Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

@jalefkowit Nice example! Also, for those who don't know it, there were luxury spas built around the natural springs in Bad Gastein around the idea that people should bath in the radioactive waters. By the 90s, it was a ghost town since almost no one believed that radon was healthy any more.

@ottok Nice to see some discussion about this, as a fellow DD. I would love to see the Debian way integrated into salsa.debian.org a lot more, e.g. use GitLab as the back end while maintaining a lot of the same interfaces, e.g. email interactions with bugs.debian.org. There has already been good work on improving the salsa/gbp workflow. DEP-18 sounds good too.

In @fdroidorg we actually fetch upstream source code using Git, then packaging in maintained in our GitLab.

@ottok @ubuntu I totally agree that people should pay for Free Software. I think the Debian LTS model is one good example, but it only covers specific cases. I worry that Ubuntu Pro's model will move security support to a paid model, which would harm the ecosystem since non-paying users would not get security support.

@rewildingmag interesting idea. I'd love to see warmer city lights in general. Would it work if we just started reducing city lighting to reasonable levels instead of what we have now around the world: the endless increase with more and more added every year?

@webmink I sent you a message on Signal, thanks for the offer!

@webmink Not currently, but I have in the past been funded by #OpenTechFund to work on #IETF things like #TLS #ECH. The stuff I was referring to is policy work, basically.

Just finished a 10 hour day doing volunteer work on #DigitalMarketsAct #AndroidDeveloperVerification and related #policy things. It is really important work, especially for #FOSS @fdroidorg and more. It is quite interesting, I only wish I could get paid to do it so I could engage more. The #EuropeanCommission and others would certainly welcome more input from people like me.

#Apple says the #EU #DigitalMarketsAct delays features by a couple months, and advises other governments not to follow the #DMA example.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgj9kjmvzzo

Perhaps. What is clear is that the DMA brings real gains in interoperability. For example, because of the DMA, #AirDrop now can work between #iOS and #Android

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/the-eu-made-apple-adopt-new-wi-fi-standards-and-now-android-can-support-airdrop/

I think this same pressure also got Apple to implement #RCS to provide encrypted text messages between the #mobile #duopoly operating systems.

Also, in the UK the competition regulator is pushing Apple and Google to open up https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c626rng1v63o

So if the Epic vs. Google settlement is global, its basically moot in the UK since the CMA is already on Google to open up.

for more details on all this, see https://www.theverge.com/23945184/epic-v-google-fortnite-play-store-antitrust-trial-updates

The #EpicVsGoogle settlement has shifted to apply globally while watering down the terms. This is worse for #US users without providing much in exchange. Why would #Google accept global scope? Because it is clear that #DigitalMarketsAct and laws like force them to open up anyway, so Google doesn't lose by agreeing to global applicability. In exchange, Google gains weakened terms in the US, which is not pursuing something like the DMA

#EpicGames #DMA #EpicVGoogle #Android #GooglePlay #AntiTrust