keverets @keverets@librem.one

With Amazon killing off all the old kindles, they’re super-cheap right now. And it turns out that jailbreaking is a minor faff, but not too difficult, really. This one was £10 and is going to somebody who was pondering getting an expensive eink ebook reader just a couple of weeks ago. :D
#permacomputing

On most privacy-focused Android operating systems (LineageOS on the Fairphone, CalyxOS, /e/OS), F-Droid is the primary app store.

As a phone-addicted nerd I will do my best to help keep Android open. Read more at keepandroidopen.org and at F-Droid.org. 💪

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

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Panoramax: #Panoramax is an open and #federated alternative to #StreetView, born from collaboration between France’s national mapping agency #IGN and the French #OpenStreetMap community. With over 100 million geolocated images and a foundation in the making,...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/05/02-panoramax/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Vive la France!

**France unveils plan to ditch all fossil fuels by 2050**

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/energies/article/2026/04/29/france-unveils-plan-to-ditch-all-fossil-fuels-by-2050_6752950_98.html

Ghostty is leaving GitHub. I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008. I've visited GitHub almost every single day for over 18 years. It's never been a question for me where I'd put my projects: always GitHub. I'm super sad to say this, but its time to go. https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github

📲 /e/OS extends the life of Fairphone 3 for 2 more years

Even as Android support ends for Fairphone 3 after 7 years, we will keep it running securely with /e/OS for two more years—no need to replace your device.

Install /e/OS on your Fairphone 3 and enjoy the OS that respects your privacy:
👉 https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP3

#Fairphone #Fairphone3 #Privacy #OpenSource @gael @murena

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

🤦…have you followed this mess with #Onlyoffice's inappropriate behavior toward #Nextcloud?
I've been researching it for 3 weeks.
TL;DR: #Ascensio (Onlyoffice's licensor) is YA company to purposely misuse AGPLv3§7!
Thank goodness for AGPLv3§7¶4, but as always, one must be courageous to remove a “further restriction” & redistribute.
& thanks to Nextcloud for forking to #EuroOffice. Now, we should all come to their aid.
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/16/badgeware-onlyoffice-nextcloud-affero-gpl/
#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #copyleft #AGPLv3 #GPL #AGPL

@jwildeboer @evan

Because for some reason most people seem to have no clue just how pernicious and awful those algorithms are.

I left Facebook as soon as it became clear it was pushing in my face the exact types of things I'd rather NOT engage with. It was like watching sewage seeping in to fill the room, but loads of people are still standing around nattering while the rising flood laps against their chins.

@shansterable f-droid has free and open source alternatives to almost(all?) of the basic Android apps provided by Google.

That is, free, open source, no ads, no tracking, basic applications (which may just be the

Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John Deere. The settlement includes a 10-year “agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools ​required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery”. https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement