Interested in learning more about Arrow Fx and Arrow Optics for #Kotlin? Watch this interview with core maintainers Raúl Raja and Simon Vergauwen for more:

Introducing Helios, a purely functional #Json parser for Kotlin by JetBrains built on top of Λrrow's core. Simon Vergauwen explains more, and check out Adrian Ramirez Fornell's post for a quick rundown on getting started: buff.ly/2KHcgo9

Mobile brownbag day one more time 🎉. Today Simon Vergauwen talked about accessibility. The talk was awesome, touching and enlightening for me. I truly believe we should grow awareness of accessibility needs in any company we work for. Thanks Filip Maelbrancke for the slides! 👏

Now Zerodium is paying $2.5 million for Android full chains (iOS chains still at $2M) as Google/Samsung have considerably improved their security. iOS chains (1-click) e.g via Safari reduced to $1M as there’s a bunch of them on the market, sad but true. mobile.twitter.com/Zerodium/statu…

CloudState, an Open Source Serverless Framework for Knative/Kubernetes bit.ly/302fVRe by Diogo Carleto 🇮🇹🇧🇷

We are in the first stages of a long anti-encryption march by the upper echelons of the European Union, headed directly toward Europeans’ digital front-doors. eff.org/deeplinks/2020…

Arrow 1.0 - the stable release of #ArrowKT is officially here! - Multiplatform support - Computation expressions - New additions to Fx, Optics, & Meta Massive thanks to EVERY contributor as well as 47deg & Instil! Get all the details here: 47deg.com/blog/arrow-1-0… #Kotlin

EFF Tells E.U. Commission: Don't Break Encryption eff.org/deeplinks/2022…

In collaboration with 335 top level scientists and multiple non-governmental organizations, I have drafted and signed an open letter that meticulously underscores these significant risks and presents concrete suggestions for mitigating these issues. nce.mpi-sp.org/index.php/s/cG… 🧵1/7

Europe is maybe two months from passing laws that end private communication as we know it, and folks are looking the other way (understandably.) You’re not going to get a do-over once these laws are passed.

Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU. 🧵1/11 mullvad.net/why-privacy-ma…

The Belgian presidency has drafted yet another tweaked #chatcontrol proposal. In summary, the proposal remains completely unacceptable. TLDR: All the problems pointed our in our open letters are still there nce.mpi-sp.org/index.php/s/eq… & docs.google.com/document/d/13A… 🧵1/6

📣Official statement: the new EU chat controls proposal for mass scanning is the same old surveillance with new branding. Whether you call it a backdoor, a front door, or “upload moderation” it undermines encryption & creates significant vulnerabilities signal.org/blog/pdfs/uplo…

The European Council has taken a proposal to force mandatory scanning of all photos and videos sent through private messengers (including encrypted messengers like Signal) and they’ve rebranded it as “upload moderation.” The implication is that it’s voluntary when it’s not.

Latest proposal for chatcontrol leaked via Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/upl… "Art 10a Technologies for upload moderation. In order to implement this Regulation, providers of interpersonal communication services shall install and operate technologies... 1/4

EU apparatchiks aim to sneak a terrifying mass surveillance measure into law despite UNIVERSAL public opposition (no thinking person wants this) by INVENTING A NEW WORD for it—"upload moderation"—and hoping no one learns what it means until it's too late. Stop them, Europe!

Omdat sommige mensen mij gevraagd hebben wat ze kunnen doen: bijvoorbeeld een brief of email schrijven naar onze ministers, zodat ze weten hoe u denkt over #chatcontrol (dutch only sorry - inspired by EDRI letter)

About 250 scientists from 31 countries have signed another open letter homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~preneel/Open_… criticizing the latest EU #chatcontrol draft patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/upl…. The letter confirms 2 earlier letters from July 2023 edri.org/wp-content/upl… and May 2024 nce.mpi-sp.org/index.php/s/eq…

#chatcontrol was removed from the agenda last week which was seen as a small victory. But this week Orban has put it back on the agenda. In the mean time our letter explaining why #chatcontrol is a terrible idea has been signed by more than 350 experts homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~preneel/Open_…

European Council: We’re debating a historic law that will massively change the privacy expectations for 447 million people, and create a surveillance regime unparalleled in world history. European press: The only articles you’ll see about this are random blog posts.