Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

#Google said it has no involvement of OEM's including app stores by default. To ship an #GooglePlay device, it has to comply with secret NDA'd "GMS Compliance", which requires OEMs to justify to Google pre-installed app store needs to access the same APIs that Play uses to install and uninstall apps. Somehow, I don't think Google will stop requiring OEMs be granted permission by Google to include the app stores of their choosing.

#DMA #DigitalMarketsAct

#GooglePlay's competition is more than just businesses. Free software communities, governments, non-profits, and institutions are already making #Android app stores.

#DMA #DigitalMarketsAct #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

#Google desparately wants to limit the scope of the #DMA as much as possible, and wants the European Commission that #GooglePlayServices is not part of the operating system, even though users cannot uninstall it. Google is even working to change the definition of "uninstall" so that it means the same as what #Android currently calls "disabling". Even Google Play itself will entirely delete the app when users click "uninstall" except of course for the stuff where Google prevents uninstallation.

@SebastienK @1br0wn also consider that the #gatekeeper companies are trying to slow the process down as much as possible. If you think the #DigitalMarketsAct is slow, then you should look at anti-trust lawsuits. They often take a decade then don't really change anything. The #DMA is already looking like a big improvement in comparison.

@matthew_d_green "differential privacy" is not a privacy tool, in my opinion. It just slightly reduces how bad the privacy issues are, but they are still all there. The privacy must be provided in a different way, like via regulations like #GDPR or health data laws. "Differential privacy" definitely seems to be very valuable as a PR tool to respond to #SurveillanceCapitalism to hide what is really going on.

@daniel of course sandboxes improve #security. It is important to remember that sandboxes by definition are sets of restrictions. If a sandbox only restricts things you don't use, you win. Sandbox restrictions often break features that users want. Since I'm focused on #UserFreedom and #FreeSoftware, I want community control over which restrictions are in place. #Android does not provide that unless you have the skills to hack and make your own ROM, even then its hard. #Debian does provide that.

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

#ACM took another big step towards "transition[ing] to a fully Open Access publisher... under a financially sustainable model". #OpenAccess publishing is clearly the future of disseminating academic, scientific, and medical knowledge. Not so long ago, people were being jailed for opening up access while the publishers were not.

https://cacm.acm.org/news/cacm-is-now-open-access-2/

@olasd @interpipes I understand why DSA would make that choice, I'm not faulting them. My goal is to raise awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of each approach, and to increase user privacy. That requires transparency about what happens with the data and metadata, and commitments from any organizations running the mirrors.