Slow Horses on nyaa?

We are generally governed at all levels by adults with teenager intellects.

With the important reminder that top-management people typically have the IQ of a beetle, or less.

I find the person’s answer very disturbing and twisted:

The battle that can still be won is over whether using them stays a free choice.

Note how he/she is speaking as if EU was Russia. There’s a regime that governs on us; we can try to fight it. This is not democracy, where the goverment represents the people and the people’s will. Either – very likely – this person has simply accepted (and I don’t know how good such an attitude is) that EU is not a democracy; or they have unclear ideas about democracy.

“Unless strictly necessary, proportionate and provided by law”: this is not our invention and not undefined. It is the limitation test of Article 52(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the standard the Court of Justice applies to every restriction of fundamental rights.

Well they don’t write that in the initiative’s text. They just say “unless provided by law”. This means that if a law passes that mandates chat control, or age-verification for accessing all internet, then it’s OK with them – it’s provided by law now.

I stand corrected, they specify “Articles 7 and 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights” in the Annex. But I still think this is poorly written: why not explicitly mentioning the main message of those Articles in the main text? That “unless provided by law” in the main text is extremely ambiguous without the Annex.

At first I was afraid that they would allow for an irresponsible use. But no, they explicitly say “responsible”, so that danger is no more. I’m very much relieved.

Also they explicitly mention that humans will remain accountable. Not Nature, or Fate, or the gods; mark that. Good thinking there!

Problems solved.

It’s surely important to spread an anti-misinformation campaign!

No, we don’t; it’s exactly as you say. My impression is that this is something organized by the pro-chat-control and pro-age-verification lobbies, to deceive with words people who are against. They get them to sign and then they can say “people signed for this!”.

This initiative is just a smokescreen; it actually pushes things down the slippery slope.

Citizens must not be forced to identify themselves to access lawful online content or services unless strictly necessary, proportionate and provided by law. The legislation should require anonymous or pseudonymous proof-of-age, data minimisation, selective disclosure

Define “necessary”. Define “by law”. The pushers for proof-of-age already say it’s anonymous – but it can’t be.

So it turns out it was webgl.disabled, which was set to true. Setting it to false bypasses the captcha page completely.

Thank you for checking! Useful info actually. I’m using QUAD9, will try to change DNS then.

Absolutely agree on all points. We’ve entered the idiocracy era.

Thank you. I’m trying to understand how it works :)

Thank you! Looking into it. To be honest I still don’t quite understand the idea behind it – I’m reading here and there to try to understand better.

Thank you for this suggestion. It looks good, but I see that its last update was 6 years ago. Sadly all or most extensions with this kind of functionality seem to have been abandoned…

Smart monitors are for dumb people.

But doesn’t protect you against ChatControl.

Seconding this. I use Foliate for epub, and Okular for the rest.

The episode highlights a growing challenge for fascist, antidemocratic governments.

Thank you both, sounds good, I’ll probably switch to it.

Cat’s foot iron claw
Neuro-surgeons scream for more
At paranoia’s poison door
Twenty-first century schizoid man

Blood rack barbed wire
Politicians’ funeral pyre
Innocents raped with napalm fire
Twenty-first century schizoid man

Death seed blind man’s greed
Poets’ starving children bleed
Nothing he’s got he really needs
Twenty-first century schizoid man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OvW8Z7kiws