keverets @keverets@librem.one

Why #FDroid for your #Android device? No need to "just trust us" about how we check, how we build and why we care, you can look at everything that we do as #FLOSS offers the transparency you want.

@bendineliot explains this in many more words: https://f-droid.org/2026/05/27/building-trust.html

#keepandroidopen

And what that means is that robust privacy legislation is a national security issue.

A robust publicly funded media is a national defence platform.

Media literacy delivered through well-funded public education system is a national defence strategy.

If you want to keep a functioning democratic society, then the people need to be able to discern truth from falsehood and secure their privacy. There are no alternatives.

Phew, this lifehack (stolen from @domi ) saved my butt so I'm just going to share it further.

Sure, it looks awful... but if you have windows facing south (or if you can't afford/your landlord doesn't allow you to mount sun-blocking curtains) this is a lifesaver.

In the current heatwave my apartment (according to temperature sensor on my desk) was already hitting 36*C inside despite window in the room being covered with a blanket. Standing in the kitchen in the afternoon made me feel dizzy within two minutes.

After applying the tinfoil to windows in the kitchen, over the few hours temperature dropped to 28*C. Tinfoil is so hot, that I can't keep my hand on the window for more than 4 seconds (so it's very close to 50*C).

Going to apply the tinfoil to the window in the room as well, it should reflect a lot of that heat and make blanket much colder as a result.

Something something Linux users don't need windows or something

After months of me telling everyone Palantir wrote C-22 the Toronto Star finally released a report detailing the secret contract between the Canadian government and Palantir. They will execute the surveillance.
#Canada #privacy #cdnpoli

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/ottawas-latest-deal-with-us-data-giant-palantir-raises-warnings/article_fe486987-5e93-4b51-8c17-48b0a8f58e0d.html

Daily train service in Canada. For clarity, the operative word here is DAILY. The lines exist but there is no longer a daily service.

(via Threads user: @uptheroader)
https://www.threads.com/@uptheroader/post/DLqj7iNygSZ

Hey UX designers of the world! And all you people making #software! How about we stop making ever more complicated methods of managing #notifications, #DoNotDisturb, #DigitalWellness etc and instead focus on reducing the amount of time-on-screen spent for each task? We need to stop thinking about #engagement and think about #efficiency. We need to recognize the nature of #DigitalMedia makes us forget about the analog world. Being #online exacerbates that.

If you rely on Bitwarden, they've changed leadership and are now on the PE extract-and-exit track. Start working on your exit strategy as soon as you reasonably can.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden

I see 1Password is stepping on the rake again.

The brain geniuses securing your passwords just squirted out this statement: At 1Password, we applied agentic tooling to a multi-million-line Go monolith. (No I'm not linking to it.) Ok first, how in the...
https://jwz.org/b/yk7M

The Ontario government - somehow, despite being the party of landlords and construction companies - just can't get anything built that isn't always a decade late.

https://stevemunro.ca/2026/05/14/a-very-disappointing-waterfront-east-update/

So I got tickets for a local baseball game to only find out I have to use Ticketmaster, where they force you to use their web-app or "app".

Thankfully, someone reverse engineered how it works: https://conduition.io/coding/ticketmaster/ and it looks like ticketmaster didn't bother to change anything about it. While he made an app, I use #mobian . So....time to reimpliment it into Bash, and I give you:
https://gitlab.com/kop316/generate_ticketmaster_ticket

This will generate a valid ticket to use!

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

4/4

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