Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

One thing I haven't figured out how to do well is to simultaneously laud good acts while blasting the bad acts. For example, #Google insists that Chromebooks be unlockable so users can install any OS. That's great! The same Google insists Chromebooks cannot allow "Unknown Sources" even though #Android always has. This looks like plain old monopolistic abuse. Or the #Chromium team works in public and behaves much more like a free software project, while #Chrome forces users to login. Any tips?

Just tagged v2.2.1 of #FDroid fdroidserver tools package, and uploaded it to pypi.org, #Debian, and our #Ubuntu PPA. This version has passed autopkgtest in Debian/bookworm, so it looks like it should make it into bookworm without further work https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fdroidserver

The #AI #ChatGPT #Bard etc story repeats the #Bitcoin story in terms of how it will impact society. They are built on the kernel of a useful idea, but their structures heavily preference harmful use cases. #Bitcoin enabled #ransomware, tax fraud, investment scams, dodging sanctions, while only providing a slow, energy intensive payment system. #AI texts enable #disinfo, #cheating at school/work, #TechnicalDebt, devaluation of human labor, all to provide an #climate-damaging, error-prone search

That totally clicked for me, that's how I have been feeling about working with the Storage Access Framework APIs in Android. On top of that, Android APIs prefer cloud services. Guess what: #Google #cloud services are built-in defaults for those APIs on all the Google devices.

And that concludes my reporting on the #DMAWorkshop, thanks to the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web #FFDW and their grant to @guardianproject for paying my way. https://www.ffdweb.org/guardian-project-annoucement/ - https://f-droid.org/en/2022/02/05/decentralizing-distribution.html

Congrats to #matrix co-founder @matthew for rocking the last #DMAWorkshop, there was still quite a bit of buzz about how the live bridging demo carried a ton of weight, despite the lobbying efforts from #Meta, you can see it at around 14:00 in the live stream recording https://webcast.ec.europa.eu/dma-workshop-2023-02-27

Very exciting to hear the #EuropeanCommision say it is clear that the #gatekeepers are not the only ones who are providing secure and trustworthy app stores. I think that comment alone has made my trip worthwhile #DMAWorkshop

Rupprect Podszun said it is clear after today that there will be changes to the fee structures of app stores. #Google disagrees that there will be changes in the fee structure, and instead offers: "there will be more workshops". So is this a "kill the design by putting it to endless committee discussions"? #DMAWorkshop

Interesting comparison between #Google vs #Apple approaches at #DMAWorkshop. They have very different methods of gatekeeping, and #Android has been typically quite a lot more open #iOS. And Google has already added some improvements for other app stores. Google says, "hey, we're already trying to find ways to comply" while Apple seems to stick to its guns: "our way is the only way to trusted app stores."

The Open Web group is quite passionately advocating for putting web apps and #PWA on equal footing. While I do agree to some extent, I think there are key technical details that mean web apps will always be more dangerous for privacy and user control than native apps. Web apps are harder to review because their source can change per-user, per-visit, etc. #DMAWorkshop