#EU Policy Analyst for the #OpenSource Initiative. Former EU Parliament Assistant. Expert in 💻Digital, 🚄Transport, and 🧪Research Policy. #fedi22 #EU #tech #ukraine […]
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The narriative that #Europe
is "falling behind" has become increasingly popular among its detractors, usually calling for deregulation, or trying to label Europe as a failed leftist project.
While Europe does face some challenges, what they are saying […]
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#MAGA constantly admonishes #Europe when it comes to Freedom of Speech, but the reality is when it comes to telling the truth about #Israel's genocidal war in #Palestine, artists come to Europe […]
The long-term impact on the American arms industry, resulting from the current administration’s incredibly incompetent foreign policy, will prove very costly.
#US#Trump#Ukraine#Europe#Russia
I'm so tired of dogmatic AI evangelists who insist #AI "changes everything" and requires us to completely tear down current processes and structures, and replace them with much worse processes, usually to the benefit of the evangelist in question.
No. We don't have to tear down everything: as […]
Attempting to implement censorship through #DNS is like trying to divert a river with a traffic sign.
This is a technically flawed decision by the French courts. It won't work and it's actively harmful to the internet.
https://quad9.net/news/blog/au-revoir-france/#Quad9#France#EUpol#FRpol
(1/4) Some thoughts on yesterday's #PHP vulnerability:
🔒 Normally, vulnerabilities are patched before we hear about them, with key distributors notified in advance to reduce risk. This time, a security researcher accidentally published details early, and a for-profit PHP distributor broke […]
Final bonus thought: I deploy and manage PHP for a few clients I provide hosting to. It's not exactly a business, I probably make about €10 a month from it, but it's only possible thanks to their work.
So I'm going to put my money where my mouth is and put […]
[Original post on eupolicy.social]
Bonus thought: This comment on the #PHP blog alleges that Chainguard, the organisation who broke embargo and leaked the patch early, is currently using this to try to expand their customer base.
If these allegations are true, it's difficult to say how […]
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(1/4) Some thoughts on yesterday's #PHP vulnerability:
🔒 Normally, vulnerabilities are patched before we hear about them, with key distributors notified in advance to reduce risk. This time, a security researcher accidentally published details early, and a for-profit PHP distributor broke […]
(5/5)
🏛️ Governments must recognise that the Open Source they depend on is underfunded for the wave of AI-discovered vulnerabilities it faces. The EU's CRA partially addresses this by making companies more responsible; its Open Source Software Stewards & Voluntary Security Attestations should […]
Bonus thought: This comment on the #PHP blog alleges that Chainguard, the organisation who broke embargo and leaked the patch early, is currently using this to try to expand their customer base.
If these allegations are true, it's difficult to say how […]
[Original post on eupolicy.social]
(1/4) Some thoughts on yesterday's #PHP vulnerability:
🔒 Normally, vulnerabilities are patched before we hear about them, with key distributors notified in advance to reduce risk. This time, a security researcher accidentally published details early, and a for-profit PHP distributor broke […]
(3/5)
🤖 AI makes finding and exploiting vulnerabilities far faster and easier. Keeping details secret until a fix ships is therefore vital, as is getting Open Source developers AI support for vulnerability discovery.
(4/5)
💵 PHP runs over half the Internet, including governments and multibillion-dollar corporations, yet the foundation behind it has a budget under $1m and only 13 engineers, some part-time. Despite this, they handled one of the hardest vulnerabilities in recent years with professionalism. They […]
(1/4) Some thoughts on yesterday's #PHP vulnerability:
🔒 Normally, vulnerabilities are patched before we hear about them, with key distributors notified in advance to reduce risk. This time, a security researcher accidentally published details early, and a for-profit PHP distributor broke […]
(2/4)
🔎 Open Source vulnerability reporting is robust and works most of the time; you only hear about it when it fails. Speedy fixes matter, but breaking embargo puts all users at risk. If responsible disclosure is to survive, this mustn't happen again.
POV: you are completely delirious after having finished patching #PHP in every server, container and application you operate, and you can finally sleep.
https://vimeo.com/322921878?fl=pl&fe=cm#t=1m24s
Just a heads up, if you are running any #php applications, take them down now.
A patch for a Critical vulnerability is expected at 4pm CET. It could be released earlier in the event that the vulnerability is made public before then.
https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-10-20-1
FYI on #France. In the last 24 hours:
🕵️ A French newspaper revealed the government tried to force the intelligence services to blame a far-left party for the riots.
👮 They attempted to arrest a MP from that party.
🌙 They have imposed curfews in cities across the country.
