Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
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C'est avec beaucoup de peine que nous avons appris mardi soir le départ de Lovis IX, cofondateur d'Exodus Privacy, président actuel de l'association et surtout ami.
Hacktiviste vindicatif, il savait en découdre avec les administrations et nous a aidé à en découdre avec les pisteurs. Que ce soit au clavier avec ses bons mots ou au pétrin avec son pain, il avait à cœur de nourrir les personnes qu'il rencontrait. Ses râleries autant que ses blagues nous manqueront.
@EUCommission Could we please stop subsidizing cars? They are immensely harmful to our environment, our planet, our cities and our children. Cars are:
* number one killer of children
* number one source of major trauma in children
* number one source of pollution in cities (exhaust, brake dust, tire dust, etc)
* Two thirds of our street space are taken up by cars
European industry should focus on things we do better than others, and things that the world needs more urgently, like wind mills.
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Part three of our legal series is live, and stuff becomes serious.
We spoke with a range of legal experts, software freedom advocates, and maintainers of mature FOSS infrastructure to understand how others manage legal take-down requests.
Free ten minutes for: https://f-droid.org/2025/09/10/how-foss-projects-handle-legal-takedown-requests.html
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It seems that together with civil society and politicians who actually care, this time we managed to prevent #chatcontrol again, luckily. Can we please not have to do that anymore?
@suka_hiroaki @epicenter_works @xot @bpreneel @carmelatroncoso @cascremers @tho
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We (over 50 scientists) have put (yet another) open letter to the EU commission online, detailing while we do not believe anything has changed in the recent iteration of #chatcontrol proposals that would make it any less unsafe: https://csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025
Please boost. Next week there will be (another) decision!
CC @signalapp @suka_hiroaki @epicenter_works @xot @bpreneel @carmelatroncoso @cascremers @tho
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We did it: DE 🇩🇪 LU🇱🇺 & SK🇸🇰 just decided to oppose Chat Control! 🥳
Thanks everyone for your help and keep fighting the good fight. 🫶
Chat Control will not get a majority - at least not today.
More on why it is the most criticized law of all times: https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control-criticism
I wonder if the new #US #tax #deduction applies to #FOSS hackers as well? If so, the first $25,000 of donations would be tax-free.
@kwf @funkylab @nblr @entropia @domrim @muccc @bert_hubert anyone can run an F-Droid mirror and any user can add any mirror to their client app. For mirrors that are used by default, we require that they have privacy standards similar to f-droid.org, since F-Droid users expect that level of privacy by default. There is no rule about location per se, but a mirror in country that requires logging and government access to all servers would fit our users expectations.
@funkylab @bkuhn @conservancy @fdroidorg @marcprux @seabass perhaps, but Google is not just going to back down without being pushed. We need to get organized and push them back.
"So if you’re wondering what all the venture money is chasing....it’s not productivity. It’s substitution."
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/trillion-dollar-problem-ai-built-solve-wages-samson-williams-myf5e
@violetmadder @eff sure, there are some governments like that. And there are also some governments built on the concepts of taking care of their people. The idea that governments can do something to improve the online lives of children exists at the same time as authoritarian governments will use popular excuses to do things purely to prop up their own power.
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Great real time BBB conversation today about the disturbing cryptic announcement by Google regarding the to the right to load your own packages on devices.
@conservancy's Denver Gingerich hosted and moderated the discussion, & @fdroidorg folks (including @eighthave, @marcprux, @seabass)
In the excitement, I exuberantly volunteered to lead a later session in October or November demoing end-to-end how #SFC procures used devices & installs #LineageOS and #FDroid on them.
Now I have more work. 😊
For anyone who wants to know what #Google's lawyers for the #DigitalMarketsAct think about the law, they publish on it:
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“#AI is the ultimate distraction device for the C-suite, since it is now absorbing so much executive headspace & public airtime that there is less space to think about other issues, such as the uglier side of Trump’s policies. It gobbles up bandwidth, literally and metaphorically.” https://on.ft.com/4p6tJXF
Joined Aug 2019
