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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

My daughter just made a chestnut figure of me having my bike accident yesterday (just grazed and bruised - I’ve had worse)

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026

This FDP candidate 100% does fingerguns

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

Berlin’s state election is in 9 days. Here’s a totally normal local far-right candidate, and a very Berlin response to his party.

Election placard for an AfD candidate called Martin Kohler, whose look could be described as “Madder Men”

Sticker of a delighted Berlin bear pissing on the letters AFD, with some yellow stars on blue background providing a pro-EU twist

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

I’m just loving this genAI tool for visualising rooms with new IKEA furniture, as seen on a German property listing

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

Go Microsoft! The EU's General Court just reaffirmed that its Edge browser is too unpopular to fall under tough competition rules

Digital Markets Act: the General Court upholds the Commission’s decision
not to designate Microsoft as a gatekeeper in relation to Edge
In its decision of 12 February 2024, 1

the Commission took the view that the web browser Microsoft Edge did not
constitute an important gateway within the meaning of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) 2 and, consequently, it decided
not to designate Microsoft as a ‘gatekeeper’ for that service.
Opera Norway, the publisher of the browser Opera, is challenging the Commission’s decision before the General
Court of the European Union.
The General Court dismisses Opera Norway’s action in its entirety.
The General Court rules that Opera Norway is directly and individually concerned by the contested decision and
therefore has standing to bring proceedings.
On the substance, it confirms the Commission’s assessment that Edge does not constitute an important gateway
within the meaning of the DMA. It considers that the Commission was entitled, in particular, to rely on the low scale
of usage of that browser and to compare it with that of other browsers, as those elements are relevant for assessing
the actual importance of Edge as a gateway for business users to reach their end users.
The General Court also finds that the Commission was entitled to take into account the fact that Edge relies on the
browser engine Blink, which reduces Microsoft’s ability to exercise autonomous control over certain key aspects of
the service.
Furthermore, it considers that the Commission was entitled to find that the integration of Edge into the Microsoft
ecosystem, including its pre-installation on Windows and the other mechanisms to promote its use from which it
benefits, did not contribute sufficiently to making Edge an important gateway.
In those circumstances, the General Court finds that the Commission did not err in considering that, although
Microsoft had met the quantitative thresholds laid down in the DMA, it had put forward sufficiently substantiated
argum…

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026

A little astrophotography at our Breton holiday home last night, as fireworks went off somewhere in the distance (how that was allowed in such dry conditions, I do not know)

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 06/08/2026

Captured a tender and kinda gross gull moment in Étretat yesterday

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026

Rest stop food in France is so much better than in Germany

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

AI is great because it can cut the human trafficking out of fraud

From Semafor: The (admittedly small) study found that AI models were graded as more trustworthy than humans. Because relationship-building is the most labor-intensive and time-consuming part of a scam, researchers suggested that AI could take over much of the scam process. That would make scams harder to fight but might reduce Southeast Asia’s human-trafficking problem: Many scam workers are forced-labor victims, often held in brutal compounds of hundreds of people.

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains.

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026

Speaking of AI agents, I missed the news last week that they were used to successfully penetrate Hugging Face's AI repository. Interesting comment from the company here: hosted models suck for defence, because of the guardrails. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

"The campaign was run by an autonomous agent framework (appearing to be built on an agentic security-research harness - used LLM still not known) executing many thousands of individual actions across a swarm of short-lived sandboxes, with self-migrating command-and-control staged on public services," Hugging Face said in an incident disclosure published Thursday. "This matches the 'agentic attacker' scenario the industry has been forecasting."

In response to the breach, Hugging Face has closed the vulnerable code execution paths (a template injection in a dataset configuration and a remote code dataset loader), evicted the attacker, rebuilt the compromised nodes, and revoked and rotated all affected credentials.

It also deployed improved malicious activity detection systems, reported the incident to law enforcement, and is now working with external forensic experts to assess the breach's impact.

"We do not know which model powered the attacker's agents, whether a jailbroken hosted model or an unrestricted open-weight one; either way, the attacker was bound by no usage policy, while our own forensic work was blocked by the guardrails of the hosted models we first tried," Hugging Face added.

