Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

In 1948, Yugoslavia was expelled from Cominform, the Soviet information agency, in retaliation for its "non-aligned" status; deprived of information-processing capacity, the country created its own IT industry from scratch.

Yugoslavia's high tariffs and uneasy status on the world stage meant that by the 1970s, members of the New Wave" - science and tech enthusiasts who clustered around the sf/electronic mag Galaksija - could only play with PCs by pooling their mone

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RT @evacide
I cannot stress enough how key OTF has been to funding the tools people all over the world rely on for security and anonymity online, and how harmful it is to withhold those funds. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/trump-administration-withholds-20-million-crippling-international-internet-freedom-effort-officials-say/2020/07/31/eea0a9c0-d2a1-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html

Let's celebrate DebianDay 2020 around the world https://bits.debian.org/2020/07/lets-celebrate-debianday-2020-around-the-world.html

RT @moira
Not to be missed: @OpenTechFund has their CEO back which is great news. But @USAGMgov still controls their $

In the meantime Digital Authoritarians continue their work around the world... https://twitter.com/MikeScarcella/status/1285558868274225152

Great alternatives to Google Maps that use #OpenStreetMap data:

- Qwant Maps: website, has directions. Highlights the fact that data is from #OSM, providing links to view and edit the data.
https://www.qwant.com/maps
- F4map: website, 3D views of cities.
https://demo.f4map.com/
- MAPS.ME: mobile apps with a neat vector renderer. Minimalist. Works offline. More obviously profit-oriented.
- OsmAnd: mobile apps with lots of features. Offline too. (Too?) many customisations and options available.

CryptPad is a free open source online office suite which can be used collaboratively and anonymously. It is a privacy-friendly alternative to Google's Drive/Docs services.

You can follow them here:

➡️ @cryptpad

You can self-host CryptPad or use their official instance. Their website is at https://cryptpad.fr

The system is designed to be "zero knowledge", so the people hosting have no access to users' data.

#CryptPad #FOSS #FLOSS #GoogleDrive #GoogleDocs #Alternatives #Privacy

Yikes, a scary email phishing attempt for this person’s GitHub credentials. Shows how using a browser web extension for your password manager can help detect this by its autofilling.

https://nitter.snopyta.org/jedisct1/status/1278353703456706567

#Phishing

So what you're saying is, after 18 months you've mined all the profit you can out of your users' data, which is the real heart of what you do.

https://twitter.com/sundarpichai/status/1275835273637576704

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1278686616953987076

V2 Onion Services are going away. Time to migrate to V3! 🧅 https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline

There's some crazy internal US politics right now that threatens #OpenTechFund, who funded #LetsEncrypt, #CertBot, @torproject , #NoScript, TLS ESNI/ECH, #DNSPrivacyProj, #ReproducibleBuilds, #Wireguard, #DeltaChat, #OpenKeychain, #pypi, @guardianproject , @signalapp , and more. Looks like a couple proprietary software companies are trying to take over this #FreeSoftware money. Please sign on to the campaign to try to stop it: https://saveinternetfreedom.tech

The German Corona Warn App went live today. F-Droid cannot distribute the app for multiple reasons:

1) The core bluetooth contact tracing functionality is only implemented in Google play services and requires proprietary client libs to be included in the app.
2) The google api mentioned above is only available for use by apps which are whitelisted by google and distributed through the play store.

You can read about the api usage terms here: https://blog.google/documents/72/Exposure_Notifications_Service_Additional_Terms.pdf

And more generally about how the whole system works here: https://www.google.com/covid19/exposurenotifications/

German Version:
Die #CoronaWarnApp wurde heute veröffentlich. DIe app kann es nicht bei F-Droid geben, da die Kernfunktionalität in den Google Play Services implementiert ist und proprietäre Bibliotheken in der App benötigt.
Außerdem erlaubt Google die Benutzung der Contact Tracing api nur speziell freigeschalteten Apps, die über den Play Store installiert worden sind.

It seems that Google wants to make using app bundles a requirement for new apps on Google Play in 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=320&v=cMr-b660Esw

This would mean developers have to upload their signing keys to google play even though there's no technical benefit in doing that. You can achieve the same efficient download sizes by using bundletool locally and uploading all generated apks. But it seems google will stop allowing that and just wants your signing keys.