Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
It looks like AI developer assistants will always carry the risk that it is trying to pwn the developer who is using it. This is a great write-up of how one was trained to insert malicious links via the source code it was trained on.
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DeGoogling is possible, and it doesn't need to be difficult. 👏
Take a look at our in-depth guide of Google alternatives to learn how you can take back your privacy in 2025. ❤️🔒
👉 https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-leave-google-gmail
Have you already DeGoogled? If so, let us know your favorite Google-free apps.
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We are celebrating 10 years of #reproducible builds in #FDroid this year, and we are overhauling the way the build server works.
Thanks to the funding from #NLnet, #NGI #NGIO part of #HorizonEurope, and your donations, our work is intended to power the future of #FDroid for the next ten and more.
Dig deeper for the why and the how in this 15 mins post: https://f-droid.org/2025/05/21/making-reproducible-builds-visible.html
Ever wonder how easy it would be for proprietary software like #WhatsApp to get around the end-to-end encryption? #TeleMessage provides a real world example. This is why there is no replacement for Free Software when it comes to privacy.
"How is it legal, under international humanitarian law, for the US to destroy an entire building filled with civilians to kill one man?"
https://zeteo.com/p/signal-chat-war-crimes-revealed-yemen-trump-admin
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My latest on the clean OPSEC saga: TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreesen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more https://micahflee.com/telemessage-customers-include-dc-police-andreesen-horowitz-jp-morgan-and-hundreds-more/
I'm no advocate of violence. But is it wrong that I'm getting a certain feeling of #schadenfreude from prominent #cryptocurrency moguls being kidnapped for ransom? They share a huge part of the responsibility for enabling #ransomware. Or can we just say #karma?
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"A research project has shown that areas with greater amounts of green space have a lower prevalence of police violence. The study is the first to find a significant relationship between greenness levels and fatal police shootings."
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-link-green-spaces-police-violence.html
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Von wegen Sicherheit... Unterschreib’ jetzt unsere Petition & verhindere die Investition von Steuergeld in unsere eigene Unsicherheit! https://bundestrojaner.at/
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Österreich kann eine so komplexe Software wie den #Bundestrojaner nicht selbst entwickeln. Ein Zukauf bedeutet Millionen an Steuergeld für dubiose Firmen, die Sicherheitslücken in unseren Geräten am Schwarzmarkt verkaufen – auch an autoritäre Regime. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000269954/messenger-ueberwachung-fachleute-warnen-vor-verbuendung-mit-hackern
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Last Friday, we (again) added a statement on the next iteration of the ministry of internal affairs trying to legalize #statetrojan #spyware for secret services: https://www.parlament.gv.at/gegenstand/XXVIII/SNME/337
TL;DR: It is a slight improvement over the last draft, but still doesn't align with technical reality.
@pleasedodisturb @fdroidorg I recommend you try asking the dozens of other contributors to F-Droid about their experience:
* https://gitlab.com/groups/fdroid/-/contribution_analytics
* https://f-droid.org/about/
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Pleased to see #Redis returning to an #OpenSource license.
@pleasedodisturb @fdroidorg F-Droid is a free software project. The best way to support it is to contribute.
Hans-Christoph Steiner
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#EU wants to ask app (and app store) developers about their interactions with app stores (specially of the very big kind) in the context of the Digital Services Act #DSA
The study aims to better understand content moderation practices, recommender systems, advertising mechanisms, and emerging challenges within the app ecosystem.
If you have 15-20 minutes to share your experience, make sure you visit the link until Tuesday May 27th, 2025.
Go: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/c7161c9d-9db5-c881-5f50-7faab4af7387
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Reddit Issuing 'Formal Legal Demands' Against Researchers Who Conducted Secret AI Experiment on Users
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@aliceif @kurimu turns out that #Google also had minimal checks on such things. I don't recall anything other than #MavenCentral checking the domain names of Package Names. That's the #Android ecosystem. Today, does #GooglePlay or any other app store even check this?
@growse @guardianproject @signalapp @fdroidorg That would be nice, but sadly, no. That APK contains proprietary libraries from Google and maybe others.
@pixelcode @kkarhan I have followed their #ReproducibleBuilds over the years, they never actually reproduce the whole thing from source, just the easy parts. Last I checked, all their native code is just pulled in as binaries when using their reproducer setup. Plus, they can't reproduce the proprietary Google libraries https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/556bcda58ae65abbba75bf899a43666ba6d9d427/app/build.gradle.kts#L533
Joined Aug 2019
