Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

Thanksgiving: Celebrating the day Americans fed undocumented aliens from Europe

@neglesaks@mstdn.io Now that I think about it, there is a $25 fee for the account to publish apps, and now you have to set up a "payment profile". These things would dissuade lots of users from just posting their learning app, in my opnion.

@SylvieLorxu thanks for that info, I don't know what the criteria are. I am seeing your ratings coming over Tor without being logged into anything:

@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @dsfgs @Some_Emo_Chick @cy@mstdn.io @strypey This is great! We need a lot more of this, since corporations are so good at hiding in the abstractions of modern life.

@GossiTheDog what happened to "obscurity is not security"? Shouldn't we leave it up there so more people can learn how best to defend against it? That code will still be 100% available in the ransomware forums. I suppose there could be something to gain from making ransomware code a little bit less available, but it also sets a dangerous precedent that people should not be allow to see "bad code". Like the article says "... Not Paying a Ransom" is a better defence

@ahf Its already in place, there is an onion service already set as an official mirror, its just run by people at fau.de. This is only about adding the onion service run by the #FDroid team 😃

We want to add the official #Tor onion service for f-droid.org as an official mirror, so that clients will automatically use it. Please test by sharing the repo link to #FDroid client then add it as a mirror:
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/12#note_1184095205

This should prompt to add it as a mirror, which is safe since the keys need to match. Click cancel if it offers to add a new repo.

@Strandjunker Why are Democrats exempt? There have been plenty over the years who blocked gun control and accepted money from the NRA, and there still are some.

@neglesaks@mstdn.io @neglesaks@mstdn.io That makes sense, but I wonder how many of those there really are. I would love to see data on those ~2.2 million apps without a single star.

The majority of apps on Google Play have never even been starred once. It seems Google Play's users do not care at all about the majority of the apps in their collection. Anyone have any ideas why Google would allow it to become such a cesspool? Is it that they believe they can just make their recommender engines find the good ones? Or do they want to remove friction for developers to ensure their monopoly? https://www.statista.com/statistics/266217/customer-ratings-of-android-applications/

@cnx YouTube Premium is another example of the cracks forming in surveillance capitalism. Google is the biggest "innovator" when it comes to developing surveillance capitalism as a model, and has probably done the most to make it look "respectable". They were generally true believers in that model, but now, even they are exploring ways out.

Requiring everything be free software is the standard of the best distros, and what #F-Droid strives for. This goes against what Google is trying to with the Android ecosystem. They are pushing hard to get everything using their proprietary bits so that they can control the ecosystem. #F-Droid is the biggest force pushing back.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/