Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

@padraic @fdroidorg all good ideas that I support! Those already working on supporting DMA are tiny teams, so let's open this up to community contribution! I'm already in over my head (but enjoying it!) So I can't do more. If people make contributions, we can find time to review and give input. Any ideas on where to coordinate this? I'm partial to the F-Droid https://f-droid.org/about/#contact

Otherwise, donations do directly support this work: https://f-droid.org/donate/

#DigitalMarketsAct #DMA

A key problem in the debate around #Israel/#Palestine is that it is framed as two sides of one coin: either you support Israel otherwise you support Palestine. I support none of those in power there, #Netanyahu, #Hamas, Palestinian Authority, the Israeli regime, etc. are all corrupt, brutal and lead to suffering for the vast majority of the people they claim to represent. Only those in power benefit currently. I support good governance for all the people who live there.

https://yougov.co.uk/international/articles/52279-net-favourability-towards-israel-reaches-new-lows-in-key-western-european-countries

If we want to make this #EU #BrainGain permanent, and make real research centers, we'll have to do more than just be less bad than Trump. Academic culture everywhere in Europe is very conservative and hierarchical. Researchers massed in the #US because academia there are more focused on the work, and less about who is who, and who has which title. Austrian Academy of Sciences celebrates "Thanks to Trump we are seeing this brain gain" rather than "our great universities"

https://www.politico.eu/article/european-research-council-funding-us-researchers-relocation-europe/

#EU citizens support actions against #BigTech. About 90% of those polled support them. So #Apple really don't not care about #democracy. Mmmm too much sweet monopoly profits 🤑

https://www.politico.eu/article/europeans-agree-eu-should-enforce-rules-big-tech-says-poll/

#BigTech #EU #EuropeanCommission #DMA #DigitalMarketsAct #DigitalSovereignity

@abacabadabacaba I agree with EFF that using credit cards, driver's licenses, etc is problematic. That's my point, there are well known methods for exchanging authentication privately. That industry has the money to develop software they need.

That industry also has a long and wide track record of all sorts of abuse and exploitation. Instead of earnestly engaging with the real harms, they are just fighting this to protect their profits. EFF should know better to be joining that effort.

Wow is #Apple shameless in their attacks on the #DigitalMarketsAct! Yes, the #DMA affects them in ways they don't like, that's why we have the it! Then they do all this crap instead of earnestly engaging with the #EU democratic process. And now they are lobbying to have this very popular law repealed. This just reconfirms how much the world needs to break the #BigTech monopolies. They have more money than sense and are resorting to despotic tactics to protect profits.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250925-apple-asks-eu-to-scrap-landmark-digital-competition-law

@skorp @aleksandrayulia@floss.social that comment is definitely interesting, but difficult to unpack. Is there any more info on it? DMCA is US law, would this approach be legal elsewhere, like Brazil, Canada or EU?

Big companies making money from #porn are complaining that they have to implement age restrictions. They are a $73 billion industry built on the internet and software. They can easily fund the creation of privacy preserving age verification systems on their sites. It is not that hard. I think they actually don't care about the privacy of their users. The websites should do the age verification, then access methods like VPNs are irrelevant.

https://www.politico.eu/article/porn-industry-austrian-marcello-bravo-tech-rules-eu-policy/

#Aylo #France #VPN

@aleksandrayulia@floss.social have you or any other #GrapheneOS people looked into #GooglePlay "advanced protection"? It is designed to make it easy to prevent apps from running on non-Play devices.

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/10183279

"...adds an encryption layer to your app's anti-tampering defenses. This prevents the app from running on insecure devices, making it much harder for attackers to analyze or tamper with it in those environments."

@aleksandrayulia@floss.social @fdroidorg The EC mostly definitely care about this a lot. When fighting trillion dollar companies with a staff of 20 people, nothing will happen fast. It is important to set reasonable expectations here. Also, the #gatekeeper companies have such massive monopoly profits, they can afford to spend billions fighting all legal efforts to curtail their power. We have a chance here because well crafted technical replies are many orders of magnitude more effective than their tricks

@rene_mobile If #Android's "disabling" actually just left some read-only files on the system partition, and the presence of those files had no other effect besides taking up disk space, then it seems like it could be called equivalent to uninstalling.

@adbenitez @aleksandrayulia@floss.social @fdroidorg Both #Apple and #Google have been designated gatekeepers under the #DigitalMarketsAct, they both must open up. If we want the #EuropeanCommission to address our concerns, we must help them as much as possible. They are 20 working on #DMA vs #GAFAM/#Tiktok market cap of many trillions. Plus they have massive #monopoly profits.

It turns out that technical ground truth provides us with an amazing ability to pop their legal strategies.

#EC #gatekeeper #GAMAM

@aleksandrayulia@floss.social @fdroidorg There are many organizations building a case against Google on this. Would you like to join in? Also, it would be helpful if you posted your argument publicly, like on the GrapheneOS blog.

@aleksandrayulia@floss.social @fdroidorg Could you point us to what you told the #EuropeanCommission? And could you share their actual response? We're working on building a case against it, that will require a lot of solid evidence and campaigning.