Android’s openness is at risk.

A proposed system could require developers to register with Google before users can install apps—undermining sideloading and user control.

🔗 https://keepandroidopen.org/

#Android #OpenSource #Sideloading #DigitalFreedom

🔌 Is your USB port a security liability?

A new Linux kernel driver — hid-omg-detect — is in development to detect malicious HID devices like BadUSB, Rubber Ducky, and O.MG Cable before they can attack your system.

Practical guide: USBGuard setup, udev rules, and physical port protection — everything to harden your Linux box against USB attacks.

🔗 https://newsgroup.site/hid-omg-detect-linux-usb-security-2026/

#Linux #Security #Privacy #OpenSource #USB

What really impresses me is the creativity still thriving around the MISP project. I maintain MISP warning-lists for years to help filter false positives, and this week @iglocska built a new stand-alone #rust application for fast warning-list lookups, independent of MISP.

#rust #misp #cybersecurity #cti #threatintelligence #opensource

@misp

🔗 Source code of misp-feedback https://github.com/MISP/misp-feedback
🔗 misp-warninglists https://github.com/MISP/misp-warninglists

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Screenshot of MISP-feedback.

Die Adobe #Lightroom Alternative

#rapidraw (RapidRAW)

ist ein RAW-Bildeditor, entwickelt von einem 18-jährigen Schweizer Entwickler. Die App ist GPU-beschleunigt, läuft auf #Windows , #macOS und #Linux , ist #opensource und #kostenlos . Sie bietet u.a. nicht-destruktive #bildbearbeitung , KI-Masken, Kurven, HSL, Batch-Bearbeitung und Presets.

Wohl (noch) nichts für Profis. Aber für uns Normalos super❣️

#did #dut #photography #fotografie #lightroomalternative

https://www.getrapidraw.com/

Major modularization is done for the upcoming v4.6.0 in Mastodon Bird UI v4.0.0-alpha.6 (nightly branch). Currently in progress: Supporting the latest profile page structure.
https://github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui/issues/183

#BuildInPublic #MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #OpenSource

Since my bonfire @firesidefedi account is acting up, going to post this here.

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

Special Guest: @tommi@pan.rent

If I wanted to make this bio accurate, it would change every few hours. Figuring out my identity, 64 bits at a time. Learning at post.lurk.org/@xpub , working with social.coop/@dweb and toot.village.one/@VillageOne... . Words and pictures originally published by me are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 13 April 2026 at 13:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )

🔥 FIRESIDE FEDI — FOLLOW ALL THREE! 🔥

📺 Live: @ozoned@stream.firesidefedi.live (#livestream)

🎬 VOD: @ozoned@tubefree.org (#Peertube #VOD)

🔔 Alerts: @when@freestreamers.btfree.org (new shows!)

Don't miss out — follow all three! #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

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A dark image. The background is unclear and blurry. On the foreground on the left there is a huge circle, inside of which a profile picture belonging to @tommi@pan.rent. On the other side, a bit lower in the frame we see a fediverse logo, but on fire. This is the logo of the Fireside Fedi show. In between those two elements a text is written. This text says: AN INTERVIEW WITH @tommi@pan.rent Tommi - If I wanted to make this bio accurate, it would change every few hours. Figuring out my identity, 64 bits at a time. Learning at https://post.lurk.org/@xpub , working with https://social.coop/@dweb and https://toot.village.one/@VillageOneCoop . Words and pictures originally published by me are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 13 April 2026 AT 13:00 US EASTERN TIME ON FIRESIDEFEDI.LIVE

A full fediverse instance running on a simple shared host, in pure PHP, with no external dependencies. That is the idea behind Starling:
https://github.com/dfaria-eu/Starling/

#fediverse #activitypub #php #opensource