Time flies when you're busy building apps, but not all #FDroid contributors need to wrangle Python, escape YAML or restart Gitlab pipelines.

If you want to have a saying in the betterment of F-Droid, from the inside, you are welcomed to nominate yourself or somebody else you find worthy for a Board of Directors seat.

You have time until April 14th, so head to: f-droid.org/2025/03/30/board-o

GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (@forgejo).

Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us:

- 54k commits
- 9.5k issues
- 4.3k pull requests
- 100k comments

Everything moved. Nothing left behind.

git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/orga

It is important to understand that the personal data you give to a company becomes their "property". Even if a company that currently runs a service keeps the data private, it can be put up for sale. The new owners are then free to operate differently, especially when there is no GDPR like in the US.

science.slashdot.org/story/25/

“You don’t know what information a data broker has on you, who they’re selling it to, and what the people who buy your data are doing with it,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told @Gizmodo. “There’s a real power/knowledge asymmetry.” gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-

The withdrawal of funding is an existential threat to the international digital rights community. “The scale and speed of the attacks on people’s rights is unprecedented. It’s breathtaking,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn told @technologyreview. technologyreview.com/2025/03/0

I can’t overstate how excited I am that @sovtechfund is investing in the core technology powering OpenStreetMap. Throughout my years in open source, OSM and its incredible global community of volunteers have always been close to me. It was one of the first profound examples of the power of openness and its impact on digital sovereignty and personal autonomy.

The EU is paying a fortune for broken commercial software, criticizes Michiel Leenaars of the Dutch NLnet Foundation in an interview with netzpolitik.org. Together with his team, he supports open-source, free solutions — funded by the EU. But that could soon come to an end.

netzpolitik.org/2025/open-sour

Using FOSS apps is the first step, the next one is having them reproducibly built.

Is your keyboard reproducible, verified or none? Find out in f-droid.org/2025/03/04/even-my

We have just added Klar to our repository of apps. Firefox Klar is a browser with a unique approach to privacy: it is designed around the idea that the user does not want to keep any personal info around. It makes it really easy to just wipe everything and start from zero. In the past, Firefox Klar was included in @fdroidorg but it has become too hard to maintain the free fork that strips out the Google proprietary bits. Hopefully will make a build possible again.

We're starting to implement support for split APKs in . wants to gather as much data about its users as possible, so trying to hide info about language, country, device specs was not a design concern for them. It is central for us. We want the official client to leak as little data as possible to any server, be it ours, mirrors, or custom repos. We welcome input:

gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient

🚨 Our X (Twitter) account has been compromised. We are working to regain access.
Please do not trust or interact with any posts, DMs, or links from our account until further notice.
Stay updated here, on our other socials (🦋) and our blog: blog.torproject.org/

Tor Project X/Twitter account has been compromised. Efforts are underway to regain access. Do not trust or interact with any posts, DMs, or links from the account until further notice. Stay updated on the project's other socials 🦋/🐘 @torproject and blog: blog.torproject.org/

Major internet freedom, censorship circumvention, and encryption tools made by groups like Tor Project, Guardian Project, and OONI have been severely impacted by Trump’s State Department executive order freezing foreign aid eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/exec

Copyright law affects everything we do on the internet. So why do some lawmakers and powerful companies still think they can write new copyright law behind closed doors, with ordinary internet users on the outside? eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/dont

We want to draw attention to one of the new Administration's Executive Orders that directly impacts the freedom tools that people around the world depend on to fight censorship, and protect their security and anonymity.
eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/exec

First #Weblate team member just arrived to #Brussels for #FOSDEM25, more on their way. We all can’t wait to meet our lovely community! At the @libreoffice stand, Saturday morning #BoF, Friday meetup, or anywhere else #FOSDEM. Read updated weblate.org/FOSDEM and join us! #LiberateYourTranslations #YourSoftwareYourLanguage

The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter. We took this decision since we feel X doesn't reflect Debian shared values as stated in our social contract, code of conduct and diversity statement. X evolved into a place where people we care about don't feel safe. You are very much invited to follow us on bits.debian.org , on micronews.debian.org/ , or any media as listed on wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicit #debian

We've signed the open letter to the @EUCommission calling for strong enforcement of the #DMA.

The EU must act decisively to create opportunities, protect innovation and increase consumer choice.

appfairness.org/the-digital-ma

Meta tracks your activity across millions of websites and apps, regardless of whether you use its platforms, and profits from that data through targeted ads. Here’s what you need to know if you want to limit the company’s ability to harvest and profit from your personal data. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/mad-

The court’s decision “would be front-and-center in any argument that Congress needs to impose a warrant requirement for these backdoor searches,” EFF’s Andrew Crocker told @theintercept. “That tends to be the kind of thing that Congress takes note of.” theintercept.com/2025/01/27/fb

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