Elon Musk and X are once again proving why institutions should never rely on corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms to reach their people.

bbc.com/news/articles/c0589g0d

is a hot topic right now. Societies around the world are asking for it because of real harms to children. Shady companies use it as a way to gather more data. Some are rallying against it to distract from their exploitation of vulnerable people.

I does not have to be that way. We can have real age verification without sacrificing . For example, uses payment verification. This same technique can be used for age verification phreeli.com/blog/DoubleBlindAr

"The Dutch government has quietly removed #Google #tracking tools from job listings for its intelligence services over concerns that the data would expose aspirant spies to U.S. #surveillance," according to POLITICO.

"The intervention would put an end to Google’s processing of the data of job seekers interested in applying to #spy service jobs, after members of parliament in The Hague raised security concerns." 💥

15 years fly by like last week, when you're the package manager for #Android, but you feel the technical debt more and more.

What to do? Rip it out and start over? Improve bit by bit? RiiR?

Find out how #FDroid prepares for the next 15 here: f-droid.org/2025/11/24/an-expe

Big news! 🚨 More countries opt for #OpenSource to protect their digital sovereignty.

The Austrian Ministry for Economic Affairs migrates away from Microsoft 365 to a Nextcloud and LibreOffice solution. 💪

Read the story in @FOSSForce recent article:

fossforce.com/2025/10/austria-

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