cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52843227

EU member states and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on an overhaul of the EU's huge farming subsidies, weakening environmental standards as part of plans to cut back regulations and paperwork for farmers.

the EU Commission had already diluted some green conditions attached to farming subsidies, and it went further in its new plans for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52843124

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52843227

EU member states and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on an overhaul of the EU's huge farming subsidies, weakening environmental standards as part of plans to cut back regulations and paperwork for farmers.

the EU Commission had already diluted some green conditions attached to farming subsidies, and it went further in its new plans for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

https://archive.is/Zhzgn

The European Commission has begun setting up a new intelligence body under president Ursula von der Leyen, in an attempt to improve the use of information gathered by national spy agencies.

In Santa Clara, Calif., where the world’s biggest supplier of artificial-intelligence chips is based, Digital Realty Trust Inc. applied in 2019 to build a data center. Roughly six years later, the development remains an empty shell awaiting full energization. Stack Infrastructure, which was acquired earlier this year by Blue Owl Capital Inc., has a nearby 48-megawatt project that’s also vacant, while the city-owned utility, Silicon Valley Power, struggles to upgrade its capacity.

I had a comically bad day yesterday, like dropping things, almost lost my keys down the drain on the sidewalk, spilled soup at the store near a makeup section, almost tore my pants, got back from the store only to find out I was out of TP, etc.

It was more funny than anything else, like so much random trivial bad luck in one day is like something out of some 90s Tom Hanks comedy.

But there was one thing that actually annoyed me - on my way back from the store on my grocery trip, my phone suddenly went from a healthy 7% to 0% and died. I was stuck with no music for the remainder of the walk back.

Soooo I was forced to listen to the sound of well - nothing at all basically.

Just birds chirping, wind blowing, leaves rustling, all as I walked the same path I walk all the time and see the same things I've seen hundreds of times, just waiting to get home.

Don't get me wrong I love where I live and everything, it's a really cool city with good pedestrian infrastructure, I almost never even get close to a car and it's not some smelly euro village either, but seeing the same things I've already seen and having no stimuli at all, it wasn't that big a deal but it was unpleasant.

That got me thinking - I sometimes see folks not wearing earphones outside, and I've heard on more than one occasion from some acquaintances that they don't listen to music outside, and I wonder - why's that?

Why would you choose to do that?

And, what do y'all like, do, exactly? How do you deal with the monotony of your grocery trips or things like that when you don't even have music on? Do you just never get bored of walking the same roads/neighborhoods w/e day after day?

Congratulations to Canadians

Children catching measles are likely to develop:

• Pneumonia
• Meningitis
• Brain damage

https://theconversation.com/measles-can-ravage-the-immune-system-and-brain-causing-long-term-damage-a-virologist-explains-252354

Danielle Smith is one of the most powerful politicians in Canada.

This is what happens when you elect stupid morons:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/danielle-smith-adolf-hitler-netflix-rachel-notley-1.6836160

so apparently you can't chat/dm in reddit if it contains URLs to chinese companies. i am aware xi and the don arent best friends and scumbag hoffmann is inhumane, but geez, banning legit company urls? how small are US dicks?

"Message failed to send because it contains a banned URL."

maybe someone else want to give a try? i asked someone for the difference between https://jlcpcb.com/ and https://www.pcbway.com/

The Free Software Foundation Europe did an update post on the current status of the legal affair.

Good read, recommend!

Here is the previous one

Post of Article19

The Complaint (PDF)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/45438161

Japan criticised a Chinese diplomat on Monday (Nov 10) for "extremely inappropriate" remarks seemingly directed at Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, after she suggested that Tokyo could take military action if Beijing attacked neighbouring Taiwan.

In a post on X on Saturday, China's Consul General in Osaka, Xue Jian, shared a news article about Takaichi's remarks about Taiwan and commented: "The dirty neck that sticks itself in must be cut off." The post was later deleted.

Beijing has defended the "personal post" made by the envoy in an escalating war of words with Japan's new hardline leader that threatens to strain relations between the historic rivals after a period of relative calm.

The US ambassador to Tokyo also weighed in, saying Xue had threatened Takaichi.

[...]

Karen Kuo, spokesperson for the presidential office in Taiwan, which China claims, said Taiwan's government "takes seriously the threatening remarks made by Chinese officials toward Japan".

"Such behaviour clearly exceeds diplomatic etiquette," Kuo said in a statement.

Passkeys are built on the FIDO2 standard (CTAP2 + WebAuthn standards). They remove the shared secret, stop phishing at the source, and make credential-stuffing useless.

But adoption is still low, and interoperability between Apple, Google, and Microsoft isn’t seamless.

I broke down how passkeys work, their strengths, and what’s still missing

i start my days full of hate <3 ^___^

this is good for my health i would recommend it

Hello, I would like to hear your open source alternatives for programs that we use everyday.

For me:

• Youtube music on phone -> metrolist
• Google maps -> ~~organic maps~~ Now it's coMaps
• Windows -> linux
• Android -> grapheneos
• Reddit -> lemmy (racoon client on phone)
• Youtube on phone -> ~~newpipe~~ Now it's libretube
• Youtube on pc -> youtube-tui with mpv
• Music offline -> yt-dlp
• Clients for offline music -> pc: rmpc phone:gramophone
• communication -> signal, might change to molly
• usage of localsend and syncthing, but syncthing is little buggy for me with long name files and permissions :/
• amplitube plugin for guitar -> guitarix, which i used to under rate
• want to move from discord -> element, but i have to try screensharing with audio and etc.
• maybe will try to move from yt to peertube, but i think it lacks content. I have to dig deeper

Thats my list, tell me yours :)

(This post is focused on the actual Network Effect. But of course content, people/content creators moving will help as well among other things)

Main legacy social media apps suck. So let's switch everyone to better.

Here's the solution for the Network Effect. Instead of having everyone switch fully from one to the other just have them have a foot on both sides till everyone switches over eventually.

During that we can also encourage them to get other people on the platform as they use it more

That's basically what Linux is doing via dual booting and with time/usage people will get off them since they enjoy the experience of the better alternative.

Some YouTubers are already hosting their content on multiple platforms. Many art artists already do that too

Also here are many open source alternatives I hope you will all try out/share with others in case you missed them:

Twitter ➡️ Mastodon & Bluesky

Instagram ➡️ Pixelfed, & Flashes

TkTok ➡️ Loops by Pixelfed, & Spark (Spark.so)

Discord ➡️ Matrix, & Stoat

YouTube ➡️ PeerTube

Meta Horizons ➡️ Resonite (On Steam, free)

Twitch ➡️ OwnCast, PeerTube, Glimesh, & Streamplace

Meetup ➡️ Mobilizon

Facebook ➡️ Diaspora

Snapchat ➡️ ???

Pinterest ➡️ ???

Amino ➡️ ???

Hopefully some groups can be formed to get alternatives for latter 3 done too

XMPP havent tried it yet (Think thats how you spell it)

Patreon recently scooped up high-profile Substack writers.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52834195

https://archive.is/je5sj

“If adopted, these amendments would not simplify compliance but hollow out the GDPR’s and ePrivacy’s core guarantees: purpose limitation, accountability, and independent oversight,” Itxaso Dominguez de Olazabal, from the European Digital Rights group, told EUobserver.

The draft includes adjustments to what is considered “personal data,” a key component of the GDPR and protected by Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.