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grumbledookgrumbledook
2026-02-08

On the subject of .
With its latest clone of their successful series, / , ditched the Color Depth setting from their menu, rendering their implemtation of useless for photographers. No more beatiful images with ... at least not with their a7v.

-> heals.

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Digitale Gesellschaft (CH)digiges
2026-01-28

Noch mehr Instrumente zur , noch mehr Überwachte: Der Bundesrat will die Schweizer Bevölkerung noch stärker kontrollieren. Die Ausweitung wird den «Chilling effect» in der Gesellschaft verstärken, der Menschen von politischem und zivilgesellschaftlichem Engagement abhält. Statt einem Ausbau der Überwachungsmassnahmen braucht es die Streichung der aus dem .

digitale-gesellschaft.ch/2026/

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2025-12-16

🇬🇧 UK & 🇦🇺 Australia have the worst anti-encryption laws among democratic countries.
🇨🇦 Canada risks joining them with Bill C-2.
🇺🇸 US still relies on secret orders under FISA & CLOUD Act.
🇨🇭 Switzerland is no longer the privacy paradise it was claimed to be.

is under attack worldwide. Our new global overview shows why Europe remains the best place for encrypted services.

➡️ Check the global overview:
tuta.com/blog/encryption-legis

Global map showing encryption laws worldwide for democratic countries
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2025-12-12

Your chat profile/identity: a tar file.

Your social web app: a zip file.

chatmail.at and webxdc.org are spearheading ever new and more fun ways to deny power to servers and platform billionaires.

Unlike classic email servers, #chatmail relays do not store user identities which solely live on end-user devices.There also is no encrypted value on the server like with Proton Mail or Signal. There are only relays, endless federating networks of relays to onboard safely :)

Neo-spoon meme (scene from matrix movie where neo looks at a child bending a spoon which eventually tells him "there is no spoon") with the following words top: "On which server is your account?" and below the bending spoon "there is no account."
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WOZ – die Wochenzeitungwoz@troet.cafe
2025-11-30

78,3 Prozent der Stimmberechtigten haben sich heute gegen die Einführung einer Erbschaftssteuer ausgesprochen. Nach dem Entscheid bleibt der Eindruck bestehen, dass in der Schweiz weder ein Klassen- noch ein Klimabewusstsein wirklich verankert ist. Der Kommentar von Jan Jirat.

woz.ch/blog/abstimmungskomment

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2025-11-27

Chat Control is back, but slightly changed:

❌ No backdoor of encryption
❌ No forced scanning
🚨 But: Age verification (no anonymity)

The update just quietly passed in the EU Council & now needs to be discussed with the EU Parliament.

👁️Big Techs like and will continue to scan your data.

Will you keep fighting against ?

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2025-11-27

One week ago, the @EUCommission unveiled its #DigitalOmnibus. But here is the thing: the press release doesn’t tell you what this package actually does.

So… we fixed it for them. 👇

Rewrite of the European Commission's press release announcing the Digital Omnibus - page 1Rewrite of the European Commission's press release announcing the Digital Omnibus - page 2Rewrite of the European Commission's press release announcing the Digital Omnibus - last page with quotes from Commissioners
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WOZ – die Wochenzeitungwoz@troet.cafe
2025-11-22
Screenshot des verlinkten Texts.
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2025-11-21

Well, maybe we need to be more clear what we are trying to do: #deltachat apps are a cross-platform private messenger suite, that aims to provide a consistent UX/UI for users with lots of experience using WhatsApp and Signal.

Telegram has good fast UX but is hardly a private messenger (it has a central cleartext database of everyone and everything).

Matrix and XMPP are well-esteemed fellows in federated messaging, but so far didn't grow a WA/Signal-level cross-platform messaging UX.

YMMV

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2025-11-21

70.000 Euro Spenden in den ersten drei Tagen unserer Spendenkampagne! Ihr seid die beste Community des Cyberraums.

Nun fehlen uns noch 370.000 Euro, um unsere Arbeit fortsetzen zu können wie bisher.

Helft uns dabei, dieses Ziel zu erreichen: netzpolitik.org/digitalfights

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Ingo Dachwitzroofjoke@mamot.fr
2025-11-20

Von Vereinfachung sprechen, während man einen Kahlschlag plant, und von Werten, wenn man an Wertschöpfung denkt – diese Doppelzüngigkeit kennen wir sonst eigentlich von Populisten und Diktatoren wie Trump oder Putin.

Mein Kommentar zu Plänen der EU-Kommission, für die KI-Industrie den Datenschutz zu schleifen.

netzpolitik.org/2025/digitaler

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Andrea Junker :verified:Strandjunker@mstdn.social
2025-11-18

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Jared Kushner advised Saudi Crown Prince MBS on how to “weather the storm” after his hit squad slaughtered American journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

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James Gleickgleick@mas.to
2025-11-18

Mobster on the left had the journalist Jamal Khashoggi murdered and dismembered with a bone saw.

Mobster on the right says that’s just fine: “A lot of people didn't like the gentleman you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen.”

They don't even bother to pretend.

Mohammed bin Salman and Donald Trump in the Oval Office, before a background of gaudy fake-gold tat.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.QasimRashid
2025-11-18

DOJ is apparently ready to pay $50 MILLION in restitution to QAnon conspiracy theorist and convicted felon Michael Flynn.

Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI and committed arguably treasonous acts. But he gets $50M.

White supremacy is when a convicted white man can get restitution for committing crimes but innocent Latino Americans are getting tortured and deported on the mere accusation that they're undocumented. Horrific.

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2025-11-18

While #cloudflare US-east1 is busy fixing a good part of the Internet, parts of Matrix/Element, X etc down, good old decentralized #chatmail continues unimpeded and without degradation :)

In other news, there is a new #freebsd community maintained ❤️ #deltachat desktop install:

pkg install deltachat-desktop

thanks @feld and others!

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2025-11-16

Offener Brief zum Digitalen Omnibus: „Die EU muss hart erkämpften Schutz für digitale Menschenrechte bewahren“
Am 19. November stellt die Kommission zwei „Digital Omnibus“-Pakete vor. Mit ihnen droht die Aushöhlung eines ganzen Jahrzehnts von digitalem Datenschutz in Europa.

digitalcourage.de/blog/2025/of

#DigitalerOmnibus #EU #Menschenrechte #Kommission #Europa #Datenschutz

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2025-11-14

Die Europäische Kommission arbeitet an Plänen für einen Kahlschlag bei ihren Regeln für die digitale Welt. Das belegen unter anderem Dokumente, die wir veröffentlicht haben. Im Europäischen Parlament und in der Zivilgesellschaft formiert sich dagegen massiver Widerstand. netzpolitik.org/2025/digitaler

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WOZ – die Wochenzeitungwoz@troet.cafe
2025-11-13

Die helvetische Oligarchie, also die Herren hinter Rolex, Rohstoffhandel und Raffinerien, brachten wertvolle Geschenke ins Oval Office.

@renatobeck und @kasparsurber mit einer genauen Bildbetrachtung – und der Frage, ob der Korruptions-Tatbestand erfüllt ist

woz.ch/2546/milliardaere-bei-t

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WOZ – die Wochenzeitungwoz@troet.cafe
2025-11-13
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2025-11-13

@secbox yes, we are engaging in various cryptographic hardenings currently, and will post about it around release times. But #chatcontrol raises quite different massive challenges, especially in combination with the #appcontrol that Google and Apple are normalizing, which in turn Russia, the EU, China and the US are happy to enforce and to tap into.

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