Notices by IzzyOnDroid ✅ (izzyondroid@floss.social)

@aral Ever seen the HTML produced by an MS Word export? Blood fountains from your eyes. I once cleaned up such a HTML, and the size of the resulting clean HTML was less than 20% of the original. They even used CSS classes, but then explicitly repeated their definitions every.single.time (like "<p class="foo"><font size…><font family…><b><i>blabber</i></b></font></font></p>", with "foo" of course having font size, family, italics, bold already).

But right, worse examples are no excuses…

@starlabssystems I must say seeing how you handled this makes me remember your name. Kudos! Should I ever need a device like this, I'll surely remember were to look first. Thanks for caring*!

*Unfortunately not a given these days, so happy seing your light shine bright there. @aral

EU-Vorschlag: Selbstverpflichtung statt Cookie-Banner
https://www.heise.de/news/EU-Vorschlag-Selbstverpflichtung-statt-Cookie-Banner-9584447.html

Also weil Betreiber es falsch umsetzen, verzichtet man lieber ganz darauf - und hofft auf freiwillige Transparenz? Wow. Wieviel hat die Lobby dafür gezahlt? 🤦♂️

@user_mastodon None. Apple/iOS questions are the domain of to @aral – I'm just the Android guy 😜

@ilumium How fitting: the @EU_Commission uses SurveilanceAds to promote its planned surveillance tool. This makes it even clearer what the real purpose of ChatControl is – and that the official arguments are nothing but "wrapping it to make it look nice". Despicable.

Ylva should have her chats controlled – and then step down. I don't see how else the commission can be salvaged; this shows the commission as it is now cannot be trusted.

Oh wow: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/STATEMENT_23_3674

No more enforced apps on your smartphone, no more lock-in to their services… That sounds nice! Now please, someone call the delivery service 🤩

#vendorLock #systemApps #softwareFreedom

@aral fuck walled gardens.
fuck intransparency.

(I'm currently adding "AntiFeature reasons" to F-Droid apps having AntiFeatures such as NonFreeNet to make clear why. Currently running: Batch 19. Next build cycle will lift the latest F-Droid client to "recommended"; that one is already available and able to display those reasons. I'd say "try it out", but it's Android and you're on iOS 😉)

@aral Reminds me of: "When a rich person tells you they earned their wealth by hard work, your first question should be: By whose hard work…"

@aral @adalanerd "Remember, remember // The days of…" Oof, is there any hope it might be due to the date? I mean, what is an April fool's joke without fools? I had my own "foolish moment" already today when Libera announced switching to Discord (to my defense, I didn't have my second coffee-of-the-day yet then which I immediately went for thereafter). @delta taking VC could definitely be something like that 🙈 So: 🙏 it's just that…

What a day! Two more apps got all their AntiFeatures stripped and are libre now. For one of them that means not only the return to my repo at a quarter of its size (85 MB => 24 MB for the "fat APK" with all ABIs), but also (spoiler) its going for the next goal and entering F-Droid soon™. Stay tuned!

#Android #foss #apps #FDroid

Today was a good day for me F/LOSS wise. Managed to get ~100 contributions up to OSM, convinced one dev to create a FOSS flavor of their app and put it live, convinced another one to apply proper F/LOSS licenses to all their libraries – and thanks to you, got my F-Droid repo a bit cleaner by removing some apps which were no longer working.

Together we can make the world a better place, little steps each day. Let's keep that up, shall we? :awesome:

@rysiek

* https://codeberg.org/izzy/Adebar
* https://codeberg.org/izzy/adbsync

Two tools for the price of one (err… FOSS, so 2 times 0 plus free and libre). Both work with your Android devices. Adebar creates a device documentation, backup scripts and more – while adbsync syncs directory pairs you define between Android and your (Linux) PC.

Open Source should not be restricted to a walled garden. When you appraise your app as being "open source", always consider making it available openly as well – and not just "available at Google Play".

Good options include of course #FDroid or, should your app not fully comply there, the #IzzySoftRepo – but the least you can do is tagging your releases and attach a signed release APK 😉

Oh, and of course make sure to declare a #foss license for it 😄

#Android #OpenSource #apps

Wow, cannot boost the same post twice ("already exists")? OK, then a reminder to put in your vote ☝️ Poll ends in 1.5 days…

@aral I use compose keys for that on Linux, where it's much easier to connect what you want with what to type: hit the compose-key (for me it's the right WIN key) followed by a dot (…), ^1 for ¹, (1) for ① (Ⓐ etc alike), typo quotes with ," „ or <"/>" “”, and so on. Need that on Win? Well, there's WinCompose, same key combos (plus a graphical lookup screen and a bunch of additions). Looup on Linux: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose