This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
Pro tip: si pones una casa a la venta, procura que los cuadros que tu abuelito el de las SS se trajo cuando llegó a #Argentina🇦🇷 no aparezcan en las fotos
La hija de un exfuncionario del nazismo publicó un aviso para vender su propiedad y en las fotos se detectó un cuadro desaparecido hace ocho décadas. La justicia local allanó el inmueble
Here's a collection of forever open licensed tabletop roleplaying games and resources. Borrowed from and inspired by the Forever Open Source RPG game jam
Are you allowed to run whatever computer program you want on the hardware you own? This is a question where freedom, practicality, and reality all collide into a mess.
Google has recently announced that Android users will only be able to install apps which have been digitally signed by developers who have registered their name and other legal details with Google. To many people, this signals the death of "sideloading" - the ability to install apps which don't originate on the official store0.
I'm a fully paid-up member of the Cory Doctorow fanclub. Back in 2011, he gave a speech called "The Coming War on General Computation". In it, he rails against the idea that our computers could become traitorous; serving the needs of someone other than their owner. Do we want to live in a future where our computers refuse to obey our commands? No! Neither law nor technology should conspire to reduce our freedom to compute.
There are, I think, two small cracks in that argument.
The first is that a user has no right to run anyone else's code, if the code owner doesn't want to make it available to them. Consider a bank which has an app. When customers are scammed, the bank is often liable. The bank wants to reduce its liability so it says "you can't run our app on a rooted phone".
Is that fair? Probably not. Rooting allows a user to fully control and customise their device. But rooting also allows malware to intercept communications, send commands, and perform unwanted actions. I think the bank has the right to say "your machine is too risky - we don't want our code to run on it."
The same is true of video games with strong "anti-cheat" protection. It is disruptive to other players - and to the business model - if untrustworthy clients can disrupt the game. Again, it probably isn't fair to ban users who run on permissive software, but it is a rational choice by the manufacturer. And, yet again, I think software authors probably should be able to restrict things which cause them harm.
So, from their point of view it is pragmatic to insist that their software can only be loaded from a trustworthy location.
But that's not the only thing Google is proposing. Let's look at their announcement:
We’ve seen how malicious actors hide behind anonymity to harm users by impersonating developers and using their brand image to create convincing fake apps. The scale of this threat is significant: our recent analysis found over 50 times more malware from internet-sideloaded sources than on apps available through Google Play.
Back in the early days of Android, you could just install any app and it would run, no questions asked. That was a touchingly naïve approach to security - extremely easy to use but left users vulnerable.
A few years later, Android changed to show user the permissions an app was requesting. Here's a genuine screenshot from an app which I tried to sideload in 2013:
No rational user would install a purported battery app with that scary list of permissions, right? Wrong!
There is no UI tweak you can do to prevent users bypassing these scary warnings. There is no amount of education you can provide to reliably make people stop and think.
It emerged that, in this case, Lloyds had done a really good job of not only spotting the potential fraud but alerting James to it. The bank blocked a number of transactions, it spoke to James on the phone to warn him and even called him into a branch to speak to him face-to-face.
Android now requires you to deliberately turn on the ability to side-load. It will give you prompts and warnings, force you to take specific actions, give you pop-ups and all sorts of confirmation steps.
And people still click on.
Let's go back to Google announcement. This change isn't being rolled out worldwide immediately. They say:
This change will start in a few select countries specifically impacted by these forms of fraudulent app scams, often from repeat perpetrators.
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September 2026: These requirements go into effect in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand. At this point, any app installed on a certified Android device in these regions must be registered by a verified developer.
The police in Singapore have a page warning about the prevalence of these scams. They describe how victims are tricked or coerced into turning off all their phone's security features.
It is absolutely rational that government, police, and civic society groups want to find ways to stop these scams.
Google is afraid that if Android's reputation is tarnished as the "Scam OS" then users will move to more secure devices.
