VENERDI' PUNX AGAINST GENTRIFICATION

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Community-led open source project hosting site Codeberg has formally announced that projects whose code is largely or fully machine-generated through LLMs and other ‘AI’ tools will no longer be welcome. This follows on the heels of a similar ban on cryptocurrency-related projects.

The community vote was on two issues, the first being the notion that scraping of project code for the use in LLMs should be forbidden, which was a motion that easily passed. The second motion was on disallowing projects whose code was substantially generated by LLMs like Claude, OpenAI Codex, and similar. This motion passed with 358 in favor versus 144 against.

In the earlier linked blog post the reasoning behind especially this second issue is expanded upon, covering not only ‘license whitewashing’, but also the direct and indirect hardware costs, with the expanding ‘AI’ datacenter hyperscaling having massively increased hardware costs for Codeberg over the past years, as the costs have been largely externalized.

Also covered is also the aspect of these LLM-based tools destroying the OSS community, which is something that is backed up by recent studies. Even if we ignore that such LLM-tools are destroying the cognitive abilities of its users, there’s an argument to be made that if LLM-scraping is disallowed, then it’s consistent to also not allow LLM-generated code.

In the Terms of Use you can see these changes, both for LLMs and for cryptocurrency projects.

Thanks to [mk-fg] for the tip.

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Ribadiamo l'importanza dei luoghi che portano avanti la pratica dell'autogestione e della bella vita, inoltre ben al di fuori delle logiche del metodo capitalista.

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Barocchio squat presenta una semplice proposta per ribadire l'importanza della responsabilità individuale e collettiva sul tema dell'alimentazione, in specifico quella a base vegetale, come mezzo per portare avanti la liberazione animale in un contesto atroce che vede la mercificazione degli esseri animali per vari scopi beceri, come il divertimento, l'intrattenimento, secondo la logica di sfruttamento generale di questi ultimi.

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Dear Friend of Press Freedom:

One of the most important press freedom cases in the country deserves far more attention: Journalist Catherine Herridge has paid at least $4,000 in fines for refusing to reveal a confidential source, and she’ll owe even more unless the Supreme Court steps in. Plus: a new award for public records reporting, and the Justice Department’s subpoenas to The New York Times go down in flames.

New prize rewards making public records truly public

Are you a journalist who uses the Freedom of Information Act in your reporting? You could win $25,000.

This week, Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) launched the Penlight Prize, honoring outstanding paywall-free reporting based on public records. Inspired by our partnership with Wired to drop paywalls for articles based on public records — a huge success for that outlet — the award recognizes journalism that makes publicly funded documents and the reporting based on them available to everyone, not just subscribers.

We hope this award encourages more journalists to use FOIA and more news outlets to unlock their articles built on public records.

• Read more about the Penlight Prize

DOJ’s losing streak continues in New York Times subpoena case

Prosecutors agreed to withdraw subpoenas to The New York Times over the newspaper’s report about security concerns with the Qatari-gifted Air Force One replacement this week, after a federal judge made clear they’d lose otherwise and could be sanctioned. The government issued subpoenas targeting not only reporters but their relatives — a line that even the Mafia says shouldn’t be crossed.

This is now at least the third news outlet the Trump administration has tried and failed to force to name confidential sources. The lesson is simple: It’s past time to fight back against Trump administration censorship. Take these clowns to court. They lose regularly.

Congress should also pass a federal shield law like the PRESS Act to stop future attempts to drag journalists into court to uncover confidential sources.

• Watch our video about the DOJ’s tactics

House committee takes aim at BreakThrough News

The Times beat back the DOJ’s subpoenas, but another newsroom is now in the government’s crosshairs.

This week, a House committee subpoenaed independent outlet BreakThrough News, demanding internal records under the pretense of investigating foreign influence in the nonprofit sector.

FPF Chief of Advocacy Seth Stern said, “If lawmakers can abuse tax oversight to single out outlets whose reporting offends them today, no newsroom in America is safe from government intimidation tomorrow.” The committee must withdraw the subpoena immediately.

