overview for Blaze

Federation post, welcome to the new community! in c/ask@piefed.social

[–] Blaze 3 points 6 days ago

feddiit.nl

Federation thread in c/lego@piefed.social

[–] Blaze 2 points 1 week ago

feddit.nl

Test post to federate from major instances in c/television@piefed.social

[–] Blaze 2 points 1 week ago

Feddit.nl

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Administrative court: Cookie banner must contain "Reject all" button (www.heise.de)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Blaze to c/europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com

5 comments fedilink

cross-posted from: https://piefed.jeena.net/post/172622

The "Accept all" button is often the standard for cookie banners. An administrative court has ruled that the opposite offer is also necessary. > > Lower Saxony's data protection officer Denis Lehmkemper can report a legal victory in his long-standing battle against manipulatively designed cookie banners. The Hanover Administrative Court has confirmed his legal opinion in a judgment of March 19 that has only just been made public: Accordingly, website operators must offer a clearly visible "reject all" button on the first level of the corresponding banner for cookie consent requests if there is also the frequently found "accept all" option. Accordingly, cookie banners must not be specifically designed to encourage users to click on consent and must not prevent them from rejecting the controversial browser files.

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Be quiet! (German) enters the keyboard market (www.bequiet.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Blaze to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

48 comments fedilink

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Dutch TV show Lubach warns about dangers of government dependence of the USA cloud - go Lidl (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Blaze to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

2 comments fedilink

The popular Dutch tv show Lubach mentions dangers of dependence on USA cloud services.

Alternatives mentioned: Proton OVHCloud Upcloud

And now the big alternative: Lidl cloud.

Europe on lemmy.dbzer0.com needs mods in c/europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] Blaze 3 points 3 weeks ago

Nice!

Luxchat, a messaging app developed in Luxembourg, based on Matrix in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

[–] Blaze 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They are not, see this comment : https://feddit.org/post/12874767/6782226

EU directives must be implemented in each EU member state, which the EU then verifies. Is that done in English? in c/Europe@europe.pub

[–] Blaze 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Open data obligation does not imply availability via Tor

EU directives must be implemented in each EU member state, which the EU then verifies. Is that done in English? in c/Europe@europe.pub

[–] Blaze 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The alternative is to use the PDFs provided by the Moniteur belge.

EU directives must be implemented in each EU member state, which the EU then verifies. Is that done in English? in c/Europe@europe.pub

[–] Blaze 1 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

In Belgium it’s especially a mess because many of the official websites that “publish” laws are access restricted (e.g. Tor users often denied access).

Browse the websites without Tor

Luxchat, a messaging app developed in Luxembourg, based on Matrix in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

[–] Blaze 5 points 3 weeks ago

How ready is Element for the general audience?

I use Element daily, and it can be confusing enough that average users would probably stop using it when they have to choose a server, or when that server have issues with images, or when they can't read a message because the room is end-to-end encrypted but they need to reverify another person's key.

For the context, LuxChat is the general audience version of LuxChat4Gov, a fork of Element created by the Luxembourgish government for the public servants: https://mindigital.gouvernement.lu/fr/luxchat4gov.html (France has a similar app with https://www.tchap.gouv.fr/ ). The objective was to provide public servant a messaging app that would not rely on Google, Apple, Meta or Microsoft.

LuxChat and LuxChat4Gov are managed by LU-CIX Management G.I.E. G.I.E stands for Groupe d'Intérêt Economique, which is not a company

The EIG is not a company: a company is a group which also has a legal purpose, that of “pooling something with a view to sharing the profit which may or may not result from it” (article 1832 of the Civil Code).

https://www.fiduciaire-lpg.lu/fr/publications/droit-des-societes/le-gie-groupement-dinteret-economique

If you look at the composition of LU-CIX, you can see different types of entities, including the CTIE (Centre de Technologie de l'information de l'Etat), which is the IT Service of the Luxembourgish government.

https://www.lu-cix.lu/about-us/lu-cix-management-gie/

On a public perception level, LuxChat is targeted towards companies and individuals, and is backed by the government. If you are a Luxembourgish company and are looking for an alternative to Whatsapp, are you going to trust more an app backed by the Lux governement, and that has been reworked to make it easier to use, or Element, for which you have to trust a server anyway, and figure out how it works.

All your concerns remain valid from a technical perspective. The people behind info-luxchat[at]lu-cix[dot]lu may have some answers.

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Luxchat, a messaging app developed in Luxembourg, based on Matrix (www.luxchat.lu)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Blaze to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

7 comments fedilink

Luxchat4Gov and Luxchat for the general public and businesses are interoperable national instant messaging services, based on the Matrix technology.

Matrix is an open standardized protocol for instant communication, developed by a large, mainly European community, and supported by a foundation, The matrix.org Foundation, guaranteeing the sustainability of the key principles and foundations of the Matrix technology.

https://www.luxchat.lu/en/technical-details/

Fixables: Dutch electronics giant Phillips has started offering open source replacement parts for you to 3D print in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk