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F-Droid  

Nobody can lose, leak, lease, loan or liquidate your data if they don't have it. That's why we work hard to remove metadata from our systems, so your personal data is not even there to be gathered, let alone mishandled.

social.librem.one/@guardianpro

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Guardian Project  

It is important to understand that the personal data you give to a company becomes their "property". Even if a company that currently runs a service keeps the data private, it can be put up for sale. The new owners are then free to operate differently, especially when there is no GDPR like in the US.

science.slashdot.org/story/25/

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Hans-Christoph Steiner  

v35.0.2 is now in trixie. The v3.1 signer rotation stuff needs testing. Please try it out!

Getting apksigner from Debian has two key advantages over the Google binaries:

* They are reproducibly built.
* They have an actual free software license.

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Hans-Christoph Steiner  

I'm starting to think I must be a bot. I'm no longer human. I see so many prompts on the internet asking me if I'm human, or triggering "anti-bot" protections.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

“You don’t know what information a data broker has on you, who they’re selling it to, and what the people who buy your data are doing with it,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told @Gizmodo. “There’s a real power/knowledge asymmetry.” gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-

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Hans-Christoph Steiner  

The upcoming trixie release will ship with apksigner v35.0.2, which supports the APK v3.1 signer rotation. It is also reproducibly built, of course. I'll make a backport for bookworm too.

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Hans-Christoph Steiner  

Kudos to Jean-Michel Aphatie for taking a stand. The colonial powers did in fact commit all sorts of atrocities and massacres. There is far too little recognition of this in Europe. On the topic of Nazis, we are taught they were a distinctly German phenomenon. What is too often overlooked is that the racial theories came from places like Stanford University. And Napolean and others set the example of militaristic state brutally conquering for its own gains.

theguardian.com/world/2025/mar

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F-Droid  

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:

- if you do read this you're a #luddite
- #RISCV builds our catalogue
- change your #Mastodon client
- #freeminer takes on #Luanti
- fresh #OpenConnect
- update #QUIK SMS
- #shatteredpixeldungeon 3.0 introduces The Cleric
- #warsmash brings Warcraft III into your hands

Up to 209 apps touched upon in f-droid.org/2025/03/06/twif.ht

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Hans-Christoph Steiner  

@cryptax just uploaded v3.4.7 to Debian. If you make a new release very soon, I can get it into the upcoming stable release "Trixie"

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F-Droid  

Using FOSS apps is the first step, the next one is having them reproducibly built.

Is your keyboard reproducible, verified or none? Find out in f-droid.org/2025/03/04/even-my

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Guardian Project  

We have just added Klar to our repository of apps. Firefox Klar is a browser with a unique approach to privacy: it is designed around the idea that the user does not want to keep any personal info around. It makes it really easy to just wipe everything and start from zero. In the past, Firefox Klar was included in @fdroidorg but it has become too hard to maintain the free fork that strips out the Google proprietary bits. Hopefully will make a build possible again.

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tarakiyee  

I can’t overstate how excited I am that @sovtechfund is investing in the core technology powering OpenStreetMap. Throughout my years in open source, OSM and its incredible global community of volunteers have always been close to me. It was one of the first profound examples of the power of openness and its impact on digital sovereignty and personal autonomy.

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Rewilding Magazine  

"A lot of people tell themselves that they ‘need to do something’ but don’t how to start. I felt that way at first, too.

A community-driven model is an incredible opportunity to get those people involved. It shows that we can achieve a lot if we band together, which is an antidote to the doomerism of our time."

#rewilding #youtube #nature #community #crowdsourcing #conservation #ecology

rewildingmag.com/the-group-usi

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Nathan Freitas 🕺  

Sell your Tesla, buy an e-bike, or 5 even. I know you didn't know, but now you do. Spring is nearly here, perfect time for two wheels. You can do it! You will thank me later, I promise. #teslatakedown #tesla #boston

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Blender 🔶  

Congratulations to Gints Zilbalodis and the entire Flow film crew for the Academy Award win!

Flow is the manifestation of Blender’s mission, where a small independent team is able to create a story that moves audiences worldwide.

Thank you for the shout out! 🧡 #b3d

Flow
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Hans-Christoph Steiner  

There are all too often complaints about : "why does it have such old packages". There is a really lovely property of properly maintained stable distribution. The only changes made are to make it more stable and more secure, e.g. targeted bug fixes only. New bugs come with new features, or even more general, new bugs come with new code. So if a release of software is already addressing the need, then new features are just adding more risk of problems

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Hans-Christoph Steiner  

Aaahh now I get why pivoted so hard to ! is starting to fail as a company, making luxury cars while affordable electrics cars are in demand. And Europeans resent him getting involved in politics here, so avoid the company. Classic crony capitalism: use state power to prop up oligarchs. This is not innovation.

It goes to show you that it is at least as important to express one's opinions by choosing where one buys as it is to vote in elections.

fool.com/investing/2025/02/25/

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René Mayrhofer :verified: 🇺🇦 🇹🇼  

Because <reasons> in #Austria right now, we seem to again have the debate about "chat surveillance" (#chatcontrol) on the (newly forming) government level...

The arguments and facts have not changed, so I am just posting my last public presentation slides [mayrhofer.eu.org/talk/secure-m] and recording [media.ccc.de/v/26cd6d27-247f-5] again. Oh, and ins.jku.at/chatcontrol/ is still unchanged as well.

To our new (and old) policymakers: Maybe read/listen and then we can happily talk efficiently about any new ideas that might come up?

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Hans-Christoph Steiner  

I keep reading media reports raising alarms about how the European auto industry is in trouble. I honestly see that as a positive thing. If the EU has fewer car makers, we'll have more incentive to invest in more efficient things like railways, walkable cities, cycling infrastructure, etc. And we'll be much less dependent on foreign fossil fuels that drive the wars going on.

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Hans-Christoph Steiner  

We're starting to implement support for split APKs in . wants to gather as much data about its users as possible, so trying to hide info about language, country, device specs was not a design concern for them. It is central for us. We want the official client to leak as little data as possible to any server, be it ours, mirrors, or custom repos. We welcome input:

gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient

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