• Read our statement about the House probe

MSG revives legal theory that once haunted ‘60 Minutes’

In the 1990s, CBS spiked a “60 Minutes” interview with tobacco whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand after network lawyers warned it could be sued for encouraging him to break a nondisclosure agreement.

Now, Madison Square Garden is trying to use that same dangerous legal theory against Wired magazine. Its new lawsuit against Wired is the latest example of the use of “tortious interference with contract” claims to go after journalists who rely on sources bound by NDAs.

These claims are baseless, but they’re far from harmless.

• Read more about MSG’s frivolous SLAPP

Pentagon secrecy push threatens access to unclassified records

A new move by the Defense Department poses a systemic threat to accountability, writes FPF’s Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy Lauren Harper for MS NOW this week.

A proposal submitted to Congress last month would empower the Pentagon to exempt “controlled unclassified information” from the federal Freedom of Information Act — effectively putting millions of files beyond the reach of taxpayers, and open records laws, potentially forever.

• Read Harper’s op-ed here

DC Bar should push back against FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s abuse of power

Lawyers who facilitate sham settlements to benefit President Donald Trump are subject to professional discipline, according to a recent ruling in Trump’s spurious case against the IRS.

That’s why we’re asking District of Columbia attorney ethics officials to reopen our disciplinary complaint against Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr, whose role in facilitating Trump’s settlement of his frivolous lawsuit against CBS raises similar concerns.

• Read our letter to the DC Bar

And so should you

You can also take action to combat Carr’s anti-speech antics. The FCC is accepting comments until July 29 on Carr’s bogus order directing an early review of broadcast licenses for eight Disney-owned ABC stations. Our easy-to-use action center allows you to tell the FCC to stop abusing its power to harass the press.

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Jim Acosta, Ann Curry, and over 500 journalists renew call to confront Trump at WHCA dinner

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We joined hundreds of journalists calling on the White House Correspondents’ Association to stand up for press freedom in front of the president and publicly defend the journalists he attacks at its rescheduled dinner tonight.

FCC officials took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for billion-dollar deals

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We filed a FOIA request to find out if — and how many times — FCC commissioners have shamelessly accepted gifts from media giants behind closed doors.

Producer detained after judge closes courtroom for grand jury indictment

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ICE refuses to release any info on its workforce

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s secrecy around its personnel files is “unworkable” and “untenable,” said FPF’s Harper.

Local law enforcement in Los Angeles emerges epicenter of crowd-control weapon misuse, new report finds

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Artificial intelligence has changed how people create and edit visual content. Tasks that once required advanced editing skills—removing backgrounds, replacing objects, enhancing portraits, generating images, or creating marketing assets—can now be completed in seconds. Modern AI photo editors also extend beyond still images, with many platforms offering video editing, AI avatars, animation, and content generation features in one workspace.

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Il Wandu Appa (spesso chiamato semplicemente Wandu) è un dolce tradizionale iconico della cucina dello Sri Lanka.

Viene preparato con una pastella a base di farina di riso, latte di cocco e sciroppo di palma (kithul treacle) o jaggery (zucchero grezzo di canna/palma), che conferisce il caratteristico colore bruno e una dolcezza speziata.
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Quando si parla di autentica cucina italiana all’estero, trovare un ristorante capace di rispettare la tradizione gastronomica del Bel Paese non è sempre semplice. Poco fuori Madrid, però, troviamo l’autentica cucina italiana da Francesco’s ad Alcalá de Henares, che rappresenta un punto di riferimento per chi desidera vivere un’esperienza culinaria che richiama i sapori genuini dell’Italia, grazie a una filosofia basata sulla qualità delle materie prime, sulle ricette tradizionali e su una grande passione per l’arte della ristorazione. Le sue pizze artigianali, considerate tra le più apprezzate della zona, sono il simbolo di una cucina che mette al centro autenticità, tecnica e ricerca costante dell’eccellenza.
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Riportiamo la traduzione del post pubblicato oggi da Patrick Breyer Ieri, i governi dell’UE hanno reintrodotto la scansione di massa senza sospetto delle comunicazioni private (“Chat Control 1.0”) con un voto contrario (Ungheria), un’astensione (Belgio) e senza l’approvazione del Parlamento europeo (la maggioranza dei deputati votanti si era espressa contro il regolamento). Di conseguenza…

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Yesterday, the EU governments re-enacted the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications (“Chat Control 1.0”) with one vote against (Hungary), one abstention (Belgium) and without the approval of the European Parliament (a majority of voting MEPs had voted against the regulation). As a result, US providers like Meta or Google are once again permitted to conduct the controversial, warrantless mass scans of private chats and messages until 3 April 2028.

