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
@EricLawton finding a way to fund the free press is one of the pressing issues of our time
OpenZL https://openzl.org/ looks like baby steps towards a generic "compress data into code that generates the data" system.
The year is 2025
There are five browser cores:
- webkit
- chromium
- gecko
- servo
- youtube-dl, which ended up implementing a full-fledged browser in python to keep successfully downloading videos
"The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns
When the bubble bursts, reality will hit far harder than anyone expects"
https://www.techspot.com/news/109626-ai-bubble-only-thing-keeping-us-economy-together.html
Some of us have been warning of this all year, but no doubt when it hits "no one could have seen it coming" will be the refrain.
This isn't going to be contained to the US, this is bad for the entire world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTcHzxLmJHc
UN: Opportunities to support starving people are systematically blocked... every week new restrictions are imposed... for example, some food items such as Peanut Butter which has been designated as "luxuries" that are not allowed in, leaving a large amount of procured aid outside Gaza:
https://youtu.be/1uZewxii2FU?si=_br9nOFRmxUgYdqX&t=240
I think the first inkling was probably when I was about 6 years old and saw The Sound of Music for the first time.