"The practical lesson for defenders: have a capable model you can run on your own infrastructure vetted and ready before an incident, both to avoid guardrail lockout and to keep attacker data and credentials from leaving your environment."

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026

Very interesting stuff in the guidelines about AI agents and when they need to comply with the AI Act's transparency rules - if there's any chance of them interacting with humans, including those representing companies, then they have to be designed for disclosure

AI agents are covered by Article 50(1) AI Act if they are capable of interacting with the
persons instructing them or with other natural persons in the execution of the tasks (e.g.
making bookings, managing correspondence, negotiating or concluding contracts,
executing purchases, etc). AI agents must be designed and developed in such a way that
they disclose both their artificial nature and the person on whose behalf they are acting,
considering the need for transparency of the origin and the delegation of authority and
accountability for the consequences of their actions. This includes cases where AI agents
are capable of interacting in complex multi-agent architectures with other AI agents that
directly interact with the natural persons in the execution of the task. Nevertheless, it may
not always be possible for the provider of the AI agent to identify in advance individual
instances of direct interaction of an AI agent with other natural persons once the AI agent
is deployed in different contexts. Where the provider cannot reliably determine whether
the AI agent will directly interact with a natural person before placing the AI agent on
the market or putting it into service, the agent should be designed at the architecture level,
and instructed, to disclose itself as such in every situation where it is reasonably likely
that the agent may interact with a natural person (including where a natural person may
represent or act for a legal entity). Furthermore, AI agents should also disclose
themselves, to the persons instructing them at key steps (e.g. at the point of authorisation,
reporting, validation etc., including when the deployed AI agent receives, processes, or
relies upon outputs generated by other AI systems rather than directly by a natural
person) and at every new interaction.
Examples of AI systems intended to interact directly with natural persons falling within
scope of Article 50(1) AI Act:
- AI-enabled voice assistants, chatbots/conversational agen…

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026

Woah - Google can be held liable for the content of YouTube Partners' videos because of the commercial relationship, the EU's highest court just ruled curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...

Luxembourg, 16 July 2026

Judgment of the Court in Case C-421/24 | AGCOM (Online gambling)
Multimedia platforms: Google may be held liable for the YouTube videos of
a content creator with whom it has a commercial partnership
On 19 July 2022, the Italian Communications Regulator (AGCOM) imposed a fine of €750 000 on Google Ireland Ltd
and ordered it to remove several YouTube videos which promoted online gambling, in breach of Italian law.
Those videos were uploaded by a content creator who had a commercial partnership agreement with Google
providing, inter alia, for a sharing of the revenue generated by the advertising shown before each video. Before
concluding that agreement, Google had reviewed the content of the videos, the theme of the channel, the most
viewed or newest videos and the associated metadata.
Google brought an action against that decision before an Italian administrative court, relying on the EU law
applicable to electronic commerce, 1 and specifically the exemption from liability which hosting service providers
enjoy in respect of the content uploaded by third parties. 2 AGCOM submits that that exemption is not applicable in
the present case because gambling activities are excluded from the scope of the EU legislation on electronic
commerce.
The case was brought before the Council of State, Italy, which decided to refer questions for a preliminary ruling to
the Court of Justice.
In its judgment, the Court notes, first, that EU law excludes gambling, and all activities linked to it, from the
scope of harmonisation in electronic commerce because of the profound moral, religious and cultural
differences between the Member States in that regard.
However, the activity of online hosting is not intrinsically linked to gambling, since it consists in storing, in a
neutral manner, content provided by the user, without any promotional intent.
Consequently, the hosting of advertising content relating to online gambling is therefore not covered by the
exclusion …

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 15/07/2026

Oh well, at least I got a couple nice shots this evening of a sparrow and a pigeon, and some flowers. Not unusual, but still beautiful. That Olympus 75mm f1.8 is a good lens.

