Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

So far no mention of #FreeSoftware at the #DMAWorkshop but I guess that's not surprising since it opens with in-app payments as a central topic. It would be great to see free options like #Liberapay and #OpenCollective represented. I was happy to meet @murena here, so I know I'm not alone as an #FLOSS-based implementer.

#DMAWorkshop has started, many more suits than I'm used to. The first interesting insight I gathered in conversation: "sideloading" is a loaded word which serves the monopolists. On other platforms, this is called "installing". Sideloading highlights that there is a main source, and installing outside of that source. Of course, many people don't want to think about the source, but we need choice over which is the main source.

On my way to #Brussels for the #DMAWorkshop, trying to channel #FreeSoftware communities in what I fear might be an event focused on the giants #proprietary software. Or maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised?

A century ago, Polish and Ukrainian nationalists fought a brutal war against each other, where at least 50,000 died. Now they are allies. Let's hope history continues to follow this pattern, and we put #nationalism to rest. Let people be people, and respect their culture, language, religion, and democracy wherever people happen to live. Central Europe always was and always will be multi-ethnic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Ukrainian_War
https://warsawinstitute.org/poland-ukraine-history-divides/

@cryptax @maldr0id @apkunpacker @frenchyeti Funny that it has a long list of that permission, rather than just QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES. I guess the idea is that the long list is harder to flag? I think the dev docs on this recommend avoiding a long list. As far as I know, these permissions control getting PackageInfo and related things https://developer.android.com/training/package-visibility

Started syncing work on the #smali package between #Debian and #KaliLinux, bookworm's libsmali-java provides an update over Kali's own smali package, but there is still a bit more to be done. Hoping this is the start of more cooperation!

@webmink I greatly enjoyed your live tooting of the #DMAWorkshop. I'm up next: this Monday is the next one, this time about the app store regulations. I'll be there representing #FDroid @fdroidorg. Any advice for pushing #FreeSoftware in that context?

Just uploaded #weblate's wlc tool v1.13 to Debian to make it into bookworm. wlc is a handy CLI tool for managing translations in the terminal. This update enabled #bash #completion! Thanks @weblate for all your work!

About yearly, we seem to get another article saying "look! #BigTech are the biggest contributors to #OpenSource". These articles come across as PR pieces since they point to data saying who is the biggest contributing company without putting it into context. Like, does #BigTech contribute 0.5%, 5% or 50% of all activity? Instead the talk about things like "the top leading corporate contributors", leaving out non-"leading" contributors, non-corporate contributors, etc. https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/24/who_writes_open_source/

@dx #Vienna provides a practical plan for how to get to that point: around half of residents have a 1€/day "Jahreskarte" year ticket, so we already have the feeling of transit without tickets. This has been expanded to the #Austria -wide "Klimaticket", which is the same idea, but for all railways and public transit in the whole country. I think this approach is much more politically possible than trying to just flip systems to have no fares.