Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
@Mer__edith I respect the work that Signal has done, and Signal has been a great leader in pushing e2ee over the past 15 years. Signal can also do better on push. It is not a binary choice, other options provide much improved privacy with smaller hit on battery usage. @unifiedpush does that and falls back to Google push for devices that don't have #UnifiedPush built-in. @fdroidorg is also helping to get it integrated into #CalyxOS #LineageOS etc https://f-droid.org/2022/12/18/unifiedpush.html
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In addition, we strongly advise developers to encrypt their push notifications, recommending #WebPush (following RFC 8291, forget about this draft abandoned 7 years ago!) or to adopt a sync-on-push strategy (which is what Signal does).
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"Trust us", the FBI keeps saying.
Yet, they spy on your private messages without a warrant.
#Fight4Privacy & stop Section 702.
While Tuta is not impacted, this is such a bad law that everyone must take action now! 💪
➡️https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-they-must-defeat-hpsci-s-horrific-surveillance-bill
Share to help us #StopTheNDAA
@unifiedpush have you considered applying for a grant from #NLnet? I'd be happy to help with the process https://nlnet.nl/commonsfund/
@Codeberg as part of https://defo.ie, we are assisting free software projects of all kinds to implement #EncryptedClientHello (#ECH). This would hide the domain that users are connecting to, e.g. codeberg.org, *.codeberg.page, etc. If you are interested, let me know and I'll see what we can do to help.
@zorun @FAU https://mirror.level66.network/ is one of the new mirrors that was added in November, it also has some basic stats. As far as I can tell, there is only total numbers for the mirror. We're on track to more than double that mirror's bandwidth usage since /fdroid/ was added
@zorun @FAU thanks for running your #mirror too! I hadn't seen your stats posts before, that's interesting to see. The current algorithm for choosing mirrors is random, so I wonder why ftp.fau.de sees 8TB/day while tetaneutral sees 1.4TB/day? I guess ftp.fau.de's stats might also include rsync, and many mirrors rsync from ftp.fau.de. This might also explain the steeper decline in November: a couple mirrors switched away from ftp.fau.de to rsyncing from primary mirrors.
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Sehr schick: die Nachtzugkarte. Interaktiv mit (vermutlich) allen Nachtzug-Linien in Europa.
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@stf because it's more than time to stop depending on Microsoft Pages (tm)? #Codeberg #sourcehut
#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
@stf because #Microsoft wants all the data they can gather on developers, that's why they bought GitHub. They have some #SurveillanceCapitalism business, and now, they want it to feed all of their #AI #LLM systems.
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This week in F-Droid (TWIF) was just published.
We have new mirrors and some news about Simple Mobile Tools.
Also, we wrote about DiskUsage, Sithakuru and Karma Firewall.
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We are pleased to announce the new 27M€ NGI0 commons fund project let by @nlnetfdn that will support hundreds of new projects and innovators driving a human-centric internet. The innovators will be supported by a strong consortium comprising: @OpenForumEurope
APELL
Swiss chapter of the @internetsociety
@ow2
@fsfe
@ros @fsi
Tolerant Networks
HAN University
@APC
@techcultivation
Commons Caretakers
@nixos_org
#OpenSource
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We invite you to nominate a FOSS project for the Bluehats prize. There are four prizes of €10.000 each, to be spent freely.
Bluehats are civil servants who promote the use and development of Free Software in public administrations.
The French public administration has established the Bluehats prize for maintainers of critical Free Software. To be eligible the software must be in use by at least one agency of the French administration.
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Seems google/apple's push notifications services are regularly queried by state authorities for obtaining user data -- see this german #netzpolitik article https://netzpolitik.org/2023/push-dienste-behoerden-fragen-apple-und-google-nach-nutzern-von-messenger-apps/ --
#deltachat only uses apple's push notifications on iOS for "heartbeat" services -- otherwise it's too hard to ensure the app can show messages for their user (and many users are asking for tighter integration). On Android and Desktop platforms no push notifications are used or needed, also no heartbeat ones.
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"Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps' push notifications".
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments-spying-apple-google-users-through-push-notifications-us-senator-2023-12-06/
#Push services from #Google and #Apple are used in many messaging apps, letting those companies see a lot of about what the users are doing on their #mobile devices. It is clearly a rich source of #metadata with huge #privacy concerns.
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Been a good day in #Brussels. Attending the #DigitalCompetitionDay event.
I believe that the Digital Markets Act (#DMA), has the potential to make a significant difference.
Explained a bit what I have experienced over the years with #Microsoft , #Apple and #Google.
Talked about the importance of not leaving holes through not designating products, such as #edge
Talked about the importance of regulating use of data. Data may be the new oil and oil is ruining the planet. We can allow use of data for services, without saying that the data can be used for profiling and marketing as well!
Got great feedback, so happy about that.
@vitriolix that's a lot of hair
Joined Aug 2019
