Comment on Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam

• thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Can you point me to this regulation ? First I’ve heard of it.

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  • droopy4096@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    one of the references

    blazetrends.com/eu-mandates-android-bootloader-lo…

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    • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes unfortunately that’s not true. Several reddit threads have suggested it is chatGPT fantasy, but regardless of the source, here is:

      The actual regs in question eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/53/2024-12-28

      Ycombinator analysing it (and saying it’s not an issue) news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44765939

      Xiaomi saying it’s fine (their article was apparently the source of the misinfo) xiaomitime.com/dont-panic-eu-isnt-ending-bootload…

      GrapheneOS saying it’s not an issue grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114981731913328733 xcancel.com/GrapheneOS/…/1951434556957138962 and discuss.grapheneos.org/d/…/10

      Less reliable sources reporting on it www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sPFj9EP7YE biggo.com/…/202508021532_EU_Radio_Equipment_Direc… forum.sailfishos.org/t/…/10

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      • droopy4096@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        interesting. thanks for the references.

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