Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

A key problem in the debate around #Israel/#Palestine is that it is framed as two sides of one coin: either you support Israel otherwise you support Palestine. I support none of those in power there, #Netanyahu, #Hamas, Palestinian Authority, the Israeli regime, etc. are all corrupt, brutal and lead to suffering for the vast majority of the people they claim to represent. Only those in power benefit currently. I support good governance for all the people who live there.

https://yougov.co.uk/international/articles/52279-net-favourability-towards-israel-reaches-new-lows-in-key-western-european-countries

#Google's competition lawyers claim that uninstalling is the same as "disabling" even though Android itself says they are not the same:

"If you disable this app, Android and other apps may no longer function as intended. Keep in mind, you can't delete this app since it came pre-installed on your device. By disabling, you turn this app off and hide it on your device."

There is no such warning when uninstalling:

"Do you want to uninstall this app?"

#Android #DMA #DigitalMarketsAct #GooglePlay

Washington DC is always full of slightly surreal surprises. This time the US' only military was occupying its own capital for no apparent reason. Note the bored National Guard soldiers just leaning against their truck. There were a handful of these scattered around the city.

This is the best meditation I know. There is something magical about effortlessly gliding some distance above a landscape.

Nothing like a massive flowing river in the middle of a city to show us who is boss:

Want to see a visual example of why #beef and #dairy have such a big #climate impact? Massive amounts of water and resources go to growing cheap alfalfa, which is mostly cattle feed.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/05/us/arizona-water-foreign-owned-farms-climate/index.html

I live near a branch of the #Danube and have seen beavers a couple of times. It is great to see them coming back. I didn't realize how dire the situation was: the population was done to 1200 a century ago https://cartographymaster.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Beinder.jpg

At the beginning of 2023, there was a sudden increase in the rate of growth of #FDroid bandwidth usage on the ftp.fau.de #mirror. I can't think what might have caused such a dramatic, acute event. It is really an elbow. Any ideas?

#FDroid is consistently growing in its bandwidth usage over the years, as shown by this stats graph from the #UniFAU mirror. Interesting to see the short downward section when we added new official mirrors in April and November.

Thanks @FAU for the mirror, the bandwidth, and the stats! https://ftp.fau.de/cgi-bin/show-ftp-stats.cgi

#Wien Fluss

Bosnian countryside, abandoned house with ice cream parlor

The old bobsled run from the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo is quite fun to walk down, with some lovely graffiti. But it is difficult to still see the scars of war, almost 30 years later.

#CarFree and even bike-free #Kotor in Montenegro shows the kinds of freedoms we give up when we let vehicles, especially large motorized ones, dominate our cities and towns. There, even babies can roam around the streets alone, and the neighborhood cats can sleep undisturbed until humans wake up.

wow, the @EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu 's grants website includes a #Panic button!

One big concern I have about #MLS over something like #Signal Protocol is that it makes it so the cost of sending a message to a group of 10 is about the same as sending to a group of 1000 or more. This is the opposite of how physical social interaction works, it is much more effort to speak in front of large groups. This gives advantage to spam, disinfo, trolling, etc. as compared to protocols where the cost linearly increases as the number of users in the group increases. 2/

#CriticalMass #Vienna heat map of paths taken since 2011.

Interesting to see that the #Ruble has dropped below pre-invasion value when compared to the #Euro.

I will go one step further and say that calling #FDroid an "unsafe app" by this standard is dishonest. It seems that some at #Google also agreed, since the older version of that screen was honest: "Blocked by Play Protect" instead of "Unsafe app blocked". Looks like the #GooglePlay team is still focused on protecting their #monopoly, this time using scare tactics. 2/2

This screen that #Google shows on #Android when installing #FDroid really bugs me. It is purely based on the integer value targetSdkVersion, without considering our security model, public audits results, track record over 10+ years, exclusive use of memory safe languages, or even what our code actually does. It is as if #FDroid marked anything that comes from Google as containing ads and trackers. 1/2

Everything was clearly better in the past, we can't even get #radioactive toothpaste anymore!