Financial institutions might stop providing functionality to Android devices as a way to protect their customers. Which would lead to those users seeking alternate phones.
Society as a whole wants to protect vulnerable people. We all bear the cost of dealing with criminal activity like this.
Given that sideloaded Android apps are clearly a massive vector for fraud, it obviously behoves Google to find a way to secure their platform as much as possible.
This is quite obviously a bullshit powerplay by Google to ensnare the commons. Not content with closing down parts of the Android Open Source Project, stuffing more and more vital software behind its proprietary services, and freezing out small manufacturers - now it wants the name and shoe-size of every developer!
Fuck that!
I want to use my phone to run the code that I write. I want to run my friends' code. I want to play with cool open source projects by people in far-away lands.
I remember The Day Google Deleted Me - we cannot have these lumbering monsters gatekeeping what we do on our machines.
To be clear, developers will have the same freedom to distribute their apps directly to users through sideloading or to use any app store they prefer.
This is a lie. I can only distribute a sideloaded app if Google doesn't nuke my account. If I piss off someone there, or they click the wrong button, or they change the requirements so I'm no longer eligible - my content disappears.
I also don't see how this is going to help. I guess if scammers all use the same ID, then it'll be easy for Android to super-nuke all the scam apps.
Perhaps when you install a sideloaded app you'll see "This app was made by John Smith - not a company. Here's his photo. Got any complaints? Call his number."
But what's going to happen is that people will get their IDs stolen, or be induced to register as a developer and then sign some malware. They'll also be victims.
trying to recover a 25 year old Yahoo account and it wants to send a recovery code to a 30 year old Hotmail account that I haven't had access to for at least 25 years
I would be weeping tears of joy if all my old Hotmail emails were still in here. My wife and I used to write each other during school. I have no idea what we used to talk about.
well, I got that hotmail account back but Yahoo claims it's sending a code to the address but it's not being received. I emailed from a different account and it was received, so dunno what's up with that. Maybe it's impossible to recover this Yahoo account.
Good on Yahoo for not deleting it and allowing the account to be re-registered though
Somebody built a searchable and browsable BYTE magazine archive with all single pages on one single web page. I think, this is a very nice way of visualising a magazine archive. Enjoy: byte.tsundoku.io #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #bytemagazine #byte
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I'd really like to get some straps like you see in this video. Does anyone know what I might need to search for?
I've spent over an hour trying various variations of "silicone/rubber/plastic tie-downs/straps/belts/strapping/webbing holes/punched/perforated/screws/screw-down" and haven't had any luck.
Really I'm just looking for long lengths of silicone belts with pre-punched holes.
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When the Jieshuo Screen Reader developer announced the removal of the Tencent Cloud online OCR engine due to contract expiration, many international users
Canada has taken the rare step of not signing onto a multi-country statement that demands Israel stop banning foreign journalists from entering Gaza and that local journalists be protected in the Palestinian territories.
OTTAWA - Canada has taken the rare step of not signing onto a multi-country statement that demands Israel stop banning foreign journalists from entering Gaza and that local journalists be
Tak jsem konečně upravil šifrování disků na svých počítačích. Do teď jsem zamykal heslo root file systému do #tpm2 vlastním scriptem popsaným zde: skorpil.cz/en/project/42/mkini…
To řešení je už 5 let staré a překonané. Ale stále funkční. Dneska už to umí #systemd nativně. Porušil jsem pravidlo "nešťourej do něčeho co funguje" a přenastavil jsem šifrování na všech počítačích. Dneska je to fakt super pohodlné nastavení.
Nechcete nějakou minipřednášku o šifrování disků pomocí TPM2 na #LinuxDays ? Zaměřeno na #Arch, jiné distribuce tolik vyzkoušené nemám. Ona jedna přednáška byla už na tom loňském, tak nevím jestli je to potřeba. 🤷
All my personal and company computers are powered by Arch Linux with encrypted storages. This setup brings an inconvenience of entering two passwords on startup. One unlocks the storage encryption, second logs me to my user account.
