Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

@D22 @fdroidorg It will download the F-Droid.apk, and if a device is available via adb, it will try to install it using adb. We have some other ideas how to help the user get the APK installed from the desktop, we are also open to ideas and suggestions.

@hyakinthos @zacchiro The Tor Project is not a good candidate, they have actually been trying to lessen their involvement in browser work for a while. It is difficult and resource intensive. It does help that #Mullvad is now contributing. More orgs and devs should join in!

This is the example of the kind of feature that the #DigitalMarketsAct is driving #Google to implement. It could have been implemented long ago, but there was no pressure for Google to do so. Notice how they implemented it in #PlayServices, not Android. Apps that implement this are then tied to Google's proprietary stuff. That's their way of maintaining control of the ecosystem. https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/21/24302562/android-restore-credentials-transfer-restore-key

I would love to see an analysis of the power dynamics of how all the browser companies are working together on the #Chromium code base. Of course, #Google has an oversized influence, both because #Chrome is dominant but also because Chromium is a Google project. I can't imagine #Microsoft is a pushover there. #Brave, #Opera and #Vivaldi probably have much less sway, but could join together. Are there useful avenues for #Firefox resources to have more impact in the Chromium ecosystem?

@hyakinthos @zacchiro I'd say we should judge them based on their decades long track record rather than details of the manifesto. Plus is there any organization or approach that can realistically replace #Mozilla?

@zacchiro I get the feeling, but I think that's unfair the decades of work Mozilla has already put in to keeping the browser ecosystem more focused on users. Mozilla is a problematic organization for sure, but it is also the only major force in the browser ecosystem with some kind of focus on putting users first. What else is there?

When the ÖAMTC ambulance helicopter flies overhead in #Austria, it is an experience. Its fast, loud and strikingly low to the ground. Its the only helicopter I see. For me, this event represents the social system. It flies in reserved airspace, private aircraft aren't allowed. Trips are covered by health insurance. I compare this to living in #NYC, where most helicopter flights are some rich asshole flying around for no good reason. This helicopter reminds me another world is possible

@xkummerer @Sonstwer hängt an welche "threat model" man hat. Einfachsten gesagt: vermeide diese Apps bis Updates installiert sind.

@Codeberg @grote @fdroidorg where are production buildservers are located is not public information, and it is not necessarily static. But I imagine it would be easy to figure out which IP address by looking at the logs on the codeberg side. We haven't been blocked before by any other git/scm hoster, to my knowledge.

@jcaleitao thanks for running a public #IPFS gateway. Yours is currently returning 502 errors.

@drwhax coffee addiction is for real! It is just a fact that I have accepted as part of my life

Could someone please train an AI image generator on a data set without any porn at all? Or is this just a bias in the free ones? I feel like half the time I try to generate an image mentioning the word "woman", it rapidly goes towards porn. Try generating with a term like "breast feeding" and its impossible. This is a bias on the internet we really do not need to reproduce or spread further. Paid services might be better but most of the world will use the gratis ones. #enshittification coming up

Given my work on #privacy, #censorship circumvention, #ech, etc. this #Brazil #Musk case is giving me pause. I have lots of questions, but no clear answers yet. Are there parallels to the DoH case here? Is making the internet more private contributing to centralization of power? e.g. billionaires like Musk can broadcast over the whole internet whatever they want, and governments have no power to stop it. The 99% do have to follow our govs.

#EncryptedClientHello #internet