<p>Keep Android Open!</p><p><a href="https://keepandroidopen.org" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>keepandroidopen.org</a></p><p><a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#android</a> <a href="/tags/keepandroidopen/" rel="tag">#keepandroidopen</a> <a href="/tags/google/" rel="tag">#google</a></p>
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<p>Keep Android Open!<a href="https://youtu.be/5MZfGq5F1NU" rel="nofollow">youtu.be/5MZfGq5F1NU</a><a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#Android</a> <a href="/tags/google/" rel="tag">#Google</a> <a href="/tags/campaign/" rel="tag">#Campaign</a> <a href="/tags/petition/" rel="tag">#Petition</a> <br><br><a href="https://youtu.be/5MZfGq5F1NU" rel="nofollow">Google Is Closing Android. 37 ...</a></p>
<p>🔍 Still lost after our first article about Murena Maps?<br> <br>We collected your questions, shared them with our passionate dev team - and now we’re ready to share the answers.<br> <br>Read the centralized Q&A article about Murena Maps:<br>👉 <a href="https://murena.com/murena-maps-your-questions-and-answers/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="murena.com/murena-maps-your-questions-and-answers/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">murena.com/murena-maps-your-qu</span><span class="invisible">estions-and-answers/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#Android</a></p>
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<p>I hope the F-Stop Gallery app for Android gets updated with WebP and JPEG XL support.</p><p>For now, I switched to Fossify Gallery.</p><p><a href="https://www.fossify.org/apps/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.fossify.org/apps/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#Android</a> <a href="/tags/webp/" rel="tag">#WebP</a> <a href="/tags/jpegxl/" rel="tag">#JPEGXL</a></p>
<p>I've started running my own Luanti/Voxelibre server on a Raspberry Pi. I can join the server from my laptop, but after walking around, alas, there are no other players. I'm considering making it publicly accessible, so more players can join. <br>**Dear <span class="h-card"><a href="https://autistics.life/@ActuallyAutistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a></span> people in North America, would you be interested in joining a casual game of <a href="/tags/minecraft/" rel="tag">#Minecraft</a>** (but it's <a href="/tags/luanti/" rel="tag">#Luanti</a>/#Voxelibre; is very similar, and it's free/<a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a>, and runs even on low-spec hardware)? Note: the server is in Canada, it's in <a href="/tags/northamerica/" rel="tag">#NorthAmerica</a> where you'll get low-enough latency.<br>The server would be themed to be geared to those with an actual diagnosis of <a href="/tags/autism/" rel="tag">#Autism</a> (or you're confident you have it, but it's not formally diagnosed). <a href="/tags/audhd/" rel="tag">#AuDHD</a> and <a href="/tags/adhd/" rel="tag">#ADHD</a> people are also welcome!!<br>I promise I won't track you in any way! No ads, no spam, no viruses, no nothing like that.<br><a href="/tags/gaming/" rel="tag">#gaming</a> <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#Android</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> <a href="/tags/windows/" rel="tag">#Windows</a> <a href="/tags/macos/" rel="tag">#MacOS</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/elbowsup/" rel="tag">#ElbowsUp</a></p>
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<p>⋅ Android : l'Europe s'attaque au système secret de Google qui contrôle vos applications et veut une alternative open source</p><p>Sur Android, c'est Google qui décide si votre appli bancaire a le droit de fonctionner. Un consortium européen compte bien mettre fin à ce monopole invisible avec un projet libre baptisé UnifiedAttestation.</p><p>− <a href="https://www.clubic.com/actualite-603925-android-l-europe-s-attaque-au-systeme-secret-de-google-qui-controle-vos-applications-et-veut-une-alternative-open-source.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.clubic.com/actualite-603925-android-l-europe-s-attaque-au-systeme-secret-de-google-qui-controle-vos-applications-et-veut-une-alternative-open-source.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.clubic.com/actualite-60392</span><span class="invisible">5-android-l-europe-s-attaque-au-systeme-secret-de-google-qui-controle-vos-applications-et-veut-une-alternative-open-source.html</span></a></p><p><img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/mamot.fr/opensource.png" class="emoji" alt=":opensource:" title=":opensource:"> </p><p><a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#Android</a> <a href="/tags/google/" rel="tag">#Google</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a></p>