Nebo bych mohl na #LinuxDays povykládat o #selfhostingu. Postupně jsem odřízl většinu závislostí na Googlu, a vše si provozuju sám opensource aplikacemi.
This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.
By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the United States, the European Union has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice…
Montrealer received a $2,340 fine after police caught them traveling at 196 km/h in a 70 km/h zone along Autoroute 15, near Edouard-Montpetit Boulevard, before 2:45AM Saturday.
The driver neglected to bring their driver’s licence w/ them and was issued another $520 ticket.
In addition to the fine$ the driver will receive 30 demerit points, the vehicle will be impounded for 30 days, and the driver is prohibited from driving for 7 days.
hmm, this chart is good but it doesn't really show the best part about the curl man page over time, which is how its organization quality, sectioning, and cross-referencing have improved.
Look, Jeff Atwood, it is difficult to take you seriously when you write authoritatively on a subject you clearly don’t understand.
GDPR doesn’t mandate cookie notices.
Cookie notices are *malicious compliance* by the surveillance-driven adtech industry.
If you’re not tracking people, you do not need a cookie notice, period.
If you’re only using first-party cookies for functional reasons, you do not need a cookie notice, period.
If you’re using third-party cookies to track people – i.e., if you’re sharing their data with others – then *you must have their consent to do so*. Because, otherwise, you are violating their privacy. Even then, the law doesn’t mandate a cookie notice.
How would you conform to EU law without a cookie notice if your aim wasn’t malicious compliance?
You would not track people by default and you would make it so they have to go your site’s settings to turn on third-party tracking if, for some inexplicable reason, they wanted that “feature”.
Boom!
No cookie notice necessary.
What’s that?
But that would destroy your business because your business is founded on the fundamental mechanic of violating people’s privacy?
Good.
Your business doesn’t deserve to exist.
Because the real bullshit here isn’t EU legislation that protects the human right to privacy, it’s the toxic Silicon Valley/Big Tech business model of farming people for data that violates everyone’s privacy and opens the door to technofascism.
Look, EU, it is difficult to take you seriously when you forced all this cookie notification bullshit on us. That feature a) should not exist and b) if it did, should be a BROWSER feature not "every website in the entire world now has to bother everyone forever about this stupid thing" blog.codinghorror.com/breaking…
The Firefox add-in Firesheep caused quite an uproar a few weeks ago, and justifiably so. Here’s how it works:
* Connect to a public, unencrypted WiFi network.
1. Every browser needs to, by default, be set to allow "strictly necessary cookies" only. 2. Every site that wants to serve EU users must honour this setting. 3. Impose massive fines on sites that don't do this or that choose to interpret "strictly necessary only" in "creative" ways.
So that anybody who does not want other cookies has to do exactly nothing to achieve that.
@rozeboosje and invest the money from the fines in privacy respecting FOSS solutions to replace the non-sovereign software the EU runs for its own services. Win-win(-win, for www) 😉 @aral
Look, EU, it is difficult to take you seriously when you forced all this cookie notification bullshit on us. That feature a) should not exist and b) if it did, should be a BROWSER feature not "every website in the entire world now has to bother everyone forever about this stupid thing" blog.codinghorror.com/breaking…
The Firefox add-in Firesheep caused quite an uproar a few weeks ago, and justifiably so. Here’s how it works:
* Connect to a public, unencrypted WiFi network.
That's a myth perpetrated by adtech industry. There is no EU obligation to spam cookie notices. There's an obligation not to track without explicit consent, and everyone illegally uses the cookie nag popups as a basis for claiming consent (which it's not). A legitimate, non malicious site has no need for cookie nags. Ever.
Moreover there *was* a browser feature to set it globally and all the assholes running websites refused to honor it and instead used your setting as an additional fingerprinting bit to track you.
