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  • stravanasu@lemmy.ca
    10·
    23 hours ago

    I hope these evil arsehole moves will span new mobile-phone companies who see the economic benefit of taking side with the users. A little like it happened with Framework and laptops.

    My mobile is dying; when it’s dead it’ll be GrapheneOS – and fuck you Google.

  • cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de
    20·
    1 day ago

    This is pretty serious, the EU might be our only hope here. I’m also following the development of Linux for phones, but that is still very much in its infancy.

    • Damage@feddit.it
      12·
      1 day ago

      Americans can’t keep letting their corporations run amok, especially when attempts at regulation from the EU are now seen as hostile acts in the White House (well, more than before).
      The EU can’t be the only one standing up to this foul behaviour.

      • starblursd@lemmy.mlEnglish
        8·
        24 hours ago

        Unfortunately our corporations run our government so good luck. Any attempt to fight back by the EU will be met with them threatening to stop selling them phones or tariffs or other forms of stupidity. I hate this timeline

  • commander@lemmy.world
    14·
    1 day ago

    F-Droid is different. It distributes apps that have been validated to work for the user’s interests, rather than for the interests of the app’s distributors. The way F-Droid works is simple: when a developer creates an app and hosts the source code publicly somewhere, the F-Droid team reviews it, inspecting it to ensure that it is completely open source and contains no undocumented anti-features such as advertisements or trackers. Once it passes inspection, the F-Droid build service compiles and packages the app to make it ready for distribution. The package is then signed either with F-Droid’s cryptographic key, or, if the build is reproducible, enables distribution using the original developer’s private key. In this way, users can trust that any app distributed through F-Droid is the one that was built from the specified source code and has not been tampered with.

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    If it were to be put into effect, the developer registration decree will end the F-Droid project and other free/open-source app distribution sources as we know them today, and the world will be deprived of the safety and security of the catalog of thousands of apps that can be trusted and verified by any and all.