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Tired of your weather app violating your privacy, e.g. by instantly collecting your location data?

Worried because it has tracking software included?

You may try out the privacy-friendly #TinyWeatherForecastGermany , available at #fdroid :fdroid: :
f-droid.org/packages/de.kaffee

This is a #floss #android #weather #app using precise and detailed #opendata from the #dwd (Deutscher Wetterdienst).

Supports #forecasts for over 5000 places worldwide, a rain radar and weather warnings for Germany.

After years of being one of the few to keep pushing dependency verification and even signatures on binaries, while getting responses like "gpg in 2022? wtf?", it is gratifying to see that not only has full adopted this workflow, but also developers at Google:

android.googlesource.com/platf

RT @pixeldetracking@twitter.com

Migrating maps.google.com to google.com/maps, a benign change?

Not really, now Google has permission to geo-track you across all of its services, cf. garrit.xyz/posts/2022-11-24-sm 馃槇

馃惁馃敆: twitter.com/pixeldetracking/st

RT @alvar_f@twitter.com

~2 Jahre hat eine Arbeitsgruppe der Konferenz der unabh盲ngigen Datenschutz-Aufsichtsbeh枚rden von Bund und L盲ndern (DSK) versucht, Nachbesserungen bei Microsoft 365 zu erreichen.

馃憠 Zusammenfassung des Berichts der AG zu #MS365: datenschutzkonferenz-online.de

Festlegung der DSK: 馃憞

馃惁馃敆: twitter.com/alvar_f/status/159

After two years of negotiations with Microsoft, the joint committee of the German federal data protection authority and 17 state regulators (DSK) published a devastating statement that essentially says that organizations currently cannot use MS365 in a lawful way under the GDPR.

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Thanksgiving: Celebrating the day Americans fed undocumented aliens from Europe

No #SimReg nations: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Canada, Cabo Verde, Comoros, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Kiribati, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Moldova, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, UK, USA, and Vanuatu.

For people wanting some more information on NGI's involvement with #ActivityPub, this is a good starter: ngi.eu/blog/2022/11/24/how-ngi

Do you have an interesting ActivityPub-related project? The next deadline to submit proposals is December 1st - that is next week. And the best thing is: you can submit today!

We're thankful for secure end-to-end encryption 馃攼 , but...

We want to add the official onion service for f-droid.org as an official mirror, so that clients will automatically use it. Please test by sharing the repo link to client then add it as a mirror:
gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issu

This should prompt to add it as a mirror, which is safe since the keys need to match. Click cancel if it offers to add a new repo.

How long is your current phone in service?

#FDroidUserSurvey

The majority of apps on Google Play have never even been starred once. It seems Google Play's users do not care at all about the majority of the apps in their collection. Anyone have any ideas why Google would allow it to become such a cesspool? Is it that they believe they can just make their recommender engines find the good ones? Or do they want to remove friction for developers to ensure their monopoly? statista.com/statistics/266217

@postmarketOS @fdroidorg if only more OEMs would bother to add mainline support for their phones...

Pinafore's wellness settings are pretty awesome. No for-profit social media site would ever have the balls to do something like this.

Requiring everything be free software is the standard of the best distros, and what -Droid strives for. This goes against what Google is trying to with the Android ecosystem. They are pushing hard to get everything using their proprietary bits so that they can control the ecosystem. -Droid is the biggest force pushing back.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/0

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The -Droid build system can feel restrictive to devs because we require building from source and only use binary build tools that are confirmed to be built from source. That means allowlisting trusted organizations to do the right thing, then looking for exceptions. This is looser than reputable GNU/Linux distros (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, etc), which build only with system packages. linsui wrote why Maven Central cannot be blindly trusted to provide free software
f-droid.org/2022/07/22/maven-c

@eighthave @fdroidorg That's typically the reason why I can't support open source anymore. The freedom to do anything you want means the freedom to build the biggest capitalist company in the history of humanity and making money off of whatever your software can do.

I actually believe Open Source has done more harm than good, but it's just a gut feeling. Only Libre Software can be beneficial for humanity.

@matthew_d_green Now that they have gotten heavier into the advertising business, and have successfully pushed competitors out of their space, they have business reasons too.

When I hear them talk about privacy it's the same definition as when Google or others say it. They mean protecting your data from third parties or competitors, but not themselves.

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