Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
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@eighthave The two most adopted mobile operating systems are proprietary.
@EUCommission, #FreeSoftware is key for fairness and contestability of the #DMA.
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We’re taking another step in building a sustainable financial base as a non-profit. Today, we’re announcing new hosting and support offerings, tailored for larger organisations and public institutions. These enable organisations to own their social identities, on their own infrastructure.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/service-offerings-from-mastodon/
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Android published new APIs that seem to confirm that your phone will phone home when you install apps. It will refuse installation when you are offline or developer got blocked by Google:
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageInstaller#DEVELOPER_VERIFICATION_FAILED_REASON_NETWORK_UNAVAILABLE
@EUCommission This should also hopefully reduce car and truck traffic through the Brenner Pass. Currently there is a terrible, noisy highway through an otherwise very peaceful and natural valley.
Android Developer Verification means any developer or organization that wants to publish a mobile app now has to comply with either #Apple's or #Google's Terms of Service. That means two US companies now have a say in the apps that our governments make for their citizens, around the world.
#Android #developer #AndroidDeveloperVerification
#gatekeeper #DigitalRights #DigitalSovereignity
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Learn how ICE is getting data from our phones, license plates, even tax data, and why we have to work together to protect our communities, from KQED News and EFF's @cooperq:
https://www.kqed.org/news/12055606/how-ice-is-using-your-data-and-what-you-can-do-about-it
@rysiek Good advice about privacy, but tying it to the murder of Charlie Kirk is a bit off IMHO. I'm no fan of Charlie Kirk, but I'm even more opposed to murder. And even more so murdering people for speaking their opinions. On top of that, Charlie Kirk's murder probably will strengthen his allies, not weaken them.
Want to know the key to what makes the automobile economy keep going? It is heavily subsidized around the world. China's automobile industry is no exception:
#auto #china #ClimateChange #economy #industry #subsidy #FreeMarket
@cryptax It would be great to have some quick notes on all the BIOS settings you changed. The BIOS options are expanding so fast in recent years, and there are many unhappy surprises in them, like all the crazy networked things they do with shoddy TLS implementations and buggy daemons.
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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.
Joined Aug 2019