True, but my point remains. This shitty experience we're collectively having here this isn't "the EU forcing cookie notification on people", it's "the malicious compliance of companies that profit from user tracking."
Every company that shows you an cookie popup has made the choice to put a few fractions of pennies of possible future profit ahead of your experience.
Cookies can give businesses insight into their users’ online activity. Unforunately they are subject to both the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive, making compliance difficult.
@javier Websites that don't use cookies are not involved. Neither are websites that only use cookies that are _required_ for the website to function, e.g. session tokens.
It's only when you'd like to use cookies to track users and deliver personalized ads that you have to deal with this stuff.
It's a choice.
Most websites simply don't choose the privacy-friendly option.
@scy @javier one of the big problems nobody talks about: tech is largely only explained by entities who have no incentive to explain it *well*.
Google, Meta, large ad networks are all like "stupid EU makes us do Cookie banner".
While the actual regulation is actually pretty good. The regulation is basically "don't fuck around with user data. But if you do, you at least need to tell the user".
for those who just want to browse the catalog: until fixed, you can use apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?repo=m… (should images not load, it's because they would be loaded from f-droid.org. If you reload the page, another mirror should be picked for those, and images should show up again. A little lottery: you might hit a slow mirror then 🙈 But you can browse the catalog.)
Day 1284. I am in the heaviest battle of Pokrovsk, Donetsk, East Ukraine.
This is my combat gear and my weapon. It does not shoot, but it delivers A LOT of pain to Russian invaders. With this weapon, they have nowhere to hide.
I am Ukrainian Soldier. That’s what I go through 🧵
Last day enjoying this calendar as wallpaper on my second monitor in the office. It's one of my fave shots. Good memory of a nice evening spent with mates.
If you compare _pixman_setup_combiner_functions_32 and _pixman_setup_combiner_functions_float, you'll see that there is no integer version of PIXMAN_OP_SATURATE and if falls back to floats. We found this...
Paperback 0.2 is out! What's new: • Added markdown document support! • Added PDF document support, including the ability to navigate between pages! • Added keystrokes for navigating by headings in HTML content, including epub books and markdown documents. These keystrokes were designed to work similar to a screen reader. • Fixed loading epubs with URL-encoded filenames in their manifests. • Fixed loading epub 3 books with XHTML embedded inside of them. • A message is now spoken if the document doesn’t support a table of contents or sections, as opposed to the menu items being disabled. • Added a recent documents menu! It currently stores your last 10 opened documents, and pressing enter on one will open it for reading. • Completely rewrote the Find dialog, making it much simpler to use, while also adding a history of your last 25 searches and regular expression support! • Previously opened documents are now remembered across application restarts. This is configurable through the new options item in the tools menu. • Added shift+f1 to open the readme directly in Paperback itself. Download: github.com/trypsynth/paperback… Enjoy!
Edit: sorry about that, Enafore decided that I meant to edit my post when I pressed C, not create a new post.
Bro thank you so much for this. I'm going back to school in a few days and definitely plan on taking full advantage of this utility to read my stuff from Bookshare. I'm assuming yes, but is this compatible with Mac as well as Windows? I haven't downloaded yet. Thanks again!
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![Roze tekst op lichtgroene achtergrond: "Ik nadat ik wederom "bruggen heb verbrand" met oude vrienden/kenissen [sic] door een "radicale mening" te gooien:"
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Image: Persoon met ogen gesloten, mond open in een grijns. Armen uit elkaar met gebogen ellebogen. De persoon draagt een groene broek en een doorzichtig topje met roze bolletjes over een roze beha. De achtergrond lijkt betonnen stoep met een struik.")
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in reply to feld • • •well, I got that hotmail account back but Yahoo claims it's sending a code to the address but it's not being received. I emailed from a different account and it was received, so dunno what's up with that. Maybe it's impossible to recover this Yahoo account.
Good on Yahoo for not deleting it and allowing the account to be re-registered though
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