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#News: #EU member states have rejected the European Parliament’s proposal, led by the far right European People’s Party (EPP), to water-down urgently needed anti-deforestation regulations #EUDR. Instead, they support the European Commission’s plan to delay the law’s implementation by one year with no alteration to the laws. #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-countries-reject-epp-proposed-amendments-deforestation-rules-trade-environmental-law/


📣 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! 💪


#News: The #EU Parliament has postponed #EUDR #Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) by 1 year despite calls from #ecology experts for strong action NOW. A new report by #Earthsight links political party #EPP with political donations from Mercedes Benz and #BMW, who import cow #leather from #Brazil for their cars. #corruption in EUDR's implementation abound and must be STOPPED! In the meatime, #indigenous, #animals and #forests suffer! #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/parties-gutting-eudr-received-donations-from-companies-tied-to-illegal-deforestation-report/


#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

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/03/cop16-ends-in-disarry-and-indecision-despite-biodiversity-breakthroughs


#Paraquat is a dangerous #pesticide 🤢 banned in #EU ⛔️and limited in #USA yet used widely in #Indonesia by #palmoil workers with grave #health impacts on (mainly) women 👩‍👧 and children workers #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🚫Story via @geographicalmag @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-8Bt


NGOs push EU to label Sarawak as ‘high risk’ source of timber, palm oil #EU #Sarawak #environment #forest #PalmOil #timber https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/ngos-push-eu-to-label-sarawak-as-high-risk-source-of-timber-palm-oil/


#Paraquat #pesticide is deadly and causes respiratory illnesses, #Parkinsons #disease. It's banned in the #EU yet used routinely in #Indonesian #palmoil. Palm oil workers are paying with their lives #Boycottpalmoil @palmoildetectives https://wp.me/pcFhgU-8Bt


#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

http://palmoildetectives.com/2024/07/17/paraquat-banned-in-eu-destroying-lives-of-palm-oil-workers-in-indonesia/


#News: On average #imports into the #EU of #palmoil #cocoa and other commodities were linked to 190,500 ha of rainforest #ecocide, 10 times the size of Brussels between 2019 - 2021 underscoring the need for strict EU laws and #EUDR regulations, report by SEI research
https://sei.org/features/eu27-countries-in-the-spotlight-for-deforestation-exposure/


#News: Paraquat is a dangerous #pesticide banned for decades in #EU but readily used in #Indonesia for #palmoil harvesting with severe #health impacts on the (mostly) women and children labourers #Boycottpalmoil https://geographical.co.uk/culture/paraquat-banned-in-europe-on-sale-in-indonesia Via Geographical Magazine


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

#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


#EU


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

#EU #dsa


a group of us did this for the #EU 2 years ago... it works.
#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









The EU has banned palm oil as a biofuel, but Indonesia is not giving up. The world’s largest palm oil producer uses diplomacy and strategy to defend its interests. Indonesia hopes to persuade the EU to reconsider its decision and respect its sustainable palm oil standards. #PalmOil #EU #Indonesia https://www.eurasiareview.com/02102023-palm-oil-banned-by-europe-indonesian-strategy-and-diplomacy-oped/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FArchetypes


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 ❤️

#mastodonjobs #jobsearch


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 #openweb


@bhaugen @Hamishcampbell
I worked with the guy who used to be behind the #NGIzero account, we did good stuff with the #EU outreach.

The replacement, I have no idea who they are and getting #blocking

This is a #4opens fail.


European countries have been doing it for years now. A lot of content (including RT) are already censored on #Twitter in #EU


The #OGB project came out of a thread https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/what-would-a-fediverse-governance-body-look-like/1497/152
# that itself came out of the outreaching #activitypub to the #EU, which a group of people organized.


I'm kinda pissed that @frameworkcomputer doesn't offer it around the globe where they already have logistics - i.e. #EU & #Germany...


If we don't tell our story, am not sure who will

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.
#EU


Nice to see replies, we really need to celebrate that a group of grassroots #4opens activist 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


Let's talk about engagement on the #fediverse:

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


Microsoft folks: we’re not evil.

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


Now imagine if Mastodon didn’t exist and this was happening.…

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

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