I look forward to participating in one of the more interesting #Competition policy and law conferences out there: the #ecforum Brussels in June. https://ecforum.eu/

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116651733534611734 It's great that the European Commission take another #DSA non-compliance decision. There is so much infringement of the law out there, this is very necessary. But a 200m EUR fine is laughable. That's worth less than a few […]

here's also the thing here: why does my smartphone not have an HDMI output. why can't I put it in a dock and use it as a desktop. why don't we have UEFI on smartphones and better drivers so you can run other OSes rather than just android. let me hack, damn it

How fast the #eu went from "We need to be independent from #trump and #bigtech" to Europe must "reclaim its place in the global race for geoeconomic power." https://www.ft.com/content/c05e152d-36e5-4446-a706-5f5fa5d98315 #digitalsovereignty

Today: cross-continental #train travel with @edri colleagues from #Brussels to #Warsaw via #Aachen and #Berlin. Don't you dare touching any trains today @evawolfangel#train🤪

A couple of weeks ago a woman who’d followed me on Instagram for 10 years happened to be in town and came to pay me a visit. We had written back and forth over the years and sent each other gifts in the mail. She even began making pottery herself, she says […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Sometimes I imagine a world in which European leaders like @president.europarl.europa.eu spent as much time supporting the European model of tech as they do cosying up to foreign oligarchs with openly anti-democratic projects and anti-European foreign interference activities. 🧵

One example of #community organising I love at the moment is that people with solar on their roofs give away free electricity to charge other people's #evs in their neighborhood because they don't know what to do with all those kWhs :heart_cyber:

Oh nice, is this something @Fairphone and other ethical phone makers could build as well? https://www.heise.de/en/news/Limit-precise-location-What-Apple-s-mobile-security-feature-can-do-11306295.html #Privacy #geolocation #tracking #surveillance #fairphone

You know your product is bad if you need to send lobbyists to the #pope. #AI #vatican #bigtech #lobbying

RE: https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/116636783112708568 About time! Although triple-digit millions sounds too low to me to have an dissuasive effect.

Crucial op-ed in @lemonde by @commissionerHR : "Les droits humains ne sont pas une récompense pour bonne conduite, ni un jeu à somme nulle, où la sécurité d’un groupe exigerait qu’un autre en soit privé. Ils sont détenus à égalité par chacun, au seul titre de notre commune humanité." […]

It looks like the French government mobile app that allows people to vote remotely requires the proprietary #Google #SafetyNet. (At least it throws an error on a @murena#google#SafetyNethone.) 😢 #digitalsovereignty #France #keepandroidopen

I finally started reading The AI Con by @emilymbender and @alex and I already laughed out loud in the first few pages. "Racist pile of linear algebra" is my new favourite term for genAI.

Writing is more than a matter of merely outputting words. It’s a matter of discovering what your values are and convincing yourself that they’re worth fighting for. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/24/ai-tools-thinking-human-hard-coding-writing-technology #AI #aislop #thinking

If you run a peertube instance and have not patched in the past 4 hours, you are way behind and likely have been compromised. The latest patch will help clean up the mess.

Hey @slimbook, what has happened to the excellent Elemental 14" budget laptop you offered in the past. Has the #AI hype killed it or are there chances it will come back? 😬

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@DefendDemocracy/116618939872390882 The safety guarantee of European digital infrastructure is not that it’s European but that it’s democratic. European digital infrastructure is presumed to be safer not because of its location, but because of the democratic […]

A quick scan of "Study of interoperability tools in the digital single market" (https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/7ed3fe8e-42a7-11f1-8095-01aa75ed71a1) seems to exhibit some misunderstandings and misrepresentations of Mastodon and the broader fediverse/open social web […]

RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116612907554964438 #mastoadmin #mastomods community should be on the alert for hijacked accounts. We have observed some signals of dormant accounts suddenly being used in the past two or three weeks.

Pleased to speak about the #Fediverse at #CPDP today! Tune in 17:30 at @CPDPconferences' Avatar.FM when I talk with EDRi’s @edri’ Jan Penfrat @ilumium and Katarzyna Szymielewicz from @panoptykon#fediverse#cpdpWe will talk about how to reclaim democratic discourse with the open social web and how it made me […]

I know there is #rp26 but I'm at #cpdp2026 in Brussels from now until the end of the week. Will post some thoughts about what I hear and see in this thread 🧵 Expect rants, celebrations and half-baked hot takes. (And PM me if you're here and think we should talk :)

Congratulations @kde ! https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/kde-sovereign-tech-fund-grant #digitalsovereignty #digitalselfdetermination #linux

RE: https://bewegung.social/@a_watch/116601065042339829 A tight majority of Members of the European Parliament refused to lift conservative MEP Angelika Niebler's (Germany, #csu) immunity despite prosecutors' evidence of fraud and misuse of public funds.

