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NGI Zero open source funding  

Are you a Free Software developer trying to access hardware or software features under Article 6 of the Digital Markets Act #DMA ? @fsfe would like to hear from you. Share your experience about how gatekeepers are handling your interoperability request with the Free Software Foundation Europe.

The FSFE’s Interoperability Survey aims to collect structured feedback from #FOSS developers about their experience requesting interoperability

Read more & link to the survey: fsfe.org/activities/deviceneut

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Delta Chat  

We'd like to remind everyone that a self-hosted #chatmail relay is best shared in some wider than family circles. In crisis situations everbody does better when helping others.

A typical 1gb RAM chatmail relay VPS for 5-10 eur per month supports 50k+ daily users.

chatmail VPSes are stateless. You can wipe all disk state, reinstall and chatting will resume. Conversely, #deltachat does not keep or depend on any server state .Operators under pressure do not need to feel bad to hand over data.

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Guardian Project  

and are always looking for new ways to spy on you and track you. is the latest in a long line of abusive methods to gather your private data. Having their mobile app installed gives them super powers. Uninstall it. If you must use these services, do not use their app, keep it in the browser, or even better, use a wrapper app, like

* f-droid.org/packages/it.rignan
* f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco

Here is a nice technical write up:
localmess.github.io/

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Purism  

Google Tightens Android Sideloading—At What Cost to Digital Freedom?

Google has begun blocking sideloaded Android apps in Singapore, citing security concerns over apps requesting sensitive permissions like SMS and accessibility services.

Read more at Purism: puri.sm/posts/google-restricts

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦  

Remarkable investigation into Telegram by IStories (in Russian):
istories.media/stories/2025/06

English version by OCCRP:
occrp.org/en/investigation/tel

tl;dr:

👉 Telegram uses a single company with ties to the Russian FSB as their sole infrastructure provider, globally.

👉 Combined with a cleartext device identifier Telegram's protocol requires to be prepended to all encrypted messages, this allows for global surveillance of Telegram users.

I am quoted in this story.

#Telegram #InfoSec #Privacy

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

California state agencies have standard privacy guardrails around data-sharing. But the cities and counties that collect some of your most personal info? Nope. Zip. Zero. A.B. 1337 would fix that. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/cali

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

The rampant data sharing fueled by online tracking has serious consequences. Privacy Badger blocks online tracking to prevent your browsing data from being used against you. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/onli

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Free Software Foundation Europe  

Industry Committee vote: Technology sovereignty is only possible with Free Software

The Industry committee of the European Parliament shows necessity and benefits of “open-source first” policy but report lacks concrete measures.

fsfe.org/news/2025/news-202506

#SoftwareFreedom

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NGI Zero open source funding  

Are you working on a free and open source project that contributes to the digital commons? Consider applying for NGI Zero funding. Our next deadline is June 1. If you can't make that, no worries, the next call opens right after.
We offer grants between 5 & 50k and grantees can also request practical support with licensing, security, accessibility, long-term sustainability, mentoring, UX testing, trouble shooting, packaging, internationalisation & more. nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250401-ca
#FOSS #funding

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Delta Chat  

#whatsapp has been feverishly copying #telegram features the last year. Both are now in a battle who enshittifies faster. Mr. Durov announced that #Telegram, sitting on the biggest cleartext data and metadata pile second only to #Meta, is to integrate "AI" the next days, see youtu.be/JBCY3ZE9Rz0?t=10048 ...

Let them fight. We stubbornly continue to focus on resilient private messaging for families, groups and communities, with end-to-encrypted #webxdc apps and decentralized agency at all levels.

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Element  

We’ve signed an open letter to the European Commission expressing our concerns around continued attempts to undermine encryption.

We ask the Commission to reconsider ProtectEU, and acknowledge that encryption is a positive that improves security.

globalencryption.org/2025/05/j

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Tuta  

DeGoogling is possible, and it doesn't need to be difficult. 👏

Take a look at our in-depth guide of Google alternatives to learn how you can take back your privacy in 2025. ❤️🔒

👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-leave-goo

Have you already DeGoogled? If so, let us know your favorite Google-free apps.

#DeGoogle #GoogleAlternatives #PrivacyMatters

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F-Droid  

We are celebrating 10 years of #reproducible builds in #FDroid this year, and we are overhauling the way the build server works.

Thanks to the funding from #NLnet, #NGI #NGIO part of #HorizonEurope, and your donations, our work is intended to power the future of #FDroid for the next ten and more.

Dig deeper for the why and the how in this 15 mins post: f-droid.org/2025/05/21/making-

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Hans-Christoph Steiner  

Ever wonder how easy it would be for proprietary software like to get around the end-to-end encryption? provides a real world example. This is why there is no replacement for Free Software when it comes to privacy.

micahflee.com/despite-misleadi

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Micah Lee  

My latest on the clean OPSEC saga: TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreesen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more micahflee.com/telemessage-cust

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René Mayrhofer :verified: 🇺🇦 🇹🇼  

Last Friday, we (again) added a statement on the next iteration of the ministry of internal affairs trying to legalize #statetrojan #spyware for secret services: parlament.gv.at/gegenstand/XXV

TL;DR: It is a slight improvement over the last draft, but still doesn't align with technical reality.

#Austria #politics

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EDRi  

European Parliament LIBE committee votes on the #Europol report next week.

MEPs 👏 must 👏 vote 👏 against!

🐎 It is a Trojan horse for surveillance disguised as „anti-smuggling“
💰 It would expand the budget for a problematic agency

The EU must take responsibility for forcing migrants into life-threatening situations, change its hostile border & migration policies, and reject the expansion of Europol’s digital surveillance powers.

Share the #ProtectNotSurveil paper now:
protectnotsurveil.eu/

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Simon Phipps  

Pleased to see #Redis returning to an #OpenSource license.

redis.io/blog/agplv3/

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OSU Open Source Lab  

We need your help, the future of the OSU Open Source Lab is in jeopardy

osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

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Rocky Linux :rockylinux:  

The beacons are lit, @osuosl calls for aid: 🚨 Oregon State University Open Source Lab will shut down this year if funding is not met. 🚨

Among countless other open source projects, OSL supports Rocky Linux by hosting our ppc64le and s390x build environments.

Please consider donating to #OSUOSL. Talk to your organizations about the open source software they depend on that in turn depends on OSL, and ask them to consider donating.

osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

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