A regional train passes a railroad crossing between flooded fields in Nidderau-Eichen, near Frankfurt
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Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney stated Canada is a multicultural nation built by people of many backgrounds - famously remarking that Canada is defined more by its cold winters than by a single religious tradition.
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The #FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and #Android will be locked-down in under 200 days.
If you care about the freedom to control your devices and care about the privacy of you data, please contact your representative and make your voice heard.
keepandroidopen.org/ (thanks @marcprux) has the resources to guide you.
We know users will rarely visit the site so the Client(s) will get a banner soon too.
Thank you for your support!
Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.keepandroidopen.org
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The defunct email addresses in that section are depressing.
It just sends me to a place where I can report an antitrust claim. Like say google is breaking the law and needs to be investigated.
I don't know what I'd tell them they're doing wrong nor what steps should be taken. I'm especially baffled because we already let Apple do this shit.
I can't just complain about stuff on a crime reporting form. I need to be reporting something.
This page documents how a new application gets included in the main F-Droid repository. It includes the technical details that a submitter should be aware of...f-droid.org
Got a quick answer from EU's DMA Team, they might have a standard response due to high demand :
> Dear citizen,
>
> Thank you for contacting us and sharing your concerns regarding the impact of Google’s plans to introduce a developer verification process on Android. We appreciate that you have chosen to contact us, as we welcome feedback from interested parties.
... 1/N
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Thanks for the link
I still have problems to understand what happens with apps like those of fossify, or DuckDuckGo for example, that i downloaded and maintain over F-Droid, but that are also available on Playstore and thus should be under the "verified" category.
These should still work but not the F-Droid Store App itself so i need to update via a website manually???
I am not an IT person. I genuelly have problems understanding this, despite having read the infos i found so far.
@v_d_richards If signed by the developer (reproducible) and the developer has submitted to the Google pressure, the app will work fine.
If signed by F-Droid, we think they will not work at all, not even our Client, so we will not be able to provide updates.
For those apps already on Play you will submit to Google's rules and use Play, right?
For those not on Play... good luck tracking the APK, if the developer bowed down.
I hated Google before, but do more every day.
I had hoped that if Apps and their developers took it on them to do the verification shit, loading and maintaining at least such apps from other places than PlayStore would be possible in Android.
The users are trapped:
Banking Apps and some others don' t work with Custom Roms.
Open Source from free places will no longer work on G-Android.
The only solution is havingntwo devices which is expensive af.
I.hate.Google.so.much.
Si china puede hacer un clon de Android, ¿Acaso no puede hacerlo Europa?
¿Para cuando un Linux para dispositivos móviles?
¿hasta cuando seguiremos siendo vasallos de las multinacionales norteamericanas?
¿Para cuando nuestra delcaración de Soberania Digital?
¡Sin Soberania Digital no hay libertad, independencia ni democrácia!
@apicultor Everything we do is transparent and public, eg. floss.social/@fdroidorg/116086…
@Alonely0 @cy8aer Older apps were added when reproducibility wasn't achievable. For this reason today only about 22% of apps that we host are signed by their developer. This number will increase with time as we push for reproducibility at inclusion time. Also, switching from one signer to another is an annoying process that users need to take manually, for security reasons.
Have you addressed the points made by the creator of #Wireguard regarding the security of your build infra?
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Supply chain security is super-duper underrated. Thanks for the spotlight, Jia Tan!
Per https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Inclusion_Policy/ The software must not download additional executable binary files (e.g. addons, auto-updates, etc.) without explicit user consent....GitLab
F-Droid is the FOSS app distribution ecosystem for Android where your user freedom comes first. Discover our app store to explore the world of free and open source (FOSS) apps and [learn](https://f-droid.f-droid.org
Does anyone know how this affects phones that already have F-Droid and apps from there installed?
Will some Android/Google Update make them stop working all of a sudden? Or not let me update them anymore? Or will this affect only future Android versions?
@F-Droid @Viktoria D. Richards/Uddelhexe
How does it affect degoogled Android? Will F-Droid Work on Custom ROMs? Will someone tech-savvy still be able to degoogle android and make F-Droid work? Will it be possible to flash an existing android with a custom ROM?
