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Dutch court raises penalties on Meta if non-profiling feeds don't stick | Euractiv Appeals court says Meta must apply DSA changes ordered last year on Dutch users' Instagram and Facebook timelines urgently – or face higher fines

The Amsterdam Court of Appeal increased the potential penalty from €5 million to €10 million on Meta if it does not comply with a court order to provide Dutch users of Facebook and Instagram with a non-profiling-based timeline as part of DSA compliance www.euractiv.com/news/dutch-c...

Spring Snowflakes
Slowly, the forests come alive again.
Woodlands are like a shelter where I can forget everything else, at least for some minutes.
Bavaria, Germany

#landscapephotography #landschaftsfotografie #spring #frühling #fruehling

Looked slightly happier by the fire earlier today than that bunch of- similar shadows at dusk

Sunday transformation - had some 🦑 left, pasta, 🥥 milk, curry #slowfood #imagination #breathing

Le dimanche on n’optimise pas le temps, on l’embrasse et le laisse couler

A cartoony style illustration from the 1980s ladybird Children’s Classics version of the tale, showing Mole and Ratty rowing on the river

On this day 8th March 1859 Kenneth Grahame, author of Wind in the Willows, was born in Edinburgh

Artist: Martin Aitchison (1983)

Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs aftermath.site/nintendo-tar...

www.scribd.com/document/100...

Tomorrow is another color

And engaged in some culinary tests

Robbed some alegría

FBI investigating hack on its wiretap and surveillance systems: report | TechCrunch Hackers allegedly broke into the FBI’s networks, according to a report by CNN.

NEW: The FBI said it is investigating a hack on its networks.

The breach affected the FBI's systems to manage wiretaps and surveillace requests, according to CNN.

techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/f...

‘You don't need anything but hope. The kind of hope that flies on silent wings under a shining owl moon.’
—Jane Yolen

Keeper
Will have to refrain myself from also mentioning lethal autonomous weapons 🫣

Work cook feed nurture 🤗 ⚖️ 🌱

Happy to be home 🤗

Salades salades - va falloir planter des herbes bientôt

Current household debate: Who bullshits more - GenAI or politicians?

Hermes

Hermes
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/21355

What I’m looking for also is a utility analysis of these tools: do we really need them & why? How much of our choices are influenced by social pressure? while true necessity is not questioned… What is the carbon footprint? What are alternatives as in direct replacements yet also broader questionings

The fight to disenshittify the internet is also a fight 4 innovation […] By pruning back the excesses of
big tech, alternative services can get the nourishment they need to grow & flourish 🌱 [me 👍]
However, this requires active policy choices & vigorous
enforcement of existing laws
[me & more imho]

Dogma (film) - Wikipedia

@eurcorrespond.bsky.social reading Nerses Hovsepyan’s great The age of the Christian gymbro.
Please note that before Ariana Grande, it was Alanis Morissette who pointed out God could be a woman #dogma en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogma_(...

Never in the 🚗

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (English, b.1977), "To Douse the Devil for a Ducat," oil on canvas, 2015; photo: Jack Shainman Gallery, NY. #blackhistorymonth #blackculture #blackhistory #africanheritage #modernart #contemporaryart #paintings #peintures #art #arte #museum #artgallery

Berlin, 24. Februar 2026
Danke!

Doing a podcast on March 6th with the founder of PeakPrivacy - they scan apps, check it out!
I suggested to talk about how the role of DPO has evolved over the past decade since the ink is dry on the GDPR. If you care to join, more information can be found here peakprivacy.eu/webinars/fut...

Let the salad season begin 🤗
Or was it lent?

Totally soaking in that imaginary summer breeze ☺️

“The episode highlights vendor transparency gaps, unanswered questions around manual verification flows, and ongoing behavioral “age inference” profiling on Discord”
From redact.dev/blog/discord...

familiar to any professional privacy engineer working on GRC
Opaque dynamic environments

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning.

www.therage.co/persona-age-...