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Maybe the CRA could change that. It disincentivises manufacturers from releasing apps that could/should have been websites.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 26/09/2026

Also especially don’t publicly drag me in the process of your spreading FUD please.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 26/09/2026

Look, if you want to tell people not to do paid consulting on their open source projects bc fuck these companies that’s why, I will support you 100%. Just don’t spread legal FUD when the whole point of this part of the regulation is sustainably funded open source that legally protects maintainers.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 26/09/2026

I mean if you want to talk about legal entities to blame you should consider having some familiarity with the law

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 26/09/2026

Oh my god you guys if you want to find ways to fund open source YOU HAVE TO FIND WAYS TO FUND OPEN SOURCE

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 26/09/2026

Might I recommend reviewing article 13 of the CRA or chapter 3 of the CRA guidance

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 26/09/2026

That’s not how attestations work though? It’s still the manufacturer’s legal responsibility.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 26/09/2026

What does this have to do with AI slop?

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 26/09/2026

We also found ourselves a bit confused by this email.

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 25/09/2026

Nobody wants to hear that this makes these systems fundamentally unsecureable, but they are.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 25/09/2026

Less weird actually, IMO. Then I’m not left wondering if they’re gonna talk to their friend about me

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 25/09/2026

Fair enough, this is specifically about Cyber Resilience Act attestations, which are gonna ramp up to an absurd degree in the next 14 months as the law comes into full force

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 25/09/2026

also lol Thermo Fisher Scientific revealing they are placing products on the market with known vulnerabilities that were EOL over a decade ago. (presumably those aren't known *exploitable* vulnerabilities in the context of the products they're included in, but still made me giggle)

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 25/09/2026

This thread has been a long time coming but is inspired today by the absolute fucking audacity of Thermo Fisher Scientific emailing (a public list at) the Apache Software Foundation demanding detailed info about 2 clearly licensed AS IS components. thermofishersourcing.quickbase.com/db/bvt5mumjt...

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Thermo Fisher Scientific - Edit Supplier #396

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 25/09/2026

Basically, don't let the legal speak and forceful demands scare you—putting your open source project out into the world to see what others make of it is enough.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 25/09/2026

Alternatively, open source maintainers looking to earn a living from maintaining their open source projects are welcome to respond "fuck you, pay me" and produce security attestations—without threat of suddenly their project is a formal product subject to all manner of regulation.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 25/09/2026

The appropriate and legally supported response to requests on open source maintainers to attest to the security of their projects and fill out lengthy forms about their cybersecurity stance is Fuck off.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 25/09/2026

Open source maintainers are starting to get all manner of communiques from the compliance & legal departments of huge corporations using vaguely threatening and legal-sounding language and demanding the maintainer fill out forms and reports and attest to the security of their project "because CRA".

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 25/09/2026

hold on to your butts, I'm skeeting about open source for once.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 25/09/2026

I promise, no one is actually asking you to break your body by posting that post.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 25/09/2026

The post isn't actually hurting you.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 25/09/2026

there is a pattern of weaponisation of the language of psychology and activism (particularly historical disability rights activism) that basically exists entirely in ~~the comments~~ and I just want to talk to all of these people and tell them you can just *not respond*.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 24/09/2026

I don’t have anything useful to say but I know how lonely that can feel and I don’t want you to feel lonely so we could just sit quietly together on the TL.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 23/09/2026

I resent that authenticity will be the currency of the future, when it should be as free as the air we breathe

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 23/09/2026

I don’t want technology to steal your voice either. It’s like human interaction itself is beginning its own model collapse.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 23/09/2026

I got a message from my spouse, and with no interaction on my part my phone recommended a complete sentence in response. Why is it so much to ask that my technology stop trying to steal my voice?

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 23/09/2026

I am inches away from an amazing joke about that polycule from NPR but I’m just not funny enough to write it.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 22/09/2026

This is almost a Men In Black joke

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 21/09/2026

I remember tables and image maps and macromedia shockwave—content may be worse and design may be bland but websites are better now. In contrast, just 10 years of CSS later @zeldman.bsky.social cranked his body text to 24px and everyone lost their goddam minds 😆 web.archive.org/web/20120430...

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Redesigning in Public Again – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report

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Thicc Josh @thicc-josh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trans rights or we all enjoy the camps

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 20/09/2026

♥️ I hope everyone can find their peace and you have the support needed to handle the fallout of the death of a parent.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 20/09/2026

I still remember the phone number to my friend’s dad’s modem which I dialled from the original Diablo.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 20/09/2026

Sign I've been involved in TC39 too long: absolutely did not occur to me that this was not common knowledge.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 20/09/2026

It’s creamy and basic, like me.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 20/09/2026

lol I think my version of that is that the “mints” in the Air France lounge are actually cheese. It’s good cheese! But quite a shock when one is expecting mint.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 19/09/2026

Please when you find success adapt your technology to make me enjoy bell peppers.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 17/09/2026

this seems like a really weird take and I genuinely want to know if I just don't understand your point here. it's bad. they're all bad. all those things are bad. several things can be bad. just because one thing is the bad main character one day doesn't mean the other things aren't bad that day.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 14/09/2026

There’s no such thing as being apolitical. “Not taking a side” implies that all opinions, actions, & policies are equal. The Israeli government and its military are committing genocide, out loud, and publicly celebrating the result. There is no acceptable “other side” to genocide. Free Palestine.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 13/09/2026

Welcome back. Lmk if you swing through AMS.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 11/09/2026

Reminder to everyone that “Smart TVs” are awful and if you can’t find one that doesn’t have all the internet features, at least don’t connect it to the internet. *ever*.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 09/09/2026

For world implication reasons 25 years actually seems maybe a history book pace in my brain. For personal reasons, both direct and indirect, I am not ready for it to have been 25 years.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 03/09/2026

How do you have so many dogs _that match your rug_‽‽

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 03/09/2026

We’re all surprised every time tbh

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 03/09/2026

I know it’s weird to miss someone you never met, but I still miss Sophie terribly.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 03/09/2026

Literally it should just say “Modafinil blues” we both know it’s true

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