Guardian Project @guardianproject@librem.one

We're starting a sprint to look at all the issues preventing #ReproducibleBuilds in all the apps we ship. Most of the issues are simple fixes in the upstream code, like unsorted outputs or timestamps included in the build.
You can help make the #FreeSoftware #Android ecosystem be more reproducible! See the failures here and help us report them upstream: https://verification.f-droid.org/failed.html

Smartphone Runs Home Server

It’s one of the great tragedies of our technological era. Smartphones that feature an incredible amount of computational power compared to computers the past, are largely locked down by carriers …read more
#hacking #projects
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/09/smartphone-runs-home-server/

🇬🇧Orban insists: First public vote on #ChatControl scheduled for Thursday! https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/jha/2024/12/12/ +++ Silence no more: Which countries will support destroying the privacy of correspondence and secure #encryption? +++ Criticism from Austria and Slovenia: https://www.parlament.gv.at/dokument/XXVIII/EU/5949/imfname_11437653.pdf

We wrote a blog post about trust and how to have a verified installation of our client.

One such source for the client could be our CLI tool, that recently got the ability to download the F-Droid.apk.

Read more at
https://f-droid.org/2024/12/11/verified-first-time-installs.html

🎉 PSA: F-Droid users! 🎉 The Tuta Calendar app is now available on F-Droid 🥳

❤️ You can get the Tuta Calendar app here: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.tutao.calendar/

#Fdroid #Tutacalendar #Tuta #Download #Encryption

We were busy last week!

In short:
- Our DNS entries were finally transferred to us as a legal entity: https://f-droid.org/2024/09/30/dns-security-and-bus-factor-improvements.html
- This week in #FDroid (TWIF) was published again with news about the next F-Droid client update with fixes for TetheredNet and many app news: https://f-droid.org/2024/10/03/twif.html
- And the website is now available in Czech: https://f-droid.org/cs/2024/10/04/czech-language.html

All the details are in the linked blog posts, so please feel free to read them ;)

@thisven We are exploring funding for litigation and lawyers, that is looking promising. Meetings like this require technical people to spend quality time reviewing documents and joining meetings. #FSFE @edri and other orgs like that do have lawyers and policy people, and are doing a good job engaging on these issues, especially given limited resources. If you're ready to donate now to support this specific work, I recommend giving money to FSFE and EDRi.

On my own time, I have to read a ~50 page document produced for the #EuropeanCommission in order to effectively participate in a two hour meeting where #FDroid is pitted against #BigTech on the #DigitalMarketsAct and its requirements around installing and allowing other #AppStore options.
Its all NDA'ed so I can't ask for help.
This game is really rigged for the megacorps. Wish me luck! Here's to fighting the good fight!