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Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB, Affecting Shizuku, libadb and Developers: Changes proposed for ADB could kill an entire ecosystem of open-source power-user apps, mobile developer setups, and rootless privacy tools based on Shizuku.
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📱 でアプリアイコン変更できるようになってたからとりあえず変更してみた
Fucking "app culture" drives me crazy. I got asked to install a mobile app just to look at the itinerary and accommodation information for a trip I'm going on.
Why isn't it just a web page?
So obviously I said "fuck that noise, hold my beer", reverse-engineered the app, and re-implemented it as a web page generator. It does all the same things as the "app" except now there's no tracking, no ads, and you get all the Web's features "for free" (deep links, copy-pasting, search-in-page, printing, works on anything, etc.).
Here's the full story:
🔗 danq.me/your-app-could-have-be…
#appCulture #app #android #web #webPage #openStandards #reverseEngineering
Your ‘App’ Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you…)
I was asked to install a mobile app to get access to the itinerary of a trip to Disneyland I'm taking with the kids.Dan Q
CalyxOS is back
lwn.net/Articles/1081038/ #LWN #Linux #Android
CalyxOS is back
In August 2025, the CalyxOS privacy-focused Android distribution announced that it was pausing [...]LWN.net
More than 200k users said NO!
More than 70 organisations signed a letter saying NO!
#FDroid wrote posts on why NOT!
We've talked with you and your representatives, around the world.
We've made the #KeepAndroidOpen website to explain it.
If you read the #Android tech news, you saw it.
If you use a search engine, you found it.
If you've asked their own #Gemini, you got the summary.
But who didn't see, hear or read anything from above? Yes, #Google
For your saftety? f-droid.org/2026/07/01/adv-mal…
What We Talk About When We Talk About Malware | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
If you are running Android 8 or higher, a virus has been installed on your device and is silently awaiting remote activation. Over the past few months, devic...f-droid.org
We at @Vivaldi are different from most other companies. We are a Icelandic-Norwegian company. We host our servers in Iceland. We have no external investors.
I am lucky enough to work with some really wonderful people, including @brucelawson who has made this video that I hope you enjoy!
#Vivaldi #Technology #Windows #Macos #Linux #Android #IOS #Browser
youtube.com/watch?v=1r9eJv2J7W…
In Vivaldi!
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.Bruce Lawson (YouTube)
看看手机能不能用北斗导航
1. 下载并安装GPStest
github.com/barbeau/gpstest/rel…
2. 打开GPStest，授予定位权限
3. 把手机拿到室外看看测试结果
> 卫星号如果只有1~16，表示仅支持北斗二代，有16~37表示部分支持北斗三代，有37~63表示完全支持北斗三代。
@Pawlicker About "reply gating": This, or something similar, has been a standard feature at least on Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte from the get-go, i.e. from their respective creation on. Hubzilla has had it since 2012. All three rely heavily on permissions for anything and everything. They can make themselves and each other hide the reply button. When someone wants to comment from Mastodon or something else that doesn't understand these permissions, these three simply reject unpermitted comments before they even reach the inbox.
On Hubzilla, the channel-wide permission to comment also includes a permission to like or dislike something. I can generally allow
- only myself
- only certain contacts
- only my contacts
- only my contacts plus those with an unapproved contact request
- anyone on the same Hubzilla hub as me
- anyone on Hubzilla (strangely, this does exclude (streams) channels)
- anyone in the Fediverse
- anyone anywhere on the Web, even without a Fediverse account
to comment on my posts.
In addition, I can turn comments on and off for specific posts. Mind you, if it's a reply, it isn't a post, it's a comment, and I've got no control over it.
On (streams) and Forte, the channel-wide permission to comment is uncoupled from the permission to like or dislike. The channel-wide options are
- only myself plus certain contacts
- only my contacts
- anyone in the Fediverse
- anyone anywhere on the Web, even without a Fediverse account
On top of that, I can generally allow comments only for a certain number of days.
Again, I can turn comments on and off for specific posts. But I can also only allow my contacts to comment on specific posts, and I can define until when comments are allowed on specific posts.
In all three cases, I can even choose to preview technically unpermitted comments and then decide whether I allow or reject them, one by one.
In other words, where I am (I'm commenting from Hubzilla), this not only has been available for longer than Mastodon has even existed, but it's deeply engrained into the culture.
About "quote gating": Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte have all always (in Friendica's case, since 2010) had both actual quotes like on bulletin-board forums (remember the 2000s when forums were all the rage?) and Twitter-quote-tweet-style quote-posts (which literally were the only way for them to share content before they adopted Twitter-retweet-style forwarding).
