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🖊 Nextcloud has joined 30+ organizations in signing an open letter to Google opposing the #Android developer verification program.

Why does this matter? Because innovation thrives in #OpenEcosystems!

@keepandroidopen

Read the letter to find out more! 👇https://nextcloud.com/blog/open-letter-android-developer-verification-program/

Nextcloud signs open letter against Android developer verification - Nextcloud

Nextcloud joins more than 30 organizations in signing an open letter to Google opposing the Android Developer Verification Program.

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Aaru Swartz Feb 26

Aaru Swartz Jan 12

Joseph Nuthalapati

Jan 12

January 11 was the day when Aaron Swartz was killed by the academic publishing industry who are now happy to make deals with his contemporary, the compulsive liar Sam Altman.

The system puts some people to death for scraping while making others billionaires for doing the same thing. Mark Zuckerberg has torrented the entirety of libgen with no consequences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M85UvH0TRPc

Piracy is legal now, provided you register an LLC and get a .ai domain for your website.

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

YouTube

Aaru Swartz Jan 12

Humayun's tomb
Delhi, India.

Shot using #sonya7iv , #sony 28-70mm kit lens

Aaru Swartz Nov 13

Neil Brown Nov 4

# "Using LibreOffice and other Free software for documents as a lawyer"

I was asked recently about how I get on using LibreOffice for document-related legal work, and I promised to write down some thoughts.

The short answer is that I use a mix of LibreOffice and other FOSS tools, and I’m very positive about it, with no particular concerns.

If you have questions, please do ask!

https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/11/using-libreoffice-and-other-free-software-for-documents-as-a-lawyer/

#LibreOffice #Linux #FOSS #lawfedi #vim #git #Markdown

Using LibreOffice and other Free software for documents as a lawyer

I was asked recently about how I get on using LibreOffice for document-related legal work, and I promised to write down some thoughts.

Aaru Swartz Oct 28

Denny Vrandečić Oct 12

Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year

By Diego Delso, CC-BY-SA

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2024/Results/All

Aaru Swartz Oct 22

Show thread

e.w. niedermeyer Oct 21

You learn that your grandpa's decision to surrender to Americans might be the only reason you're alive, as the French POW camps had ~80% death rates and family members didn't get back from Russian POW camps until 1950. You don't just learn why Nazis were bad, you learn how America became America.

Aaru Swartz Sep 30

gofoss Sep 29

For 15 years, F-Droid has been the antidote to Google Play: no trackers, no ads, just open source apps. Now, Google wants to kill it.

Under the guise of "security", Google is forcing devs to register, pay, and surrender control. F-Droid can’t comply without betraying its principles. Thousands of apps could vanish overnight.

Fight back: demand sideloading rights, pressure regulators/Parliament, and defend one of the safe harbors for ethical tech.

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

@marcprux @fdroidorg

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

For the past 15 years, F-Droid has provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world to find and install free and open source apps. When co...

Aaru Swartz Sep 14, 2025