Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

Are you working on a free and open source project that contributes to the digital commons? Consider applying for NGI Zero funding. Our next deadline is June 1. If you can't make that, no worries, the next call opens right after.
We offer grants between 5 & 50k and grantees can also request practical support with licensing, security, accessibility, long-term sustainability, mentoring, UX testing, trouble shooting, packaging, internationalisation & more. https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250401-call.html
#FOSS #funding

#whatsapp has been feverishly copying #telegram features the last year. Both are now in a battle who enshittifies faster. Mr. Durov announced that #Telegram, sitting on the biggest cleartext data and metadata pile second only to #Meta, is to integrate "AI" the next days, see https://youtu.be/JBCY3ZE9Rz0?t=10048 ...

Let them fight. We stubbornly continue to focus on resilient private messaging for families, groups and communities, with end-to-encrypted #webxdc apps and decentralized agency at all levels.

A good example for bad AI propaganda and bad reporting.

That kind of anthropomorphization - implying agency ("revolt", "refuse to shut down when instructed", "sabotage the shutdown script") - is completely misguided and only contributes to the AI marketing hype.

It would be more adequate to report on it the way you'd report on:

- a Windows computer refusing to shut down because of a broken service/process
- a PLC-controlled assembly line refusing to stop because a certain condition isn't met

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.

#DeGoogle #GoogleAlternatives #PrivacyMatters

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

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/

"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.

#Austria #politics

Pleased to see #Redis returning to an #OpenSource license.

https://redis.io/blog/agplv3/

#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

🔗 https://www.404media.co/reddit-issuing-formal-legal-demands-against-researchers-who-conducted-secret-ai-experiment-on-users/

I really can't tell if this is real or fake