The former obviously only works in comments. Whether or not it's allowed is defined by whether or not comments are allowed.
The latter doesn't have any permission setting, not even on Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte with the most advanced permissions systems in the whole Fediverse. That's because their inventor says that it's technologically impossible to keep people from forwarding or sharing your content in separate posts.
If you disallow actual quote-posts, people can still copy-paste the content of your post into a new post. Unlike when you're actually being quote-posted, you won't even notice unless they mention you. Mind you, while an estimated 60% of all Mastodon users are on iPhones, and another estimated 39% are on Android phones, 100% of all Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte users are on desktop or laptop computers where copy-paste is easy-peasy. It's pretty much impossible to disallow copy-paste, and even if it was, people would resort to screenshots.
You don't want people to quote-post your stuff? Then don't make it public. Once it's public, it's out there, and anyone can do with it whatever they please.
Nobody really misses an actual permission for quote-posts. That's also because Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte aren't primarily a home for Twitter refugees. In fact, neither of them can even understand the ruckus about quote-posts on Mastodon, and neither can Friendica users. Hardly any of them have been on Twitter at any point in the 2020s. There's no influence of Twitter culture anywhere to be found.
The typical path into Hubzilla is not Twitter > Musk buys Twitter > Mastodon > Hubzilla. Not even Twitter > Musk buys Twitter > Mastodon > Friendica > Hubzilla. It's Facebook > diaspora* > Friendica > Hubzilla. Or Facebook > Google+ > diaspora* > Friendica > Hubzilla. The typical path into (streams) is the same, but one step further beyond Hubzilla. The typical path into Forte is the same as into (streams), but another step further beyond (streams).
About the iPhone: Whether or not the iPhone is a status symbol depends on where you are.
In the USA, the iPhone is the Levi's jeans of phones. It's the Ford F-150 of phones. The allegedly all-American American phone. Most importantly, it's what everyone has.
Over here in Germany, the iPhone is the higher-class Mercedes-Benz of phones. The iPhone 15 Pro is the 2026 Mercedes-Benz-AMG E 53 of phones. The iPhone 15 Pro Max is the 2026 Mercedes-Benz-AMG S 63 E Performance of phones, slammed suspensions, standing on polished 22" Lexani wheels, muffler cut-outs always open. In American terms, it's the 2026 Cadillac Escalade-V of phones, gold-foiled, with air-ride, standing on gold-plated 26" Bellagio spinnaz. The phone made for peacocking in rap music video clips. It's the Rolex of phones. For women, it's the genuine Prada or Fendi or Louis Vuitton handbag of phones.
Well, and then there's the iPhone 4S with the cracked screen. It's the 1995 Mercedes-Benz E-Class of phones. Old, worn out, four-banger engine, often rusty as hell, may have been stolen at some point, but it's cheap. And most importantly, it's still a Benz, and it's a real Benz as opposed to "Baby Benz" C-Class and smaller. The Benz for those who need a Benz to show their folks how much of a winner they are, but who can't really afford one.
Over here, the Samsung Galaxy S is the VW Golf of phones. The Americans' Ford F-150 of phones. It's what everyone has. It's the no-brainer that you buy when you don't know what to buy, so you buy what everyone buys. Still, it's expensive for what it does. But all the other brands are akin to "cheap imports" from, what, France or Italy or Japan or Korea or Romania.
The choice of the hardcore nerds in the homeland of Chaos Computer Club and Chaos Communication Congress is never something that can only run stock Android. It's an iPhone even less. They rather buy a Google Pixel, and the first thing they do is root it immediately and install GrapheneOS. Or if they refuse to buy something from Google and/or run a Google OS (de-Googled or not), they acquire a Sony Experia, root it and install SailfishOS. Or they go straight for a Fairphone or even the new Jolla Phone or something like that. I'm pretty sure many want a true successor to the Nokia N900.
If Google locks Android down, these nerds won't flock to Apple. Some may switch to SailfishOS which, on officially supported phones, has the Aliendalvik compatibility layer for Android apps, but only with F-Droid and neither with the Google Play Store proper nor with Micro-G. Many more will go entirely elsewhere like PostmarketOS or PureOS, also seeing as SailfishOS is payware that's half proprietary and closed-source. Or they'll forgo mobile phones entirely or keep old phones alive for as long as they can.