<p>Oh well... <a href="/tags/santander/" rel="tag">#Santander</a> started charging a monthly account fee on my "free business banking for life" bank account, so I'm switching to another bank. <a href="/tags/revolut/" rel="tag">#Revolut</a> looked interesting, offered £100 credit for opening a business account for them. They fell at the first hurdle - in order to open an account with them you need to install an <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#Android</a> app which refuses to run on a <a href="/tags/rooted/" rel="tag">#rooted</a> phone. Time to find a different bank then.</p>
<p>Junkyard Computing: Repurposing Discarded Smartphones to Minimize Carbon <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/edbvsd" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>lobste.rs/s/edbvsd</a> <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#android</a> <a href="/tags/distributed/" rel="tag">#distributed</a><br><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06870" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>arxiv.org/abs/2110.06870</a></p>
<p>didn’t i tell you Google is using the <a href="/tags/sideloading/" rel="tag">#sideloading</a> ban to side-step labor issues? it’s actually worse:</p><p>google wants to <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#aislop</a> and monopolize all <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#android</a> apps.</p><p>so, not only don't they want to deal with developers as contract workers on their appstore ―that’s the whole point of forcing ID, to shoo away the vast majority of developers who aren’t incorporated as businesses. they now want to wipeout said developers and own all the apps.<br> <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/932364/google-ai-studio-native-android-apps-vibe-code-google-io-2026" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theverge.com/tech/932364/google-ai-studio-native-android-apps-vibe-code-google-io-2026"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theverge.com/tech/932364/g</span><span class="invisible">oogle-ai-studio-native-android-apps-vibe-code-google-io-2026</span></a></p><p>previously<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116562329969327882" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116562329969327882"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@blogdiva/1165</span><span class="invisible">62329969327882</span></a></p>
All I'm saying is that wireless <a href="/tags/androidauto/" rel="tag">#AndroidAuto</a> works on <a href="/tags/grapheneos/" rel="tag">#GrapheneOS</a> now. Fuck ya.<br><br><a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#Android</a><br>
<p>I moved my <a href="/tags/bluesky/" rel="tag">#bluesky</a> account successfully to <a href="/tags/leafplaza/" rel="tag">#leafplaza</a>, a European derivative on <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> servers.</p><p>I did the movement not by myself, because my BS-Account was too huge (30 GB+), so the wonderful Leaf Plaza-Support helped me and did the movement overnight manually.</p><p>The Leaf Plaza App for <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#android</a> and <a href="/tags/ios/" rel="tag">#ios</a> is available for free in the app stores. There will be an <a href="/tags/ipad/" rel="tag">#ipad</a> version in the future too.</p><p>What's missing is a web front-end, but it will happen in the near future ...</p><p><a href="https://www.leafplaza.eu/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.leafplaza.eu/</a></p>
Android's developer verification policy will increase the popularity of web apps aka PWAs by a mile<br><br><a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#android</a> <a href="/tags/keepandroidopen/" rel="tag">#keepandroidopen</a> <a href="/tags/webapps/" rel="tag">#webapps</a> <a href="/tags/aosp/" rel="tag">#aosp</a><br>
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<p><a href="/tags/holos/" rel="tag">#Holos</a> 1.5.6 is available.</p><p>This release focuses on UI polish. On <a href="/tags/ios/" rel="tag">#iOS</a>, the pull to refresh spinner is now visible in timelines, and compose menus no longer render behind the modal. On <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#Android</a>, the emoji picker stays above the keyboard.</p><p>It also fixes posts not showing up on the web while online.</p><p>Release notes: <a href="https://codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-App/releases/tag/1.5.6" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-App/releases/tag/1.5.6"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-App/r</span><span class="invisible">eleases/tag/1.5.6</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/holossocial/" rel="tag">#HolosSocial</a></p>
