Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

@draken @fdroidorg We work to make sure that old versions remain working. That said, it is not likely that security issues in old unsupported releases will be fixed.

It looks quite clear that #LLM #AI is on the same path at #Bitcoin but with a lot more money and industry behind it. Both are based on a small kernel of a good and useful idea. But the vast majority of what they are actually good for is shitty, anti-social, harmful, and all too often, criminal. Two recent examples:

#vibe #code autophishing services for all! https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/microsoft-takes-down-eviltokens-device.html

Pesky humans want to review your kill list? AI chooses targets in minutes without remorse https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-investigators-say-overreliance-on-palantir-ai-tech-contributed-to-u-s-strike-that-killed-123-iranian-children-2000814477

@neil I agree, I'm talking about the actual power structures of the organizations. Debian is a constitutional democracy of its core contributors that have agreed to put users and free software first as a community: "Our priorities are our users and free software"

https://www.debian.org/social_contract

Users do not have a vote. From what I've heard, Wikimedia Foundation is similarly controlled by the volunteer editors.

Do you know of any free software project where users have a defined binding vote?

@neil I don't think that's true for a volunteer-driven project. Basically no one wants to volunteer to take orders. Contributors volunteer to make something they believe in. The protection for the users is free software itself. If users don't like how a project is running, they can fork, or support someone else who forks. This is the difference between Debian, which is run by volunteer contributors, vs Ubuntu/RedHat/etc which are companies that serve customers to make a profit.

@rene_mobile I totally agree, that sounds like a good idea. Do you think it would actually happen though? I could see it happening in some countries, but it seems quite unlikely to happen in the US or China. Honestly, I could see China holding executives accountable before the US does. Tech billionaires own the Federal Government and also key state governments.

So I just saw this new #Android #build system #Lightbuild. It seems to be yet another wrapper project in the #AndroidSDK. What is it about Android that make it sprout so many wrapper layers? #OAT #DEX #JVM #Gradle #Groovy #Kotlin

https://developer.android.com/tools/agents/lightbuild

Arms control treaties work. They are perfect example of how #AI could be regulated:

"Treat compute, the main ingredient in AI training, like fissile material. Track it and restrict access to quantities large enough to improve AIs beyond known-safe levels."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/14/google-deepmind-ai-warnings

@shaknais Good question. I think it is very much an unanswered question whether AI code assistants violate copyright licenses. If you care about free software, I think your options are to avoid AI code assistants or train your own models using only code with compatible FOSS licenses.

While some many in the #EU were busy fussing about support the dying car industry, an industry of the past, they were letting EU #RenewableEnergy companies die, although that's clearly the industry of the future.

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-solar-energy-clean-tech-procurement/

And #VW is dying anyway, despite bailouts and all that attention.

@IzzyOnDroid @fdroidorg A blanket ban harms more than it helps. There needs to be trust in maintainers. That's what FOSS is about. It is easy to spot AI slop in code.

For example, we get merge requests created with AI that are tightly focused. If we don't allow such things, we set ourselves up to be DDoSed by AI bots. They can spam a project with small, reasonable fixes that then cannot be merged when anything AI is banned. We'd have to do weird things to fix bugs just because of the ban

Riding on the Slovak national railways, I'm fascinated by the choice of an Australian accent for their English announcements. It makes my head spin a bit being in this very European context with an official Aussie telling us the local information 😉

@mjg59 I think the right answer is to retain copyright, prevent it expanding, and bring it back to something like a 30 year term and limited to concerns about commercial distribution.

Judge #Donato does a #UX review of #GooglePlay in #EpicVGoogle 😂

https://www.theverge.com/policy/979852/that-is-not-acceptable-judge-orders-google-to-make-rival-app-store-installs-easier

That is highly entertaining to read. Let's see if #Google actually follows the direct orders from the judge. They are so lawyered up paid for with those sweet sweet #monopoly #profits, I imagine they'll still fight.

For me, there is still a big open question: should @fdroidorg add itself to Google Play? On one hand, we don't support anything proprietary, on the other, it makes it easy to install safely

As far as #nature is concerned, a lawn is a desert. A ploughed field is a desert. Pavement is a desert. Europe has converted its landscape from forests, marshlands and lush greenery to ploughed fields, pavement, lawns, etc. So it is really no wonder that #Europe is now heating up and drying up so fast. We are forcing the #climate to become a #desert.

I really love to see #rewilding taking hold in big ways and in small. We can stop killing #nature where we live. It doesn't need to something we travel to see. It can be part of daily life in #urban environments

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/20/biodiversity-gardens-wildlife-lawns-grass-ecosystems-native-plants-america-aoe

It works in even smaller than a #suburban garden. Songbirds, crickets and butterflies have come back to my bit of central #Vienna because we planted native plants in tree pits and window boxes. I pick #wild strawberries from my window in my 4th floor apartment😋