Second blog on my ten year #SailfishOS journey so far

https://www.rubdos.be/2026/04/17/my-sailfish-os-journey-apps.html

This second part goes into #apps, and what Sailfish OS looks like in practice for myself. Did I miss an app? What's your favourite Sailfish OS app?

#Quickddit #Tooter #Unplayer #gPodder #Whisperfish #Deadbeef #LinuxOnMobile

Yo there @GrapheneOS, something has to be done about this social presence.

I like #GrapheneOS and want to follow along, but the daily wall of text with dozens of messages rehashing the same points re /e/ and friends is getting old. I'm sure I'm not alone. We get it. We know.

You need to do something for the people that already care. Put them first. Maybe split the debunking campaign out to a secondary profile or something like that, but stop burning the goodwill of people that already get it.

Just muted (and unfollowed) the #GrapheneOS account, because I keep getting more posts about constant badgering against other #FOSS projects than information about GrapheneOS itself. At some point I lost track which larger #FreeSoftware project based around #Android and #AOSP hasn't clashed with the "I backed down from my position but obviously didn't" GOS leadership yet.

While often making valid points pretty much anyone disagreeing with their posts or not "doing it the GrapheneOS way" is considered an enemy at this point and this has been going on for years. Even I have been accused of supporting the "attacks and misrepresentations" before because I have been participating in discussions with others "attacking the project". Pressuring individual persons into redacting or removing previous comments appears to be a common practice used by GrapheneOS representatives. This kind of stuff has been put up with for far too long. It's been going on for years and has been tolerated or ignored by many, me included.

Wouldn't be surprised if #Motorola will drop their hardware plans with GOS at some point down the road if the worst PR management I have ever seen keeps going on like this.🤦‍♂️

It's just blowing my mind how terrible the social media presence is being handled. Journalists and security experts such as @heiseonline and @kuketzblog should pay more attention to this and not turn a blind eye.

In guess the #RSS feed for new software releases will do just fine. Just too tired of this shit. I will keep using the system (for now) but I certainly don't enjoy promoting it. GrapheneOS is technically a fine project but their official PR management and communication is absolutely terrible and that certainly casts a long shadow over the project.

#CustomROM #Privacy #Security

Vandaag was onze allereerste officiële DoeiDag. Wat een boel volgers hebben we erbij in één dag. Welkom allemaal.

Voor wie dit later leest, gedurende de hele dag hebben we ideeën gedeeld om vandaag te doen, maar de timing, zo op Eerste Paasdag, is wat ongelukkig. Geeft niets. Elke dag kun je tot jouw eigen DoeiDag verklaren. Lees de updates die we vandaag deelden voor inspiratie in dit draadje 🧵

Wat een fantastische officiële Eerste DoeiDag. Dit is slechts een begin! Losweken van big tech is een kwestie van lange adem. We zijn met z'n allen verknoopt geraakt, sociaal en technisch. Daarom is het zo belangrijk dat we dit samen aanpakken. Thuis, op school, op de werkplek, op de sportclub, bij de muziekvereniging. Als massa in beweging komt, gaat dat traag, maar als het eenmaal in beweging is rolt het door. We moeten elkaar helpen en inspireren. Op naar een leuker digitaal leven!

#DoeiDag

Ha @barbarakathmann
Waarom zijn Progressief Nederland en Jesse Klaver alleen actief op Amerikaanse sociale media en niet op Mastodon?

Voor Pro zie ik hier nog niet eens een (slapend) account.

Do you work with/for an opensource project and would you like to share your technical life lessons at a large international conference on June 10th in Amsterdam? 🔥

My colleague @tomootes is looking for speakers for FOST 2026: https://tinyurl.com/3jtx4kph

Travel costs etc will be reimbursed! Boosting is appreciated <3

#FOST2026 #FOSS #opensource

Which email provider handles your municipality's official communications?

We built mxmap.nl to make that visible, all Dutch municipalities, mapped by email provider based on public DNS records.
Inspired by the Swiss original mxmap.ch by David Huser. We adapted it for the Netherlands. All credit for the concept goes to him.

Under the CLOUD Act, provider location matters. The map makes the current reality clear.

www.mxmap.nl

#DigitalSovereignty #GDPR #NIS2 #mxmap