About iOS apps: I guess the notion that the Fediverse equals Mastodon, something that the majorty of Mastodon users believe, is particularly wide-spread among iPhone users. And if it isn't only Mastodon, it doesn't extend beyond Mastodon, Pixelfed and PeerTube. Excluding Pixelfed and PeerTube, if Mastodon can't do it, the Fediverse as a whole can't. I mean, on top of the fact that apps made for Mastodon generally only support Mastodon features because the Mastodon Client API only supports Mastodon features, and the Mastodon Client API is all that these apps understand.
It's particularly bad for Friendica users. If they're on Android, they may opt for a Mastodon app. There are several Android apps for Mastodon that have been reported to work with Friendica. Or they may want to try one of the dedicated Friendica apps which are at various levels of unfinished. Or they may choose the middle-ground and use Fedilab.
But if they're on an iPhone, they'll discover that literally not even a single Mastodon iOS app works with Friendica. There is no Fedilab. And the iOS version of RaccoonForFriendica requires Test Flight, and it's probably even more incomplete than the Android version.
In general, iPhone apps are rarely developed for the same reasons as Android apps. Most Android Fediverse apps are open-source and under a free license, and they're also or exclusively available on F-Droid. They're developed by FLOSS enthusiasts/idealists. However, these people don't develop for iOS. That's because the Apple App Store is inherently hostile towards free software, and it's completely incompatible with all versions of the GNU General Public License.
Also, as you've already pointed out, you absolutely need a Mac to develop iOS apps. But if someone releases FLOSS apps on F-Droid, you can bet they're running GNU/Linux at home (more often Arch or a derivative than you may think), and they won't touch any corporate-made, closed-source OS with a 10-foot barge pole. They may even steer clear of anything where Novell, Red Hat or Canonical is involved.
With hobbyist FLOSS enthusiasts out of the way of developing iPhone apps, this is only ever done by those who do it for money. Or fame and social status (same reason why they always have a fairly new iPhone). Or both. But then they discovered that the Fediverse, to them at least, is a hive of radical leftist tech nerds whom you can't impress with expensive bling-bling from big American gigacorps. They failed to gather the umpteen thousand followers they wanted. So they left for greener pastures: Bluesky. Or they even went back to their hundreds of thousands of followers on 𝕏. Doing so, they also abandoned their iPhone app development.
By the way, none of this affects Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte. For starters, just like Friendica, all four can be installed as Progressive Web Apps. However, at least in the case of these three, there is no alternative to the Web interface whatsoever. There's an old Android app for Hubzilla named Nomad, but it's only available on F-Droid, it hasn't been worked on since December, 2019, it only runs on older Android versions and Aliendalvik, and it's only a wrapper for the Web interface anyway. For (streams) and Forte, there's zilch.
There has been some talk about developing a native mobile Hubzilla app. It's kind of difficult, though. Generally, Hubzilla users use Hubzilla on desktop OS's. They can't imagine people daily-driving phones as their main or only end-user devices, so they think that a Hubzilla app only needs the features one would need when out and about because everyone will go back to their desktop or laptop computers anyway when they're back home.
In reality, many users of the Hubzilla app will only use that app. They won't use Hubzilla's Web interface in a browser. They won't use it on a desktop or laptop computer either, usually because they simply don't have one. They'll resort to that app for everything. In fact, they'll perceive Hubzilla as a phone app rather than a Fediverse server application. This means that a Hubzilla mobile app will inevitably have to cover all of Hubzilla's features except those that really don't make sense in a phone app (e.g. the PDL editor). But a fully-featured Hubzilla app would be so complex, it'd make infamous K-9 Mail pale in comparison.
Licensing is the least problem here. Hubzilla and Forte are released under the MIT license, (streams) was released into the public domain. So I guess putting an app for either of them under the MIT license would be an option, one that's fairly compatible with the Apple App Store even. It's just that this app would be bound to be an absolute monster.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #QuotePost #QuotePosts #QuoteTweet #QuoteTweets #QuoteToot #QuoteToots #QuoteBoost #QuoteBoosts #QuotedShares #QuotePostDebate #QuoteTootDebate #ReplyControl #Permissions #MastodonApp #MastodonApps #FediverseApp #FediverseApps #iOS #iOSApp #iOSApps #iPhone #iPhoneApp #iPhoneApps #Android #AndroidApp #AndroidApps
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> You might also wanna take a look at Google's new changes to their reCaptcha service - cybersecuritynews.com/google-r…
机翻：你可能想看看谷歌对 reCaptcha 谷歌验证码服务的新改动
> This new reCaptcha system will kill all alternative mobile operating systems except Android and iOS, by making it impossible to solve reCaptcha without their OS. If this isn't an antitrust practice then I don't know what is.
