Interestingly the European Rail Passengers Union (@erpu@eupolicy.social) isn’t wholly positive; see this thread: https://eupolicy.social/@erpu/116566721075134554

Apparently it’s still going to be quite a bit of work to find the best place to buy a ticket if your trip crosses more than one border, and your existing discounts are unlikely to apply.

Still, it will hopefully be an improvement over the situation today.

I was thinking “woah, time doesn’t pass that fast”, but this time, it actually doesn’t. Snowden’s whistleblowing was in 2013, so 13 years ago.

It’s a trap! After you’ve signed this, every other petition you will encounter will make you wonder why you signed this one, but wouldn’t sign that one. You’ll be signing petitions for the rest of your life!

“The government should prevent people from seeing this” is promoting censorship. Suggesting people ignore something is just a boycott.

The one vote was just an amendment, the actual extension was rejected by a clear majority.

You might even stand a chance against the Danish!

It’s only downside is that it’s chunky.

Nuh-uh - it can land pointy-side up, that’s a big downside for someone as clumsy as I am.

IIRC modern mines automatically deactivate after some time?

Is trade not one end receiving money? Is it not leverage that we could stop that trade?

I’m not even reading the article, this is such a dumb premise that comes up every time. If Europe was forced to compete as a single nation, we’d have a lot fewer participants. And then there’s just the fact that counting medals is kinda dumb anyway, since some sports have may more medals than others - a country that specialises in ice skating will often be good at many types of it, be it 500m, 1000m, etc.

Heh, are you saying relations with Israel are worse than those with Hamas? And which of those two (note: that’s Israel and Hamas, not “Arab territories”) is at the receiving end of most European money?

The main thing about Israel/Palestine is that Europe (and especially the US) has significant leverage over one of the parties, which gives it more responsibility for its transgressions.

Wait, what word? Culture?

Note that I wasn’t talking about European culture specifically, or any specific culture, for that matter. Just that your environment shaped you, and thus you can feel some pride for what that environment also begat. Pride needn’t be reserved for the extreme right.

The culture that made that happen also played a role in making you who you are. It’s OK to be proud of that.

(And likewise, it’s good to correct for how your culture influenced you in ways that you aren’t proud of. For example, it took me a long time to realise what Black Peter must look like from the outside.)

My hot take is that at the same time, our “institutional dysfunction” has been what has protected us from going all the way down the path to fascism. Strong leaders that get things done quickly usually aren’t great for democracy.

Ah OK. If all you’re saying is “be aware of the risk while you use it”, then I can get behind that.

How? The clients can only notice if the API works as specified. The server can constantly be replaced without anybody noticing.

See the link I posted before about the secure enclave. (Note that I could’ve been clearer before: it’s not specifically the Signal client app that needs to detect server tampering; any software could.)

So you know the problems of the servers.

So what are you saying? Don’t use anything that has a server? (To be fair, I think it’s a good idea to have pure peer-to-peer apps installed as well, but for most situations that would still just come down to “do not communicate digitally at all”.)

What could a client detect? Signal is a US company and will comply with the government. The server can’t be trusted.

As mentioned before, it could detect that the server is not running the published source code. So long as it’s untampered with, and the published source code is trusted, the server can be trusted. And again, for message encryption that is only an additional layer of protection; the messages are encrypted before reaching the server, so even if the server was malicious, it still couldn’t see the contents. That’s the whole point.

They can detect if a different app was installed from the store on their phone

I think you’re conflating points here - the detection was about detecting whether the server had been tampered with.

I’m not sure what specifically you’re arguing for, here. It would’ve been nice for Signal to not have been in the US, and it can be coerced to stop working altogether, but your communication is at least as safe as any other app, at least the ones of comparable usability. Or are you’re just saying we’re all lost anyway and we might just as well give up and communicate via public Twitter posts?

I don’t think this is a matter of being OK with it to anyone. It’s more a matter of there barely being any positive real-world effects of a condemnation, and plenty of negative ones. (Which is not to say I wouldn’t have liked a condemnation, but I’m just not sure what it would have brought us.)

Which server?

The server running Signal’s server-side code.

People don’t control their phone. There is no way of knowing if the installed app is the one that is running.

Some do, and that’s the point: if there’s an attempt at tampering, interested security researchers can detect it.