Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
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Debian MountainCamp will happen in Innsbruck, Austria - 16–18 May 2025. Come and meet fellow Debianites, hack on Debian, have fun! https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2025/MountainCamp #debian
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Sovereign Tech Agency’s Technology Lead @tarakiyee wird nächsten Montag auf dem "Public Money? Public Code!" Fachtag, veranstaltet von @fsfe in Essen sprechen!
Taras Vortrag erörtert, wie öffentliche Investitionen, wie die der Sovereign Tech Agency, in essenzielle FOSS-Infrastruktur dazu beitragen, Vendor Lock-ins durch offene Standards und Interoperabilität zu vermeiden – ein Problem für viele öffentliche Verwaltungen und KMU.
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EU: Let’s backdoor encryption – by 2026, or even sooner. Since it's impossible to backdoor encryption in a way that can’t be potentially exploited by others, it seems a very odd move https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/eu_backdoor_encryption/
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Microsoft Abandons #DataCenter Projects, TD Cowen Says
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China built hundreds of #AI #datacenter s to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused.
The country poured billions into AI infrastructure, but the data center gold rush is unraveling as speculative investments collide with weak demand and DeepSeek shifts AI trends.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/26/1113802/china-ai-data-centers-unused/
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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: https://f-droid.org/2025/03/30/board-of-directors-nominations.html
@fdroidorg here's info on Google's sponsorship of ECIPE
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2021/08/lobby-network-big-techs-web-influence-eu
#Google funds this #EU think tank to put out policy papers saying #DigitalMarketsAct will break their lovely #PlayProtect scare screens, making us all less safe and "it require[s] Google to allow developers to insert links inside their Play Store apps".
https://ecipe.org/publications/eu-dma-undermine-security-mobile-operating-systems/#_ftn13
As I've always said in relation to the #DMA, let @fdroidorg compete on trustworthiness. I'd love to see this think thank include analysis malware rates of #CalyxOS with #FDroid and compare that to #GooglePlay #security
"Exclusive: Google will develop the Android OS fully in private..."
Looking again at https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-development-aosp-3538503/ I really think that was a PR piece, e.g. #Google's PR firm put together the story for #Android Authority. Its got all the markings, the "Exclusive" part, the uncritical eye "Google is simply consolidating its development efforts into a single branch", minimizing harm to custom ROMs, "custom ROMs will largely also see little change" etc
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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.
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Nobody can lose, leak, lease, loan or liquidate your data if they don't have it. That's why we work hard to remove metadata from our systems, so your personal data is not even there to be gathered, let alone mishandled.
https://social.librem.one/@guardianproject/114222147812437231
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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.
#apksigner v35.0.2 is now in #Debian trixie. The v3.1 signer rotation stuff needs testing. Please try it out!
Getting apksigner from Debian has two key advantages over the Google binaries:
* They are reproducibly built.
* They have an actual free software license.
I'm starting to think I must be a bot. I'm no longer human. I see so many prompts on the internet asking me if I'm human, or triggering "anti-bot" protections.
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“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.” https://gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-about-having-highly-detailed-personal-information-on-nearly-all-internet-users-2000575762
The upcoming #Debian trixie release will ship with apksigner v35.0.2, which supports the APK v3.1 signer rotation. It is also reproducibly built, of course. I'll make a backport for bookworm too.
Kudos to Jean-Michel Aphatie for taking a stand. The colonial powers did in fact commit all sorts of atrocities and massacres. There is far too little recognition of this in Europe. On the topic of Nazis, we are taught they were a distinctly German phenomenon. What is too often overlooked is that the racial theories came from places like Stanford University. And Napolean and others set the example of militaristic state brutally conquering for its own gains.
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This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:
- if you do read this you're a #luddite
- #RISCV builds our catalogue
- change your #Mastodon client
- #freeminer takes on #Luanti
- fresh #OpenConnect
- update #QUIK SMS
- #shatteredpixeldungeon 3.0 introduces The Cleric
- #warsmash brings Warcraft III into your hands
Up to 209 apps touched upon in https://f-droid.org/2025/03/06/twif.html
@cryptax just uploaded #droidlysis v3.4.7 to Debian. If you make a new release very soon, I can get it into the upcoming stable release "Trixie"
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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 https://f-droid.org/2025/03/04/even-my-keyboard-is-built-reproducibly.html
Joined Aug 2019