Or: Do I need to buy a phone with a custom ROM preinstalled? Will someone else fork AOSP and save it for custom ROMs?
So many questions. I hate the direction Google is heading to. Which Chance do have surveillance conscious people to get out of it?
I think it is useless to keep android open. As long as google controls it, it is a sinking ship.
Much better to move to other alternatives like Jolla or other linuxbased options and rebuild from scratch.
will this affect lineage phones? (or any other roms)
Directly or indirectly?
Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.keepandroidopen.org
Adding regulator and right group information from the Chinese Mainland.GitHub
@nathanael @GrapheneOS We should be allies in the Android ecosystem (specially during these days) but they choose to be frenemies for some reason.
Fun fact: We talked with more GOS users at FOSDEM than stock Android users. 🤔
@Alonely0 @cy8aer Since you brought up the signature model, Google Play requires devs keep the signing keys with them, F-Droid just offers it as an option. F-Droid offers using only the upstream signature if the app is reproducible. f-droid.org/docs/Reproducible_…
Also, how the APK signing keys are managed has nothing to do with Android Developer Verification or Keep Android Open.
Introduction F-Droid works to spread reproducible builds across the free software Android ecosystem. The goal is to enable software build processes that anyo...f-droid.org
Good to know that Google are keeping their track about "Apple-izing" themselves.
They just waited until there were absolutely zero competitor to close the whole thing.
Time to degoogleize all mobile OSes 😮💨
Thank you for the information and links at keepandroidopen.org/
Got a relatively generic and neutral but friendly response.
I'm still unsure whether this contributes a drop to filling the ocean... 🤔
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@paet floss.social/@fdroidorg/116086…
Yes, standard text. Maybe we should encourage people to mention that not being able to install software on a device can't be a necessary and proportionate measure to begin with.
> We know users will rarely visit the site so the Client(s) will get a banner soon too.
The new release of Neo Store (published today) already has it. And our website has it as well: izzyondroid.org/
What @crazyeddie is trying to say: standing up for openness, freedom, and the right to choose your own tools only makes sense in a society where openness, freedom, rights or even rational discourse still have any meaning at all. The US is probably no longer such a society.
No one *wanted* to see what Google was up to. I.e. autoredirects in G Maps, Youtube playback failures were ramped up to unusability. This is no surprise.
Who actually didn‘t see that was already living inside G-defined boundaries, i.E. having a G account, using Youtube via G-controlled browser, using Maps via G app, …
Remains a mystery to me why people use a OS/browser made by the major advertising predator, known mainly for working against humans.
Here's the direct link to the petition: change.org/p/stop-google-from-…
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Do I understand correctly, that Google free Android is not directly affected by this policy?
But the majority of the userbase is affected, so an app developer would loose nearly the complete userbase and this would result in many developers giving up, destroying the app market.
And this in turn will affect Google free Android.
Please elaborate, if I misunderstood!
@blackoverflow Yes, if you're tech-savvy you'll figure a good device to flash your favorite custom Android distro that favors user freedom.
But the other 3.9 billion stock users... they are at the mercy of Google, if you want to recommend them a good app from #FDroid they are blocked.
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if it is, presumably the job is about preventing crimes
(still funny though)
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I hear it's a much more difficult role to be in nowadays considering crime is just legal now.
Having to find out what to do that'll actually get you in trouble isn't easy!
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"... RESEARCH, CANCER RESEARCH. TO CURE IT."
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My cat: "Hey, you know what would cheer you up?"
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I don't even remember this hitting the news among all the other waves arm this. (But Hunter Biden)
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in reply to earthling • • •it really looks like the train in Spirited Away from Hayao Miyazaki.
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in reply to earthling • • •interesting detail here is that this is all intentional: the area is a floodplain that gets flooded naturally in periods of heavy rain or melting snow. When the rail line was constructed, the rails were built on top of a dam. Apparently that was in 1880!
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(Maybe you already know all this, but I was curious so I did a quick search for an explanation.)
Hochwasser? Egal, die Bahn fährt!
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in reply to earthling • • •I love how it looks, but it must be hard for people living there. (And yes I know that this general area has *historically* seen lots of flooding in the past, but I don’t think this has been normal in the last few decades, and of course, people can correct me if I’m wrong, it certainly has been getting worse since climate change)
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