I've joined #mastodon ~10 years ago. The first couple of years were fun. Now it's pretty boring, interactions got very sparse and uninteresting, I guess moving from chaos.social to mastodon.social didn't help either.
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#CoryDoctorow recently said that political developments in the US may lead to #FOSS licenses becoming legally unenforceable
(https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/16/technopoly/)
But, I think #FDroid is already more relying on informal social contracts and platform effects than the legal system. There could be a chance that this model prevails, even if intellectual property rights become entirely unenforceable for the FOSS community.
There still a little time left to speak out before #Google s next big anti-competitive monopoly-abusing move of thwarting #SideLoading on #Android
Neil Browntl;dr: too long; didn't read
ai;dr: contains AI slop; didn't read
av;dr: requested age verification; didn't read
451;dr: content unavailable for legal reasons; didn't read
js;dr: page required JavaScript; didn't read
ps;dr: problematic site; didn't read
dr;dr: I feel like a pair of curtains. Pull yourself together.
Torsten GroteF-Droid Basic 2.0 alpha is now available for early testing. Feedback is encouraged and appreciated. More information in the blog post: https://f-droid.org/2026/01/24/fdroid-basic-2.0-alpha.html
#fdroid
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brozu ▪️In 2010, #AaronSwartz downloaded 70 GB of articles from JSTOR. He faced a $1 million fine and 35 years in prison
➡️ Aaron took his own life in 2013.
#Meta illegally downloaded over 80 terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train its #AI models
➡️ facing no consequences.
Information is power, knowledge is power.
Beware and fight against those who want to keep you ignorant, unaware, and misinformed.
US administration is using #tracking data from a legitimate app for asylum seekers to target people for deportation. If this plays out like in Germany a century ago, I suspect we'll see a lot more of that targeting all sorts of people including political opposition and minorities. I wonder what that'll mean for publishing #FOSS #apps.
Christian StöckerWhat Europe should do RIGHT NOW: Make it extremely easy for US scientists to get long-term visa, create as many additional research jobs in key areas as possible, create new, generous science and research funds. People are losing their jobs over there NOW. Let‘s welcome them.
