An important victory – but we still need to stop Chat Control. The Council of Ministers in the EU has, after three years, now reached a common position on Chat Control. The requirement for mandatory scanning (including end-to-end encrypted messaging services) has been removed,

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People have been asking what happens to ONCE now that Fizzy is both SaaS and Open Source? Are we going to make any more ONCE products? First some quick background. In September of 2023 we announced ONCE. ONCE was the reintroduction of an old idea. Rather than subscribe to

Imagine getting mad because 37signals opened the source code of their newest product but kept the right to monetize it. I will never understand people like this. If they kept the source code closed (like literally every single saas builder does), nobody would have complained.

Europe can't fine or regulate its way back to technological relevance. Monopoly interventions must be based on simple economics. Having Brussels design the color of the checkmark is retarded. The DSA, DMA, and even GPDR has got to go. Full reboot required.

"These should all be sobering numbers to any European. Whether it's the 10K/yr arrests in the UK for social media posts or the risk of an economy that's half the size of the American in a decade. But Europe isn't doomed to fulfill this tragic destiny." world.hey.com/dhh/europe-is-…

The European Commission lost the Chat Control 2.0 battle over access to end-to-end encrypted data. By the summer 2026, they will be back with their next attempt: Going Dark. This time some EU member states want to include VPN services. The Going Dark initiative, or ProtectEU as

🎧 Recorded a new morning walk this morning, hard one to share because I'm sure people will want to roast me for it but have been transparent up until now so publishing it anyways.

Het is bevestigd: 🇧🇪 stemde vóór het privacy-dodende #ChatControl voorstel in de Raad van de EU. ➡️ "No pasarán" en "we blijven ons verzetten", klopte Michael Freilich zich op de borst. ➡️ "❌ ChatControl. Promises made, promises kept", bejubelde Theo Francken zichzelf. ➡️ "De

Yesterday a quasi-judicial body in Italy fined Cloudflare $17 million for failing to go along with their scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any

De #ChatControl - Leugen: Op 3/12/25 ondervroeg ik Minister Quintin over het stemgedrag van BE in de raad: 'ons land heeft geen standpunt ingenomen' 🤐 Wie is tegen? BE zwijgt 🤐 Wie onthoudt? BE zwijgt België heeft zich NIET verzet of onthouden. Zwijgen is toestemmen. De

En dus,…België heeft voor ChatControl gestemd. Wat een ongelooflijke schande. Niet alleen is er niet met hand en tand gevochten om dit gedrocht tegen te houden. Maar ook omdat er glashard is gelogen over hoe er gestemd werd. En mocht je het niet weten: ChatControl is

Over #ChatControl. Theo Francken en Jeroen Bergers🎗️ proberen zich eruit te spinnen met semantische haarkloverij (Michael Freilich, MP hult zich in stilzwijgen). Er zou niet gestemd zijn over #ChatControl zeggen ze, en België zou zich sowieso onthouden (vroeger gingen ze tegenstemmen

File over app is a pact between user and maker. Trust comes from the fact that you can easily leave.

The amount of crap I get for putting out a hobby project for free is quite something. People treat this like a multi-million dollar business. Security researchers demanding a bounty. Heck, I can barely buy a Mac Mini from the Sponsors. It's supposed to inspire people. And I'm

Spain looked at the UK's 12,000 arrests/year for online wrongthink and thought "great idea, but let's also prosecute the platforms that let them speak". Catastrophically bad direction for Spain (and Europe).

Europe must stop trying to do everything, everywhere, all at once. There is a clear trinity of top priorities: innovation, productivity and competitiveness. That is where our focus must be. If not, the decarbonisation of Europe will become synonymous with its

In Antwerp, at the European Industrial Summit, I’m delivering a clear message: If Europe doesn’t adapt and accelerate its strategic autonomy, it will become the adjustment market for its competitors. To prevent that, we must simplify rules and deepen the single market

Today marks exactly four years since Putin started his three-day push to take Kyiv. And that says a great deal about our resistance, about how Ukraine has fought all this time. Behind those words stand millions of our people, immense courage, incredibly hard work, endurance, and

sent this to the team today everything great comes from being able to delay gratification for as long as possible and it feels like we're collectively losing our ability to do that