Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

@signalapp As a supporter of #Signal, it is important to point out a key detail: Signal's own code is #OpenSource, but Signal uses multiple #proprietary libraries from #Google. Those cannot be scrutinized since the source code is not open. We believe Signal should offer an actual open source version, and are ready to help. This exists already in the fork https://fosstodon.org/@MollyIM Also, apps like #Element #Threema #Wire are #FOSS, and have #ReproducibleBuilds on @fdroidorg #FDroid

As you plan your week ahead, don't forget to get your #FOSSY talk proposal in by Monday, April 28 (anywhere on Earth)! You can do it at https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/ . We are a small team putting this big event together and greatly appreciate your help in making sure everyone in your #freesoftware and #opensource circles knows about the opportunity and deadline! #portland

A Mobile track at FOSSY was just added to the schedule! 🎉

If you have a talk about FOSS on mobile devices that you've always wanted to give, now is your chance 😁

The submission thing is open until April 28:
https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/

#linuxmobile #fossy2025 #pdx

We are not lawyers, nor our alter egos play as such on the Internet. Ergo in the face of legal challenges we are only rusticos.

If you feel ad idem and want to lend a hand, or head, to #FDroid pro bono and bona fide, you can help in our ongoing efforts ad infinitum.

Quaeritur right here: https://f-droid.org/2025/04/16/strengthening-foss-legal-resilience.html

#Mozilla #EFF #SFLC #OpenTechFund

Debian MountainCamp will happen in Innsbruck, Austria - 16–18 May 2025. Come and meet fellow Debianites, hack on Debian, have fun! https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2025/MountainCamp #debian

Sovereign Tech Agency’s Technology Lead @tarakiyee wird nächsten Montag auf dem "Public Money? Public Code!" Fachtag, veranstaltet von @fsfe in Essen sprechen!

Taras Vortrag erörtert, wie öffentliche Investitionen, wie die der Sovereign Tech Agency, in essenzielle FOSS-Infrastruktur dazu beitragen, Vendor Lock-ins durch offene Standards und Interoperabilität zu vermeiden – ein Problem für viele öffentliche Verwaltungen und KMU.

EU: Let’s backdoor encryption – by 2026, or even sooner. Since it's impossible to backdoor encryption in a way that can’t be potentially exploited by others, it seems a very odd move https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/eu_backdoor_encryption/

Microsoft Abandons #DataCenter Projects, TD Cowen Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-26/microsoft-abandons-more-data-center-projects-td-cowen-says

#Ai hype over? #google stepping in

China built hundreds of #AI #datacenter s to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused.
The country poured billions into AI infrastructure, but the data center gold rush is unraveling as speculative investments collide with weak demand and DeepSeek shifts AI trends.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/26/1113802/china-ai-data-centers-unused/

Time flies when you're busy building apps, but not all #FDroid contributors need to wrangle Python, escape YAML or restart Gitlab pipelines.

If you want to have a saying in the betterment of F-Droid, from the inside, you are welcomed to nominate yourself or somebody else you find worthy for a Board of Directors seat.

You have time until April 14th, so head to: https://f-droid.org/2025/03/30/board-of-directors-nominations.html

GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (@forgejo).

Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us:

- 54k commits
- 9.5k issues
- 4.3k pull requests
- 100k comments

Everything moved. Nothing left behind.

https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps

Nobody can lose, leak, lease, loan or liquidate your data if they don't have it. That's why we work hard to remove metadata from our systems, so your personal data is not even there to be gathered, let alone mishandled.

https://social.librem.one/@guardianproject/114222147812437231

It is important to understand that the personal data you give to a company becomes their "property". Even if a company that currently runs a service keeps the data private, it can be put up for sale. The new owners are then free to operate differently, especially when there is no GDPR like in the US.

https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/03/24/2022232/dna-of-15-million-people-for-sale-in-23andme-bankruptcy

#privacy #data #ForSale #DataForSale #23andMe