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 13/07/2026

Slight awkwardness for the Commission in the wording of this recommendation in the Child Safety online report, in that the Commission's app uses zero knowledge proof but also processes people's identity documents

// Introduce effective age-assurance systems to check age and underpin safety-bydesign and age-appropriate approaches to protect and empower minors online.
Age-assurance methods – both age verification or age estimation – must be proportionate and uphold
minimum requirements, notably concerning the fundamental rights of users, including children’s rights
and related safeguards. Any method employed to check age should uphold the highest privacy and data
protection standards, and should not lead to the processing of identity documents and biometric data
for the purpose of age estimation. Technical standards such as ‘Zero Knowledge Proof’ should be implemented to ensure that both the platform required to assess the age and the age verification provider do
not receive any information that can lead to the tracking or identification of the user.
Age-assurance methods should be accurate in determining the age or age groups required and easy
and reliable to use in practice, in real-life conditions. Methods should be robust to avoid circumvention
and cybersecurity threats, inclusive (and non-discriminatory), and available equally to all who need to use
them. Social media and other digital services providers must uphold their obligation to prevent minors
from being exposed to risky services or users impersonating children and adolescents.

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026

Holy smokes! How cool is this? Several weeks ago, I had around 375 subscribers after eight months of graft - extra thanks to those early followers, of course!

YouTube Studio screengrab showing 5,000 subscribers for Tech Gets Real

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026

Surely, surely this is the year when the politics around the climate crisis change www.theguardian.com/education/20...

From The Guardian: The extreme heat that has hit the UK twice in the past few weeks has left teachers struggling to cope as temperatures in some classrooms climb above 40C, with pupils and staff suffering from heatstroke, nausea and headaches.

Teachers say they have been desperately trying to keep children safe, with some covering younger pupils in wet paper towels as they lie on the floor, while older students have been given trays of water under their desks to put their feet in.

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 10/07/2026

Saw The Cure tonight. What a joyous experience.

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 09/07/2026

If this isn't a sign of the end times... sifted.eu/articles/the...

From a Sifted article on a German product designer with big YouTube aspirations: He wears his inspiration proudly. “I want to become a MrBeast for nerds,” he says. Tkacz has spent hours studying the Youtube megastar and concluded that, “he may not be the happiest guy out there but he’s a genius. There is a lot of intellectual horsepower behind what he does.”

His own ideas aim for the same mix of spectacle and internet-native absurdity.

Take, for example, the token-maxxing icebath challenge. “Contestants are given 100k AI tokens and they have to burn them in five minutes while sitting in an ice bath.” Tkacz is also keen on Fake Product Fridays, a weekly advert for an imaginary gadget.

Another concept blends Big Brother with Too Hot to Handle. “It’s called MVP mansion: we send five cracked youths to a villa in Greece — or wherever we can afford — and give them money to build an app. There'll be challenges along the way. Oh, and they’ll all sleep in one big room.”

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 08/07/2026

They live in the shadows (getting ready for QOTSA&SOAD)

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 07/07/2026

The European Commission's big Action Plan for Cybersecurity and AI includes a "Blueprint" - capital B so it must be serious - for structured access programs like Anthropic's Project Glasswing to include EU organisations. But it doesn't actually create any new obligations for the AI providers!

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 02/07/2026

All this CERN talk reminded me that I actually own a little piece of the superconducting cable that they used for the LHC - bought the keyring when I visited many moons ago

CERN keyring incorporating a piece of superconducting cable

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 26/06/2026

Or this smaller insert (BYOB 9 rather than 10) packing the camera, both zooms and one prime - just 1.25kg.

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 26/06/2026

See, this is why Micro 4/3 is such an amazing system. This camera insert contains my OM-3, two weather-sealed f4 zoom lenses covering 24-300mm in full-frame terms, four fast prime lenses, a flash and accessories - and the whole kit weighs just 2.67kg.

Tenba BYOB 19 camera insert on balcony table

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026

By my reading, the Court agrees with the advocate general's opinion, which draws a clear distinction between the sort of thing we're talking about here and algorithmic feeds (see pic). So I think this is much ado about nothing? But again, I'm no lawyer. Interested to see more informed analysis.

