#AppManager v4.0.3 stable has been released! #AMReleases
https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager/releases/tag/v4.0.3

@netopwibby @briankrebs You can try LuLu, not as fancy as Little Snitch, but it's free and open source.

#AppManager v4.0.2 stable has been released!
#AMReleases

https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager/releases/tag/v4.0.2

The website is built using #MDBook: https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook

If you have @appmanager installed, you can also open the App Info of an installed application from the website (which will work from App Manager v4.0.2).

I've launched a new website to make it easy for #Android users to discover, share, understand, and investigate pre-installed applications (AKA #bloatware).

https://muntashirakon.github.io/android-debloat-list

#AppManager v4.0.1 stable has been released!
#AMReleases

https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager/releases/tag/v4.0.1

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:

- more about the client design update
- #BoxSmasher and Naija #Ludo call you to play
- #mLauncher is back
- #SherpaTTS now multilingual
- start your own #VideoDiary
- #AppManager has a big update

Get the full picture on the other 184 apps at https://f-droid.org/2025/02/13/twif.html

Eliot Higgins joined DEEP to discuss the origins of Bellingcat and share his thoughts on the future of traditional journalism and social media. Watch the interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quXBdY4xZA4

@ElPamplina @bagder I was going to ask the same.

Following up on the recent news about the U.K. government attempting to force Apple to backdoor its cloud encryption, Alex Stamos and I wrote this op-ed in the WSJ. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/u-k-kicks-apples-door-open-for-china-encryption-data-protection-deb4bc2b?st=uG1z3q&reflink=article_copyURL_share

#AppManager v4.0.0 stable has been released!
#AMReleases

https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager/releases/tag/v4.0.0

The change was added in Android 14 r29, and it was indeed applicable for all user profiles: https://cs.android.com/android/_/android/platform/frameworks/base/+/9a53a4293d1c31099b5d8e71ed246f64037e153d

#AppManager v3.1.7 stable has been released!
#AMReleases

https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager/releases/tag/v3.1.7

***** Why Microsoft, Google, and others screw up *****

Part of the reason -- and a big part -- of why you see public relations disasters like #Microsoft Recall and #Google AI Overviews is that these firms typically refuse to have employees on these teams who bring skill sets that include real world experiences that go beyond the technical.

It should have been obvious to execs at Microsoft and Google (and other firms) that trying to ram projects like these (and others, like poorly designed passkey implementations) down consumers' throats would trigger major blowback and embarrassment. But either they just couldn't see the forest for the trees, or simply ignored the warning signs, treating the user community like a giant fungible planet of guinea pigs.

Either way, it's bad for them, and it's very, very bad for us.

If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

#AgoraDesk is closing its platform.

ℹ️ Note: Telegram has been experiencing international outages for many users with timelines not loading and posts failing; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #TelegramDown

@IzzyOnDroid @obfusk Even apksig(ner) does not work for some apps as I reported earlier: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/265528496

@IzzyOnDroid Why not adopt the apksigner itself instead of using a custom implementation?