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autonomousPunk

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  • Public Prosecutors identify all 54 cyclists who ignored red light at Tour of Flanders level crossing

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  • min fine €400.. yikes. I don’t see from the video how they could ID all those riders. Some of their numbers were showing.. probably not all. I never heard of a “level crossing”. Apparently that means rail crossing?

    I would hope they aren’t this harsh on urban cyclists running reds at street intersections.

  • Law @europe.pub
    autonomousPunk @belgae.social

    🇧🇪🇵🇸 Belgian municipalities have the power to strip Belgian nationality. Should that power even exist? Shouldn’t it at least be reserved for the fed?

    www.federaalombudsman.be /en/respecting-the-legal-powers-relating-to-nationality
  • Human migration, immigration, emigration, deportation, expatriation, customs (ICE), etc 🗺🛃🪪 @slrpnk.net
    autonomousPunk @belgae.social

    🇧🇪🇵🇸 Belgian Immigration Office sent ltrs to Belgian municipalities asking them to withdraw the Belgian nationality from children born in Belgium to parents of Palestinian origin.

    www.federaalombudsman.be /en/respecting-the-legal-powers-relating-to-nationality

  • 🇧🇪 2024 Belgian law (accidentally?) bans exclusive publication on platforms of shitty US gatekeepers (Facebook, Cloudflare, Twitter, MS LinkedIn, etc) by federal public agencies

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  • European Tech Sovereignty @europe.pub
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    the EU: if you want the official EU passenger rights smartphone app, you must first lick the boots of Google or Apple, where our app is exclusively available

    europa.eu /youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-rights/index_en.htm
  • Digital Fiefdom (aka walled-garden) Required 🏰 @lemmy.sdf.org
    autonomousPunk @belgae.social

    the EU: if you want the official EU passenger rights smartphone app, you must first lick the boots of Google or Apple, where our app is exclusively available

    europa.eu /youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-rights/index_en.htm
  • European Tech Sovereignty @europe.pub
    autonomousPunk @belgae.social

    DG MOVE repeatedly touts their (illegal?) use of Twitter in official reports

    web.archive.org /web/20240920054016/commission.europa.eu/document/download/617688ef-e49f-4a6c-a1ec-7cd756b37c8d_en
  • Law @europe.pub
    autonomousPunk @belgae.social

    🇧🇪 2024 Belgian law (accidentally?) bans exclusive publication on platforms of shitty US gatekeepers (Facebook, Cloudflare, Twitter, MS LinkedIn, etc) by federal public agencies

  • Open Data 📖📡 @lemmy.sdf.org
    autonomousPunk @belgae.social

    🇧🇪 2024 Belgian law (accidentally?) bans exclusive publication on platforms of shitty US gatekeepers (Facebook, Cloudflare, Twitter, MS LinkedIn, etc) by federal public agencies

  • What kind of shenanigans is the IT guy for the Belgian House of Representives using to enshitify their PDF links?

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  • Thanks for the insight. Apparently Mozilla is okay with this.

    I suspect it violates open data law to impose JS execution as a precondition to reaching public documents.

  • Breaking free: European digital rights groups start new campaign to reduce dependency on big tech and warn about the risks of deregulation

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  • I gave some feedback here, but wanted to give video ideas (in vain of course because the Norwegian Consumer Council is not here in Lemmy.

    Would have been great if one of the high-up enshitifiers were giving a seminar to the staff to emphasize how consumers are pushovers. They really missed something important. He could have said “just throw more CAPTCHAs at them.. they will solve them... the consumers have no spine, which is great for us!”

    Would also be cool if they did a more serious Michael Moore style documentary, where they cover historic enshitification, such as British mail delayers (that is, there used to be a job where a human would look at how fast postal mail was being delivered and if lower class mail would be delivered as fast as 1st class mail, they would deliberately hold it back). And Intel who deliberately crippled their CPUs to clock at slower speeds than the chips were capable of. There are countless examples like this.

  • expired food in Belgium -- legal to sell?

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  • The only reason beer is ever refrigerated is to sell it to people who want to drink it cold right away after purchase. The dates are always /best before/ dates on beer.

    So IIUC, the grocer could have legally sold me the beer. In principle, a grocer could care about quality and decide not to sell anything past the /best before/ date.. Though I am skeptical that that would happen. The impression I got was that the staff at the grocery store did not even think about what kind of date it was.. just saw the date had passed and thus would not sell it.

    So I have to wonder what happened to the clip of beer. The sensible thing for them to do is to put a -50% sticker on it, as they do with other beers that are just slow to move. I hope they did not pour it down a drain.

  • The Enshittificator

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  • Grabbed the PDF and commented over here with:

    The Norweigans missed the most important (and easiest!) action:

    • Public services themselves need to get off Facebook & Twitter. If they can’t walk the walk and take their own advice, it’s not just an optical embarrassment. As someone who already boycotts the shitty gatekeepers (Cloudflare, google, ms, fb, apple, twtr), I am already free from enshittification --- except when I must interact with a public service.

    WTF?! The only unmanagable evil force I must deal with comes from the gov itself, who imposes shitty gatekeepers in the course of doing public tasks. I can’t boycott the government.

    Belgian public services ALL use Microsoft for their email. So you should do everything on paper in Belgium. But what do they do? They scan paper letter/form/submissions and then they email it to themselves via Microsoft’s server. I shit you not. Microsoft is inescapable even by the most disciplined. And it’s only because the government itself will not ditch the motherfuckers.

    Exceptionally, it’s somewhat redeeming that the Norweigans mention that public services should use open source. But that just scratches the surface. The very first thing they should do is get off Facebook and Twitter.

  • Breaking free: European digital rights groups start new campaign to reduce dependency on big tech and warn about the risks of deregulation

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  • The Norweigans missed the most important (and easiest!) action:

    • Public services themselves need to get off Facebook & Twitter. If they can’t walk the walk and take their own advice, it’s not just an optical embarrassment. As someone who already boycotts the shitty gatekeepers (Cloudflare, google, ms, fb, apple, twtr), I am already free from enshittification --- except when I must interact with a public service.

    WTF?! The only unmanagable evil force I must deal with comes from the gov itself, who imposes shitty gatekeepers in the course of doing public tasks. I can’t boycott the government.

    Belgian public services ALL use Microsoft for their email. So you should do everything on paper in Belgium. But what do they do? They scan paper letter/form/submissions and then they email it to themselves via Microsoft’s server. I shit you not. Microsoft is inescapable even by the most disciplined. And it’s only because the government itself will not ditch the motherfuckers.

    Exceptionally, it’s somewhat redeeming that the Norweigans mention that public services should use open source. But that just scratches the surface. The very first thing they should do is get off Facebook and Twitter.