236. Furthermore, in the judgment in YouTube and Cyando, (92) the Court found, with regard to one of the conditions to which Article 14(1) of Directive 2000/31 makes exemption from liability for an intermediary service provider subject, that the fact that the operator of an online content-sharing platform automatically indexes content uploaded to that platform, that that platform has a search function and that it recommends videos on the basis of users’ profiles or preferences is not a sufficient ground for the conclusion that that condition is not fulfilled. As I observed in my Opinion in Russmedia Digital and Inform Media Press, (93) nor is that circumstance a fortiori capable of depriving that operator of the possibility of relying on the exemption from liability provided for in that legal provision. The question as to whether the conditions for exemption from liability laid down in Article 14(1)(a) and (b) of Directive 2000/31 have been met arises only if the service provider concerned can be described as a ‘hosting provider assuming a neutral role’ in relation to the information that it stores and can, a priori, rely on that exemption.

237. I infer from this that the service provider does not lose its status as a hosting provider solely because it uses an algorithm which performs automated indexation of content provided by users and recommends to them content which may be of interest, without removing or hiding other content.

238. However, algorithmic processing of information provided by users may consist not in the curation of content, but in the creation of a new corpus of information in which the information provided by users is no longer identifiable. That is the case in particular where the service in question is designed, as in this case, to provide as accurate an image as possible of a portion of reality. In that case, the operator of that service may play a role which gives it, at least, control over the information provided by users. If the operator…

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 12/06/2026

And there it is! I started this week with 370-something subscribers and just over a thousand watch hours, and now I have met the requirements to finally start monetising Tech Gets Real, after nine months of grinding. What a difference one video (with 47k views and counting) can make.

YouTube analytics page showing 1,000 subscribers for the channel Tech Gets Real

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 11/06/2026

Huh - highest EU court just ruled that a European bank can't refuse to give someone a basic account just because they're on the US sanctions list

Judgment of the Court in Case C-81/24 | [Jenec] 1
Banking services: inclusion on a United States sanctions list is not
sufficient, on its own, for a refusal to open an account
Such a refusal is possible only following an individual assessment, carried out by the bank, of the risk of money
laundering and terrorist financing
In 2022, a Slovenian bank refused to open a payment account with basic features 2

for a consumer on account of his
inclusion on a sanctions list of the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). 3 The Bank, in so doing, intended to
fulfil the obligations laid down by the Slovenian legislation on the prevention of money laundering and terrorist
financing.
However, that consumer has never been convicted of the criminal offence giving rise to his inclusion on the OFAC
list. He is likewise not subject to any sanction imposed by the United Nations, the European Union or Slovenia. He
therefore brought an action before the Slovenian courts to compel the bank to open such an account for him.
The Slovenian court made a reference to the Court of Justice. It wishes to know, inter alia, whether the bank’s refusal
was justified under EU law. 4
In response, the Court states, first of all, that any consumer residing legally in the European Union has the right
to open and use a payment account with basic features. However, that right is subject to compliance with
the rules relating to the prevention of money laundering and the countering of terrorism.
The mere inclusion of a customer’s name on the OFAC list, or on any other list of that type drawn up by a third
country, does not automatically prohibit a bank from establishing a business relationship with that
customer. That inclusion may nevertheless constitute one of the relevant factors which the bank is required to take
into account during an individual assessment of the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing.
Even though the limited uses of a payment account with basic features reduce that risk, i…

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 08/06/2026

No, the correct spelling is right there in the photo

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 03/06/2026

Taken with my new OM System 40-150mm f4

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 24/05/2026

This time I used my "plastic fantastic" Olympus 40-150mm

Woodpecker peeking out of tree hole, with grubs in mouth

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026

Got some fun results from shooting B&W at dusk with my OM-3, which was this evening wearing the el-cheapo Olympus 40-150mm lens

Two round windows on the side of a building, arranged vertically, with each being flanked by two small square windows. The picture is in black and white.

A black and white picture of roadworks going down the left side of the street directly in front, with a one-way sign in German pointing off to the left. The image is framed by various foliage.

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026

Woodpecker at Fennsee - this is at full zoom on my 12-45mm f4 Pro, using the “digital teleconverter” and then cropped in-camera and tint-adjusted on my phone

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 11/05/2026

Playing around with my new O-M3 while my daughter is at her art class. This is with the kit zoom.

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