Guardian Project @guardianproject@librem.one

🚨🔔 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/

Hey #Google, cool you're adding a bit of #BinaryTransparency. Unfortunately, it doesn't mean much without #FreeSoftware #OpenSource and #ReproducibleBuilds. When can we expect you to adopt those practices?

https://blog.google/security/bringing-binary-transparency-to-the-android-ecosystem/

For the record #FDroid has offered binary transparency since 2017 https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/-/merge_requests/226

And we even offer binary transparency for your #Gradle and #AndroidSDK binaries
https://f-droid.org/2021/02/05/apis-for-all-the-things.html#binary-transparency-logs

How about expanding your logging to all your binaries?

The App Fair Project has posted our thoughts on the Digital Markets Act review:
https://appfair.org/blog/gatekeeper-paradise/
#DMA #keepandroidopen #appfair

I'm honoured to have been elected to the Board of Directors of F-Droid, the most well-known #opensource alternative to the Google Play Store.

Imagine Microsoft deciding from now on what you can install on your laptop. No internet, you can only download things through the MS app store. Apps that MS has approved. Who wouldn't find that suffocating? Yet that is what Google wants to do on our Android phones (and what Apple already has - a closed ecosystem).

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I am very happy to join the @fdroidorg Board of Directors for the upcoming two years.

F-Droid is in the heart of the Open Source community, which I see as a very important part of the shift away from the US big tech here in Europe. Success of Open Source on mobile is success we all can share.

F-Droid gives visibility to software developers who want to build experiences without predatory practices.

This is important.

https://f-droid.org/2026/04/28/board-appointments-2026.html

Apparently, #Google has lost track of their goal for #Android "We wanted to make sure that there was no central point of failure, where one industry player could restrict or control the innovations of any other. " https://web.archive.org/web/20120501080416/http://source.android.com/about/philosophy.html

That page is 404 Not Found now...

#KeepAndroidOpen