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Complete this sentence:

"I experience #fediverse as a .."

#Poll #AskFedi #Microblogging #Mastodon #ActivityPub

  • Bustling city (18%, 275 votes)
  • Cozy village (70%, 1044 votes)
  • Ghost town (4%, 64 votes)
  • Other (please comment) (6%, 96 votes)
1479 voters. Poll end: 1 month ago

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Updated my website with new photos tiotrom.com/photos/

Here are a few of them:

#nature #travel #motorhome #vanlife #camper #spain

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With developer verification, Google's Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android's open legacy
Questions remain as Google prepares to lock down Android app distribution in the name of security.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0…

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When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
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I don't want a city on Mars.
I don't want AI in every app.
I don't want data centres in space.

I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want bees to survive.

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A short update for March 2026.

We are continuing to actively fundraise for financial support to develop a Wayland compositor for Xfce(xfwl4).

In the month of February, we have received 52 donations (Xfce: $419.61 & Xfce(EU): €634.10).
To date, we have paid out $15,050 for work completed on xfwl4.

Thanks again for your generous support and ongoing donations. We are grateful for your commitment to help improve Xfce.

#Xfce #Wayland #xfwl4 #Linux


If you would like to help financially support the development of a new Wayland compositor for Xfce, you can do so by contributing funds via our #OpenCollective accounts.

For US contributions:
opencollective.com/xfce

For EU contributions:
opencollective.com/xfce-eu

These contributions will help pay for the funding of longtime Xfce core developer Brian Tarricone to create xfwl4, a brand-new Wayland compositor for Xfce.

Thank you for your support!

#Xfce #Wayland #Rust #FOSS #Linux


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We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.

motorolanews.com/motorola-thre…

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@joonq @a53bdb
Sorry, but despite US offices and staff, the company is 100% Chinese.

Here is why:
-> Acquisition: Bought Motorola from Google in 2014 for $2.91B.
-> Headquarters: Global HQ is in Beijing.
-> Shareholders: Parent company Legend Holdings is Chinese.
-> Leadership: CEO Yang Yuanqing is Chinese.
-> Origins: Born from a state-owned research institute.

What might be cause for concern is if the ‘blond’ driving the world crazy were to target Motorola or Lenovo, causing them to pull out of the US market, or if, like Huawei, they were to have Android stripped away from them. At that point, they might decide on one of two things: either ‘steal’ the GrapheneOS technology, or strengthen their partnership with Graphene and make Graphene the primary software for Motorola/Lenovo. It could be an interesting development, but I imagine it would be stressful for the creators of Graphene

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@anon_4601 @joonq @a53bdb Lenovo is a publicly traded company with 31% of the shares are owned by Legend Holdings.

Legend Holdings is a publicly traded company with 29% of the shares owned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

That works out to the Chinese Academy of Sciences owning around 9% of Lenovo. They're far from owning the majority of it.

We're continuing to support Pixels which are the only Android devices from a major OEM based in the US. Smaller brands are white labelled ODM phones.

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"I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven’t lived in blood and bone. That doesn’t mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it’s not freedom you’re after.”

Sahar Delijani

#iran

evergreenreview.com/read/an-in…

#iran
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Well Trump is not consistent here.

He ticked off the box in front "war" to get more support at home.

At the same time he is arguing that the same war that is supposed to raise support for #Trumpregime is supposed to weaken support for the Iranian regime.
While it might weaken it because of the couple of bombs it will almost certainly push all non strict opposition citizens into a more "patriotic" pro regime mood. America the Big Satan.
Self introspection is not a core American value

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Interesting development. Nice to see an independent Android build get a preinstall option on a non-google phone.

Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features
9to5google.com/2026/03/01/moto…

#Andoid #Google #Motorola #CustomRom #GrapheneOS

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Thank you Jean for becoming our new 5€ a month supporter tromsite.com/donate/ !!

And thank you to everyone who supports TROM financially. We do a lot of projects. We provide a Friendica instance and have over a thousand users, a Peertube instance with unlimited uploads, a Nextcloud instance providing 10GB of space for everyone and a full Office Suite...a custom Linux distribution, a documentaries-based website...

See our donation page how many things we do. And we will do more!

#nextcloud #friendica #fediverse #peertube #fedi #selfhosting #foss #opensource

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Good morning from planet Earth

Instead of humans being tribal, religious lunatics, trade fanatics and war thirsty, they should by now have created a paradise on Earth. Understand their fantastic story and how we are all connected to the other creatures, to the Earth and the universe, in a purely scientific way.