<p>It's not suspicious at all that <a href="/tags/gmail/" rel="tag">#Gmail</a> is marking as spam the notifications people were sent about a class action settlement for which <a href="/tags/google/" rel="tag">#Google</a> is the defendant and liable to pay out proceeds.<br>One would have thought the plaintiffs' lawyers would have included as a condition of the settlement Google's obligation to ensure that the email notifications did not get marked as spam.<br><a href="/tags/psa/" rel="tag">#PSA</a> If you're a US <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#Android</a> user and you didn't get a notice a few weeks ago, check your Gmail spam folder.<br><a href="/tags/classaction/" rel="tag">#classAction</a></p>
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<p>Sono molto preoccupata per questa svolta orribile di Android.</p><p>Uso app della banca e CIE (per molti servizi della PA) che secondo me non funzioneranno mai in un telefono degoogolato.</p><p>Ho un fairphone 3, quindi cambiare sistema non sarebbe un problema, ma non sono informatica e neanche smanettona, per cui ho paura che se cambio e ho problemi poi sono nella 💩.</p><p>Ci penso da tempo ma non trovo una soluzione.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lproven</span></a></span> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven/116488584764122271" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="social.vivaldi.net/@lproven/116488584764122271"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">social.vivaldi.net/@lproven/11</span><span class="invisible">6488584764122271</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/mastoaiuto/" rel="tag">#mastoaiuto</a> <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#android</a> <a href="/tags/google/" rel="tag">#google</a></p>
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<p>Android VPN IP Leak Even If Always-On VPN Enabled <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/31gbt3" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>lobste.rs/s/31gbt3</a> <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#android</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a><br><a href="https://lowlevel.fun/posts/tiny-udp-cannon-android-vpn-bypass/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lowlevel.fun/posts/tiny-udp-cannon-android-vpn-bypass/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lowlevel.fun/posts/tiny-udp-ca</span><span class="invisible">nnon-android-vpn-bypass/</span></a></p>
<p>sounds like the web is about to get a lot more annoying to use for <a href="/tags/grapheneos/" rel="tag">#grapheneos</a> users and others using <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#android</a> devices with """compromised integrity""", people without smartphones, people using smartphones with other operating systems, etc.: <a href="https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/16609652" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/16609652"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">support.google.com/recaptcha/a</span><span class="invisible">nswer/16609652</span></a></p><p>google's new "mobile reCAPTCHA verification" will require you to scan a QR code from either an iOS device with the reCAPTCHA app or an android device with up-to-date google play services.</p><p>EDIT: this is part of <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-the-next-evolution-of-recaptcha/" rel="nofollow">google's new "fraud defense" system</a>, and is (seemingly) intended to be used for more "important" things like purchases rather than just e.g. comment sections. however, there's nothing stopping site owners from using this thing everywhere</p>
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<p>duh.</p><p>“Meta and Google get data from the app your boss uses to track you <a href="https://www.theverge.com/policy/935299/bossware-employer-surveillance" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theverge.com/policy/935299/bossware-employer-surveillance"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theverge.com/policy/935299</span><span class="invisible">/bossware-employer-surveillance</span></a></p><p>if the app is from the Google app store, Google uses it to track you.</p><p>if the app has a Google or Facebook login, Meta & Google use it to track you.</p><p>if the app is on an <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#android</a> <a href="/tags/tmobile/" rel="tag">#TMobile</a> phone purchased in USA or Canada, Meta, Google and Amazon use it to track you.</p><p>that’s why Google wants to kill <a href="/tags/sideloading/" rel="tag">#sideloading</a>. they want to monopolize <a href="/tags/stalkerware/" rel="tag">#stalkerware</a></p>
