Gaël Duval: The Path to a New Smartphone Ecosystem
Interview with the longtime free software developer best known for Mandrake Linux, now CEO of /e/OS and an advocate for âdegoogledâ smartphones.
Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 days
Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.
GrapheneOS Foundation Calls Out Brazil's Flawed Age Verification Law
People are going to have their personal info leaked by third party age verification services due to these laws. Children are going to be harmed by apps and websites changing their behavior to exploit them. It isn't goin…
Why we’re taking legal action against SerpApi’s unlawful scraping
We filed a suit today against the scraping company SerpApi.
Parametric CAD for everyone
FluidCAD — write CAD models in JavaScript. See the result in real time.
ESTA: USA wants to check social media accounts of European travelers as well
For a vacation in the USA, people from Europe have so far not had to reveal too much. This could soon change if it's up to US border control.
After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series
"We will drive innovation that is meaningful, not incremental."
Apple now has device-level age verification in 3 countries
Tech trends aren’t always easy to spot at an early stage, but there’s a very clear exception right now: the...
Africa’s New Data Dependency – Technology Colonialism
Data agreements are replacing armies as tools of colonialism and the return of external governance
Qt 6.11 released
Update to Qt 6.11 to improve your app performance, render graphics with new techniques, connect easier, and take a new approach to asynchronous C++ coding.
GrapheneOS Foundation To Never Required ID or Other PII To Use GrapheneOS
GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account. GrapheneOS and our services will remain available internationally. If GrapheneOS devices can…
Open Source meets Outer Space
A 4-antenna SDR tile designed for arraying. Useful as a standalone SDR or as a building block for larger phased arrays.
New Forum Community.
A small community & creative hub for individuals sharing and collaborating with each other on their various projects.
Krita 5.3.0 and 6.0.0 Released
Today is the simultaneous release of Krita 5.3.0 and Krita 6.0.0! Depending which version of Qt and KDE Frameworks you build, the same source will result in one of the other. Both versions are almost functionally identi…
Gentoo Releases Experimental Images Using GNU/Hurd
Following an April Fools' Day tease of Gentoo claiming they were going to switch to GNU Hurd as their primary kernel moving forward, they have now acknowledged the joke but in fact also announcing there are now experime…
SnekStudio - Free, Open-source VTuber Softare in Godot!
SnekStudio is a free, open-source VTuber application written using the Godot engine!
SicMu Neo | F-Droid
Simple, full-featured, file-based music player
Proton getting big encourages centralization
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
[Android users] Felix Hollederer / QuickTiles · GitLab
Android Quick Settings Tiles
Hytale can now be pre-ordered
Embark on a journey of adventure and creativity! Hytale combines the scope of a sandbox with the depth of a roleplaying game, immersing players in a procedurally generated world where teetering towers and deep dungeons …
How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?
When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is a surprisingly hard problem and I want to talk about some of the issues we faced. …
Warum das Social-Media-Verbot für Teenager zum Albtraum wird
Es droht eine dystopische Überwachungsstruktur.
I created a guide/website that helps beginners discover and switch to privacy-focused tools
People increasingly want their voices heard and are taking action by choosing the companies they support.
Meta discontinues end-to-end encryption on Instagram
The company says the feature wasn't popular with users.
Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned
We’ve talked about the Australian social media ban that went into effect last week, how dumb it is, and why it’s already a mess. But late last week, some additional news broke that makes the whole …
Berlin: Police can secretly enter homes for state trojan installation
To collect data from IT systems, investigators in Berlin can secretly search suspects' rooms. This is in a Police Act amendment.
US Authorities Have Far-Reaching Access to European Cloud Data
An analysis for the Ministry of the Interior highlights the reach of US laws. According to it, data stored in the EU is also not secure.
LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash
LG's recent software update has forcibly installed Microsoft Copilot, an AI assistant, on smart TVs without removal options, sparking widespread user backlash over privacy, bloatware, and loss of control. This highlight…
FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
A lively discussion about open source, security, and who pays the bills has erupted on Twitter.
Texas sues TV makers for taking screenshots of what people watch
The Texas Attorney General sued five major television manufacturers, accusing them of illegally collecting their users' data by secretly recording what they watch using Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technology.
Is LineageOS for microG legit?
LineageOS for microG website.
A plan for a post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (a speech at 39C3 in Hamburg on Dec 28, 2025)
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off this setting
Your smart TV can do many great things, but this isn't one of them.
finally have a privacy respecting phone wireless provider
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Is DeleteMe.org real? Looks too good to not be a data stealing scam.
Your Personal Data is Yours Again.
HDMI Forum is unwilling to disclose the 2.1 specification for open-source (Linux): according to AMD, they had submitted a functional, HDMI …
Technically, the Steam Machine supports HDMI 2.1. However, Valve and AMD are not allowed to offer an open-source driver for it.
SmartTube's signature has been compromised, possible injected malicious library found by some users
Important Announcement Friends, it seems that my digital signature has been exposed. This signature protects the app from fake and malicious updates, so there is a risk that someone may try to rele...
BanjoRecomp: FOSS PC Port of Banjo-Kazooie made using N64: Recompiled
PC Port of Banjo-Kazooie made using N64: Recompiled (Windows/Linux/Mac) - BanjoRecomp/BanjoRecomp
"If You Know, You Know" - Fascist economic traps, petrodollar collapse, and the fight to wake up before it's too late.
A user-friendly Nostr client for exploring relay feeds
Sriracha imageboard and forum server now supports sending email notifications
Imageboard and forum server
I protect the right to protest safely | 🇬🇧
Stop the Government from banning face coverings at protests!
Blender 5.0 Released With Better Vulkan Support, HDR On Wayland
It's the Blender 5.0 release day! Blender 5.0 is a big step forward for this open-source 3D modeling software with better Vulkan viewport support across different GPUs/drivers, HDR support when using Vulkan and Wayland …
Samsung users, if you are on One UI 8 and plan to downgrade to One UI 7 to be able to unlock the bootloader, do not install November's secu…
It looks like Samsung has silently removed the option to unlock the bootloader from One UI 8.0 onwards as it has been reported by some users in the forum (here, here). By reversing the Settings app code we can take a de…
ublock lite is now on IOS, Should people switch to that instead of using Adguard or should they stick with Adguard?
This is a question that for some is easy to answer and for others may not be as
easy to answer. So all input could help other people find and make a more
knowledgeable choice and one that helps them towards their privac…
The Jeff Dean Facts
A consolidated list of the Jeff Dean Facts! Contribute to LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFacts development by creating an account on GitHub.
EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR
The EU Commission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the GDPR. noybs first overview of the proposed changes.
[ADVICE] How to contribute from home
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Summit for Lemmy
A mobile client for Lemmy. Contribute to idunnololz/summit-for-lemmy development by creating an account on GitHub.
NovaCustom launches privacy SHIFTphone (degoogled with iodéOS and hardware kill switches)
With the SHIFTphone 8.1 running iodéOS, you get a privacy-friendly phone without Google that is modular and sustainable.
Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm
People's sexual orientation, ethnicity, or political views could be exposed in proposed EU changes to the 'GDPR' digital-rights laws, civil society experts warn, after a leaked draft.