F-Droid#FLOSSFund supports #FDroid maintenance, and your #FLOSS project might get empowered too.
Forward this to your favorite dev: https://f-droid.org/2026/05/26/flossfund.html today!
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Lit HubIt’s the first day of our Best of the Best Books Reading Challenge, and there’s still time to pick one of these novels as your first round book! Want to learn more? Head to the link in our bio to spend your summer reading with Lit Hub.
https://lithub.com/50-great-classic-novels-under-200-pages/
https://lithub.com/50-great-classic-novels-under-200-pages/
Electronic Frontier FoundationWhen security agencies harm rights in the name of "protection," they become the threat. Civil society, legal community, activists, oversight bodies: we must ramp up the fight against normalized surveillance abuses. EFF’s new guide is here to help. Join us. https://eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/we-must-not-normalize-digital-surveillance-abuses-effs-new-guide-underlines
We Must Not Normalize Digital Surveillance Abuses. EFF’s New Guide Underlines Concrete Steps to Fight Back.
Poor accountability, feeble control mechanisms, and insufficient legal frameworks have led to systematic human rights violations in the Americas, with no consistent remedy or reparation to victims. What's needed is to materialize essential guarantees and measures to combat repeated surveillance...
Muntashir AkonIt appears one or more impersonators have already registered some of the #Android applications that I maintained, including @appmanager. I've reported this to #Google, but not sure what's going to happen. The Android developer verification is still in beta, and it doesn't have a lot of features now to deal with this kind of problems.
lichessIn a win for open source, Take Take Take will use Lichess as the infrastructure of their new play zone. Read more about it here: https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/lichess-and-take-take-take-sign-cooperation-agreement/DZS0S0Dy
Torsten GroteGoogle has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:
* enable developer options
* confirm that you are not tricked
* restart phone and re-authenticate
* wait one day
* confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
* decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
* confirm that you accept the risks
* enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this
Keep Android OpenWe have published an open letter to Google opposing the Android Developer Verification Program with over 30 organizations as signatories: https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/
KDEKDE has been selected to participate in Google Summer of Code 2026.
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2026/organizations
Through GSoC, KDE seeks to encourage new contributors to join Free Software projects long term and ensure the continuity of FLOSS.
This year's proposed ideas cover improving Okular, Kdenlive, digiKam, and our localization infrastructures, among others.
https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2026/Ideas
The list is still open. If you would like to participate in GSoC 2026 with your own idea, check out
https://community.kde.org/GSoC#Instructions_for_potential_contributors
IzzyOnDroidOrgYou might have noticed a new banner at our website.
It's not just IzzyOnDroid that is threatened by #Google's upcoming "developer verification" rules – it's ALL OF YOU, ALL OF US, who live in the free #Android world, and want to decide ourselves what gets installed onto our devices.
If Google gets away with this, on the majority of Android devices, you will only be able to install what THEY allow. No more freedom of choice.
Join the resistance! Act for your freedom!
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