Its laughable that they talk about needing secure communication and security:

Our lives have become less secure, and this is increasingly felt by Europeans, whose perception of safety and security in the EU has been eroded to the point that, when asked about the future, 64 percent tend to be worried about the EU’s security.

Trust and secure handling are essential for information sharing, and this requires reliable and secure infrastructure

Investments in interoperable secure systems and reliable technology will reinforce the EU’s autonomy and strengthen the EU’s ability to manage crises and ensure operational resilience

And then making sure that there is no such thing as secure communication ever again.

the Commission will prioritise an assessment of the impact of data retention rules at EU level and the preparation of a Technology Roadmap on encryption, to identify and assess technological solutions that would enable law enforcement authorities to access encrypted data in a lawful manner, safeguarding cybersecurity and fundamental rights.

Basically, not a single person will have a right to any form of digital privacy. Any and all data is entirely open to being sucked up and harvested by whoever damn well pleases. If the good guys have keys to your encrypted data then anyone can have the keys to your encrypted data.

At the same time we are hearing that the EU wants to gut GDPR. So long as a company is ‘small’ who cares what they do.

Nothing will stop a bunch of tiny ‘companies’ all under some american monster or everyone at all involved in the advertising business can go on hoovering up and building whatever they like, whenever they damn well please.

All of this throws manure in the face of fundamental european freedoms:

Article 7: Respect for private and family life. Everyone has the right to respect for his or her private and family life, home and communications.

Article 8: Protection of personal data. Everyone has the right to the protection of personal data concerning him or her.

Can’t wait for the good-guy-law-enforcement in a putin-loving hostile-to-EU-interests state decides they need my communications because I shared a meme of how much a sack of shit Orban is.

They better not sell people out for american interests.

Hi! I want to be better informed, and looking at the link investigate.afsc it says

As far as we know, HP Inc is no longer involved in these activities.

I think when people refer to HP (HPQ) they think of ‘Hewlett Packard’, and therefore take the name to also mean Hewlett Packard Enterprise (“HPE”) but those appear to be two different things.

What I can summize is that HP build the teck prior to the split, which is now used by EntServ and DXC not part of HP. HP built a R&D center

It looks like the company continuously split and sold parts of it to get away from that legacy. By not demonstrating how they are not involved this shows a level of complicity.

If we start to look at the people in the companies, this will start to paint a different picture - Antonio Neri who is the President and CEO of HPE has been with HP since 1995. In 1997 he was ‘global director of HP’s imaging and printing services division’. In 2004 the company’s ‘PC services business’, then began ‘heading the technology services business’ in 2011. I wonder how he personally was involved in the things HP did during his time in these roles.

I had it today, I was with a friend and they got a notification “Hey! Youre quite close to us, come and have some food!”. I shudder to think the picture that is painted just by being in proximity to people that have zero regard for their data.

Isn’t enby closed source? Thats why Jellfyfin was created.

How is the general perception of emby? They’re closed source and US based.

Horrifying.

You are not wrong. China also uses much more energy than the EU overall, and has a much larger population as it industrializes. China has more than x3 the population but is building 4.5 times solar and wind. Reducing the amount of consumer goods the EU imports from China which they need energy to make can have a big impact on China pollution.

The EU as a whole stopped with coal quite a while ago (except poland, where it accounts for 40% of energy) and mostly relies on oil and gas. Around 69% all energy in the EU was produced from coal (14%), oil (32%) and gas (25%), with a 4.5% reduction in total energy due to the decrease of oil/gas from Russia. (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Energy_statistics_-_an_overview; https://www.iea.org/regions/europe filtered by EU27 member countries)

61% of China’s energy was coal, 18% was oil, and 8% was gas in the same time period or 77% in total. (https://www.iea.org/countries/china/energy-mix)

In 2024, China added 356 GW of wind and solar capacity – 4.5 times the EUʼs.

China has ways to go in bringing down its coal, but it is far outpacing the EU when adding new solar and wind capacity.

"China also put up 357 gigawatts of solar and wind, a 45% and 18% increase, respectively, over what was operating at the end of 2023, according to China’s National Energy Administration. That’s akin to building 357 full-size nuclear plants in one year.

The installations meant China surpassed a goal, six years early, of having 1,200 gigawatts from renewables by 2030, a benchmark Chinese President Xi Jinping set five years ago."

Helpful context that their solar and wind dwarfs coal.