For 15 years, F-Droid has been the antidote to Google Play: no trackers, no ads, just open source apps. Now, Google wants to kill it.
Under the guise of "security", Google is forcing devs to register, pay, and surrender control. F-Droid can’t comply without betraying its principles. Thousands of apps could vanish overnight.
Fight back: demand sideloading rights, pressure regulators/Parliament, and defend one of the safe harbors for ethical tech.
https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
@admin @missanthropic I think there's a lot of reasoning inside a lot of context. A few points:
1- true email has been around a long time (and still used).
2- email suitable with different people (problem is people using it in different ways or new expectations at different costs)
3- different people are able to manage differently (tech skills makes a difference to liking / using things).
For example email spam just as bad as notifications or demanding to read / check even if it's all good emails...
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So I think it's all agreeable here inside different contexts of people themselves as well as protocol undoubtedly still being used (even if by machines mostly and humans for things like verification or backup way of contact).
@bobdobberson Studies show it's inefficient and I agree. I've gotta double-check all the logic to ensure it hasn't hallucinated some nonsense, and it's a lot easier (and less boring) to write my own code than to carefully decipher and analyze someone else's. No need to boil the oceans just to make my job more difficult...
@bobdobberson exactly. It cannot think, it cannot reason, it cannot understand the logic it is writing or what that logic will actually do.
#FreeSchool = #Notes #Quotes #Books #Videos #Talks #Websites #Fediverse towards #Freedom
#FreeSchool is a living personal collection of my gems and people's one-liner summary of works (short CW titles) and longer forms with hashtags and AltText access for pictures (when I remember).
Life should be a story of Love, Care for humans (and then Tech etc as part of that loop, not love for Tech only and just improving machines and not human minds)
A love story towards humans -
Not Capitalism's Love story (below is a great film documentary)
Capitalism - A Love Story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism_A_Love_Story
A lot to say but I believe mostly "we can solve most of it"... IF ONLY we start and that is by talking! / replying! Getting higher in our own personal understanding and more together is thought to be 'for the way'.
It's our human condition and position in life to suffer alone or together and we cannot be human and then expect not depend on others. That would be to deny our humanity.
Agree? But... Nobody wants to do the homework it seems, and this just feeds ignorance and business (buy and sell of people and things) while not working on understanding / bettering human communication ). Sso unless. you to people's posts or someone else's stuff it's going to get worse (in real life or online).
More extend here otherwise read after link for shorter version...
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/112186767286933459
TRUMP? If people spent a % of time talking to normal people instead of Trump types of hashtags - then we would work on solving things rather than just hating / spinning their shit and then saynig "I don't have time / I'm too busy".
A chat room can be set up - 3 clicks - safe in browser, no install, no account, instant!
#Jitsi = opensource. Ask me for how.
Someone who #Cares for people and planet, but wise enough to know business tricks. so it's about developing people into better humans of #habits and practices, not just developing Tech. We have everything we need to talk / solve things - you just need more humans in your workflow. The work is about better humans - so when you give them hammers they don't damage the place which what happens when you pay all these people and then complain about them on TV. No more #Hashtag #haters please - just a bit - and better yourself and others. Not your whole life incrementing THEIR STUFF🔁 . . . It's time for our stuff 🔁 whatever you like and love - just cooperate with more humans.
READ MORE IF YOU LIKE...
#FreeSchool towards ➡ Working Together 🔁
➡ Incrementing Peace ☮ & Trust even "slowly but surely"...
WHERE DO WE GO NOW TO WORK TOGETHER?
FEDIVERSE?
Intelligence for me now is measured now by those who can work together and communicate / chat versus those much less. Those that can help people individually develop and grow like me. Else we fail everyone. Ironically bad people do this better than the good, so we almost just have to copy them and self-check we're not bad along the way.
If not using others mutually then we are leaving them to the Capitalist system to eat up which is a LOSE:LOSE:LOSE (ME:YOU:EVERYONE).
RIGHT NOW... Helping Others using Fediverse could be MUCH easier if people were a bit more DEDICATED.
I'm defined today by my dreams. I try do RIGHT NOW or tomorrow for the children / adults as imagining it were for me.
Together we can measurably do things and talk towards solutions (I see as improving "communications" right now AS the actual solution)
We can solve individually the same-ish problems, and eventually more as a crowd like a crowd-funder (only less money involved, more intelligence). Snowballing the right things 🌨️ =☃️+ 🏂 / 🏦 🚫 = 📊 #FreeSchool
Audio conversations welcome, feel free to ask for chat link - just 3 clicks and in!.
I use simple chat for browsers using Jitsi (any device - no software install. A basic zoom-style clone, opensource. No google account etc. )
Privacy and Non-corporate minded.
#FreeSchool hashtag for my collected gems and alignments.
Let's chat soon. We need to care about we do daily and others to also care else we are isolated. No other way around it but talk...
Inspired by "Free School" movement in the 60's & 70's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_school
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#FreeSchool ➡ Working Together 🔁
➡ Incrementing Peace ☮ & Trust "slowly but surely"...