I wonder how the members of the Special Panel On Child Safety Online convened by @EUCommission President #vonderleyen think about the fact that the Commission has already made up its mind independent from the expert advice they have been requested to prepare. 🤔 #ageverification #agegating […]

#Fairphone|s are not supposed to be waterproof (because #repairability requires to not seal the device with glue I guess?). Yet, yesterday I accidentally dropped my #fairphone#repairability6 into 40cm deep water, then noticed I lost it, called it (it rang!) and pulled it out a few minutes later. I was able […]

If you missed NCC’s latest report on how the Internet became such a shitty place — and the iconic video spot that goes with it — fasten your seatbelts and press play NOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ Read full report […]

European tax payer money is used to fund Israeli #spyware companies. Tell your politicians to stop it! Sign @edri#spywares petition now: https://crm.edri.org/kiss

#Fairphone|s are not supposed to be waterproof (because #repairability requires to not seal the device with glue I guess?). Yet, yesterday I accidentally dropped my #fairphone#repairability6 into 40cm deep water, then noticed I lost it, called it (it rang!) and pulled it out a few minutes later. I was able […]

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@HennaVirkkunen/116588890030210059 Sure the Commissioner and the @EUCommission use the #fediverse for political communication, but even if you disagree with the substance you got to give it to them: they do impeccable #alttext :)

Unser Land sähe komplett anders aus, hätten wir Drecksblätter wie dieses - anstelle der #bild, #welt etc

Ein Rechtsstaat, der jährlich 7000 Menschen EINSPERRT, weil sie in der U-Bahn kein Ticket vorzeigen können, hat Anger Management Issues. Deshalb spende ich das Preisgeld, das mit dem Rechtsstaatspreis der Schleswig-Holsteinischen Juristischen Gesellschaft verbunden ist, an den @freiheitsfonds.de

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lemonde/116533417836147921 The French aircraft carrier "Charles de Gaulle" seems to be in a dire state. Thank you for this photo @lemonde 😆

Rosenkohl auf Pizza ich glaub es hackt! #2mr

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AwetTesfaiesus/116514953039588679 As some of you have already guessed: the progressive parties in German politics (and the social democrats 😉) have jointly decided to leave the manipulative and abusive cesspit that twitter has turned into. I‘m very happy and also a […]

So cool, #2mr eine neue deutsche #fediverse-Konferenz in #Hamburg. Live online gestreamt hier: https://2mr.social/livestream/

We are incredibly proud to grow our Digital Independence Day internationally: The website https://di.day is now available in english thanks to @edri. So please spread the word and help us grow this movement!

It's Digital Independence Day again and #conversations_im, the best Jabber/XMPP client for Android, is currently available for free on Google Play. Enjoy true independence with independent messaging. No central server. No venture capital. No 'non profits' with centralized decision-making […]

Smarter people have maybe already thought about this: What if @signalapp had a locally run mechanism whereby account names that include certain keywords (say "Signal", "Support", or "Account Verification") are overlaid with an extra warning to users. Could that reduce the likelihood of people […]

RE: https://norden.social/@Engelsbaeckerei/116506745794657863 How much I would love for my local #bakery to have a #mastodon account and then ask here for new recipes! ♥️ 🥐

This is absolutely wild: The #Zambia government has just cancelled the world's most important digital rights conference #RightsCon 2026 which was supposed to start next week in #Lusaka. 3,000+ participants are now hanging in limbo (myself included), some […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]

I'm in the European Parliament to argue that achieving European tech sovereignty requires enforcing the law against Big Tech taking the piss.

🆕 EU Longest Train Journey 🆕 Kemijärvi 🇫🇮 - Lagos 🇵🇹 🦅 Geodesic: 4088.33km 🛤️ Route-km: 6251.5km ⏱️Trip time: 87 hours 29 minutes 🚆Trains: 16 💶 Cost: around €400, with Interrail All mapped and explained here 👇 https://eulongesttrainjourney.jonworth.eu

Kenyan court overturns abortion as a constitutional right https://www.lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-africa/article/2026/04/24/kenyan-court-overturns-abortion-as-a-constitutional-right_6752803_124.html

Brexiteers: Leave the #eu! We need to stop paying money to these bloody Europeans!!1! #Brexit: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/23/uk-to-pay-for-french-officers-to-deport-asylum-seekers-from-war-torn-countries

Me stepping on a ferry in #amsterdam and asking a local "Excuse me, where can I buy a ticket?" That's it, that's the joke. #lovenetherlands #freepublictransport

@CPDPconferences is coming and so it’s our panel on fair, sovereign and authentically personalised digital services made in Europe. Don’t miss the registration: https://www.cpdpconferences.org/registration As our goal for the panel is to explore policy opportunities, incl. the Digital Fairness […]

Die #vorratsdatenspeicherung ist ein Mittel der Massenüberwachung und eine Kampfansage an eine freiheitliche Gesellschaft! Dass die Bundesregierung heute die anlasslose Vorratsdatenspeicherung verabschiedet hat, ist ein Desaster und ein klarer Schritt hin zum Überwachungsstaat. Vermutlich wird […]

Youth organisations demand social media change, not bans https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2089712/youth-organisations-demand-social-media-change-not-bans #digitalrights #freedomofexpression #accessrights #children #socialmediaban