<p>RE: <a href="https://indieweb.social/@permafriday/116561082682363965" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="indieweb.social/@permafriday/116561082682363965"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">indieweb.social/@permafriday/1</span><span class="invisible">16561082682363965</span></a></p><p>THIS IS A LABOR ISSUE</p><p>now that Google doesn't have to pretend <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#android</a> is not the <a href="/tags/backdoor/" rel="tag">#backdoor</a> <a href="/tags/surveillance/" rel="tag">#surveillance</a> system Snowden warned us about, it has a problem:</p><p>app developers.</p><p>the app store was always a honeypot for free <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a>. without <a href="/tags/apps/" rel="tag">#apps</a> there is no android. so Google has to rein in app devs, if they don't want their <a href="/tags/spyware/" rel="tag">#spyware</a> broken. </p><p>but if you give up your encryption keys, the app isn't yours. this isn’t about <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a>. </p><p>Google wants app devs to be employees without labor rights.</p>
CoMaps ou OsmAnd ? Simplicité ou puissance ? <br><br>J'ai tranché après 3h de route. Mon comparatif pour ceux qui veulent passer à la cartographie libre :<br><a href="https://co-science.fr/posts/comaps-vs-osmand/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="co-science.fr/posts/comaps-vs-osmand/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">co-science.fr/posts/comaps-vs-</span><span class="invisible">osmand/</span></a><br><br><a href="/tags/osm/" rel="tag">#OSM</a> <a href="/tags/openstreetmap/" rel="tag">#OpenStreetMap</a> <a href="/tags/comaps/" rel="tag">#CoMaps</a> <a href="/tags/osmand/" rel="tag">#OsmAnd</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a> <a href="/tags/libre/" rel="tag">#Libre</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#Privacy</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosted/" rel="tag">#SelfHosted</a> <a href="/tags/degoogle/" rel="tag">#DeGoogle</a> <a href="/tags/navigation/" rel="tag">#Navigation</a> <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#Android</a> <a href="/tags/gps/" rel="tag">#GPS</a>
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<p>The iPhone 17 Pro Max battery life is quite good.<br>Unplugged at 7, used for some hours, it’s still at 83% (at 22:35)</p><p>Impressive. The Pixel 9 Pro XL doesn’t even come close to that.</p><p><a href="/tags/iphone/" rel="tag">#iphone</a> <a href="/tags/ios/" rel="tag">#ios</a> <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#android</a> <a href="/tags/pixel/" rel="tag">#pixel</a></p>
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<p>A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10: When a Door Closes, a Window Opens via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://refi64.social/@refi64" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>refi64</span></a></span> <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/l9uweb" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>lobste.rs/s/l9uweb</a> <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#android</a> <a href="/tags/security/" rel="tag">#security</a><br><a href="https://projectzero.google/2026/05/pixel-10-exploit.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="projectzero.google/2026/05/pixel-10-exploit.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">projectzero.google/2026/05/pix</span><span class="invisible">el-10-exploit.html</span></a></p>
<p>Can any <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#Android</a> folk aid in this? See whole thread <span class="h-card"><a href="https://beige.party/@PixysJourney" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>PixysJourney</span></a></span> <a href="https://beige.party/@PixysJourney/116735691929644046" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="beige.party/@PixysJourney/116735691929644046"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">beige.party/@PixysJourney/1167</span><span class="invisible">35691929644046</span></a></p>
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<p>I would like to reiterate, for the millionth time, that <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#Android</a> used to have a perfect, middle-of-the-road, best-of-both-worlds gesture navigation system, but they removed it and replaced it with a crappy copy of iOS'. 😭</p><p><a href="https://rldane.space/gesture-navigation-is-lame.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="rldane.space/gesture-navigation-is-lame.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rldane.space/gesture-navigatio</span><span class="invisible">n-is-lame.html</span></a></p>
<p>I still have one excuse: No <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#Android</a>. 😝</p>