Reiner Herrmann @reinerh@layer8.space

Wanna see us performing some songs on stage? Drop into Couch'n'Sofa’s Festival Stream on Saturday (8.8.2020) at 11:25 pm (UTC +1). Here you go: https://www.couch-n-sofa.de/ or https://www.twitch.tv/couchnsofa

Berlin's privacy officer says use the F-Droid version of the jitsi app because of the trackers in the play store: https://www.datenschutz-berlin.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/orientierungshilfen/2020-BlnBDI-Hinweise_Berliner_Verantwortliche_zu_Anbietern_Videokonferenz-Dienste.pdf (German, p. 13)

Whatsapp vs. Corona App

It is proven!

Android apps can be built using only standard packages from Debian Buster!

https://gitlab.com/Matrixcoffee/hello-world-debian-android

"This project helps to document the Android tools in Debian by providing an example build, and can serve as a base template for new projects for those who would like to develop Android apps using only truly Free and Open Source software."

It seems that Google wants to make using app bundles a requirement for new apps on Google Play in 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=320&v=cMr-b660Esw

This would mean developers have to upload their signing keys to google play even though there's no technical benefit in doing that. You can achieve the same efficient download sizes by using bundletool locally and uploading all generated apks. But it seems google will stop allowing that and just wants your signing keys.

DebConf20 Moves Online https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2020/06/msg00003.html

Website publishers now can advertise their onion service to Tor users by adding an HTTP header. If you are a developer, learn how to enable Onion-Location in your website: https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/advanced/onion-location/