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No to Digital ID
No to Digital ID@NoToDigitalID·
EU prepares to impose internet restrictions on more than 65 million people
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alpha
alpha@omarsbigsister·
In every single country that passed age verification laws: 1) databases got leaked 2) innocent websites got censored 3) governments became more censorship heavy 4) protests became more criminalized 5) information got harder to find
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PeterSweden
PeterSweden@PeterSweden7·
If your country requires digital ID verification to use social media, then you don't live in a free country anymore. If your country want to regulate or ban VPNs, you don't live in a free country anymore.
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Nym
Nym@nym·
Age verification is backdoor mass surveillance.
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TFTC
TFTC@TFTC21·
Andreas Antonopoulos breaks down #Bitcoin vs corporate control of money in 2016:
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Urs Marti
Urs Marti@UMartiZH·
EU will VPNs einschränken, damit niemand die Alters-ID umgehen kann. Nur totalitäre Regime kennen das und Steganographie macht es sowieso sinnlos. Die EU hat den rechtsstaatlichen Kompass verloren.
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Captain Insight
Captain Insight@CaptainInsightX·
20+ billion installations across earth and Mars. Built by one Swedish guy. Alone. In 1996. 🤯 Meet Daniel Stenberg 🇸🇪 > Born 1970 in Huddinge, Sweden. Self-taught on a Commodore 64. No CS degree. > In 1996, started building a tiny tool to download files from the internet. > Called it cURL ~ today the silent backbone of every app, website, and connected device. > Worked on it alone in his spare time. For free. > Nearly 30 years later, cURL runs on 20+ billion installations worldwide. > Every iPhone. Every Android. Every PlayStation. Every Tesla. > Powers Spotify, YouTube, Netflix, Instagram behind the scenes. > NASA used cURL on the Mars Ingenuity helicopter. 🚀 > His code literally flew on another planet. > Companies worth trillions used his code. He answered bug reports for free. > Made $0 from cURL for the first 23 years. > In 2017, the King of Sweden personally handed him the Polhem Prize ~ Sweden's oldest tech award. > First time ever given to an open-source project. > 2019 ~ finally joined wolfSSL to work on cURL full-time. 🔥 > In 2025, awarded the IVA Gold Medal by the Royal Swedish Academy. > Still ships from his home office in Stockholm. Still answers GitHub issues himself. He spent nearly 30 years writing code that runs the internet from the background. He made nothing for 23 of them. He kept going anyway. What a man. Open-source GOAT. 🐐
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James Lindsay, anti-Communist
James Lindsay, anti-Communist@ConceptualJames·
The EU is cracking down on emojis. There are many things to say here. The first is that this is what surely happens without the broadest possible protection of speech, necessarily including offensive speech. Another is that "hate speech" will always find a way because people want to communicate it, so bans are ridiculous and will be driven into absurd tyranny every time. A third is that you cannot change people's hearts by telling them something they cannot say by force of law. Righteousness has to be pursued because people want to, which requires appealing to them, not forcing them. Another is that law that behaves this way will be regarded as arbitrary, capricious, and stupid and openly invites more of what it seeks to prohibit, thus backfiring. (The European mind cannot comprehend this.) One more is that these laws will always serve special interests, thus corruption, and so accelerate the precise resentments that seem to (but don't) necessitate them. Let people speak freely and honestly, though non-threateningly. Prohibit nothing more than active threats, incitement, open sedition that is moving into action, genuine harassment, and defamation. Free the emojis! Even the ones being used for evil. Also, maybe solve some of the actual problems causing people to speak out in "ugly" ways rather than accelerating them, protecting them, and trying to ban speech about them. Europe is doing all of this exactly the wrong way.
Polymarket@Polymarket

JUST IN: EU to push for crackdown on emojis that can be used to cover up “illegal speech”

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Proton
Proton@ProtonPrivacy·
Age verification sounds reasonable until you realize it means every adult hands over their ID just to go online. We wrote about why this is a terrible idea and what should happen instead. proton.me/blog/keep-age-…
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liagason@liagason·
@juanjovn Well, to be fair, that's for areas with 20.000 residents or more, otherwise it's 20-40 hens (depending on the area population or number of tourists lol). But still, @levelsio's theory seems to stand...
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Juanjo Valiño
Juanjo Valiño@juanjovn·
In Spain we have now regulated the max number of chickens you can own to get your own eggs (30 hens) On top of that, you have to register them in your CCAA
@levelsio@levelsio

