kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

- 1945: respect peace and build a decent future
- boat: what did they say?
- boat: something about sabre-rattling and "we can repeat" stickers*

* a popular theme among Russian neo-imperialists today: bumper stickers with "1945: we can repeat", "to the Berlin" and similar calls for military aggression in an attempt to compensate for poor living conditions

@MichaelA

The fact that we're discussing it here isn't actually a very good prognosis for the "Chinese firewall" folks, especially as we're discussing an early pre-regulatory report. I've seen a number of really stupid ideas being trashed at this stage - e.g. a few years ago someone lobbied for ban on open-source firmware for routers and mobile phones, and it was killed in the public consultation stage. I really started to appreciate the EU regulatory process after a few cases like this.

@MichaelA

A lot of good points here (unfortunately), but nothing is carved in stone in this field. What I mean is that yes, there are antivaxxers, and there are various lobbyists pulling regulation here or there, but we can be part of the process too.

The worst legislative decisions are actually made when there's imbalance - so say only antivaxxers or only Google/Amazon/Facebook gang is interested in given project, and nobody else cares. These are lost by walkover essentially...

@MichaelA

Why exactly do you think so?

@MichaelA

Sure it will "have a part" - maybe around 0.001%. I was both contracted to write such reports (on electronic signature) and took part in public consultations on my own initiative. EU legislation is very long and multi-step process in which you can also have a say if you only pay attention. It has also many stakeholders and some of them certainly are fascinated by China or by Putin, which is quite natural in democracy. But it doesn't mean their vision will become law.

@MichaelA

No, EU does not "plan to create a great firewall". It's an analytical report produced by a consulting company from Hamburg that comes up with a suggestion about creating an "European cloud/firewall" and further details suggest they don't quite understand the meaning of either word.

The report is not EU law. It's exactly what it is - a rather silly report produced by a consulting company on order from a EP agency.

P.S. it has nothing to do with 5G and deep state

Finland! 😍

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz_uq7ypZnc

@anarchistquotes

"Scientific"

@thor

Wait a second:

"1. born after the death of the father"

🙄

@thor

You meant "posthumously", didn't you? 😐

@thor

Oh no, native means IPv6 is on the wire (like over PPPoE) rather than tunneled inside IPv4. Not many ISP do it but those who do are definitely worth it for many reasons. In UK I can recommend @faelix and IDnet, not sure about Norway. Just search for "native ipv6".

@thor

Oh just get yourself a native IPv6 and you will spit on all these UPnP and transparent proxies crap...

@Wetrix

It's not that simple - people were driven into this black-and-white conspiracy thinking by a decades of disrespect to science and rational arguments used by politicians and various activists who used them for their short-term gain without thinking about long-term consequences.

Last century saw this retreat from reason in the form of "Hegelian bite", then communism, then postmodernism and two world wars on the way.

Very curious what we'll have!

"One may accept or reject the ideology of Hitlerism as well as any other ideological system, that is a matter of political views. It is, therefore, not only senseless but criminal to wage such a war as a war for the ‘destruction of Hitlerism’" (VN Molotov 1939) https://www.marxists.org/archive/molotov/1940/peace.htm

@sir @saroumane

I wrote exactly about this back in 2014

https://ipsec.pl/protonmail-security-promise.html

Protonmail is subject to Swiss privacy *and* data retention laws which are just as favorable for lawful interception as everyone else's.

@PINE64

Thanks for response - I guess you might just make it easier for people to pay with a bank transfer as it's the most direct and usually cheapest option for all parties involved.

Also I fully understand why you don't want to get paid in highly volatile commodities like BTC or ETH, but there is also DAI which is bound to USD and thus provide you stable exchange rate - and works like a charm in terms of speed and cost.

@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @Coffee