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  Nice move, #Waterfox – 6.7.4 "Adds 'Disable AI in search results' under Settings → Search, enabled by default." And brings RSS discovery back 😍

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  WTF has #GitLab gone full bullshit with AI. You can only disable #GitlabDuo via an API request using e.g. CURL? And only on a self-hosted Community Edition, instance-wide, and if you're administrator of it? Honestly? I'm so glad we left there half a year ago… Thank you so much, @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de , for NOT going that road! 🤗

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  @fdroidorg@floss.social please don't. It was disappointing enough with Debian already: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/work_items/699 One should never forget: the people who control access to #GenAI technology today, will tomorrow be the ones who exercise total control over #FOSS projects which embrace GenAI. We can tell first hand, that setting up a policy for that is not done overnight. But you could at least "strongly discourage" until you have one, no, #FDroid ?

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  An ad company just appraised us their services – to our CoC mail. The only answer we could think of was: "Thank you for self-reporting your violation. We have now blocked your domain." 🤪

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  Ui, we're not alone, who'd have guessed. The F-Droid.org mirror at FAU (Friedrich-Alexander-University) meanwhile shows the following text if you try to download an APK file using your web browser: Unfortunately, Google abuses "SafeSearch" to flag our fdroid-mirror as "malicious" - because nobody is permitted to offer .apk-files for download other than the Google Play Store! As most browsers are dumb enough to trust "SafeSearch" to flag … (1/2) #Google #Sa...

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  #AndroidAppRain at https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1&doFilter=1 today brings you 22 updated and 1 added apps: * Monocons: Monochrome brand icons for Android launchers 🛡️ Yesterdays update for LibreFind had to be rolled back, as it included a self-updater (bypassing our scans), without asking for your consent to it (and without bad intent, of course). The next release will have this properly addressed. Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome:

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  Welcome to the RB family, NoStorageRestrict 🥳 https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.github.dan.NoStorageRestrict NoStorageRestrict is an Xposed module that removes the restriction when selecting folders (Downloads/Android) through the file manager on Android 11 and higher. Thanks to the efforts by its dev, this is now RB :awesome: #IzzyOnDroid #ReproducibleBuilds

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  Welcome to the RB family, TrackerControl 🥳 https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/net.kollnig.missioncontrol TrackerControl allows you to monitor and control the widespread, ongoing, hidden data collection in mobile apps about user behaviour ('tracking'). Thanks to joined efforts with its developer (say Hi to @kasnder@mastodon.social 👋), not giving up for about 8 months, we've finally succeeded to get the green shield up :awesome: #IzzyOnDroid #ReproducibleBuilds

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  RE: https://floss.social/@ramblingsteve/116945912010965459 "So basically people became much worse – the accuracy was only one third – but they were twice as confident," he said. … "I'm very much concerned for children, because adults have learned critical thinking. But for children who basically are born with these systems, the risk is that they don't even learn the basic critical skills." #hallucination #confidence #LLM #CriticalThinking

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  This month's #Quality Check reports have been processed now: * 26 apps with added Translation services * 4 apps got their ArchivePolicy changed (2 were to big, 2 got smaller) * 5 apps received additional Fastlane elements * 4 apps changed their repo status (2 archived, 2 unarchived) * 6 apps had misc. URL changes * 1 app was removed (repo archived, APK too big, non-free libs inside) Enjoy our freshly cleaned #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome:

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  "Alongside IzzyOnDroid, [F-Droid is] the only Android store I fully trust—one where I can be confident I won’t accidentally install malicious software." DocWolle in his interview at https://gardinerbryant.com/f-droid-and-the-future-of-open-source/ (recommended reading!) #FDroid #IzzyOnDroid

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  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@davidculley/116837726982363407 So dear European banks, who you force your customers to use apps from Apple/Google stores or-else, and didn't want to listen ever: what are you going to do now? * binding your customers to US stores: illegal * using those analytic frameworks: illegal * using Apple/Google cloud messaging: illegal * your apps: illegal? * most of your branches: closed ("go online!"). * banking: how? The shield got broken. Happy sovereignty!...

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  Wow – pure SnakeOil, those so-called anti-virus or anti-malware scanners! "we are unable to proceed with the whitelisting request unless the application is available on the Google Play Store"?!? WTF?!? 🤯 And yes, that's part of a real response a dev got. So they claim: your app is malware, as long as it is not at Google Play. I'd say we've heard it the other way around, too… #SnakeOil #AntiVirus #MalwareScanner #falsePositive #Google

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  For the 5th time this month, Google marks us red for alleged malware they cannot even name. Can someone please shut that automatic bullshit generator down, please? Btw, if you're looking for how to disable that circus component in your Android browsers, see here for instructions: https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/4909577#notes-on-how-to-disable-google-safebrowsing-in-browsers-on-android #Google #SafeBrowsing

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  #AndroidAppRain at https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 16 updated and 2 added apps: * Gadgetbridge: your favorite gadget companion, now finally availabe at IoD and RB! 🛡️ * WiFi Seeker: displays power, channel, availability of WPS, encryption, cryptographic protocols, BSSID … of WiFi points nearby 🛡️ RB status: 709 apps (54.1%) – and our main builder is back online now as well 🥳 Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:

