If you haven't heard of #KeepAndroidOpen, go take a look:

👉 https://keepandroidopen.org/

Yes, alternative custom ROMs exist that likely won't be affected by this, BUT: If this passes, it is absolutely going to end #Android development (especially #FOSS) as we know it today, and it will kill FOSS app stores like #Fdroid as we know them today:

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

I was going to write about Network Effects next, but this one is a bit more pressing I find, so - hopefully next week! 🤞

Don't want AI in web browser? Alternatives having not (or will not) put in AI:

https://librewolf.net
https://floorp.app
https://zen-browser.app
https://vivaldi.com
https://alohabrowser.com (Android)
https://www.waterfox.com
https://mullvad.net/en/browser
https://dillo-browser.org
https://www.falkon.org
https://wolvic.org/en (XR)
https://www.torproject.org (privacy)

Upcoming new:

https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird
https://github.com/servo/servo
https://gitlab.com/verso-browser

#browsers #noAI #Linux #desktop #mobile

Northern Fox Fires

Image Credit & Copyright: Dennis Lehtonen

Explanation: In a Finnish myth, when an arctic fox runs so fast that its bushy tail brushes the mountains, flaming sparks are cast into the heavens creating the northern lights. In fact the Finnish word "revontulet", a name for the aurora borealis or northern lights, can be translated as fire fox. So that evocative myth took on a special significance for the photographer of this northern night skyscape from Finnish Lapland near Kilpisjarvi Lake. The snowy scene is illuminated by moonlight. Saana, an iconic fell or mountain of Lapland, rises at the right in the background. But as the beautiful nothern lights danced overhead, the wild fire fox in the foreground enthusiastically ran around the photographer and his equipment, making it difficult to capture in this lucky single shot.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251212.html #apod

Micro Moon vs. Super Moon

Image Credit & Copyright: Şenol Şanlı

Explanation: What was so super about Wednesday's supermoon? Last week, a full moon occurred that appeared slightly larger and brighter than usual. The reason is that the Moon's fully illuminated phase occurred within a short time from perigee - when the Moon was its closest to the Earth in its elliptical orbit. Although the precise conditions that define a supermoon vary, last Wednesday's supermoon was surely the closest, largest, and brightest full moon this year. One reason supermoons are popular is because they are so easy to see -- just go outside at sunset and watch an impressive full moon rise! Pictured here, Wednesday's supermoon is compared to April's micro moon -- when a full Moon occurs near the furthest part of the Moon's orbit -- so that it appears slightly smaller and dimmer than usual. Given many definitions, at least one supermoon occurs each year, with another one coming next month (moon-th).

#apod