EU outreach, please edit and add links, thanks.
If we dont tell our story am not sure who will
Draft story about our #EU outreach, please edit and add links, thanks. #Mastodon is a free, #4opens, decentralized microblogging platform that is part of the #Fediverse. Something about https://socialhub.activitypub.SocialHub
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/search?expanded=true&q=EU+workshop
Search results for 'EU workshop' - SocialHub
Where ActivityPub developers coordinate their efforts to make the Fediverse a great space for cooperationsocialhub.activitypub.rocks
The @EU_Commission
has 71k followers on #mastodon. They have 1.7 million followers on Twitter.
The same post got:
363 boosts on Mastodon
110 retweets on Twitter
So the same message got 3 times as many engagements on the #openweb
We really need to celebrate that a group of grassroots #4opens activists got the #EU to use #fediverse #openweb apps. This shows where the value comes from, good to link to this thanks
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/search?expanded=true&q=EU+workshop
Search results for 'EU workshop' - SocialHub
Where ActivityPub developers coordinate their efforts to make the Fediverse a great space for cooperationsocialhub.activitypub.rocks
Also Microsoft folks: …
(Hey @EU_Commission, mind forwarding this to @EC_Commissioner_Vestager for me? She doesn’t seem to be active here but something tells me this might interest her.)
#competition #antitrust #eu #microsoft #edge #bing #mozilla #firefox
Aren’t we lucky that some guy in Germany decided to spend his own time, money, and effort to build it?
Hopefully we’ll get lucky again…
Or, you know, maybe we can finally consider supporting tech that’s in the common good from the common purse. And fund organisations and long-term development, not just ad-hoc academic “projects” that get abandoned the moment the money is gone.
https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/
#funding #tech #eu #commons
The Future of Internet Regulation at the European Parliament
A brief write-up of my talk at the EU Parliament last week with embedded videos of my talk and a link to my slides.Aral Balkan