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  For number lovers: during the past 31 days, the #IzzyOnDroid repo saw almost 800,000 APK downloads – which roughly corresponds to 18 APKs/minute, or 1 APK every 3 seconds. And that's only from our main server, not counting the mirrors (coming soon™). Detail lovers can head over to https://stats.izzyondroid.org/ and dig in 😉

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  Seems like the question of #GitHub becoming fully unusable is not "if", but rather "when". We feel the issues now for the 5th month, and it's getting worse by the day. Today, out of 13 builds, 12 failed – either because of stalling when cloning the repo from GitHub or one of the submodules, or some other GitHub error message. Some builds we had to run 8 times to finally pass (and some of those only to find out their recipe needs adjustments, as e.g. th...

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  Please note that we are moving our last remaining GitLab repo to Codeberg, bit by bit. We cannot simply migrate it, as it needs to be split up – and due to a strange GitLab bug, we cannot replace the issue template they use by default (as it is found nowhere, and we could not find any way to contact GitLab support for that). ‼️ So please: file new App Inclusion Requests at https://codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/repodata Also issues for metadata changes, or other related things. Thank you! #service...

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  Did I say GitHub became mostly unusable? > The main driver is a rapid change in how software is being built. Since the second half of December 2025, agentic development workflows have accelerated sharply. By nearly every measure, the direction is already clear: repository creation, pull request activity, API usage, automation, and large-repository workloads are all growing quickly. https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-github-availability/ "agentic develo...

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  Oh, err… #AndroidAppRain at https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1&doFilter=1 today had 28 updated and 1 added apps: * OpenPillReminder: stay on track with your birth control routine 🛡️ RB status: 884 apps (64.8%) 5 #Magisk modules were updated at https://apt.izzysoft.de/magisk Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome:

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  #AndroidAppRain at https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1&doFilter=1 today brings you 25 updated and 1 added apps: * Khushu: a private Muslim app for prayer, tasbih, study, and gentle reminders 🛡️ Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome: Oh, and if your favourite app had its #ReproducibleBuilds fail, you can now hover your mouse over the yellow shield to find a hint on why it failed. It's usually just minor shenanigans, like an embedded build i...

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  #AndroidAppRain at https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1&doFilter=1 today brings you 19 updated and 1 added apps: * Kelani SBD Tracker: a simple offline powerlifting tracker for Squat, Bench and Deadlift training cycles 🛡️ Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome: PS: 4 #Magisk modules were updated at https://apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

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  @fdroidorg @marcprux And while the banner correctly states F-Droid being under threat: it's not just F-Droid, it's the free Android world being under threat. In its entirety. So the same applies to IzzyOnDroid – but also to Obtainium & Co. And if you think you could still use Aurora to access the PlayStore, think again: how would you install Aurora in the first place? This is the empire striking. The alleged "security" is just a way to circumvent the requirement to open fo...

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  did the poor company behind #GitHub run out of servers, I wonder? Or are they all busy with Aaah and Ihhh? Get this even on a reload. Explains why we see that many update checks (and builds) fail because they cannot reach any. Is it already 9 o'clock, and how many times? 🤔

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  Remember? "Sideloading" is here to stay, and won't go away, they said? Don't be afraid, they said? Something something "we heard you"? Suuuure! Who would ever doubt it! Attached the copy of a mail developers with apps in the PlayStore CURRENTLY receive. Please, read the text in the red box carefully: "Apps not registered by September 2026 WILL NO LONGER BE INSTALLABLE ON CERTIFIED ANDROID DEVICES in select countries." See an exception there? I don't....

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  I blocked Google's tracking domains at my router and saw exactly what my Android was hiding https://www.makeuseof.com/blocked-googles-tracking-domains-saw-exactly-what-android-hiding/ Most Android privacy toggles are rather placebos? I'm shocked! #Google #Tracking

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  #AndroidAppRain at https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1&doFilter=1 today brings you 19 updated and 2 added apps: * ScreenRecorder: a OneUI-style screen recorder with mic and internal audio toggles 🛡️ * LTvLauncher: an alternative launcher for Android TV 🛡️ Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome:

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  #AndroidAppRain at https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1&doFilter=1 today brings you 13 updated and 1 added apps: * Root Checker: search/verify root, busybox, and more 🛡️ Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome: Further, 7 #Magisk modules have been updated at https://apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

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  Google is now marking EVERY SINGLE APK at our repository as "Malware site issue". Congrats, "Safe" browsing. Of course there is not a single malware there, everything is scanned multiple times. And I bet they excluded *.google.com from their scan or the entire PlayStore would be red by now, too… Calling out to all of you: Please use https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_error/ to report the links as "safe"! https://apt.izzyso...

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  Heavy #AndroidAppRain at https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1&doFilter=1 today with 24 updated and 4 added apps: * Remind Me: a minimalistic app for quick reminders 🛡️ * GlyphPort: port Nothing® Glyph Compositions between phones 🛡️ * OpenJot: a feature-rich journaling app 🛡️ * 32steps: custom volume steps and headphone sound profiles 🛡️ RB status: 861 apps (64%) Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome: