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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 4mo ago

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/116714204183091991 I will say this about it: none of this is legal by any stretch in the European Economic Area. Or in any jurisdiction that is a signatory to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime. /cc @briankrebs@infosec.exchange

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@jerry@infosec.exchange

This explains a lot about what I’ve been experiencing with combatting scrapers. https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 2mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@swearyanthony/117000118640750692 Same for whatever implementation of the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime you are living under in your jurisdiction. Also for webcrawlers that ignore robots.txt. They are committing a criminal offence. I really do not get why nobody is running to their public prosecutors to have a go at this.

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Anthony B,

@swearyanthony@mastodon.social

I am baffled why people are going "oh no what is to be done" about openai breaking into a competitors computers, when it is incredibly obvious: Charge them under the CFAA. "Oh but their research". Sandbox it from the Internet. "Oh it's too hard to do that". Skill issue, get good. As I said: Weird that Robert Morris got charged for all of the computers his worm broke into. After all, he didn't do it, the computer program did it, that's completely different, apparently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 2mo ago

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@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social For those who, like me, always get blocked by the Financial Times, gift link or not, https://archive.is/fKNoH

archive.is

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 4mo ago

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@foone@digipres.club Decent machine translation, run locally, on my mobile phone.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 2mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.sprawl.club/@ludicity/116939432745772414 So, faith in AI has become a tenet of the Cult of Professionalism now? (via @bert_hubert@eupolicy.social)

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Ludic 🧛

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club

I have, after two years, allowed myself to talk about my experiences with AI madness again, this time with the benefit of speaking to people all around the world, including Fortune 500 executives. This one is on my regular blog for casual readers, and cross-posted to the company blog if you need to share this with someone and have it look official. https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/ https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 5mo ago

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@frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org Have you stopped funding fascists yet?

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 4mo ago

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@mattburgess@infosec.exchange Bit of a bummer that Proton seems to be in the business of sponsoring alt-right youtubers.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 2mo ago

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@drwhax@infosec.exchange The laws of diminishing returns will kick in at some point. In the meantime, it is unlikely to be a smooth ride.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 5mo ago

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@creohn@chaos.social @tashatheinnkeeper@social.treehouse.systems @valcurious@lgbtqia.space They even put paprika on their fries, the uncouth heathens!

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 3mo ago

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@quinn@social.circl.lu By dehumanising the arrested.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 5mo ago

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@mttaggart Same here.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 5mo ago

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@sotolf@polymaths.social @creohn@chaos.social @tashatheinnkeeper@social.treehouse.systems @valcurious@lgbtqia.space I prefer them the way the Belgians make them. With good mayonaise on top.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 5mo ago

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@admin/116511875358718650

Thank you for making it work on a volunteer basis!

EUpolicy.social - A Mastodon server for the EU bubble

The eupolicy.social admin (@admin@eupolicy.social)

Dear friendly users of eupolicy.social : This afternoon our server has been unavailable for a couple of hours and we're really sorry for it! It looks like we were caught off guard when our server ran suddenly out of disk space while one volunteer admin was abroad and the other at a classical concert. 🫣 We'll see if we can train a third admin *and* improve low disk space handling in the future. As always, thanks for your understanding! 🫶

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 6mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/116345677794218793

Similar problems in other EU member states.

mastodon.social

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅: "https://bmi.usercontent.opencode.de/eudi-wallet/w…" - Mastodon

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 3mo ago

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@bart@smop.fyi @Felienne@mastodon.social What enormous profits of AI companies though? They are gargantuan money pits at the moment.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 2mo ago

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@ErikJonker@mastodon.social The line between vibe coding and supporting as a tool (like linters etc) is not so blurry as you are suggesting now.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 2mo ago

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@catileptic@chaos.social Take care and ❤️‍🩹

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 3mo ago

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@jon@gruene.social Running the risk of mansplaining, but in quite a few EU member states their national drivers license is a valid ID, but foreign ones are not, simply because they have not yet been standardised across the EU. Especially the German ones are a nightmare because some German states have issued drivers licenses with indefinite validity.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 5mo ago

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@baldur@toot.cafe Typo: "ne plus ultra" should be "nec plus ultra"

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 6mo ago

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@rysiek @stf Why is it not Occam's Vuvuzela?

