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Software Freedom Conservancy  
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/
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Element  

Element users on the default matrix.org homeserver are currently impacted by a serious database outage (mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/11)which will take at least 12 hours to recover - many apologies to everyone impacted. Users on their own deployments are of course unaffected.

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Jan Penfrat  

Thank you @grote for sharing this.

In addition to telling #Google that locking down #Android is bad, I'd also recommend every app developer to write to the @EUCommission's #DMA enforcement team and tell them that this practically circumvents Article 6(4) of the #DigitalMarketsAct, which was supposed to *enable* 3rd party app (stores).

The EC is discussing the same question with #Apple atm and they have to understand what happens if they let this happen.

Contact form:
digital-markets-act.ec.europa.

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Mark Murphy  

Alas, it is time for more uncomfortable questions, in this case regarding the announced Android developer verification program: commonsware.com/blog/2025/08/2 #AndroidDev

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F-Droid  

Let's carry on our legal series, in part two we will discuss jurisdiction, legal entities and liability in #FLOSS #FOSS.

Ever wondered “What laws apply to #FDroid ?" We had to...

Just 12 minutes of your time: f-droid.org/2025/08/20/legat-t

(And yes, that typo in the URL will stay there forever 🙄)

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Hans-Christoph Steiner  

A really great post on about how governments should be funding the free open source software that our governments and societies rely on.

dri.es/funding-open-source-lik

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Guardian Project  

@grote @celinho @fdroidorg We support F-Droid's stance on this, even though it means that our repo is not included by default. You can read all about that here:

guardianproject.info/2024/02/2

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Guardian Project  

has completed implementation for and there is a pull request:

github.com/nginx/nginx/pull/84

If you want to see ECH in nginx sooner rather than later, please jump in and review, give feedback, thumbs up, etc.

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Jan Penfrat  

Want to fight for Palestinian #digitalrights? There is a super interesting job vacancy for #policy #advocacy folks at @7amleh :

7amleh.org/post/vacancy:-advoc

#Palestine #humanrights #FediJobs #jobs #MastoJobs #NGOjobs

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Hans-Christoph Steiner  

@fdroidorg We have to put a lot of trust in a couple of systems: the signing server and the production buildserver. That is why they are not easy to upgrade. That provides key benefits down the line, like knowing that the client app will always receive uncompromised files, no matter where it downloads the files from (e.g. verification via the signed index). Thanks for your patience while we work in getting new hardware into our trusted setup. 1/2

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Jan Penfrat  

Oh dear, the Belgian government's #cybersecurity centre manages to write an entire page about the #EndOf10 without mentioning any other operating system than #Microsoft #Windows. Instead of telling people they might want switch to e.g. #Linux, they suggest to:

* pay Microsoft for #ESU, or
* buy a new computer. 😤

safeonweb.be/fr/actualite/wind

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