A symbolic exemption was adopted for encrypted communications—though in practice, service providers do not scan these anyway, so nothing changes here. Ireland and France nevertheless criticized the symbolic exemption yesterday. While a majority of Members of the European Parliament also voted to restrict the scanning of private communications strictly to suspects identified by the judiciary (322 to 255 votes), this central limitation is not part of the final regulation. The conservative leadership of the EU Parliament had scheduled the vote for the last day before the summer break, and as anticipated, not enough MEPs showed up to reach the required absolute majority to pass this amendment.

Dr. Patrick Breyer, civil liberties activist and former Pirate Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP), comments:

The fact that Chat Control 1.0 is now becoming law without the approval of the elected European Parliament is not what I consider democracy. The tech industry wins, but our children lose out. The so-called ‘protection gap’ is a myth designed to prolong a five-year failure. This system overwhelms the police with false alarms, robbing them of desperately needed capacity to investigate abusers. Instead of protecting children, the Chat Control system harms victims while simultaneously criminalising children themselves en masse. Blanket chat control is just as unacceptable as indiscriminately opening everyone’s physical post.

Trying to protect children with indiscriminate mass surveillance is as ineffective as frantically mopping the floor while the tap is still running. The latest German police data show this system is broken: over half of all US tech industry reports are legally irrelevant, a record 113,000 personal photos, videos and chats were wrongfully leaked last year in Germany alone, and thousands of teenagers were criminalised en masse. The current system doesn’t protect children; it subjects them to algorithmic mass surveillance and criminalisation.

It is time for a paradigm shift away from the illusion of security provided by Big Tech’s mass surveillance towards what actually works. Genuine child protection means targeted undercover police work against perpetrator rings where abuse and exploitation are committed. Genuine child protection means the systematic searching and removal of publicly accessible abuse material at the source, and requiring app providers to implement ‘security by design’ to stop cyber grooming of our children before it starts. Clinging to suspicionless mass scanning sabotages this overdue paradigm shift.

What happens next?

The interim regulation adopted by Council will be published in the EU Official Journal in the coming days, enter into force three days later, and then apply until April 2028, or until an agreement on a permanent regulation is reached. Negotiations for the latter will resume in September. The core dispute between the EU Parliament, member state governments, and the EU Commission remains the scanning of private chats: should it be indiscriminate, or targeted at criminal suspects?

What changes with the return of Chat Control 1.0—and what stays the same

• What is coming back: US tech companies are once again allowed to scan private messages without a warrant or prior suspicion. This affects direct messages on platforms like Instagram, Discord, Snapchat, Skype, and Xbox, as well as emails via Google’s Gmail and Apple’s iCloud.
• What remains unchanged: Public social media posts and files hosted in cloud storage could already be scanned without this exemption law. Furthermore, private messages can, independently of the regulation, always be reported by users, or monitored by authorities using targeted, court-ordered wiretapping under national law.
• What is still NOT being scanned: End-to-end encrypted chats, such as those on WhatsApp, have always been exempt from these scans. Additionally, European providers of messaging and email services have never implemented chat control measures anyway.