机翻：这款全新的 #reCaptcha 系统将排斥除 #Android 和 #iOS 之外的所有替代性的移动操作系统，使得其他的手机操作系统无法解开 reCaptcha 验证码。如果这不是垄断行为，那我就不知道是什么。
未来，鸿蒙系统的手机和Sailfish OS系统的手机永远过不了谷歌的人机验证？？？
You might also wanna take a look at Google's new changes to their reCaptcha service - cybersecuritynews.com/google-r…This new reCaptcha system will kill all alternative mobile operating systems except Android and iOS, by making it impossible to solve reCaptcha without their OS. If this isn't an antitrust practice then I don't know what is.
Google reCAPTCHA Update Blocks Privacy-Focused Android Users From Sites
Google has rolled out a significant update to its reCAPTCHA verification system that fundamentally alters how websites verify human traffic.Guru Baran (Cyber Security News)
#ONLYOFFICE Documents 9.4 for #Android is out! 
Here is what's new in this release:
✅ Async collaboration mode — turn off autosave and save manually, so your edits stay private until you're ready
✅ 25 new slide designs (galaxy, retro gaming, minimalism, and more)
✅ Smoother editing with a redesigned toolbar and performance tweaks
Full details on our blog: onlyoffice.com/blog/2026/06/do…
Give it a spin and let us know how it feels — feedback always welcome!
Meet ONLYOFFICE Documents 9.4 for Android | ONLYOFFICE Blog
We updated ONLYOFFICE Documents for Android devices to version 9.4 with asynchronous collaboration mode, new slide designs from Docs 9.4, and UX enhancements.ONLYOFFICE Blog
I don't understand some of the UI people (well companies) come up with these days. Like this crop tool in Android. The handles are rounded, the area it highlights even has rounded corners, yet it's a rectangular crop—why not have rectangular handles and highlight so the end result actually matches what it shows‽
New on the Kagi Translate mobile app!
Support for custom languages, explanations for alternative translations, word suggestions for dictionary mode, app shortcuts, and many other improvements.
Grab it here 👇
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/det…
In April 1994 I started working on the Opera browser with Geir Iversøy, my co-founder. I worked at Opera for 17 years, leaving it after disagreeing with investors about the way forward. Two years later I co-founded @Vivaldi with Tatsuki Tomita and Anne Stavnes. This was in 2013.
For more than 30 years we have provided alternatives to Big Tech. First with Opera and now with Vivaldi. The focus has always been quite different from our competitors. More features, more privacy, more flexibility. Lately it has also meant the choice to avoid things like Crypto and Blockchain, avoid integrating AI and avoid integrating surveillance. This is not given. Most of our competitors are building in one or more of the above.
If you like what we are doing and our stand, feel free to download Vivaldi. If you are already with us, please tell your friends.
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I've just published the first v1.0.0 release candidate for Passchain (formerly HW Fido2 Provider)!
This is a big step from something that kind of work enough to be able to use security keys without the Play Services [1][2] to a more stable app.
Among other things, it benefit from the recent improvement made for the feature on microG (it uses its lib): for example we now have cross-device login => you can theoretically login on your TV with your Yubikey now 😃
[1] or microG
[2] there are now other apps like Authnkey that allow it. They didn't exist when I started Passchain, the Play Service was the only way to use them on Android
#passchain #hwFido2Provider #passkey #fido2 #yubikey #android #microg
发现了个念诗的安卓APP，叫“素扉”的。好用。
- UI有仿宣纸的视觉效果，竖版印刷字。不是繁体字的。字体大小和行距都可以调。有 Material You 动态色彩。不知道有没有能显示繁体字的版本。
- 有点像自动换桌面壁纸的应用，素扉的首页每隔几小时自动换首新诗。
- 安装包APK文件有90MB那么大，自带诗集。貌似不能导入自己的诗集。
- 不用联网，不用注册帐号。一点开就能用。
- 内置搜索引擎，能搜人名/标题/正文内容。能根据朝代/词牌/标签寻找诗词。
- 有收藏夹。
- 有TTS，可以语音朗读全文。
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免费下载Su Fei的APK文件和源码库，遵循MIT许可协议 - 最新版本 1.2.0 - Minimalist and immersive Chinese traditional poetry readerOpenAPK