Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

@matthew_d_green A lot of that discussion is currently happening in scope of the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDIW) framework. Most people in these discussions are acutely aware of the far-reaching effects of all the associated nuances, with many of them remaining hard to predict. So we are pushing hard for the most privacy-preserving architecture we can come up with.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, e.g. on pseudonyms and the properties they should have: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05419v1

@me @fsf @fsfe This is important work, and a key piece of the puzzle for freeing our mobile devices. The other key is making it a right to unlock the bootloader and replace the operating system on devices that we own. Without that, all those users are still stuck on Android even if a perfect alternative exists. We believe this should be the next thing that the #DigitalMarketAct (#DMA) addresses.

https://librephone.fsf.org/

Free the last bits of "anything Android"?

My positive thought about this is that #PostmarketOS and #MobileLinux in general will profit from any public knowledge about hardware it could run on.

If I understood correctly the money for doing the work on the #Android blobs is donated by John Gilmore. His Money, his decision where to put it. And there is a positive effect, but there is also a negative one:

Android is based on ideas by #Google. To free it we'd need to fork it and adopt it to different ideals and goals. Android is designed to maximize the profit of Google.

It is not designed with the users well-being and interests as the primary goal.

Just replacing blobs in Android keeps the ecosystem the same, promotes Google and their goals and leaves the control over design decisions for Android in Googles hands.

Once a device is freed by hard work of a few engineers it will be old, it will be uninteresting for people looking at Android and the latest shiny hardware running it.

But still - Mobile Linux will make good use of those devices as free OSes in general do when it comes to hardware left behind by commercial OSes.

@fsf@hostux.social @fsfe@media.fsfe.org

Having fun with #googleplay support. I'd like them to remove my developer profile so that I don't get policy emails I don't need, but they won't because I am non-compliant! To comply I have to send them a scan of my ID (not happening) then somehow bring an ancient app into compliance with a policy it allegedly violated. The violation? Having the same content as another app. That other app is v2.0 of the same thing; some users complained about the changes so I left v1.0 around for them. ...

#BrusselsAirport:

Step 1: Remove all public #water fountains.
Step 2: Redesign #bathrooms with water taps so low people cannot drink from them.
Step 3: Sell bottled water for 5€ per bottle.

#capitalism #ripoff

@eighthave
That's pretty much what (rate limiting) pseudonyms can do as well, with perfect unlinkability if we get ZKP presentations into the implementation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05419

"As the sole gateway for app distribution on iOS devices, Apple’s App Store is a key pillar of its market power" sounds eerie familiar to #FDroid.

Can somebody discover why and tell us? 🤷

Here's the link to the full text: https://www.amnesty.org/latest/news/2025/08/why-are-big-tech-companies-a-threat-to-human-rights/

Thanks for any clues!

Honey, I invested $100 billion in AI, and all I got was 1 + 2 + 3 = 15

#ai #microsoft

Thanks to the help of two persons #CastLab will be available on #FDroid 🎉

F-Droid contributors have already translated the English post into Bahasa Indonesian, Português do Brasil, Українська and 繁體中文. If you wanted to distribute the link and language was a barrier, maybe now you can do it in your native one. Feel free to help with translations if your locale does not have one yet: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/f-droid/

2/3

O Google nunca se quer vendeu um dos seus produtos bons (ex: Google Pixels, ou Chromecasts) no Brasil, mas está pronto para nos utilizar como cobaia para saber como uma sociedade como a nossa aceitará o bloqueio de instalação de software livre.

Envie uma mensagem pros seus deputados.

https://f-droid.org/pt_BR/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live, short and sweet:

* #TTRSS is dead, long live TTRSS
* #Immich 2 now on DVD!
* #RiMusic gone, #Kreate to the rescue
+ 1 new app
& 149 updates
- 1 archived
~ 1 downgraded

Get your weekly dose of apps: https://f-droid.org/2025/10/09/twif.html

The #European #standards being developed to allow compliance with the Cyber Resilience Act have unusually high participation from #OpenSource community members. As a result many of the draft standards are being developed in markdown and are available for public review in ETSI's Gitlab instance. You will find links next to each standard on this page:
https://www.stan4cra.eu/etsi-tc-cyber

Positive contributions are actively invited. I'm vice-chair of the committee hosting the work and I approve this message 🙂

Formal court orders? Subpoenas? Vague emails from law enforcement? Pings from regulatory bodies you never knew even existed? Oh, they all spell one thing: government requests!

Yes, #FDroid legal series continues, episode four.

What to do or not do when authorities come knocking: https://f-droid.org/2025/10/07/when-authorities-come-knocking-how-to-handle-requests-for-information.html

Interesting developments regarding the EU chat control proposal. I'm seeing posts preemptively celebrating that Germany will block it, but I'm not sure what that is based on. It's clear that we need to keep the pressure up.