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 6mo ago

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@je5perl @Frederik_Borgesius There is human review, the Dutch DPA however feels it is insufficient.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 6mo ago

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@tomasino@tilde.zone Multiverse-wise Inception is not a bad choice. The Matrix also is a multiverse one.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 5mo ago

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@bix@chaos.social @whreq@hsnl.social Yeah, that'd be a matter for their CfP.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 5mo ago

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@ehproque@neopaquita.es @sotolf@polymaths.social @creohn@chaos.social @tashatheinnkeeper@social.treehouse.systems @valcurious@lgbtqia.space You do you. But cumin, ewww.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 5mo ago

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@bitsoffreedom@chaos.social "grondrechten"

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 5mo ago

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@Joris@hostux.social @wlaatje@social.edu.nl Daar is geen aanpassing van de regels voor nodig. Kun je nu al eisen. VNG heeft specifiek al een paper over beveiligingscamera's gepubliceerd met aandacht voor dit aspect (China)

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 5mo ago

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@alzimon@mastodon.nl @Joris@hostux.social @wlaatje@social.edu.nl Veel onkunde ook. Al ben ik voorbij het punt waarbij de uitvoering de schuld geven nog werkt, je moet de uitvoering ook de middelen geven.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 5mo ago

Een Tata Steel dat de directeur duurzaamheid ook als hoofd communicatie wil laten fungeren is niet zozeer met duurzaamheid bezig als met communicatie. #greenwashing

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 5mo ago

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@rygorous @ubernostrum @bert_hubert Moreover, a poorly executed prototype can propel the understanding of the actual user demands forward in ways that may be hard to replicate otherwise.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 5mo ago

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@bert_hubert Hm, have you tried the famous Tank Man picture yet?

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 5mo ago

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@Saucetweet@defcon.social @frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org Point your favourite search engine at the search phrase "DHH framework"

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 4mo ago

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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com A medieval door has no real different UX from a 21st century door, in terms of legibility.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 4mo ago

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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com On the desktop, maybe. On mobile, definitely not.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 3mo ago

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@jon@gruene.social A random card carrying the same name as on your ticket does not make for an identity check. Because that could also be created by yourself. There is no way for them to check the provenance and authenticity of, especially, a German drivers' license.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 4mo ago

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@bert_hubert@mastodon.nl @bartgroothuis@mastodon.online Als je niet weet wat het echt kán is het even zotter om nu in te zetten op AI factories

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 2mo ago

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@me_valentijn@m.ai6yr.org Not RIVM's job, but your local municipality. Go bark up the correct tree.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 5mo ago

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@krisbuytaert@mastodon.social That claim of the cost of developing software shrinking is yet to be proven.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 2mo ago

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@me_valentijn@m.ai6yr.org What part of "not a competence of the RIVM" escapes your reading comprehension?

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 5mo ago

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@beejay@social.tchncs.de @moshimotsu@floss.social @frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org They still never reverted from their "big tent" approach AFAIK.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 2w ago

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 5mo ago

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@creohn@chaos.social @tashatheinnkeeper@social.treehouse.systems @valcurious@lgbtqia.space Ok, that is worth giving a try. On fries it is pure heresy, in fried eggs it sounds reasonable.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 2mo ago

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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net No, you are not.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 4mo ago

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@bartgroothuis@mastodon.online Niet als de AI-zeepbel in de tussentijd knapt.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 2mo ago

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Long thread/3

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 5mo ago

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@MinistryOfGoodIdeas@ieji.de Anyone tried this with hardboard? #lowCO2foortprint

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 3mo ago

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@AliceStollmeyer@eupolicy.social @_elena@mastodon.social @altbot@fuzzies.wtf

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 5mo ago

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@budududuroiu@hachyderm.io @beejay@social.tchncs.de @moshimotsu@floss.social @frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org I have no fucking clue who Fred Hampton was, but I have witnessed intergenerational trauma caused by Nazi comcentration camps and will say: no, you don't align with slavers and nazis because your goals are temporarily aligned. The enemy of your enemy can still also be your enemy.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 4mo ago

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@bert_hubert@mastodon.nl @bartgroothuis@mastodon.online Oh, het is geen blockchain. Wat er overblijft kunnen wij niet weten, er is weinig zinnigs voor een partijprogramma over te zeggen.

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Walter van Holst @whvholst@eupolicy.social

· 5mo ago

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@breizh@pleroma.breizh.pm https://floss.social/@moshimotsu/116444386349414773

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Marcial 🇨🇷🇻🇪: "@whvholst@eupolicy.social @frameworkcomputer@foss…" - FLOSS.social

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