This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is happening:

* Hardware upgrades can't come quicker
* #Syncthing Lite is back
* #Taler hits one point zero
* #ShatteredPixel needs Android 5
* #WebLibreBrowser wraps #Gecko in #Flutter
* More stats panels
* #Debian Trixie is here!
* #Wikipedia fights #OnlineSafetyAct
* #Rethink hits some bugs
+ 12 new apps
& 160 more updates
- 8 apps archived

#ItsFriday Friday Friday: https://f-droid.org/2025/08/14/twif.html

The UK may be about to lose access to Wikipedia as they've lost their High Court Challenge to OSA.

You can download Wikipedia by installing the @kiwix app https://kiwix.org/en/applications/

Then use https://library.kiwix.org/ to find Wikipedia, or any other interesting book. It will download a file (Wikipedia is 110gb) that you can then open in the Kiwix browser

#OSA#Kiwix#Wikipedia

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25380290.wikipedia-loses-online-safety-act-legal-challenge/#Echobox=1754914303-2

@sarahdalgulls @kiwix hang on. So if it's not "proportionate" to comply with #onlineSafetyAct obligations, you don't have to? That's what the judge said, right?

/cc @neil

I wrote a post about Trust & Safety that I have been meaning to write for a while, but @caseynewton wrote something recently that reminded me.

It acts as a useful mission statement for the advocacy organisation I am slowly creating, which I have talked about in a few interviews, but not gotten around to yet - The problems with C-PTSD and AuDHD in concert mean that everything comes at a glacial start :)

https://superhighwayman.com/2025/the-ones-who-thrive-in-omelas/

#Writing #TrustAndSafety#Blog#Security#Infosec#Advocacy#SocialMedia#Online#Dating #OnlineSafetyAct#Moderation#Wellness#Health#PTSD#ADHD #AuDHD#Omelas#SciFi#UrsulaLeGuin

I wrote a post about Trust & Safety that I have been meaning to write for a while, but @caseynewton wrote something recently that reminded me.

It acts as a useful mission statement for the advocacy organisation I am slowly creating, which I have talked about in a few interviews, but not gotten around to yet - The problems with C-PTSD and AuDHD in concert mean that everything comes at a glacial start :)

https://superhighwayman.com/2025/the-ones-who-thrive-in-omelas/

#Writing #TrustAndSafety#Blog#Security#Infosec#Advocacy#SocialMedia#Online#Dating #OnlineSafetyAct#Moderation#Wellness#Health#PTSD#ADHD #AuDHD#Omelas#SciFi#UrsulaLeGuin

@saskia @iftas

In short, the problem with the Online Safety Act is that it is realistically unworkable for the average admin.

The problem with the regulations and this recommendation on your site is that the categories of prohibited content is extremely vague and could be selectively enforced based on the whims of the regulators.

For example, as a US citizen would the following statement be banned on UK systems?

"As a citizen of the USA I recommend everyone in the UK take to the streets and yell at their PM to allow speech about using picket knives for harvesting medical marijuana used for epilepsy treatment; medical treatment that should be available to all epilepsy patients."

That statement could fall under Foreign Interference, harassment, knives, and drugs, malinformation / misinformation.

Is my statement harmful to children through 16 year olds?

#OnlineSafetyAct#OSA #fediverse #mastodon #comliance.

maco
maco boosted
#DystopianTimes - The collective West decided to #censor the entire internet instead of not doing #genocide

Ricky Hale and @cemedia
Jul 30, 2025

Excerpt: "Since the #OnlineSafetyAct came into effect, we've seen an awful lot of political censorship and nothing in the way of saving children. Children's lives have not been improved by this bill, but all of us have seen loss of privacy and loss of information we should be allowed to access in a #FreeSociety.

"There is a petition on the Parliament UK website to repeal the Online Safety Act that I have attempted to sign three times. I still have not received the verification email, meaning my signature has not been counted. I suspect this is deliberate and that many more than the official 427,000 people have attempted to sign.

"The government has already responded to the petition by dismissing everyone's concerns and refusing to debate this in parliament. The whole point of parliamentary petitions is to trigger parliamentary debates, but the government is no longer pretending to listen to what we want.

"The level of #overreach in the Online Safety Act is off the chart. Section 179 bans people from saying something false that could cause 'non-trivial psychological harm', potentially banning #humour and #satire. It could also ban any speech that counters a government narrative and is therefore deemed false.

"If your government decides there is no genocide and you say there is, there is nothing stopping them deeming this misinformation and banning you.

[...]

"The #MinistryOfTruth now gets to decide which online content is factual or harmful and that will always be a political decision. There is no impartial way of doing this, and aside from anything else, people in a free society are allowed to say what they want. No one needs to be protected from speech."

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/no-government-has-the-right-to-censor

#Censorship#GazaGenocide#GazaHumanitarianCrisis#Orwellian#DoublePlusUngood#EndlessWar #PalestineAction#UKPol#Fascism#CharacteristicsOfFascism

#DystopianTimes - The collective West decided to #censor the entire internet instead of not doing #genocide

Ricky Hale and @cemedia
Jul 30, 2025

Excerpt: "Since the #OnlineSafetyAct came into effect, we've seen an awful lot of political censorship and nothing in the way of saving children. Children's lives have not been improved by this bill, but all of us have seen loss of privacy and loss of information we should be allowed to access in a #FreeSociety.

"There is a petition on the Parliament UK website to repeal the Online Safety Act that I have attempted to sign three times. I still have not received the verification email, meaning my signature has not been counted. I suspect this is deliberate and that many more than the official 427,000 people have attempted to sign.

"The government has already responded to the petition by dismissing everyone's concerns and refusing to debate this in parliament. The whole point of parliamentary petitions is to trigger parliamentary debates, but the government is no longer pretending to listen to what we want.

"The level of #overreach in the Online Safety Act is off the chart. Section 179 bans people from saying something false that could cause 'non-trivial psychological harm', potentially banning #humour and #satire. It could also ban any speech that counters a government narrative and is therefore deemed false.

"If your government decides there is no genocide and you say there is, there is nothing stopping them deeming this misinformation and banning you.

[...]

"The #MinistryOfTruth now gets to decide which online content is factual or harmful and that will always be a political decision. There is no impartial way of doing this, and aside from anything else, people in a free society are allowed to say what they want. No one needs to be protected from speech."

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/no-government-has-the-right-to-censor

#Censorship#GazaGenocide#GazaHumanitarianCrisis#Orwellian#DoublePlusUngood#EndlessWar #PalestineAction#UKPol#Fascism#CharacteristicsOfFascism

Remember, the Government who was entertaining the Worlds Most Famous Living Paedo last week is telling us we're all child predators.....

#OnlineSafetyAct#PeterKyle#Labour#UKPOL#UKPOLITICS#Trump#Epstein