Why Chat Control is the wrong approach

• Since 2022, the volume of suspected abuse reports from the US has already dropped by 50 percent due to the growing use of message encryption anyway.
• According to EU Commission figures, mass scanning of private chats accounted for only 36 percent of all abuse reports in 2024 (the majority came from public posts and cloud storage).
• The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) reports that 52 percent of all incoming alerts are not criminally relevant in the first place. Furthermore, under these laws, police are also required to prosecute fictional depictions (such as Hentai) and AI-generated fictional content.
• 40% of “child pornography” investigations in Germany targeted children (ages 10-14) themselves, affecting over 8,000 children in 2025. According to the BKA, children often take the reported photos themselves or share imagery without thinking.
• 53% of German police investigations for “youth pornography” targeted minors, criminalising more than 12,000 teenagers in 2025. The BKA notes: Exploring sexual identity now happens online, regularly involving the creation and sharing of intimate files of themselves or peers (“Sexting”).
• Under the chat control system, an estimated 99 percent of reports generated by the Meta corporation consist of previously known material, which generally does little to stop ongoing, active abuse. Decisive for the identification and rescue of victims are undercover investigations in perpetrator rings and targeted measures against concrete suspects – not the mass searching of private communications of uninvolved persons.
• The EU Commission admits there is no evidence that suspicionless scanning of private communications has led to an increase in criminal convictions or in rescued children.

Talk of an averted “protection gap” is therefore highly misleading: The most effective law enforcement tools—court-ordered wiretaps, user reports, and the scanning of public platforms and cloud storage—were always fully maintained. The only practice that was impermissible since April was the indiscriminate, warrantless searching of private, unencrypted messages of innocent people on a handful of US platforms.

Background: The deadlock over a permanent solution

In parallel, negotiations are ongoing for a permanent regulation to protect children from sexualized online violence (the “CSAM Regulation” or “Chat Control 2.0”). In these talks, the EU Parliament is pushing for a paradigm shift in how we approach online child safety. It demands:

• Mandatory detection orders against suspects, rather than blanket mass scanning of private communications left to the tech industry’s discretion.
• An EU Child Protection Centre tasked with the systematic removal of known abuse material from the public internet.
• Strict security standards for messaging apps (“Security by Design”) to protect children from cyber grooming.

This permanent legislation has not been adopted because EU member states insist on maintaining the old approach of voluntary, suspicionless scanning of private communications. Critics warn that repeatedly extending the interim rules removes the political pressure needed to reach a viable, permanent agreement. Ultimately, prolonging the status quo threatens to derail real progress on child protection.

Patrick Breyer sums up the problem:

As long as EU governments can use procedural loopholes to continually extend their comfortable status quo of voluntary, indiscriminate mass scanning, they have no reason to engage with the Parliament’s targeted, legally sound, and far more effective child protection strategy.

However, the re-enactment of this temporary regulation is merely a setback; the political battle over the permanent ‘Chat Control 2.0’ is just getting started. The resistance we saw in Parliament was so strong that finding a majority for permanent, suspicionless mass scanning in future negotiations remains a complete pipe dream.

The Voices of Survivors: “We need privacy to bring abusers to justice”

Contrary to claims that mass scanning aids investigations, survivors of sexual violence explicitly emphasize that Chat Control does not help victims:

Alexander Hanff, survivor of child sexual abuse and IT expert, clarifies:
“As a survivor I relied on confidential communications to tell my story and find justice for 28 schoolboys—myself included—resulting in the conviction of multiple offenders. We survivors need privacy, because without it we lose our voice. Chat Control was not created to protect children. It was about Big Tech companies like Meta or Google wanting access to our data for profiteering, and states attempting to expand mass surveillance. The EU Commission has wasted five years and millions of euros on algorithms that cannot protect children and were never meant to. This money should have been diverted to real policing and support for survivors, millions of whom have never received any support at all.”

Marcel Schneider* (name changed), a survivor who is currently suing Meta in court over its voluntary Chat Control, adds:
“Anyone mourning the end of Chat Control has not understood what actually helps survivors of sexual violence. Mass surveillance by corporations like Meta does not prevent abuse. Genuine protection means: deleting material at the source, proactive police work on the Darknet, and apps that are safe by design for children from the very start.”

Dorothée Hahne, founding member and board member of the survivors’ initiative MOGiS e.V. (A Voice for Survivors), emphasizes the danger mass surveillance poses to victims themselves:
“As survivors, we see our ‘safe spaces’, our protected areas and communication channels, endangered or destroyed by this. For survivors, this need is existential.”

Full text of the regulation

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