Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
@gildilinie @IzzyOnDroid VT aka Virustotal is a company owned by Google.
Hans-Christoph Steiner
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Wow – pure SnakeOil, those so-called anti-virus or anti-malware scanners! "we are unable to proceed with the whitelisting request unless the application is available on the Google Play Store"?!? WTF?!? 🤯
And yes, that's part of a real response a dev got.
So they claim: your app is malware, as long as it is not at Google Play. I'd say we've heard it the other way around, too…
@neil It is clear that lots of people expect a clear answer on LLM code from F-Droid, and I think it is always good to get our user-first perspective out there. At the very least, we should be discussing this more. I would love to engage fully in this discussion. I'm pretty buried these days keeping other parts of F-Droid going, so for the time being, I'll have to mostly cheer from the sidelines.
Hans-Christoph Steiner
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Idly pondering as to whether I might suggest to F-Droid that it considers adopting an explicit LLM policy, for both the F-Droid project's own codebase, and for apps to be included in F-Droid's own curated app repository.
Anyone can run their own app repository for F-Droid, so if an app doesn't meet F-Droid's inclusion criteria, the developer can still distribute it. There is added friction, of course, since each user must add the third party repo.
Or someone could run and maintain a "pro-LLM" repo, which could be used to distributed multiple slopcoded apps, if someone so wanted.
(Pondering triggered by NLnet's https://nlnetlabs.nl/llm-policy/)
Hey Northern #Europe, welcome to #hot summers! Here are some simple things that I do which really help, which are common practice in hot climates:
* Drink lots of water, really, lots. Careful, alcohol will work against you.
* Close all your windows and curtains in the midday heat. Insulation works both ways, keeping the heat in or out.
* Open all the windows and curtains at night, if its cooler outside.
This is probably enough to avoid buying #AirConditioning, and helps keep cool even with AC
Hans-Christoph Steiner
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Public records confirm that the Austrian Ministry of the Interior bought Webloc, a geolocation mass surveillance system based on data from mobile apps and digital advertising = almost certainly illegal under the GDPR.
Austria is now - after Hungary - the second EU state known to use such a system.
https://mastodon.social/@wchr/116817729453918994
One good outcome of all this #AI #hype, particularly around #Anthropic #Mythos, is that it is establishing the idea the #technology can be harmful and there are times when society should control its release. We should build on this precedent and work towards firmly establishing the idea that our communities should be able to manage the technology they use, and work towards minimizing the harms.
@openalt is there another Central European Open Source Policy Forum planned for 2026? I'd love to join. I couldn't find any info about future editions.
Joined Aug 2019
