Annoying. My VAT number was supposed to be active last week and the website says it’s supposed to be instantaneous upon acceptance of my registration data 😑

‼️ Saudi Arabia just blocked Tinder explorer.ooni.org/findings/305... Today, OONI data shows that Tinder started being blocked on Mobily (AS35819) by means of TLS interference. We were alerted of this block through our new Censorship Alert System, an internal prototype we're testing. 🙏🐙 #ooni

The description doesn't mention it, but Design I appears to pair each bird with their favorite food. Could it be intentionally reminiscent of a hobby board game card?

European Economic and Social Committee@eesc.bsky.social · last wk.

Our banknotes are getting a new look and you can choose your favourite one! 💶 Designers from all over Europe have reimagined how they may look like and one of their proposals is to become the next design of the euro. What's your favourite? Vote here: link.europa.eu/MFWX7c

I’m making a scratch list of the 3rd party apps my SaaS needs to run (both self-hosted and SaaS). It’s more than 30 items long 😵‍💫

Need to build up your skills for DPPs? National College of Ireland's Cloud Competency Centre is launching three free, live, online evening courses: 💡Circular economy foundations: 31.8-10.9 💡Circular economy data & metrics: 21.9-8.10 💡ESG data management for circularity: 19.10-3.11 ➡️bit.ly/3S0a3ZZ

My friend told me that someone borrowed his phone to ask ChatGPT something and now at the end of every message it says “Why This Is Relevant To You: Since you’re 5'10” and work from home, this is what I’d do."

Our thoughts and solidarity are with everyone affected by the incident at Berlin’s Christopher Street Day Parade. We extend our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of the woman who died, and wish a swift recovery to all those injured. We stand with Berlin’s LGBTI communities and allies.

It's the second time this month that I don't understand a company's offering anymore after their AI pivot. They were a fully-productized SaaS, and now they call themselves a "product-enabled service company" that hands you completed deliverables...written by AI and human checked. Bizarre

📢 We're hiring! Know any great Laravel devs or a career changer/recent grad looking for an entry-level support engineer role?

Geocodio@geocod.io · 2w ago

👩🏽‍💻We’re hiring! We’re looking for two engineers to join our intentionally small team: a 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿 (Laravel/PHP, 5+ years exp) and a 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿 (GIS, entry-level). Both US Eastern. geocod.io/careers?utm_...

Heads up because I just caught wind of this now and I’m sure more people are going to get blindsided by it. The maintainers of the “Prime” family of component libraries (PrimeReact, PrimeVue, and PrimeNG) is going closed source.

New on The Hub: Communicating & Staying Grounded in Times of Crisis. Practical guidance for LGBTI orgs on staying grounded during a crisis, mapping hostile narratives, finding your anchor theme and rebuilding trust with supporters. Read it now! https://bit.ly/4f5Ha7B

Too many 504 time outs on Codeberg. Is anyone else having this problem? I thought I might be getting rate limited (even though I’m sending it zero agent-originating traffic) but I finally found the quota screen… I get no sense that I’m overusing it. It seems like it’s been struggling for weeks now

Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations @somoamsterdam.bsky.social has published an excellent analysis of the EU data centre market, pointing out that the current EU policy of uncontrolled data centre expansion will only end up benefiting US Big Tech giants. www.somo.nl/eus-data-cen...

EU's data centre expansion will fast-track profits and power for US Big Tech and investors - SOMO

The global competition to ‘win’ the AI-race is driving an unparalleled expansion of large-scale data centres across the world. Cloaked in a narrative of pursuing European tech sovereignty and adopting...

