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.

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.

What kind of collective action are you thinking of?

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

Tuwunel had intentions to build a Synapse migration tool, but I haven’t heard anything about it since. Was waiting for it so I could bring over profiles and most importantly chat history for myself and my family.

Sweet, perhaps it will run better than Whisper (according to the graphs at least) on my poor phone as voice input method. Whisper works great if I give it 20-30s to think :)

Ah yes my favorite Country, the European Union.

Enjoyed the article but augh that sticky banner at the top that follows as I scroll took up 30% of my reading space. Gave up halfway through to enable reader mode on Firefox mobile…

Bravo la France ! Here’s to hoping more cities follow suit :)