Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
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This week in F-Droid (TWIF) with news about following apps was published:
- Element with an update and a fix for a critical bug
- The Fossify fork of Simple Mobile Tools has now 2 additional apps: File Manager and Calendar
- Kore was downgraded due to a non FOSS dependency
- Transportr is back after more than a year
Also, we've had 8 more new apps, 2 removed ones and 150 updated apps.
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We have defined a secure and usable architecture for decentralized package repositories that any mobile user can use and understand possible risks.
The next official release of the official F-Droid client will widely deploy this to our users. We then plan to make a final architecture document, so others can understand the whole model.
We would love any kind of feedback, our drafts are here: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/wiki/-/wikis/Repository-Management-Overhaul#architecture-and-ux-considerations
Large corporations like the hate on the #GPL even though it has brought them big benefits. #Linux would be nowhere near what it is without the GPL. I always saw #Google's #Fuchsia kernel as their effort to get out of the GPL, since it would replace the Linux kernel. There was even media hype to that effect. Now I'm happy to see that Google is no longer supporting #Chrome on Fuchsia. I see this as a win for #FreeSoftware
https://9to5google.com/2024/01/15/google-is-no-longer-bringing-the-full-chrome-browser-to-fuchsia/
Its cool to see more and more apps using #MabLibre. It used to be so many apps just used #Google for maps and then just failed on #GoogleFree devices. For example, I just downloaded a city's bike sharing app made by a mega corp, and it uses MabLibre so works fine without Play Services. My experience used to be that all the navigation apps required Google.
I live near a branch of the #Danube and have seen beavers a couple of times. It is great to see them coming back. I didn't realize how dire the situation was: the population was done to 1200 a century ago https://cartographymaster.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Beinder.jpg
Ok, my final struggle was getting #GnuPG to switch to the new #smartcard. It seems that GnuPG was architected around a single smartcard per private key. Seems fine as a recommendation, but problematic as a strict requirement. It seems that GnuPG 2.4 has changed this, but I don't know the details.
Here's my switch scripted hack:
https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/3638931
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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.
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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
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Call for Debian projects and mentors for the Google Summer of Code 2024. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2024/01/msg00001.html
Just migrated my #offline #gnupg and #ssh key setup to a new #smartcard. This only took about 8 hours whereas when I last did this in 2015, it took much longer. I guess this is a sign of process! But these things are still too painful. At least now, the software just works right out of #Debian.
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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!
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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
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🧑🎨 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
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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....
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Build your phone app on your phone https://f-droid.org/en/2024/01/11/twif.html
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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.
@FAU oops I mistranslated the country code ES, it should be Spain not Estonia.
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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.
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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
Joined Aug 2019
