With how often I've yelled at abusive Google behaviour and its risk without anyone really caring, especially for the first round of their dev doxxing by forcefully showing everyone's legal name on the Google Play Store (forcing some trans people to choose between pulling their app(s) down or being forcefully outed and deadnamed), I feel quite tired to even consider yelling again but...

We really should not allow Google to deanonymize every single app dev: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/

Get fucked, Google.

> Google says it's no different than checking IDs at the airport.

Except in this analogy I own the fucking plane!

https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115091392102147470

Thanks to all the amazing people that have donated to postmarketOS, we were able to pay @flamingradian to make call audio more reliable in Linux Mobile: by replacing callaudiod with a wireplumber plugin! 🤙

Shout out to @mobian's @awai as well as pipewire folks for consulting on how to get this done technically and to @pabloyoyoista for mentoring this project!

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/08/17/callaudiod-wireplumber-project/

#linuxmobile #pipewire #modemmanager #postmarketos #mobian

The #UnplugTrump series is now in English – spread the word and let it roll like a wave across the Fediverse! 🌊 👇

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/unplugtrump-free-yourself-digitally-from-trump-and-big-tech/

#UnplugTrump #privacy #security #GAFAM

SHIFTtalk zum Thema ShiftOS

Save the date!📆

Lange von euch gewünscht, jetzt ist es endlich so weit.
Ein ganzer SHIFTtalk der sich nur um das Thema Software bzw. ShiftOS dreht!🤩

Hier findet ihr das Fragenformular und nächste Woche den Livestream: https://www.shift.eco/shiftphone-8-status/

#shift #shifthappens #shiftphone #shifttalk #community #software #customrom

"Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face"

https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html

We stand in solidarity with our friends at @Codeberg. No project should have to deal with this kind of abuse and we applaud their efforts to tackle it and protect their community. If you share our desire for truly free software and infrastructure that doesn't harvest your data, and have to the means to, consider heading to https://donate.codeberg.org. Community funding is the best way to ensure that projects like Codeberg can continue to succeed and be independent.

https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html