Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
I think #Apple's strategy is just wast everyone's time and delay so they can push things through the courts. Their #monopoly profits on #iOS are just so vast that this approach will mean biggest profits than actually engaging with the democratic process and complying with the #DMA . It feels almost pointless listening to Apple's answers, they mostly just rehash more marketing points and waste time with blah blah.
#Crowdstrike is a great example for how not to do interop. #microsoft acknowledged that and changed their malware scanning interop setup so that all scanners, including their own, no longer have highly privileged access to the operating system.
#Apple is not the only one dreaming up new features. There are many of us. @fdroidorg on making the most trustworthy app distribution platform, following as many best practices as possible. Many Apple has not implemented, like app reviews of source code rather than binaries, or #ReproducibleBuilds. We require human review or apps. Over 60% of our apps are reproducibly built. Apple encrypts app files, making reproducible builds impossible. It continues to only review binaries apps not source code
#Apple comes out fighting again, lots of stalling and pure marketing claims rather than concrete answers.
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Are you a Free Software developer trying to access hardware or software features under Article 6 of the Digital Markets Act #DMA ? @fsfe would like to hear from you. Share your experience about how gatekeepers are handling your interoperability request with the Free Software Foundation Europe.
The FSFE’s Interoperability Survey aims to collect structured feedback from #FOSS developers about their experience requesting interoperability
Read more & link to the survey: https://fsfe.org/activities/deviceneutrality/interop-survey
What a fundamentally broken political system that gave the people the choice between #Trump and #KamalaHarris. Both come from grand old war mongering traditions in the US, the only difference is their style of communications.
At least #NYC's #RankedChoice mayoral #election is showing that people are not so keen on the establishment when they feel like they have an actual choice. Without ranked choice, it would have been Andrew Cuomo vs. Eric Adams. What kind of choice is that? 🤮
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We'd like to remind everyone that a self-hosted #chatmail relay is best shared in some wider than family circles. In crisis situations everbody does better when helping others.
A typical 1gb RAM chatmail relay VPS for 5-10 eur per month supports 50k+ daily users.
chatmail VPSes are stateless. You can wipe all disk state, reinstall and chatting will resume. Conversely, #deltachat does not keep or depend on any server state .Operators under pressure do not need to feel bad to hand over data.
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"As I sat down with each inmate, the first question I always asked was, “How did you come to be a violent person?” Without fail, every single person I spoke to was quick to respond with a horrific tale of trauma in his childhood.
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If we are serious about preventing violence, we have to be serious about early intervention. We have to work together to prevent child abuse and build better mental health screening and services for younger people."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/compassion-matters/201504/the-making-of-a-murderer
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#Meta #Facebook and #Yandex are always looking for new ways to spy on you and track you. #LocalMess is the latest in a long line of abusive methods to gather your private data. Having their mobile app installed gives them super powers. Uninstall it. If you must use these services, do not use their app, keep it in the browser, or even better, use a wrapper app, like
* https://f-droid.org/packages/it.rignanese.leo.slimfacebook/
* https://f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.maps/
Here is a nice technical write up:
https://localmess.github.io/
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Instagram, TikTok und Co erst ab 15 - neue Initiative durch EU-Minister
Mehrere EU-Länder wollen ein Verbot von Social Media für unter 15-Jährige. Die Plattformen seien gefährlich für die Entwicklung der Kinder.
#EU #Facebook #Instagram #Jugendschutz #Mobiles #Netzpolitik #SocialMedia #TikTok #news
Hey @Coffee ! I have a favor to ask on behalf of @fdroidorg: your gitlab.com repo https://gitlab.com/Matrixcoffee/internal-twif-preview/-/issues/2 is somehow attached to the fdroid group and we cannot renew our subscription there because gitlab.com is confused and thinks its part of the @fdroid group there.
Could you delete that repo? If not, there are other ways to solve the issue.
A simple metric from #FDroid #metrics data: app downloads per week. Start with data from 1 of 2 servers for f-droid.org: http02, add hits for paths ending in ".apk". That gave about 2 million. Multiply by 18 (fronters + mirrors) and get ~36 mil app downloads a week.
import requests
hits = 0
r = requests.get(f'https://fdroid.gitlab.io/metrics/http03.fdroid.net/2025-05-26.json')
data = r.json()
for path in data['paths']:
if path.endswith('.apk'):
hits += data['paths'][path]['hits']
print('APKs', hits)
https://forum.f-droid.org/t/experiment-in-f-droid-org-metrics/32454
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Google Tightens Android Sideloading—At What Cost to Digital Freedom?
Google has begun blocking sideloaded Android apps in Singapore, citing security concerns over apps requesting sensitive permissions like SMS and accessibility services.
Read more at Purism: https://puri.sm/posts/google-restricts-android-sideloading-what-it-means-for-user-autonomy-and-the-future-of-mobile-freedom/
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Remarkable investigation into Telegram by IStories (in Russian):
https://www.istories.media/stories/2025/06/10/kak-telegram-svyazan-s-fsb/
English version by OCCRP:
http://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/telegram-the-fsb-and-the-man-in-the-middle
tl;dr:
👉 Telegram uses a single company with ties to the Russian FSB as their sole infrastructure provider, globally.
👉 Combined with a cleartext device identifier Telegram's protocol requires to be prepended to all encrypted messages, this allows for global surveillance of Telegram users.
I am quoted in this story.
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A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account
Joined Aug 2019
