Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
@EUCommission I fully support the DMA! Let's keep up the good work and make that we fully enforce effective laws like this. There is still so much to be done
Hans-Christoph Steiner
boosted
The era of unchecked tech monopolies is over.
We're taking decisive action to enforce open, fair, and contestable digital markets.
Our measures had real consequences:
🛡️ Fined major platforms for anti-competitive practices and ignoring consumer data choices
⌚ Required strict hardware interoperability for smartwatches and connected wearables
☁️ Launched three investigations into dominance in cloud services and into search engines hiding media
Accountability is here 👉 https://link.europa.eu/YTddh6
Hans-Christoph Steiner
boosted
Hans-Christoph Steiner
boosted
"This case is one of the major judicial tests of the EU’s interoperability obligations under the #DMA. This law aims at preventing large technology companies from unfairly locking out competitors. The FSFE seeks to enforce the DMA in a #FreeSoftware developer friendly way" - Lucas Lasota, FSFE Legal Programme Manager
Find out more: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260519-01.en.html
Hans-Christoph Steiner
boosted
Europe imported a record amount of fossil gas in 2025. Trump's US now supplies 58% of the EU's #LNG (source: ACER).
Europe is handing its energy supply to Trump.
Fossil gas means dependency. Renewables mean security.
Stop the deals. Sign now 👇
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/stop-fossil-gas/ #StopFossilGas
@iooioio @joshbressers Thanks! I'd really like to see a lot more discussion about how valuable distros are. In the past decade, there was a big swing to package registries without review, and we've seen what a disaster that has been. All sorts of projects can be more distro-like. For example, I think Flathub started out more like a registry and rightly now is moving more in the direction of being a distro.
Hans-Christoph Steiner
boosted
Digitaler Neokolonialismus
Daten, Ressourcen, Abhängigkeiten – wer profitiert?
Wir beleuchtet, wie digitale Technologien globale Ungleichheiten verschärfen, welche sozialen und ökologischen Folgen diese für Mensch und Umwelt hat und warum von digitalem Neokolonialismus gesprochen wird.
Mit: Roberto Simanowski & Luciana Gattass-Simanowski, Theresa Utzig INKOTA-netzwerk, Sana Ahmad @Weizenbaum_Institut und Dr. Didem Özkiziltan Wagenführer @WZB_Berlin
Infos https://www.topio.info/digitaler_neokolonialismus.html
Hans-Christoph Steiner
boosted
🔔 Breaking News 🔔
The FSFE has been granted permission to intervene at the EU Court of Justice for the second time — in case T-359/25, Apple v. European Commission — in support of the @EUCommission
One more time, we are the only charitable civil organization defending #FreeSoftware and #Interoperability at the court. 💪
Hans-Christoph Steiner
boosted
I had a chat wtih @eighthave about @fdroidorg on @OpenSourceSecurity
We cover how it works, the security angles for running an app store, and talk about some of the changes that are coming for Android that will make F-Droid's job a lot harder
I learned a ton from Hans, it's a great discussion
https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-05-fdroid-hans-steiner/
@grote That sounds useful. Have you looked at the code? Anyone know anything about the author?
Hans-Christoph Steiner
boosted
#Mythos finds a #curl vulnerability
yes, as in singular one.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/
@alexandrageese Thanks for flagging this! I'm not up on this particular issue, could you point us to a good summary of what cutting this open source strategy will affect?
@privacyint Sounds interesting but I cannot read it because the link there is 404 Not Found
Hans-Christoph Steiner
boosted
🚨🔔 Job alert: The Tor Project is hiring a Senior Android Engineer to design, build, and ship privacy-preserving features used by people all over the world. Mentor teammates and shape architectural decisions.
If technical depth + real impact is your thing, we'd love to hear from you.
👉 https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/senior-android-engineer/
Hey #Google, cool you're adding a bit of #BinaryTransparency. Unfortunately, it doesn't mean much without #FreeSoftware #OpenSource and #ReproducibleBuilds. When can we expect you to adopt those practices?
https://blog.google/security/bringing-binary-transparency-to-the-android-ecosystem/
For the record #FDroid has offered binary transparency since 2017 https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/-/merge_requests/226
And we even offer binary transparency for your #Gradle and #AndroidSDK binaries
https://f-droid.org/2021/02/05/apis-for-all-the-things.html#binary-transparency-logs
How about expanding your logging to all your binaries?
Hans-Christoph Steiner
boosted
Announcing the launch of Internet Archive Switzerland 🇨🇭
Thirty years after Brewster Kahle founded Internet Archive with the vision of Universal Access to All Knowledge, that mission is entering a new chapter: expanding a global network of independent archives to protect knowledge and digital history for future generations.
Visit Internet Archive Switzerland ➡️ https://internetarchive.ch
Learn more about this initiative ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/06/internet-archive-switzerland-expanding-a-global-mission-to-preserve-knowledge/
Wow #Google is now really running with it now that they dropped #DontBeEvil. I guess I had low expectations for #Microsoft, #OpenAI, #Amazon, #ElonMusk and #nvidia. Its crystal clear that the #US Defense Department will be using #AI for illegal attacks and wars where many civilians will die.
Some are saying that #Android is not affected by #CopyFail. It seems true that #AOSP's #security policies greatly restrict the possibilities. But there are some parts of Android that do have access to the exploitable part of the #Linux kernel, for example, #dumpstate. Has anyone dug into dumpstate for potential #exploit vectors?
We have #ransomware, #AI driving #phishing and #scams abound, #bitcoin being almost all for illicit use cases, #SocialMedia turned to #addictive drugs, #email turned work communications to an endless deluge, and more. What the public discourse lacks is consideration of working to reduce our uses of #DigitalMedia and #software. I believe in the power of software. Given the current directions, some things just worked better without computers involved. We still have the #power to #change that.
Hans-Christoph Steiner
boosted
Devastating privilege escalation on Linux: https://copy.fail/
Explanation: https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-linux-distributions
Implementation in Go: https://github.com/badsectorlabs/copyfail-go
... and I learned today that there are AF_ALG socket types, to access cryptographic functions of the kernel.
Joined Aug 2019