🪖 They announced […]
It looks like the amazing @kurzgesagt channel need our help fighting the slop-pocolypse! If you haven't watched their videos about #science and #society, i highly recommend them.
If you want to support them, they have an awesome shop with loads of really cool posters (Link in vid description) […]
Of course it was censorship. How is that even a question?
If you really want to protest what's happening in our country, start by deleting all your Meta accounts. It's the easiest protest ever. You don't even have to get off your couch to do it.
Don't "deactivate". DELETE. Permanently delete […]
This photo, taken yesterday from the cockpit of a Romanian F16, shows that jet shooting down Russian drones over Romanian territorial waters.
This comes as Russia had escalated its attacks on shipping in the black sea, striking multiple vessels, including in […]
[Original post on eupolicy.social]
It's very easy to get depressed by the state of politics right now, but then you see interactions like this one, and it rekindles your faith. A new generation of politicians will come forward and they will be different.
#AbduElSayed#USpol#Politics
I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside".
I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇
A 19-year-old walked through Helsinki airport in April 2026 carrying two 2TB hard drives and a ticket to Japan.
He couldn’t make that flight.
Finnish police stopped him on an Interpol Red Notice, and by July, US prosecutors had unsealed a federal complaint identifying him as Peter Stokes,
an […]
The term "single use software" currently lives rent free in my head.
People use LLMs to create software specific for their needs. But neither can other people use it (hardcoded variables, no rights management, too specific), nor do they use it again (too […]
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Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low […]
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KYIV POST:
UK Sends Ukraine More Storm Shadow Missiles as US Presses Kyiv to Halt Strikes
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/87270
Britain is supplying additional Storm Shadow cruise missiles to help Ukraine counter Russian attacks before winter. The replenishment was discussed during Zelensky’s […]
If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
A Ukrainian Soldier is on trial in Germany for the destruction of the NordStream pipelines, and is accused of "war crimes".
Utterly disgusting behavior by Germany. If this man did blow up the pipelines, he deserves a medal, not a prison sentence.
On the other hand, those who betrayed Germany […]
Broadcom, an American company, are telling Europeans not to use #OpenSource to achieve #TechSovereignty, due to the risk of "depending on Open Source maintainers", and instead tells you to *checks notes* use their proprietary solutions, the same proprietary solutions they recently locked users […]
I hate to quote myself a third time, but shit I really can't stop thinking about this series and the connection with now.
We have economic elites collaborating with fascists.
We are on the brink of fascist government in many European countries.
Flourishing LGBTQ and immigrant rights risk […]
Everything about it:
- How the fascism creeps up through the seasons.
- How the elites empower Hitler then lose control.
- How the left fails to unify to counter fascism.
- How normal people in this situation, including moral people in positions of power, fail to prevent it.
#BabylonBerlin […]
"Dima, have you tried turning it on and off again?" Was the response or Ukrainian missile and drone company Fire Point, following the bombing of Yandex's data centres in Russia.
#ukraine#russia
Everything about it:
- How the fascism creeps up through the seasons.
- How the elites empower Hitler then lose control.
- How the left fails to unify to counter fascism.
- How normal people in this situation, including moral people in positions of power, fail to prevent it.
#BabylonBerlin […]
Finally started Season 5 of #BabylonBerlin.
They have perfectly captured the slow slide of the Weimar Republic into fascism, and what is most terrifying is how much it resembles what is happening in the world today.
It's a stark reminder that Freedom is still under threat today.
The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports.
The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.
Finally started Season 5 of #BabylonBerlin.
They have perfectly captured the slow slide of the Weimar Republic into fascism, and what is most terrifying is how much it resembles what is happening in the world today.
It's a stark reminder that Freedom is still under threat today.
This is what has undermined our democracy: in lieu of truth we get potential truths, in lieu education we get entertainment, in lieu of democracy, a grotesque popularity contest. Nuanced debate has died: anything that can’t be said in short-form video isn’t worth saying. Welcome to the age of […]
Previously published: Political dishonesty, disillusionment with politics, polarisation, and shrinking attention spans are pushing voters to judge politicians on vibes, not policies, leaving us open to manipulation by hostile foreign powers. Welcome to the age of Tik-tok Democracy […]
Previously published: Political dishonesty, disillusionment with politics, polarisation, and shrinking attention spans are pushing voters to judge politicians on vibes, not policies, leaving us open to manipulation by hostile foreign powers. Welcome to the age of Tik-tok Democracy […]
Reading up on the #KIDSact there is one element that reassures me somewhat: the law requires the use of zero-knowledge proof for age verification, meaning the service doesn't get to know who the user is or what their exact age is, and the provider of the attestation of age doesn't get to know […]