Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

Jeder Mensch sollte wissen dürfen, was der Staat in aller Namen tut und wo unsere Steuergelder hinfließen. Wir sind deshalb heute beim Hearing im Verfassungsausschuss. Macht braucht Kontrolle & 🇦🇹 ein Grundrecht auf Informationsfreiheit.

Statement about the EU Cyber Resilience Act https://bits.debian.org/2023/12/debian-statement-cyber-resillience-act.md.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Call for Debian projects and mentors for the Google Summer of Code 2024. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2024/01/msg00001.html

Persistent surveillance sold as a cure for loneliness (alienation, isolation, etc) is, IMO, one of the central marketing narratives of the surveillance business model.

But it's rarely put as plainly as this!

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-openai-protected-by-silicon-valley-friends-f3efcf68?st=fqvjf26wqvek9fx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

The US #Supremecourt has declined #Twitter's legal challenge to publicly disclose national security subpoenas. 👨‍⚖️

At Tuta, we pride ourselves on #privacy and #transparency. Our warrant #canary is live and regularly updated. This is one reason among many that keeping your data securely #encrypted within the EU has major privacy advantages over the US. 📣

You can check out our transparency report and live warrant canary here:
👉 https://tuta.com/blog/transparency-report

🧑‍🎨 Du hast Lust, die Netzpolitik anschaulicher & bunter zu gestalten und den zivilgesellschaftlichen Impact zu erhöhen? 📢 Dann komm in unser Team als ehrenamtliche Grafiker:in! Wir suchen immer projektbasierte Unterstützung. 😊
https://epicenter.works/jobs/ehrenamt-grafikerin

The largest US dam-removal effort to date has begun - https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/the-largest-us-dam-removal-effort-to-date-has-begun/ great to see - more please....

Nice: you can launch Quark Engine from JADX. This was added in 2021, but I had missed the features.
Maybe I should tell JADX to integreate DroidLysis ;-)

#quark #JADX #Android #malware

Build your phone app on your phone https://f-droid.org/en/2024/01/11/twif.html

This week in F-Droid (TWIF) was published again. We have some short sentences about:

- The new app AndroidIDE: no NDK support and F-Droid client does not build (yet)
- NewPipe updates still not reproducible
- SimpleX Chat update also for arm64
- Smoke and SmokeStack with new icon and older Android versions

On top of that, we updated 75 more apps.

https://f-droid.org/2024/01/11/twif.html

#FDroid

The NGI0 Commons fund is now up and running with 21.6M€ available for open source projects:
https://nlnet.nl/news/2023/20240109-CommonsFund-starts.html
First call will open 1st February. Stay tune.

We invite you to our webinar on security audits tomorrow, Thursday January 11, at 13.00 CET.
Radically Open Security / @ros 's Melanie Rieback and Andrea Jegher will explain and demonstrate how security audits work.
ROS is the world’s first not-for-profit computer security consultancy company. As an NGI0 partner it offers security audits to all projects within the #NextGenerationInternet initiative.
The webinar is open to all and no need to register.
https://nlnet.nl/events/20240111/index.html

The American Dialect Society has announced that its 2023 Word of the Year is "Entshittification". 💩

The decline in quality of service and content from #google and #amazon is plain to see, but this doesn't need to be the future of the internet. 🤖

You can help make the web a better place by choosing free and open source alternatives to #BigTech! ✊
👉 https://tuta.com/open-source

We are happy to announce the launch of the new NGI0 Commons Fund. It's aim is to reclaim the public nature of the internet.

Offering small and medium-sized grants for free and open source projects across the entire technology stack.

First call opens February 1. If you are working on a project that contributes to reclaiming the public nature of the internet, do apply.

With many thanks to the @EU_Commission 's #NextGenerationInternet initiative.

https://nlnet.nl/news/2023/20240109-CommonsFund-starts.html