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I’ve heard some people question whether git itself is going to be superseded by version control made for coding agents. I don’t know about all that, but I definitely don’t feel like GitHub is useful anymore

Europe is uniting to scale its next generation of tech champions. All 27 Member States & investors are joining the EIB Group in mobilising €80bn for +1,500 companies to access global markets. Discover our European Tech Champions Initiative 2.0. now⤵️ 🔗 go.eib.org/ETCI2

💥 INVESTIGATION: After 4 years of Russia's full-scale war, firms effectively controlled by Russian or Belarusian interests still operate across Europe. Russian millionaire Vasily Smetanin, tied to Sberbank, does business via Polish firms. VSquare.org

Why Is Poland Hosting a Russian-Linked Logistics Network? - VSquare.org

After over four years of full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine and numerous rounds of sanctions, companies effectively controlled by individuals and entities from Russia and Belarus continue to operate in Poland and across Europe.

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New study published in the Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts journal by the Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org reveals that it is physically impossible to remediate #PFAS pollution at scale www.rsc.org/news/pfas-re... #ToxicFreeFuture #BanPFAS #STOPPFAS

I wrote about Partiful, the event invites app, and the cloud over it that the company can’t seem to shake: Its founders background working for Palantir. Gift link: www.theverge.com/report/96063...

What is Partiful selling?

A Palantir-shaped shadow follows the event planning app.

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EU (and Germany in particular) tries to sneakily push the global survelliance law through, with an unexpected unannounced vote. This is kinda bad.

Fight Chat Control@fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · last mo.

As the 5th trilogue finished without agreement, Council and the European People's Party (EPP), with Germany's SDP and CDU being the driving forces, are attempting to bypass Parliament and reactivate the already expired #ChatControl 1.0. No, believe it or not, means no! fightchatcontrol.eu

Grindr has been caught sharing users' HIV status and precise location with advertisers without obtaining valid consent. They must immediately stop prioritizing profits over users’ safety, and make privacy the default across its platform. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

EFF to Grindr: This Pride Month, Put Safety and Privacy Over Profits

This Pride month, we’re calling on the dating app Grindr to prioritize LGBTQ+ user safety by making privacy the default across its platform. That means no more sharing personal data with advertisers

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A tonne of discarded smartphones contains more gold than a tonne of ore from an actual gold mine.

NEW: A politician investigating Pegasus spyware… had their phone hacked with Pegasus multiple times. The compromises came days ahead of key meetings of the spyware inquiry Story with @lhn.bsky.social

EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones

“It is a direct attack on the rule of law,” says one European Parliament member of the new findings from Citizen Lab.

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I wish I could maintain both the speedy, simple version of my apps while also developing the scalable one. I mourn that little guy from before it grew up into a beast with parallel worker threads and row access policies.

My current EUR-LEX RSS feed count: 4 They were a real pain to set up with the proper filters

Sonnet 5 dropped last night? Just in time for summer's distillation

PayPal pledged to fight hate and extremism. Yet a far-right group sold mugs reading “FOREIGN R*PISTS OUT” through its services. Our investigation shows how extremists across Europe are raising money on the platform, amid fears that a greater reliance on AI could further weaken moderation.

Far-right groups rely on PayPal to spread extremism

PayPal is being used to process payments by far-right groups that promote nationalist and anti-immigrant views under the guise of feminism, an investigation by Fuller has found. The findings raise que...

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Four years ago, the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade. In that time, EFF has seen digital rights and reproductive rights become more and more intertwined. This includes the fight to protect free speech online. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Four Years After Dobbs, Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Keep Coming for

This week marks four years since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade’s constitutional protections for people seeking abortion care. Anniversaries are a moment to take

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Half of my chat sessions with Claude, I lie about who I am. The responses are tailored for someone in another country, in a different stage of their life, with a different economic class, who speaks different languages than me. I won’t pretend that this breaks my biases but I still learn quite a bit

Brainstorming brand names. Coming up with new nonsense words. Web searching them and finding a company in the exact same product segment as you Gotta love it

Claude and ChatGPT use GeoIP to locate me, so I often get recommendations for Łódź instead of my city. Of course, Google always seemed to know exactly where I was even when blocking my location browser-side. I wonder if there are Łódzki businesses that are seeing a boost due to this