The #FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and #Android will be locked-down in under 200 days.

[kilgoretrout@fedi.idesmi.eu]

@zetabeta
My phone runs Android, my parents' too.
Google is going to prevent us from installing what we want on devices where we had been able to until now.
Devices that we bought and that will still be perfectly functioning 5 years from now.
Hence why this is a fight worth fighting.
@fdroidorg @marcprux

[fdroidorg@floss.social]

@TTFKA_Tay0 To be fair, they are not alternatives, they use the same code, and are at the mercy of Google when it comes to releasing such code. Otherwise, once installed, Lineage and other Android distributions can give the freedom back to their users to install what they want.

[rpla@masto.es]

@fdroidorg @marcprux
Si china puede hacer un clon de Android, ¿Acaso no puede hacerlo Europa?
¿Para cuando un Linux para dispositivos móviles?
¿hasta cuando seguiremos siendo vasallos de las multinacionales norteamericanas?
¿Para cuando nuestra delcaración de Soberania Digital?

¡Sin Soberania Digital no hay libertad, independencia ni democrácia!

[aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social]

@alandvalonline @fdroidorg

I also wish for this. Linux drivers for legacy phone hardware, a Chromebook level of simplicity for installing or running variant UX's, maybe from a removable card or USB stick... A secure OS like Tails... Siloed apps... I don't want corporate access to any data.
..

[jmjm@mstdn.social]

@fdroidorg @marcprux

unfortunately my country has crashed. Abort, retry, fail?

[apicultor@hachyderm.io]

@fdroidorg
Did you secure your build environment yet? Why must you re-sign everything instead of using signed artifacts from developers?

Until then, #Obtainium.

@marcprux

[fdroidorg@floss.social]

@apicultor Everything we do is transparent and public, eg. https://floss.social/@fdroidorg/116086537617519438

[fisk@little.tinypuppy.dog]

@fdroidorg @marcprux its a good thing actually as the main thing it affects is intimate partner violence stalking and really low hanging fruit malware. you can literally still sideload, you just cant distribute apks anonymously. you can still modify a phone to remove the restriction, just not without the owner noticing, which is the actual point. this is completely out of touch with the reality of the android malware ecosystem, the harm it causes and why they are actually doing this.

[fdroidorg@floss.social]

@apicultor If you have questions why not drop by and ask directly? https://f-droid.org/about/#contact Posts from 2021 and half-truths on forums won't give you the information you need.

[m8947@mastodon.social]

@nomadmisha @fdroidorg @marcprux @ubports
told'ya google are evil, zionists evil. resists!

[apicultor@hachyderm.io]

@fdroidorg
Have you addressed the points made by the creator of #Wireguard regarding the security of your build infra?

wireguard inclusion policy violation (auto-updates w/o explicit user consent) (#3110) · Issues · F-Droid / Data · GitLab

Per https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Inclusion_Policy/ The software must not download additional executable binary files (e.g. addons, auto-updates, etc.) without explicit user consent....

GitLab (gitlab.com)

Supply chain security is super-duper underrated. Thanks for the spotlight, Jia Tan!

[denizenn@mastodon.social]

@fdroidorg @marcprux Contacted the Department of Justice and the US Federal Trade Commission with a request of acknowledgement from both.

[simx72@defcon.social]

@fdroidorg @marcprux will this affect lineage phones? (or any other roms)

Directly or indirectly?

[nathanael@exquisite.social]

@fdroidorg @marcprux why is @GrapheneOS not listed? this feels a little bit like fearmongering

[juh@hostsharing.coop]

@marcprux @fdroidorg There ist no freedom in capitalism.

[lepinejpaul@mastodon.social]

@fdroidorg @marcprux : pour ma part, j'ai un fairphone 4 avec e/os installé, avec F-droid dedans depuis quelques années déjà et cette info ne me surprend nullement.

[apnoe_soeren@mastodon.social]

@fdroidorg @marcprux #e_mydata e/os is one of the aswers.

[dei@is.nota.live]

@techlore please make a video about it!

[celeduc@mastodon.social]

@IzzyOnDroid @fdroidorg @marcprux it is really surprising that the @EUCommission is okay with Google locking down our devices, digital sovereignty what-what?

[m2c_n3e@mastodon.xyz]

@Fynn @fdroidorg @marcprux Android has lost its appeal to me as a target for development. I also may order a Jolla Phone at home point, but I need to be sure that my banking apps work with it.