Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
I've been an early adopter of #Internet things for decades, but at the same time, I work to be able to realistically assess the value as compared to other methods. Many things in #Austria still happen in person and via the #telephone, so its a good testing ground. I'm frequently surprised at how #efficient in-person/telephone can be when compared to #online, like government offices have employees that handle making appointments by phone, they are often really good at it, so its surprisingly fast
The #internet is full of fun locking #garden #hack ideas for all sorts of things but almost always, they use #toxic materials that you really don't want leaching into your #soil. Even common #plastics like water bottles or #polypropylene turn quite toxic when exposed to #sunlight for a while. For example, https://rosal.web.uah.es/pub/Aquatic%20toxicity%20of%20commercial%20polypropylene%20and%20associated%20chemicals.pdf
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No matter the geography, a common reality emerges: those least responsible for the crisis are on the frontlines of confronting it. In doing so, they are not only protecting their territories, but safeguarding the ecosystems that sustain life on Earth, often at great personal risk.
Take action and stand with Indigenous Peoples to protect their territories.
Link in bio.
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My personal conclusion can however not end up with anything else than that the big hype around this model so far was primarily marketing. I see no evidence that this setup finds issues to any particular higher or more advanced degree than the other tools have done before Mythos. Maybe this model is a little bit better, but even if it is, it is not better to a degree that seems to make a significant dent in code analyzing.
At this beginning stage of the death spiral of #BigTech, they will become more #dangerous than before. They still have immense #power and resources, but the remaining employees will be more obedient and transactional since that's what it takes to keep your job amid #layoffs. The principled employees left as "don't be evil" was phased out, as AI was sold to militaries for offensive use, etc. I bet we'll see more technically adept shady behavior than before, for example, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016740482600026X
Hey UX designers of the world! And all you people making #software! How about we stop making ever more complicated methods of managing #notifications, #DoNotDisturb, #DigitalWellness etc and instead focus on reducing the amount of time-on-screen spent for each task? We need to stop thinking about #engagement and think about #efficiency. We need to recognize the nature of #DigitalMedia makes us forget about the analog world. Being #online exacerbates that.
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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🔔 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. 💪
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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/
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#Mythos finds a #curl vulnerability
yes, as in singular one.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/
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🚨🔔 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?
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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.
Joined Aug 2019
