Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

If Canadian non-profits are allowed to focus on software development, that would be great to know. Then other projects could incorporate there. @e_mydata is another similar project, they are apparently a French non-profit.

https://e.foundation/legal-notice-privacy/

I wonder how it works in France?

@jdelacueva @EUCommission @marcel_kolaja had managed to get a EU Pilot Project funded to have these apps distributed outside of Google and Apple. I don't understand this process, so I don't know what this means, but apparently the EC declined to move forward with it. At this point, I can provide the technical tools and even the hosting for such a thing. I'd just need an organization to be the legal home. I can't handle legal liability of reviewing and redistributing apps without FOSS licenses

Has anyone ever found the T3010 filings for #GrapheneOS #Foundation? As far as I understand it, any Canadian non-profit is required to make their finances public. I'm curious what kind of budget it takes to run a project like GrapheneOS. It does seem clear that they are a Canadian non-profit:
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cc/lgcy/fdrlCrpDtls.html?p=0&corpId=14857577&crpNm=grapheneos

I know little about Canadian law, but I know that in the US and other places, non-profits are not allowed to focus on software development, so I'm curious how they structure things

"AIs can’t stop recommending #nuclear strikes in #war game simulations"

"...no model ever chose to fully accommodate an opponent or surrender, regardless of how badly they were losing. At best, the models opted to temporarily reduce their level of violence. They also made mistakes in the fog of war: accidents happened in 86 per cent of the conflicts, with an action escalating higher than the #AI intended to, based on its reasoning."

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/

#Palantir #Anthropic #Claude #Iran

@grote @fdroidorg Nice to see a visualization of the F-Droid data Could you add a bit of explanation about what the data is? As far as I understand, the data you are using is the download counts from f-droid.org. So that would include other client apps. "F-Droid Top Downloads" makes me think top downloads of fdroidclient, e.g. the official F-Droid client.

@liaizon @LeelaTorres @hongminhee @fdroidorg Translation for f-droid.org is easy, you can contribute to the Korean translation of the posts here:
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/f-droid/website-posts/ko/

@oldherl @fdroidorg thanks to a contributor, there is now information for China: https://github.com/keepandroidopen/keepandroidopen.github.io/pull/122

I just updated two #Debian laptops from #bookworm to #trixie. Both went very smoothly, I think the smoothest laptop OS upgrade I've ever had. Thanks to all those that made that happen!

Instead Germany should be proud of its record of defending its citizens for the past decades using public law enforcement, instead secret forces and black ops. That is the right path, and is an example for the world.

#Germany gave the world two of the most oppressive spy apparatuses the world has ever seen: the #Gestapo and the #Stasi, one right after the other, spanning many decades. Before that, the #GermanEmpire also had such things for decades. The world really does not need Germany to increase the powers of its spy agencies

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-foreign-intelligence-agency-power-bnd/

Much of #Austria's society was also complicit in the #Nazi era abuses, and Austria keeps its spy agencies very limited, even compared to Germany's #BND.

@esteban @fdroidorg In my humble opinion, IPFS is a good idea whose implementation needs a lot of work. One key benefit that it can provide now is a mirror where network observers cannot tell even what kinds of files are being downloaded, let alone that it is f-droid.org files. This is a nice privacy property for many use cases.

#FreeSoftware developers helped make #Android what it is today. #Google set the tone at the start by making it a more open ecosystem than #iOS and others. We saw #AOSP and its #OpenSource core, and we contributed code, built essential libraries and indispensable apps for the #platform because it was more #open. Now Google wants to take that way from everyone by becoming the sole arbiter of what apps run

https://keepandroidopen.org/

#FLOSS #FOSS #KeepAndroidOpen #AndroidDeveloperVerification

@zetabeta @fdroidorg @marcprux I'm optimistic because competition authorities around the world are paying close attention and trying a wide range of strategies to open up the mobile ecosystems.