Simon Phipps
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OSI Standards director · Meshed Insights CEO · Geek-Nerd · Cat servant. Personal account, see pinned post. Beware clones, see hub and check for validation ticks […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://meshed.cloud/@webmink, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Congratulations to the @openhomefoundation on their success briefing the @EUCommission on the challenges they and other #OpenSource projects face in the #Android ecosystem. https://www.openhomefoundation.org/blog/a-big-win-for-android-interoperability/ #DMA #Interoperability
Evernote are doubling their price again for the fourth time in 5 years and it's time for us as a family to at least create a backup of our decades-old family records so we are ready when they cease to be viable. Do I know anyone who would be willing to set up a self-hosted replacement system […]
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"States are sovereign. Borders cannot be changed by force. Those principles are not new. Nor is there any ambiguity to them. The ... problem was never the rules themselves, but Russia’s decision to disregard them." […]
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Has the #Amazon Blink team explicitly broken the ability of #OpenSource Home Assistant to log in to Blink? https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/176836#issuecomment-5080466993
Coyote V. Acme In The United States District Court, Southwestern District, Tempe, Arizona Case No. B19294, Judge Joan Kujava, Presiding https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/02/26/coyote-v-acme (The New Yorker, Shouts & Murmurs, By Ian Frazier; February 19, 1990
Coyote V. Acme
From 1990: “Much as he has come to mistrust Defendant’s products, Mr. Coyote has no other domestic source of supply to which to turn.”
newyorker.com
The Strongest El Niño Ever https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-strongest-el-nino-ever#footnote-anchor-1 With all the July runs in, dynamical models give a ~90% chance of a record-setting event <- much bigger than 1877-1878. That killed ~50 million people.
The @EUCommission has just published guidance documents clarifying how the Cyber Resilience Act #CRA affects (among other things) #OpenSource. This is the result of the extensive engagement of many open source community members […]
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Having seen these thugs on the local streets (they also meet nearby to taunt refugees) I can't find any capacity for surprise at this finding. It would be fascinating to get demographic data on R-party supporters […]
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Finally a real prosecution of a British water company. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/22/former-southern-water-employees-trial-alleged-cover-up-wastewater-testing
Ex-Southern Water boss to face trial over allegedly manipulating sewage testing
Former CEO Matthew Wright and three other ex-employees named in criminal proceedings by Environment Agency
theguardian.com
I felt old when I found the computer on which I learned assembler in the Computer History Museum. But I think being featured in archival footage about #OpenSource and #OpenJDK in the new #Java documentary might just beat that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGSg4b_cZA
The #UK government is run by bad parents who think that curfews and dumb rules can make up for their absolute inability to understand and follow their children. And those bad parents feel entitled to turn their awful parenting habits into law and impose them on millions of children who have […]
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RE: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/116924873937619510 The EU has refused to allow "OpenAI" to openwash their company. Bravo. #OpenSource means freedom first, and the EU courts agree. And thanks for the nod to @osi Jan, it's gratefully received!
social.wildeboer.net
HUGE NEWS: This summer, countless scientists & technologists can now travel to hug their families again after a federal court suspended a Trump administration censorship-at-the-border scheme targeting people who work in online safety. 🎉 Many thanks to all who worked on this 🎉 cc @pluralistic […]
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The @EUCommission wants to hear "from cybersecurity professionals and SME stakeholders on how #standards can best support real‑world #compliance needs under the Cyber Resilience Act." Let's make sure they hear from plenty of people who understand #OpenSource and the #CRA […]
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UK Tax returns have gone digital, which is fine in principle. What is not fine is that pretty much only paid solutions are acceptable for submitting a return. If electronic tax returns are mandatory, the government should be providing a cost-free means […]
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Goodbye, adequacy. https://noyb.eu/en/us-supreme-court-just-blew-eu-us-data-transfers It's almost as if the US wants Europe to end its dependency on US corporations.
US Supreme Court just blew up EU-US Data Transfers
The US Supreme Court decided that the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) may not be independent anymore - with major implications for EU-US Data Transfers.
noyb.eu
'Enjoy life while you can: in 20 years global warming will hit the fan'" https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2008/mar/01/scienceofclimatechange.climatechange #LovelockWasRight
James Lovelock: 'Enjoy life while you can: in 20 years global warming will hit the fan'
The climate science maverick believes catastrophe is inevitable, carbon offsetting is a joke and ethical living a scam. So what would he do, asks Decca Aitkenhead
theguardian.com
If only we had a government of pragmatists instead of fearful populists. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/18/uk-could-keep-special-pre-brexit-terms-if-it-rejoined-eu-michel-barnier-says
UK could keep special pre-Brexit terms if it rejoined EU, Michel Barnier says
Exclusive: Former chief Brexit negotiator says staying out of euro and Schengen area would be ‘perfectly possible’
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The first of the proposed EU #standards for #CRA compliance for product categories has been published for public (= NSO) review. It covers "Cybersecurity requirements for boot managers" and can be found at […]
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Because the British government now treats protest as terrorism, the average terror suspect in England and Wales is a white woman in her 50s who held a handwritten cardboard sign . Ridiculous and untenable. #ukpol-#uklegal #terrorism
Rumours of the @EUCommission ending funding for #OpenSource projects were false: https://nlnet.nl/news/2026/20260616-67-new-projects.html
NLnet; 67 Open Technology Projects awarded NGI grants
nlnet.nl
With the US government's ban on foreigners using certain applications of a private American company, the White House has confirmed Europe's worse fears. Trump can shut down the European economy by blocking access to the American services we use every day.
As Trump bans Europeans from using Anthropic, the EU's US dependence is painfully on display
The US government has ordered Anthropic to block non-Americans from accessing its latest AI models. Europe is running out of time to shield itself from the US kill switch.
davekeating.substack.com
This petition against the social media ban is taking off https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/757233 #stopkillingtheinternet #socialmedia please do sign and share under the #stopkillinginternet even if it’s a Gov one!
Petition: Do not ban social media for under 16s
I think the government shouldn’t ban social media for under 16s. This is because for many young people social media is how they communicate with their friends. Some people view social media as a lifeline. A community, a supportive network. This is why I think the government shouldn’t ban it.
petition.parliament.uk
Over the past week I’ve been working with a group of organisations from the world. Plans are underway to launch a new global movement to oppose restrictions such as bans or device scanning that harm the open net. Formal Announcements we can expect tomorrow in the meantime […]
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@webmink Note the two words "alongside algorithms" in that policy statement. If the statement means what it says, Mastodon (and most other ActivityPub services) will not be covered by the ban.
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and the rest of the surveillance economy have been trying to get everyone to provide all their private ID info for much of the past decade. Now the UK's Labour party are going to force us all to give it to them for free. And they are hiding the lede behind a story […]
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Meanwhile, not one of the groups so far known to have been orchestrating the violence in Belfast and Southampton has been banned as a terrorist organisation.