To use our resources to provide for all. To send rockets to the outer space to explore instead to send them on Earth to kill more. To fight with diseases, not with each other.

To grow our minds. Be busy with being smart and curious.

Instead this species is a total shitshow. Bunch of tribes with rockets.

Pathetic.

#war #iran #usa #israel #conflict #bbc #earth #society

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Today we join various other FOSS advocacy groups like @fsfe @fdroidorg @eff in addressing an open letter to Google about #keepandroidopen We need open ecosystems and the move to "sideload" software has set a bad paradigm for having control over our devices. You can read more about it here:

sfconservancy.org/news/2026/fe…

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KDE supports the "Keep Android Open" campaign

#Google will cut off independent developers to #Android if they do not register with Google first. This will kill independent platforms like @fdroidorg and severely impede FLOSS devs from creating apps for Android.

keepandroidopen.org/

Many KDE apps are deployed for Android: KDE Connect, Itinerary, Tokodon, and there's even a test version of Krita for Android.

KDE calls on Google to reverse course and @keepandroidopen.

keepandroidopen.org/open-lette…

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It is 222 A.D. You are the transgender Empress Elagabalus, "call me not a man for I am a woman". Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1776. You are "Public Universal Friend", a transmasculine nonbinary Quaker. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1906. You are Karl M. Baer, a trans man undergoing sex reassignment. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1930. You are Lili Elbe. Transitioning is new and experimental. (to be fair you did get a uterus transplant.)

It is 1966. You are in Compton's Cafeteria with a bunch of other trans people when the owners call the cops to throw you all out. You riot. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1969. You are Marsha "pay it no mind" Johnson. You are in a mob-run gay bar when the cops attack. You throw a brick. There is a bit of a scuffle. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 2026. You are a transgender adult or child listening to the NYT and British Guardian claim this is the first generation anyone has tried transitioning in. Transitioning is new and experimental.

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I made an app.
play.google.com/store/apps/det…
Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby.

I hope it's useful for someone.

The app is open source, free and rather simple
github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_near…

It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making

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Today, the final negotiations on Chat Control 2.0 begin.

We hope the European Parliament stands firm against any wording that paves the way for mass surveillance and censorship. Cyprus, currently holding the Presidency of the Council of the EU, aims to conclude the negotiations by June.

A reminder of the corrupt backstory behind the Chat Control proposal and the involvement of Ashton Kutcher and his company Thorn: mullvad.net/why-privacy-matter…

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Anyone who understands the threat of #technofascism should get involved with the #KeepAndroidOpen campaign.

Google state that from September, they will be non-consensually pushing an update to all #Android phones (70% of all phones) that irrevocably blocks you from running whichever software you choose on your phone.

#Apple's iOS is already worse, leaving nowhere to go.

For details, and simple steps to push for Android devices to remain open computing platforms, see:

keepandroidopen.org/

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@stateofresearch
A good approach, but this is a threat that can't be addressed at the level of individual practice, only via this collective campaign.

Because if Google follow through on this, we will suddenly have no way to access any apps that aren't centrally authorised.

It will be the equivalent of Windows preventing you from running .exe files. Only software that Google authorise and approve (under government supervision) will run on our devices.

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I am, in fact, my own worst enemy when it comes to PeerTube federation.

If you follow @techlore, your subscription may have been broken....perhaps permanently? Hard to know with federation. The counter resets on my end but that may not reflect actual subscriptions.

Can any of you all let me know if you are still getting notified for new content? Just published our newest video there.

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Almost 40 orgs just signed an open letter telling Google to reverse Android Developer Verification, we're one of them.

Google has not backed down and seems to have no intention of keeping Android open. Check out our newest video covering what's going on and what we can do: youtu.be/5MZfGq5F1NU

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They now have Agent Orange and their CEOs are rulers from behind. Why anyone is expecting them to listen to the serfs being their commodity is beyond my comprehension.

Get rid of fascism, restore justice then they "voluntarily" start to please new masters and reluctantly will abide. Until then buy Chinese MT8xxx based phone where you can break into the MT cpu and implant your own OS (or better yet ditch G spybrick and start to use a phone + pi).

$0.02

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combining whats happening in u.s. politics and big tech corporate sector. it starts to be scary. i don't think alphabet inc is going to back down, it is about control and power and u.s. government is part of it.

for short term maybe:
linux laptop.
ungoogled android.
basic technical phone.
mobile linux distribution.

for long term. move away from android, it starts to be lost cause. apple's devices are lost causes as well.