Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

C'est avec beaucoup de peine que nous avons appris mardi soir le départ de Lovis IX, cofondateur d'Exodus Privacy, président actuel de l'association et surtout ami.

Hacktiviste vindicatif, il savait en découdre avec les administrations et nous a aidé à en découdre avec les pisteurs. Que ce soit au clavier avec ses bons mots ou au pétrin avec son pain, il avait à cœur de nourrir les personnes qu'il rencontrait. Ses râleries autant que ses blagues nous manqueront.

Part three of our legal series is live, and stuff becomes serious.

We spoke with a range of legal experts, software freedom advocates, and maintainers of mature FOSS infrastructure to understand how others manage legal take-down requests.

Free ten minutes for: https://f-droid.org/2025/09/10/how-foss-projects-handle-legal-takedown-requests.html

It seems that together with civil society and politicians who actually care, this time we managed to prevent #chatcontrol again, luckily. Can we please not have to do that anymore?

@suka_hiroaki @epicenter_works @xot @bpreneel @carmelatroncoso @cascremers @tho

We (over 50 scientists) have put (yet another) open letter to the EU commission online, detailing while we do not believe anything has changed in the recent iteration of #chatcontrol proposals that would make it any less unsafe: https://csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

Please boost. Next week there will be (another) decision!

CC @signalapp @suka_hiroaki @epicenter_works @xot @bpreneel @carmelatroncoso @cascremers @tho

We did it: DE 🇩🇪 LU🇱🇺 & SK🇸🇰 just decided to oppose Chat Control! 🥳

Thanks everyone for your help and keep fighting the good fight. 🫶

Chat Control will not get a majority - at least not today.

More on why it is the most criticized law of all times: https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control-criticism

Great real time BBB conversation today about the disturbing cryptic announcement by Google regarding the to the right to load your own packages on devices.

@conservancy's Denver Gingerich hosted and moderated the discussion, & @fdroidorg folks (including @eighthave, @marcprux, @seabass)

In the excitement, I exuberantly volunteered to lead a later session in October or November demoing end-to-end how #SFC procures used devices & installs #LineageOS and #FDroid on them.

Now I have more work. 😊

“#AI is the ultimate distraction device for the C-suite, since it is now absorbing so much executive headspace & public airtime that there is less space to think about other issues, such as the uglier side of Trump’s policies. It gobbles up bandwidth, literally and metaphorically.” https://on.ft.com/4p6tJXF

TIL that Microsoft Copilot is now trying to show a "face" with different "emotions". That it's not working right now is not my issue. That MS are even more explicitly trying to trick people into thinking they are having a conversation with an actual person, however, most definitely *is*.

Did this "feature" run through an ethics board review? Is the additional emotional deception of users intentional? Who actually wants that sh..?

I am getting happier by the day that my current daily driver (#Framework) laptop didn't come with a Windows license and I'm certainly not going to spend any public university funds on buying this manipulatory adware... Whoever sends me documents to edit in the future: if they don't open correctly in #Libreoffice (without the "help" of Copilot), I won't be able to work on them.

via @tomwarren.co.uk

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fbtvg6jxtdroidfvq5z635xu/post/3lxxlpdy3qs2r

Worried about the future of installing your own software on your Android device? @conservancy is hosting a Q&A to update you about sideloading software as well as other tips about how to ensure your phone runs the software you want, without any artificial restrictions. Join us on BigBlueButton this Friday September 5th at 15:00 UTC (08:00 US/Pacific, 11:00 US/Eastern, 17:00 CEST)

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/sep/3/sfc-qa-on-how-to-keep-your-sideloading/

Element users on the default http://matrix.org homeserver are currently impacted by a serious database outage (https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/115136245785561439)which will take at least 12 hours to recover - many apologies to everyone impacted. Users on their own deployments are of course unaffected.

Did you know there's a German non profit association (Verein) behind #NewPipe? [1]

You can donate to it, or even join the association.

And also, did you know they are looking for two freelancers for android development and sysadmin things? [2]

[1] https://newpipe-ev.de/about.html
[2] https://newpipe-ev.de/opportunities.html

An app developer has jailbroken Echelon exercise bikes to restore functionality that the company put behind a paywall last month, but copyright laws prevent him from being allowed to legally release it.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/developer-unlocks-newly-enshittified-echelon-exercise-bikes-but-cant-legally-release-his-software/

> If every author in the class filed a claim, industry advocates warned, it would "financially ruin" the entire AI industry.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/authors-celebrate-historic-settlement-coming-soon-in-anthropic-class-action/

Good.

To be clear, copyright maximalism is a problem and I had spent years fighting it.

But in this case I am celebrating. That whole industry is built on the idea that they can take whatever they want without anyone's consent.

At the same time, publishers selling of whole catalogs for training data showed how morally bankrupt copyright is.