Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
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We're starting a sprint to look at all the issues preventing #ReproducibleBuilds in all the apps we ship. Most of the issues are simple fixes in the upstream code, like unsorted outputs or timestamps included in the build.
You can help make the #FreeSoftware #Android ecosystem be more reproducible! See the failures here and help us report them upstream: https://verification.f-droid.org/failed.html
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We wrote a blog post about trust and how to have a verified installation of our client.
One such source for the client could be our CLI tool, that recently got the ability to download the F-Droid.apk.
Read more at
https://f-droid.org/2024/12/11/verified-first-time-installs.html
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This week in #FDroid (TWIF):
- european-alternatives.eu lists software and apps that come from the EU, some of them are regular guests in our TWIF
- we found a YouTube video about apps that are NOT on a centralized app store
- aTox and UniPatcher were updated again after a long hiatus
- Kodi fixed many bugs
- OsmAnd~ has a lot of new features
- Status, VLC and Zulip were also updated (and 111 more apps)
- MRT Buffy is new and helps you commute in Dhaka
Read more at https://f-droid.org/2024/11/21/twif.html
This is the example of the kind of feature that the #DigitalMarketsAct is driving #Google to implement. It could have been implemented long ago, but there was no pressure for Google to do so. Notice how they implemented it in #PlayServices, not Android. Apps that implement this are then tied to Google's proprietary stuff. That's their way of maintaining control of the ecosystem. https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/21/24302562/android-restore-credentials-transfer-restore-key
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Happy 37th anniversary of the Max Headroom Incident, to those who celebrate.
I would love to see an analysis of the power dynamics of how all the browser companies are working together on the #Chromium code base. Of course, #Google has an oversized influence, both because #Chrome is dominant but also because Chromium is a Google project. I can't imagine #Microsoft is a pushover there. #Brave, #Opera and #Vivaldi probably have much less sway, but could join together. Are there useful avenues for #Firefox resources to have more impact in the Chromium ecosystem?
When the ÖAMTC ambulance helicopter flies overhead in #Austria, it is an experience. Its fast, loud and strikingly low to the ground. Its the only helicopter I see. For me, this event represents the social system. It flies in reserved airspace, private aircraft aren't allowed. Trips are covered by health insurance. I compare this to living in #NYC, where most helicopter flights are some rich asshole flying around for no good reason. This helicopter reminds me another world is possible
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It seems we have some excellent news! The SDK now seems to be licensed under GPL 3.0, making the @bitwarden client fully open source again: https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/11611#issuecomment-2436287977 (https://github.com/bitwarden/sdk-internal/commit/db648d7ea85878e9cce03283694d01d878481f6b). If this change stabilizes into the next release, I can remove the warning in my blog post again.
H/T Philipp Hofer, thanks for noticing and sending me the links!
Hans-Christoph Steiner
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🎉 PSA: F-Droid users! 🎉 The Tuta Calendar app is now available on F-Droid 🥳
❤️ You can get the Tuta Calendar app here: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.tutao.calendar/
@jcaleitao thanks for running a public #IPFS gateway. Yours is currently returning 502 errors.
Could someone please train an AI image generator on a data set without any porn at all? Or is this just a bias in the free ones? I feel like half the time I try to generate an image mentioning the word "woman", it rapidly goes towards porn. Try generating with a term like "breast feeding" and its impossible. This is a bias on the internet we really do not need to reproduce or spread further. Paid services might be better but most of the world will use the gratis ones. #enshittification coming up
Joined Aug 2019
