Luca Alloatti

· 5mo ago

The European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu) posted this morning about protecting young Europeans in "digital spaces."

Meanwhile commission.europa.eu runs on Amazon CloudFront, with a TLS certificate issued by Amazon, exposing every visitor to foreign data collection (CLOUD Act, FISA 702).

Full legal breakdown in my reply:
@luca@mastodon.luca-alloatti.eu

Max Schrems and @noybeu@mastodon.social have done the legal heavy lifting on why US servers in the EU don't fix this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems#Schrems_II

#DigitalSovereignty

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@EUCommission

Thanks for being here.

Being in the Fediverse is a courageous and healthy decision because:

the Fediverse is open to real criticism, with no algorithms to dampen it
you can't buy followers, ads or amplification

That's a step in the right direction.

Next you may:

Put the Mastodon icon on commission.europa.eu (ideally in first position before X and FB)
Encourage/mandate Fediverse presence across all PAs

Any of these would be a real anniversary gift to the Fediverse.

· 5mo ago

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@EUCommission

Europe stands united indeed.

United also to ignore:

The Israeli genocide in #Gaza
The illegal US-Israeli attack on #Iran

@EC_DIGIT@ec.social-network.europa.eu

· 4mo ago

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"EU Open Source Strategy" - watch the numbers:

the Chips Act 2.0 text contains zero mentions of open-source. The term "open foundry" means "production capacity [open] to unrelated undertakings".
the Chips Act 2.0 Annex contains zero mentions of open-silicon, zero mentions of open PDK, two mentions of open-source EDA (next to onboarding "major EDA tool providers").

Weren't there better options at a fraction of the budget? See F-Si roadmap: https://wiki.f-si.org/images/1/19/Recommendations_and_roadmap_open_silicon_2023_11_03.pdf

wiki.f-si.org

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/kommentar-von-der-leyen-sendet-ein-fatales-signal-an-big-tech/ -by @kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de

· 4mo ago

What is wrong with @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu ?

#VonDerLeyen stopped a ready-to-issue billion-euro fine against Google:

Years of work sabotaged right at the top. We have a cancer at the heart of Europe!

If this is what the EC truly wants, why would anyone believe its rhetoric on the #ChipsAct and chip independence?

Our experience fits the same pattern. We had an EU project to promote open hardware, but we felt boycotted at every corner:
https://wiki.f-si.it/index.php?title=GoIT_Project

· 6mo ago

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@EUCommission Thanks for the reminder. I hope you will also remember soon the ongoing genocide in #Gaza and the ongoing illegal aggression by USrael against #Iran -it's never too late. Silent acceptance, if not outright complicity, in crimes like these is precisely what triggers the terrorist attacks you now condemn.

· 5mo ago

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@EUCommission Oh no. Back at it. https://mastodon.luca-alloatti.eu/@luca/116431618029041774 Justice and free speech, until Washington orders otherwise.

Luca Alloatti: "The European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-…" - Mastodon

· 5mo ago

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@AliceStollmeyer@eupolicy.social Thanks for spreading the voice! That's a small but significant step in the right direction. PS: this is the original announcement: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116538344713848285

eupolicy.social

Hannah Grace: "Excited to announce that the @EUCommission@ec.soc…" - EUpolicy.social - A Mastodon server for the EU bubble

· 5mo ago

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The reason Israel can get away with every international law violation is not failure of international law. It is the failure of our countries (Italy, Germany, most of the EU) which have decided non-enforcement.

If Italy (or other countries) decided to escort the Sumud Flotilla with a military ship, it is nearly certain that the remaining #Sumud would reach its destination, but #Meloni CANNOT do that -which is very telling about the level of corruption of our system. ...

· 8mo ago

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@Gerbsen@gruene.social google :( https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems/F33370672_en Software Freedom Institute: ..it seems they took down the direct URLs. Best thing: use the scraper and analyze. I have a local GPU + RAG, but Claude would probably serve you well too -it's public data anyhow.

· 8mo ago

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The feedback about #OpenSource from Italian's #PagoPa (a company that manages the payment system for public administrations): "[..] we invite the European Commission to promote reporting standards that recognize the value of open source assets beyond mere accounting capitalization, highlighting the systemic savings and value they generate for citizens and businesses." https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems/F33370560_en

· 8mo ago

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@Gerbsen@gruene.social Yes, it turned into a 20M funding call about open-source EDA. Problem is the text of the call was influenced by an entity co-funded by big-EDA companies. That part of the EC (we learned it is very heterogeneous) wrote that their roadmap "should be considered in proposals". But that roadmap hints to permissive licences: https://mastodon.f-si.org/@fsi/114195435799425146

mastodon.f-si.org

· 8mo ago

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@Gerbsen@gruene.social ..sorry, my mistake, URLs are still alive: Software Freedom Institute: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems/F33370170_en

· 8mo ago

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@Gerbsen@gruene.social ...and, to remain on the topic, this is our contribution: Free Silicon Foundation: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems/F33370647_en We noticed that there were almost no contributions about hardware.