I really don’t like how the “protect the children” excuse every neo fascist government is touting to sell their wet dreams of tracking everyone 24/7, still gets debated like it has any validity. Kudos to Japan for having seemingly working child protection laws, but this just doesn’t have any relevance to the surveillance machine that’s currently being built around us. It’s coming even if every child disappeared today. I’d rather see more active discussions around what the next steps are, alternatives to the current web and guides how to set them up for example.

https://f-droid.org/packages/dummydomain.yetanothercallblocker/

Local blacklist with wildcard support

What are you on about? If they get 95% of the population with this it’s still a huge win for them.

“I had expected there would be much more of a watchful expectancy of the results of the Australian ban before governments would be jumping in quite as quickly,” she told DW. “We don’t know what the effects of the ban are going to be and we need to evaluate this carefully. Governments need to be careful to avoid thinking that social media bans are a silver bullet to this problem.”

Almost as if there are ulterior motives…

They responded to it when it first came up 4 months ago. I’ll paste my appropriate comment from that time.

The f-droid team spoke to that in a recent post. The post basically said that if that change isn’t stopped on a government level there’s no way for them to continue working. They didn’t mention roms.

Edit for the link: https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

I’m not worried. Either it’ll only affect their dedicated servers. Or it’ll be integrated into mastodon itself and then quickly forked.

Beiträge zur gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung sind de facto Steuern. Ich muss sie zahlen und bemessen sich an meinen Einnahmen.

And stop going to the doctor when you’re sick. That’s not what the taxes are for.

Thanks for the help and advice. What was the issue with your meshtastic experiment? If it’s location granularity that’s something I might be prepared to deal with.

My privacy expectations are as follows:

• No account needed with any major tech monopoly
• No app where any data other than tag location is transmitted through the internet. Ideally the data transmission would have e2ee.

Thanks for the explanation and advice. I’ll get a beeper while I’ll get into meshtastic and can get tracking working that way.

I was looking for a reason to get into meshtastic anyway, so it seems like what would fit me best. Thanks

Don’t rejoice just yet. The AfD nazis are at 24% and center greens at 12% and lefts 10%. So overall, there are still about twice as many right wing conservative nut job voters than progressives.

You have no idea dude. The general populace, especially tired parents have no clue. Most of the parents I talk to are in favor of this. One less parenting resonsability for them. And to them their data is already available to everyone everywhere so it makes no real difference in their mind. It’s infuriatingly mindboggling.

Dude, the answer is literally on the corresponding wikipedia page.

GrapheneOS currently is only compatible with Google Pixel devices,[23] due to specific requirements that GrapheneOS has for adding support for a new device, including an unlockable bootloader and proper implementation of verified boot.[24][25] In October 2025, GrapheneOS said that it was working with a “major” Android OEM on future devices that would support the OS on Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms,[26][27] and that they will be the flagship devices, expected to appear in Q4 2026 or Q1 2027.

Yeah, it sounds good until…

Nope

The plan also includes sharing of mail addresses and phone numbers you communicated with in the last 5 years. Everybody has that.

The whole world is looking down the barrel of a gun who just shot a bullet at them. Instead of ducking so that it only grazes an arm, our governments are trying to headbutt it.

My mom always told me, if one kid doesn’t want to play with me he might be a dick. If no one wants to play with me I might be a dick. I’m paraphrasing obviously.

I’ve been using their service for a long time now and have been happy. Their GUI client is ok, but they also have a CLI client which I appreciate for automating stuff. I’m however paranoid and don’t upload files as is. Everything is backed up to an encrypted virtual drive which I upload as one giant file.

The package also seeks to simplify cookie consent and update GDPR to allow firms such as Google, Meta and OpenAI to use some personal data for AI training under new safeguards.

WTF…