The more you read this piece of excellent work the more you realize how much energy we, as the Open Source community, the programma's and the users, shall need to put in another to get a proper Balance Again

Read the section here.

Sources:

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User

#Power #User #Walled #Garden #programming #InfoSec #privilege #feature #parameters #control #OpenSource #against #Meta #FB #Alphabet #Enshittification #Google #Elon #Musk #Twitter #Facebook #WTF

#Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp

KeepAndroidOpen

FediLab just came out Swinging on one of my Androids. I opened it for the first time after a patch, the program flashed a warning

Android is becoming a closed platform

Then it points people to

https://keepandroidopen.org

#KeepAndroidOpen #programming #Android #google #Alphabet #walled #garden

Friend left behind on twitter Battlefield

This post of yours really hit home.

I have an internet friend who was Left behind on twitter because he wasn't ready to move (WTF why)

I've been congratulating him  on important anniversaries of his, through the internet for years like an Atomic Clock

It's the 4th or the 5th Year that I couldn't do it, because I refuse to re-open my Twitter accounts to see the battlefield, the horrific nukes of War, the destruction that Elon and his cohorts created.

I miss talking to him
He's a good man, a successful Bounty Hunter by Day, a great pappa at Night

@rl_dane

https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01JJYY2YV07G6NJS823G121T63

#Social #Media #Twitter #account #technology #walled #Gardens #Elon #Musk #friend #left #behind #Nostalgia #FediVerse #OpenSource

SFC also signs open letter to Keep Android Open

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Software Freedom Conservancy joins many other organizations in signing an open letter to Google asking that Android continue to allow people to install what they want on their phones. Recent policy changes within Google will restrict installation options by requiring developers to register their legal names, adding new gatekeeping that can arbitrarily deny app installation or delete existing apps from your phone. F-Droid has already written about the importance of this change. This invasion of privacy of developers is not just an overreach of Google's authority over Android, but also jeopardizes developer safety and restricts user freedom

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/feb/24/keep-android-open/

The more organizations join the better!

Individuals should also sign the letter!

#SFC #FDroid #google #alphabet #sideloading #programming #android #opensource #walled #garden #closed #ecosystem #lies #deception

Google is not backing down

Android will be transformed into a closed platform worse than apple

https://f-droid.org/2026/02/24/open-letter-opposing-developer-verification.html

#google #alphabet #programming #sideloading #android #opensource #walled #garden #closed #ecosystem #lies #deception

Google lies about sideloading

Google’s message that “Sideloading is Not Going Away” is clear, concise, and false

It bears reminding that “sideload” is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing”, regardless of whether that computer is in your pocket or on your desk

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/10/28/sideloading.html

#google #alphabet #sideloading #programming #android #opensource #walled #garden #closed #ecosystem #lies #deception

@da_667 i personally think apple is a sham for rich people - to bring back production to the usa apple has a long row to hoe #walled gardens

#youtube.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktFlaBhpMu8

How Apple's walled garden protects ICE

https://www.theverge.com/column/803693/ice-epic-games-apple-app-store

#HackerNews #Apple #Walled #Garden #ICE #Tech #News #Privacy