Wanting to buy a new motorcycle GPS and realizing that neither @Garmin nor @TomTom offers software to create your own routes: Check ✅
Tip: Don't invest in these companies, they're going to collapse soon 📉
L'Europe déteste l'innovation. Surtout quand elle remet en cause l'hégémonie du vieux système bancaire. Par contre pour faire des bouteilles avec un bouchon collé sur ta gueule quand tu bois, là ils sont très forts!
Esto es Europa en estado puro. El Banco Central Europeo frenó permisos a Revolut para sacar nuevos productos financieros porque el BCE está "preocupado sobre la rapidez con la que el banco digital saca nuevos productos"
Revolut, que lo que tiene son tarjetas de crédito y préstamos al consumo le parece muy rápido al BCE 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 Prefieren bancos atestados de gente que parecen oficinas del siglo XX donde aún hacen fotocopias.
https://t.co/zu21ttLqJR a través de @ft
[Marco Simoncelli – San Carlo Honda Gresini, 9th in the championship, former 250 world champion & Mugello winner. Tough start for you]
Simoncelli: Eh, what? 🤔
[I said: tough start in MotoGP]
Simoncelli: Yes, of course. I was sleeping! 😅
@davkanar@MotoetGPaddict En effet, sans nouveaux dégagements, c'est hors de question mais je ne désespère pas de voir ça un jour, ne fut-ce que pour le WSBK :p
@davkanar@MotoetGPaddict Suicidaire, carrément 😅
Il "suffit" d'y prévoir des dégagements adéquats.
Tant que le budget de ce circuit est consacré à la F1, ça ne se fera pas mais maintenant qu'elle n'y sera plus qu'1 fois/2 ans, il va p-e avoir du changement 🤞
So-called age verification for social media is spreading across the world, framed as an effort to create a safer internet for children. In reality, age verification lays the foundation for a fully controlled internet.
The age verification rush must be slowed down, and politicians need to recognize the consequences of different types of legislation and systems.
Age verification is the wrong approach to fix “the social media problem”
The big tech social media companies are bad. Their business model is bad; it is based on mass surveillance and manipulation, and they cooperate with governments in mapping entire populations. But age verification is fundamentally the wrong approach to preventing children from using big tech social media platforms. Introducing age verification is based on coercion; the state forces social media companies to verify their users’ identities. But the big tech social media platforms already know which of their users are children. Their business model depends on knowing this. They know how old users are, and they know exactly what type of person they are. As age verification is based on coercion, politicians could instead force platforms to stop doing the things politicians consider harmful to children, or force them to block children (again, they know who they are) from using their services. But instead, politicians seek to massively invade everyone’s privacy and undermine democratic rights on a global scale. In other words, the latter is the real objective – they do not want to protect children; they want to impose control.
Slippery slope of age verification
It is undeniable that age verification threatens freedom of expression, risks increasing mass surveillance, and is likely to lead to censorship. It will not only shrink the online world and reduce young people’s right to privacy (for example, if VPN services were to be restricted); but also risks becoming a significant step toward a controlled internet for everyone.
Most age verification is identity verification
Most countries are now considering introducing age verification systems, meaning that everyone would have to identify themselves either to the service/website they want to use or to a third party capable of linking them to their activity on that service or website. This is not age verification but identity verification, and the consequence is therefore that freedom of information is restricted (you can no longer visit regulated websites anonymously) and that you can no longer post anonymously on social media. This is a major problem in countries like the UK and Germany where the police conduct raids on people’s homes for posting content on social media that the authorities dislike. Or in the United States, where authorities are trying to pressure tech companies into revealing the identities behind accounts protesting ICE. Social media identity verification removes important tools for activists in countries where criticizing those in power is dangerous.
Restrictions on app store or operating system level
Some countries are looking to impose identity verification at the app store level or even within the operating system itself. This is an exciting experiment, since this is possible to circumvent using open-source operating systems. Some countries are already looking to include open-source systems. Since open-source systems cannot be controlled, politicians would ultimately need to ban devices that are not controlled by the state. The end point: telescreens like those in Orwell’s 1984, devices that both monitor you and broadcast only the information approved by the state.
The Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) alternative and the EU
The EU has presented its own age verification app as “completely anonymous”. The idea is to use Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) cryptography to break the link between the age credential issuer (EU governments) and the regulated services/sites. Currently, the EU app does not have ZKP functionality, contrasting Ursula von der Leyen’s claim that the app ”is technically ready to be used”. But more importantly, the app is currently designed to always function without ZKP technology; if ZKP is unavailable, the app falls back to a non-ZKP model. Even if fully developed ZKP technology could be implemented in the future, it would remain an optional extra feature that countries may choose to disable and that the EU could remove at any time.
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@ladh "C'est déjà hard pour les automobilistes, c'est pire pour les cyclistes, obligés de slalomer entre les trous sous peine de crever ou de chuter"
Ne pas parvenir à éviter les trous à vélo🤦
Qu'il essaye d'imaginer ce que c'est pour les motards alors🙄(S'il en connaît l'existence)