Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

The era of unchecked tech monopolies is over.

We're taking decisive action to enforce open, fair, and contestable digital markets.

Our measures had real consequences:

🛡️ Fined major platforms for anti-competitive practices and ignoring consumer data choices

⌚ Required strict hardware interoperability for smartwatches and connected wearables

☁️ Launched three investigations into dominance in cloud services and into search engines hiding media

Accountability is here 👉 https://link.europa.eu/YTddh6

Spotted on the tube

"This case is one of the major judicial tests of the EU’s interoperability obligations under the #DMA. This law aims at preventing large technology companies from unfairly locking out competitors. The FSFE seeks to enforce the DMA in a #FreeSoftware developer friendly way" - Lucas Lasota, FSFE Legal Programme Manager

Find out more: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260519-01.en.html

#SoftwareFreedom #Applelitigation

Europe imported a record amount of fossil gas in 2025. Trump's US now supplies 58% of the EU's #LNG (source: ACER).

Europe is handing its energy supply to Trump.

Fossil gas means dependency. Renewables mean security.

Stop the deals. Sign now 👇

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/stop-fossil-gas/ #StopFossilGas

Digitaler Neokolonialismus
Daten, Ressourcen, Abhängigkeiten – wer profitiert?

Wir beleuchtet, wie digitale Technologien globale Ungleichheiten verschärfen, welche sozialen und ökologischen Folgen diese für Mensch und Umwelt hat und warum von digitalem Neokolonialismus gesprochen wird.

Mit: Roberto Simanowski & Luciana Gattass-Simanowski, Theresa Utzig INKOTA-netzwerk, Sana Ahmad @Weizenbaum_Institut und Dr. Didem Özkiziltan Wagenführer @WZB_Berlin

Infos https://www.topio.info/digitaler_neokolonialismus.html

#berlin

🔔 Breaking News 🔔

The FSFE has been granted permission to intervene at the EU Court of Justice for the second time — in case T-359/25, Apple v. European Commission — in support of the @EUCommission
One more time, we are the only charitable civil organization defending #FreeSoftware and #Interoperability at the court. 💪

➡️ https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260519-01.en.html

I had a chat wtih @eighthave about @fdroidorg on @OpenSourceSecurity

We cover how it works, the security angles for running an app store, and talk about some of the changes that are coming for Android that will make F-Droid's job a lot harder

I learned a ton from Hans, it's a great discussion

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-05-fdroid-hans-steiner/

#Mythos finds a #curl vulnerability

yes, as in singular one.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/

🚨🔔 Job alert: The Tor Project is hiring a Senior Android Engineer to design, build, and ship privacy-preserving features used by people all over the world. Mentor teammates and shape architectural decisions.

If technical depth + real impact is your thing, we'd love to hear from you.

👉 https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/senior-android-engineer/

Announcing the launch of Internet Archive Switzerland 🇨🇭

Thirty years after Brewster Kahle founded Internet Archive with the vision of Universal Access to All Knowledge, that mission is entering a new chapter: expanding a global network of independent archives to protect knowledge and digital history for future generations.

Visit Internet Archive Switzerland ➡️ https://internetarchive.ch

Learn more about this initiative ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/06/internet-archive-switzerland-expanding-a-global-mission-to-preserve-knowledge/