Here we go again. Uk government issues a new order for Apple to decrypt data it can’t decrypt by design. Why the fuck is our government so determined to fuck up everything fucking thing it touches? Locking pensioners up for holding bits of cardboard. Digital id cards. Porn licenses. Websites blocking the uk rather than comply with stupid rules. No wonder Starmer’s the least popular PM in history (and we had Liz Truss as PM)

#ukpolitics #apple #adp #encryption #fuckwits #privacy

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c740r0m4mzjo

Here we go again. Uk government issues a new order for Apple to decrypt data it can’t decrypt by design. Why the fuck is our government so determined to fuck up everything fucking thing it touches? Locking pensioners up for holding bits of cardboard. Digital id cards. Porn licenses. Websites blocking the uk rather than comply with stupid rules. No wonder Starmer’s the least popular PM in history (and we had Liz Truss as PM)

#ukpolitics #apple #adp #encryption #fuckwits #privacy

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c740r0m4mzjo

We have to stop the Google/Apple mobile duopoly. And we have to stop the marching enshittification of society. More concretely, we have to fight back against Google's attempt to lock-down the whole Android ecosystem.

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

This is something that any sane regulatory body should forbid.

#google #apple #android #aosp #fdroid #privacy #security #enshittification #surveillance #mobile #politics

Dither Me This ─ Convert your images to retro-style dithered pixels…

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#TeamHoi #PixelArt #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #commodore #amiga #sinclair #ZXSpectrum #apple #computers #computing #1980s #1990s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital #DigitalArt #graphics #CGI #design #artwork #art #artist #arte #arts #GraphicDesign #MastoArt #CreativeToots #nintendo #gameboy #WebDev #web

Dither Me This ─ Convert your images to retro-style dithered pixels…

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#TeamHoi #PixelArt #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #commodore #amiga #sinclair #ZXSpectrum #apple #computers #computing #1980s #1990s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital #DigitalArt #graphics #CGI #design #artwork #art #artist #arte #arts #GraphicDesign #MastoArt #CreativeToots #nintendo #gameboy #WebDev #web

We have to stop the Google/Apple mobile duopoly. And we have to stop the marching enshittification of society. More concretely, we have to fight back against Google's attempt to lock-down the whole Android ecosystem.

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

This is something that any sane regulatory body should forbid.

#google #apple #android #aosp #fdroid #privacy #security #enshittification #surveillance #mobile #politics

the fact that Apple and Google are both lobbying hard against the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) gives me the sense that it's working as intended

#apple #google #DMA #EU

My message to the corporate sociopaths is:

Go to hell #Microsoft
Let me alone #Apple
Go diving #Google
Just shut up #Meta and #Alphabet.
Watch the daysies from below #TikTok
And #Amazon, I hope your plastik crap get‘s stuck in your corporate throat and floats all your warehouses with your own poison. Fuck you #Claude and #OpenAI.

Just go to hell, you creepy nasty corporate assholes.

I am now moving to #linux to use me own software and I will use old and second hand computers.

Game Over.

My message to the corporate sociopaths is:

Go to hell #Microsoft
Let me alone #Apple
Go diving #Google
Just shut up #Meta and #Alphabet.
Watch the daysies from below #TikTok
And #Amazon, I hope your plastik crap get‘s stuck in your corporate throat and floats all your warehouses with your own poison. Fuck you #Claude and #OpenAI.

Just go to hell, you creepy nasty corporate assholes.

I am now moving to #linux to use me own software and I will use old and second hand computers.

Game Over.

My message to the corporate sociopaths is:

Go to hell #Microsoft
Let me alone #Apple
Go diving #Google
Just shut up #Meta and #Alphabet.
Watch the daysies from below #TikTok
And #Amazon, I hope your plastik crap get‘s stuck in your corporate throat and floats all your warehouses with your own poison. Fuck you #Claude and #OpenAI.

Just go to hell, you creepy nasty corporate assholes.

I am now moving to #linux to use me own software and I will use old and second hand computers.

Game Over.

The EU Commission lashes out at Apple for wanting a landmark digital law scrapped.

The European Commission is “not surprised” Apple demanded the EU scrap its law that regulates tech companies.

“Apple has simply contested every little bit of the DMA [Digital Markets Act] since its entry into application,” said Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier.

“This undermines the company’s narrative of wanting to be fully cooperative with the Commission.”

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250925-the-eu-commission-lashes-out-at-apple-for-wanting-a-landmark-digital-law-scrapped?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Apple #EU #DMA #Tech

@pluralistic oh I forgot #Apple thrives on that captive market which a key to Apple's continued growth.
...finally a solid hit where it matters.

The Museum is hosting #Apple Day on Sunday, with our doors opening at 1pm - although you are welcome in the gardens before that!

Colin Hatch and his #heritage #engineering team will be working hard, crushing this year's harvest and answering any questions you may have.

#tradition

As someone who has worked in European #PublicAffairs on both sides, I can say without a doubt that threatening the #EU doesn't work.

Notwithstanding the ethical implications of this, it's just a bad public affairs strategy. You're in a staring competition against 27 countries and you're betting they'll all blink together before you do. That's a losing bet

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/25/apple-calls-for-changes-to-anti-monopoly-laws-and-says-it-may-stop-shipping-to-the-eu

#EUpol #apple #lobbying

Erschreckend: #appletv #apple setzt Serie #TheSavant mit Jessica #Chastain über rechtsextremen Terror in USA kurz vor Start ab.

https://www.rnd.de/medien/apple-tv-verschiebt-start-der-serie-the-savant-was-steckt-dahinter-CALPBKUDLNEOHEICORS2OVUK4M.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

The Museum is hosting #Apple Day on Sunday, with our doors opening at 1pm - although you are welcome in the gardens before that!

Colin Hatch and his #heritage #engineering team will be working hard, crushing this year's harvest and answering any questions you may have.

#tradition

The fight on ChatControl is not even over yet and another dystopian measure already looms at the horizon: age verification.

Among the many bad things about it: the proposed EU age verification app does not plan desktop support:

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/issues/22

Yes, you got it right. It will rely on the security attestation mechanism of the US mobile duopoly Google/Apple. So long for digital sovereignty.

This shall not pass.

#chatcontrol #ageverification #surveillance #privacy #dystopia #android #apple #google #eu #politics

The EU Commission lashes out at Apple for wanting a landmark digital law scrapped.

The European Commission is “not surprised” Apple demanded the EU scrap its law that regulates tech companies.

“Apple has simply contested every little bit of the DMA [Digital Markets Act] since its entry into application,” said Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier.

“This undermines the company’s narrative of wanting to be fully cooperative with the Commission.”

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250925-the-eu-commission-lashes-out-at-apple-for-wanting-a-landmark-digital-law-scrapped?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Apple #EU #DMA #Tech

As someone who has worked in European #PublicAffairs on both sides, I can say without a doubt that threatening the #EU doesn't work.

Notwithstanding the ethical implications of this, it's just a bad public affairs strategy. You're in a staring competition against 27 countries and you're betting they'll all blink together before you do. That's a losing bet

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/25/apple-calls-for-changes-to-anti-monopoly-laws-and-says-it-may-stop-shipping-to-the-eu

#EUpol #apple #lobbying