You see theses posts a lot: here's some cheap rural land in Portugal, Spain or Italy, what a deal! Americans and Western/Northern Europeans start drooling immediately, imagine having a big piece of farm land with olives or grapes in Southern Europe? We could renovate it and build it into the place of our dreams, and cheap! Who doesn't want a farm these days But then you find out it's bullshit Because it's not like American rural land where you have pretty much full freedom to do whatever you want this, and usually there's even less freedom than in Western/Northern Europe in this case 9 out of 10 times you can't do anything with it because Southern European land is highly protected: it's usually a mix of buildable (in Portugal "urbano") and non-buildable (in Portuguese "rustico") land usually, the buildable part is the house, but even if you'd like to tear it down, you can ONLY rebuild it in the exact same design as how it looked before And the non-buildable land you can literally do nothing with but just look at Say goodbye to your dreams! It's mostly useless land and no you also can't turn it into a hotel or Airbnb unless you are a Southern European local and a member of the local municipality where you can green light any conversions of non-buildable to buildable land or give yourself an Airbnb or hotel license Which is by the way how many people in government here get rich, buy cheap non-buildable land for €50,000, convert it to buildable and sell it to a foreign hotel chain or developer for €1,000,000 or more (a 20x gain at least!) But you need connections or bribe people! Which foreigners can't and won't, because foreigners are new to a country, don't have 40+ years of connections to get stuff done and generally won't bribe So be honest: it's useless land

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@levelsio
@levelsio@levelsio·
You see theses posts a lot: here's some cheap rural land in Portugal, Spain or Italy, what a deal! Americans and Western/Northern Europeans start drooling immediately, imagine having a big piece of farm land with olives or grapes in Southern Europe? We could renovate it and build it into the place of our dreams, and cheap! Who doesn't want a farm these days But then you find out it's bullshit Because it's not like American rural land where you have pretty much full freedom to do whatever you want this, and usually there's even less freedom than in Western/Northern Europe in this case 9 out of 10 times you can't do anything with it because Southern European land is highly protected: it's usually a mix of buildable (in Portugal "urbano") and non-buildable (in Portuguese "rustico") land usually, the buildable part is the house, but even if you'd like to tear it down, you can ONLY rebuild it in the exact same design as how it looked before And the non-buildable land you can literally do nothing with but just look at Say goodbye to your dreams! It's mostly useless land and no you also can't turn it into a hotel or Airbnb unless you are a Southern European local and a member of the local municipality where you can green light any conversions of non-buildable to buildable land or give yourself an Airbnb or hotel license Which is by the way how many people in government here get rich, buy cheap non-buildable land for €50,000, convert it to buildable and sell it to a foreign hotel chain or developer for €1,000,000 or more (a 20x gain at least!) But you need connections or bribe people! Which foreigners can't and won't, because foreigners are new to a country, don't have 40+ years of connections to get stuff done and generally won't bribe So be honest: it's useless land
Tim@TimurNegru

A family in Portugal is selling their 40-acre estate. It's inside a protected natural park. Farmhouse restored in the local style. A natural spring, a stream running through the land, two dams, and a well 75m deep. It also has olive trees, fruit trees, and a cork oak forest. In Portugal, cork oaks are protected by law. You can't cut them down. But every 9 years you can harvest the bark, and it grows back. The harvested cork goes into wine stoppers, flooring, insulation, handbags, shoes, even aerospace panels. This estate's trees currently hold about 24 tons of it. The estate covers three parcels. The house sits on the first and can be expanded by over 50%. The other two have potential for new builds. €782k ($920k), direct from the owner. Happy to do an intro for anyone seriously interested. Serra de São Mamede, 2km from the Spanish border. At night, there's no light pollution and according to the owners you can see the Milky Way. What would you do with a place like this?

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Culture Crave 🍿
Culture Crave 🍿@CultureCrave·
A man in India says he made thousands of dollars scamming 'super dumb' MAGA fans with a fake AI influencer named 'Emily Hart' • Helped pay for his medical school • Instagram's algorithm would blow up his fake content daily • Tried a liberal version but it didn't work “Democrats know that it’s AI slop ... The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people ... super dumb people. And they fall for it" (via @WIRED)
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