Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

The era of unchecked tech monopolies is over.

We're taking decisive action to enforce open, fair, and contestable digital markets.

Our measures had real consequences:

🛡️ Fined major platforms for anti-competitive practices and ignoring consumer data choices

⌚ Required strict hardware interoperability for smartwatches and connected wearables

☁️ Launched three investigations into dominance in cloud services and into search engines hiding media

Accountability is here 👉 https://link.europa.eu/YTddh6

Spotted on the tube

"This case is one of the major judicial tests of the EU’s interoperability obligations under the #DMA. This law aims at preventing large technology companies from unfairly locking out competitors. The FSFE seeks to enforce the DMA in a #FreeSoftware developer friendly way" - Lucas Lasota, FSFE Legal Programme Manager

Find out more: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260519-01.en.html

#SoftwareFreedom #Applelitigation

Europe imported a record amount of fossil gas in 2025. Trump's US now supplies 58% of the EU's #LNG (source: ACER).

Europe is handing its energy supply to Trump.

Fossil gas means dependency. Renewables mean security.

Stop the deals. Sign now 👇

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/stop-fossil-gas/ #StopFossilGas

Digitaler Neokolonialismus
Daten, Ressourcen, Abhängigkeiten – wer profitiert?

Wir beleuchtet, wie digitale Technologien globale Ungleichheiten verschärfen, welche sozialen und ökologischen Folgen diese für Mensch und Umwelt hat und warum von digitalem Neokolonialismus gesprochen wird.

Mit: Roberto Simanowski & Luciana Gattass-Simanowski, Theresa Utzig INKOTA-netzwerk, Sana Ahmad @Weizenbaum_Institut und Dr. Didem Özkiziltan Wagenführer @WZB_Berlin

Infos https://www.topio.info/digitaler_neokolonialismus.html

#berlin

🔔 Breaking News 🔔

The FSFE has been granted permission to intervene at the EU Court of Justice for the second time — in case T-359/25, Apple v. European Commission — in support of the @EUCommission
One more time, we are the only charitable civil organization defending #FreeSoftware and #Interoperability at the court. 💪

➡️ https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260519-01.en.html

I had a chat wtih @eighthave about @fdroidorg on @OpenSourceSecurity

We cover how it works, the security angles for running an app store, and talk about some of the changes that are coming for Android that will make F-Droid's job a lot harder

I learned a ton from Hans, it's a great discussion

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-05-fdroid-hans-steiner/

#Mythos finds a #curl vulnerability

yes, as in singular one.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/

🚨🔔 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/

Announcing the launch of Internet Archive Switzerland 🇨🇭

Thirty years after Brewster Kahle founded Internet Archive with the vision of Universal Access to All Knowledge, that mission is entering a new chapter: expanding a global network of independent archives to protect knowledge and digital history for future generations.

Visit Internet Archive Switzerland ➡️ https://internetarchive.ch

Learn more about this initiative ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/06/internet-archive-switzerland-expanding-a-global-mission-to-preserve-knowledge/

Devastating privilege escalation on Linux: https://copy.fail/

Explanation: https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-linux-distributions

Implementation in Go: https://github.com/badsectorlabs/copyfail-go

... and I learned today that there are AF_ALG socket types, to access cryptographic functions of the kernel.

#Linux #CVE-2026-31431 #crypto #AF_ALG

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).

1/3

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

“Don’t forget international traffic, […] which is one of the fastest growing markets.” –Michael Peterson of Deutschen Bahn

We, as passengers, know that the demand for more and better cross-border rail is there. Now is the time to back it up with policy and offerings that make it possible.

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/article/chef-des-fernverkehrs-der-bahn-im-interview-acht-stunden-im-zug-das-macht-vielen-nichts-aus-10030579 (€)