DeGoogling is possible, and it doesn't need to be difficult. 👏
Take a look at our in-depth guide of Google alternatives to learn how you can take back your privacy in 2025. ❤️🔒
👉 https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-leave-google-gmail
Have you already DeGoogled? If so, let us know your favorite Google-free apps.
We are celebrating 10 years of #reproducible builds in #FDroid this year, and we are overhauling the way the build server works.
Thanks to the funding from #NLnet, #NGI #NGIO part of #HorizonEurope, and your donations, our work is intended to power the future of #FDroid for the next ten and more.
Dig deeper for the why and the how in this 15 mins post: https://f-droid.org/2025/05/21/making-reproducible-builds-visible.html
Ever wonder how easy it would be for proprietary software like #WhatsApp to get around the end-to-end encryption? #TeleMessage provides a real world example. This is why there is no replacement for Free Software when it comes to privacy.
"How is it legal, under international humanitarian law, for the US to destroy an entire building filled with civilians to kill one man?"
https://zeteo.com/p/signal-chat-war-crimes-revealed-yemen-trump-admin
My latest on the clean OPSEC saga: TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreesen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more https://micahflee.com/telemessage-customers-include-dc-police-andreesen-horowitz-jp-morgan-and-hundreds-more/
I'm no advocate of violence. But is it wrong that I'm getting a certain feeling of #schadenfreude from prominent #cryptocurrency moguls being kidnapped for ransom? They share a huge part of the responsibility for enabling #ransomware. Or can we just say #karma?
"A research project has shown that areas with greater amounts of green space have a lower prevalence of police violence. The study is the first to find a significant relationship between greenness levels and fatal police shootings."
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-link-green-spaces-police-violence.html
Von wegen Sicherheit... Unterschreib’ jetzt unsere Petition & verhindere die Investition von Steuergeld in unsere eigene Unsicherheit! https://bundestrojaner.at/
Österreich kann eine so komplexe Software wie den #Bundestrojaner nicht selbst entwickeln. Ein Zukauf bedeutet Millionen an Steuergeld für dubiose Firmen, die Sicherheitslücken in unseren Geräten am Schwarzmarkt verkaufen – auch an autoritäre Regime. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000269954/messenger-ueberwachung-fachleute-warnen-vor-verbuendung-mit-hackern
Last Friday, we (again) added a statement on the next iteration of the ministry of internal affairs trying to legalize #statetrojan #spyware for secret services: https://www.parlament.gv.at/gegenstand/XXVIII/SNME/337
TL;DR: It is a slight improvement over the last draft, but still doesn't align with technical reality.
Pleased to see #Redis returning to an #OpenSource license.
#EU wants to ask app (and app store) developers about their interactions with app stores (specially of the very big kind) in the context of the Digital Services Act #DSA
The study aims to better understand content moderation practices, recommender systems, advertising mechanisms, and emerging challenges within the app ecosystem.
If you have 15-20 minutes to share your experience, make sure you visit the link until Tuesday May 27th, 2025.
Go: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/c7161c9d-9db5-c881-5f50-7faab4af7387
Reddit Issuing 'Formal Legal Demands' Against Researchers Who Conducted Secret AI Experiment on Users
@signalapp As a supporter of #Signal, it is important to point out a key detail: Signal's own code is #OpenSource, but Signal uses multiple #proprietary libraries from #Google. Those cannot be scrutinized since the source code is not open. We believe Signal should offer an actual open source version, and are ready to help. This exists already in the fork https://fosstodon.org/@MollyIM Also, apps like #Element #Threema #Wire are #FOSS, and have #ReproducibleBuilds on @fdroidorg #FDroid
A Mobile track at FOSSY was just added to the schedule! 🎉
If you have a talk about FOSS on mobile devices that you've always wanted to give, now is your chance 😁
The submission thing is open until April 28:
https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/
wow, #Bluesky just deleted all the comments for people who didn't like that users were objecting to them making it more like #Twitter:
There are direct links to the comments in:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/18/2231252/users-react-to-blueskys-upcoming-blue-check-mark-verification-system
But they are no longer visible on the GitHub issue. Unfortunately, no one got a archive.org capture before that happened.
We are not lawyers, nor our alter egos play as such on the Internet. Ergo in the face of legal challenges we are only rusticos.
If you feel ad idem and want to lend a hand, or head, to #FDroid pro bono and bona fide, you can help in our ongoing efforts ad infinitum.
Quaeritur right here: https://f-droid.org/2025/04/16/strengthening-foss-legal-resilience.html
#Apple is supposedly the "privacy company" but apparently those sweet #SurveillanceCapitalism dollars are just too irresistable, so they are expanding their ad business:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/apple-rebrands-part-of-its-ads-business-in-major-expansion