Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

@jan Debian works well with #podman these days, a release gets 5 years of support.

There are all too often complaints about #Debian: "why does it have such old packages". There is a really lovely property of properly maintained stable distribution. The only changes made are to make it more stable and more secure, e.g. targeted bug fixes only. New bugs come with new features, or even more general, new bugs come with new code. So if a release of software is already addressing the need, then new features are just adding more risk of problems

#security #stable #distro #software

@mnalis I totally agree that the jobs are important. Propping up highly inefficient, failing industries to save jobs is a problematic strategy, with a clear history to learn from. Skilled factory workers can make other things. Europe is already dominant in the railways industries, so if money shifts from cars to railways, that's an easy win. There are more opportunities like that, like we do pretty decent in wind mill manufacturing.

Aaahh now I get why #ElonMusk pivoted so hard to #politics! #Tesla is starting to fail as a company, making luxury cars while affordable electrics cars are in demand. And Europeans resent him getting involved in politics here, so avoid the company. Classic crony capitalism: use state power to prop up oligarchs. This is not innovation.

It goes to show you that it is at least as important to express one's opinions by choosing where one buys as it is to vote in elections.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/02/25/why-tesla-stock-is-plummeting-today/

I keep reading media reports raising alarms about how the European auto industry is in trouble. I honestly see that as a positive thing. If the EU has fewer car makers, we'll have more incentive to invest in more efficient things like railways, walkable cities, cycling infrastructure, etc. And we'll be much less dependent on foreign fossil fuels that drive the wars going on.

@elgregor @kriom clearly that is not the case I'm talking about. A device in Spanish in Spain tells the surveiller little. A device in Finnish in Kazakhstan might uniquely identify someone.

@kriom yes, exactly. It is even in the file name, e.g. config.de.apk

@kriom I'm not sure I quite understand the question. One thing we could implement is letting the client download the whole package, so the server cannot see the metadata from the split APKs. Then locally, it would only install the split APKs that the device needs. This would keep the benefit of less disk space usage, but it would use all the bandwidth still.

We're starting to implement support for split APKs in #FDroid. #Google wants to gather as much data about its users as possible, so trying to hide info about language, country, device specs was not a design concern for them. It is central for us. We want the official client to leak as little data as possible to any server, be it ours, mirrors, or custom repos. We welcome input:

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/2963

#Android #APK #privacy #DataEfficiency #efficiency #technology #data #metadata

@noodlemaz I totally agree. In this case, there was already so many people highlighting that the attacker had a Syrian passport that it is important to point out that savior also had a Syrian passport. Perhaps that's just the story the local media in Austria. I don't know so much how this was reported outside of Austria.

@noodlemaz there is a lot of anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner sentiment in many places of the world these days, so it is important to point out that if someone is foreign or an immigrant, that has nothing to do whether they are a good person or not.

This is the best meditation I know. There is something magical about effortlessly gliding some distance above a landscape.

"Please, if something like this happens again, you have to do something. You can’t just stand there, take photos and film videos."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/17/syrian-migrant-in-austria-who-rammed-car-into-attacker-hailed-as-hero

@drwhax it has served me well, at times, though I'm a bit out of the habit now. To try it, I just took a cheap wooden table and screwed wood onto the legs to make it the right height. Then I stuck it in a corner of a room, since it is a bit wobbly. The total cost was like 30€, ~20€ for a used table off the internet, and ~10€ for screws and extra wood.

@lily @fdroidorg Is there something in particular that you will miss?