Gregory's ServerRead about what's next for John Deere's ongoing GPL violations, Signal and other encryption apps threatening to pull out of the UK, the FSFE's response to three EU proposals, a big F-Droid update, and other free software news in #FreeSoftwareSupporter: https://u.fsf.org/3z0
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@fsf The International Criminal Police Organization INTERPOL has formed a new contacting unit known as the cyber crime and terrorism unit (CCTU). The emergence of this unit is to help combat cyber crime which has morphed into a pandemic stripping good meaning citizens of their hard earned money. Do notify me if you have been asked for money online by anyone; celebrity fakers, investment agents/companies, lottery agents and or romance scammers. We are here to help in every way we can |
@fsf A comment on Free Software Supporter -- Issue 180, April 2023. Two issues with the line 'Note: While Signal itself has nonfree dependencies, there is a fully free fork of Signal called "Silence" available in F-Droid.'. Silence defines itself as 'Encrypted SMS/MMS conversations made easy!' whilst signal has abandoned precisely the SMS space. Secondly, the last update of Silence is from 2019-08-29 (see also https://git.silence.dev/Silence/Silence-Android). So calling Silence 'a fully free fork of Signal' is not very accurate. Sadly.
@fsf A comment on Free Software Supporter -- Issue 180, April 2023. Two issues with the line 'Note: While Signal itself has nonfree dependencies, there is a fully free fork of Signal called "Silence" available in F-Droid.'. Silence defines itself as 'Encrypted SMS/MMS conversations made easy!' whilst signal has abandoned precisely the SMS space. Secondly, the last update of Silence is from 2019-08-29 (see also https://git.silence.dev/Silence/Silence-Android). So calling Silence 'a fully free fork...