Keep Android OpenThe first week of our Open Letter to Keep Android Open has been a resounding success! Our signatories list has grown to nearly 50 organizations from 20 countries around the world, including the
@eff, @OpenMediaOrg, @brave, @Vivaldi, and many more!
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Space Truckin' lucky hubby to a Librarian đ and cat parent, real trains not road trains, n scale model trains, retro computers, Elite Dangerous, Anime, JJK, AOT, model kits, GUNPLA, 3D printing, very wide musical interests.
LibreOfficeMillions of students are getting locked into closed, proprietary software from Big Tech vendors. Here's how #LibreOffice can give them back their digital sovereignty: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/06/libreoffice-for-education-regaining-digital-sovereignty/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
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Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didnât Want Palantir
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/palantir-sues-swiss-magazine-for-accurately-reporting-that-the-swiss-government-didnt-want-palantir/
Please note that Palantir would rather that you didn't share this story, it makes them look even more stupid if you do...
Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didnât Want Palantir
If you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, youâd think someone in the building might have flaggedâŚ
thermonuclear small claimsAs an enthusiast for open source software who is also disabled, I get frustrated at how inaccessible a lot of open source software is. When there are accessibility options, they're usually bolted-on additions that don't work very well. Disabled users are forced into ad-hoc compromises that are laborious to install and labyrinthine to operate. The frustration often drives us back to corporate software. OSS is high friction and low benefit for many disabled users.
Open source developers would gain a lot from integrating accessible design into their products from the ground up (like TTS! My kingdom for fully integrated neural TTS on my browser and operating system). Accessibility features don't just help disabled people. More than half of all people using a phone use accessibility features. Do you really want to exclude half your users?
Accessibility also requires you to think about things like simplicity of design and ease of access for all your users. It can provide redundancy for errors (for example: alt text can be helpful when an image doesn't load, captions can provide a backup if their audio drops out, alternate input methods can allow people to continue using an app if they have keyboard or mouse issues). It can improve design (example: clearer instructions, easier to read text, simple consistent navigation). In short: it makes your software better.
Making the world more accessible for one group improves access for all: this is a basic principle of universal design. Stop excluding us and start making us the core of what you do â you will be a better developer for it.
#opensource #disability #universaldesign #softwaredevelopment
Adrian SanabriaThe enshittification of computer repair is happening.
AI has amazingly managed to make repairable computers practically worthless.
The increase in memory and storage pricing is destroying the second-hand market for computing hardware and this makes me sad. I watched a video from someone that runs a repair shop, and this is what's happening:
The memory/storage alone is worth more than the rest of the computer, so people are stripping them out to sell separately.
The second hand market is now flooded with computers that have no memory or storage. Buying new memory or storage to put in these used computers is now more expensive than buying a new computer.
So we now suddenly have a giant e-waste problem PLUS a giant problem for repair shops that want to stay in business.
In the video, he was basically saying that they have to pivot to the only computers that folks aren't stripping RAM and storage out of - computers that have those things soldered on. The irony here is that repair shops now have to ignore the most repairable computers and focus on the least repairable computers instead.
I Canât Sell You Laptops Anymore
GrapheneOS@straybun @watchfulcitizen France won't tolerate devices with a reasonable level of security where they can't use widely available off-the-shelf tools to extract data from them. GrapheneOS has massive privacy and security improvements planned.
France's law enforcement sent out memos to all their police telling them to suspect Pixel phones and to give those special treatment due to GrapheneOS existing. Most of what they're talking about is clearly not even GrapheneOS but closed source forks...
Watchful Citizen@GrapheneOS is being threatened by French authorities for refusing to add backdoors and they're dealing with coordinated attacks in French media right now. They're pulling out of France entirely, moving all their servers, and fighting off a wave of bullshit one-sided reporting that makes them look like they're helping criminals.
They need us to fight back. Support them however you can, whether that's a dollar, sharing their story, pushing back on the garbage news coverage when you see it, or just telling someone you know about what's happening. All of it matters because they're drowning in attacks from governments and media and bad actors who want them gone.
This is the only Android OS that actually makes me feel like privacy isn't just marketing. They fight for us now they need us to fight for them.
The EU is pushing Chat Control and creating an environment where governments feel empowered to threaten developers into compliance, and if we stay quiet we're letting it happen. Show up for them in whatever way you're able to.
#grapheneos #Privacy #NoBackdoors #encryption #security #chatControl
Eve VentuallyAustralians, here's an opportunity for you to help combat the global efforts to use private industry to control what otherwise legal products and services adults are able to spend their money on.
Australians, spread this petition far and wide. Demands Parliament âopen anti-trust investigations and penalize the unregulated monopoly of a key part of everyday infrastructure,â as âpayment processors are not there to regulate what legal content people consume.â
https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN7799
Source: https://bsky.app/profile/acvalens.net/post/3ly5e2dvs5k2r
Seasiders2We know our parliamentarians but know nothing of those paid to influence them. Registering lobbyists is an important first step https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21450/2hLsWeU3
The lobbyists who control Canberra
Before I decided to run for parliament, like many Australians I was frustrated and angry about the many decisions the government made that clearly werenât evidence-based or in the best interests of Australians. Over the years Iâve served as the first independent member for the ACT, Iâve come to see why: a lack of transparency and broken lobbying rules. Lobbying does have a legitimate role to play in our political system. But to protect the strength of our democracy, lobbying needs to be transparent and well regulated.
PepijnI'm on the server floor of a "highly secure data center with 24/7/365 surveillance, direct access control and robust perimeter security".
An actual duck just walked by. đŚ
The panic is absolutely glorious. I think this just became one of the highlights of my life.