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• Post #2348861

  RE: https://toot.teckids.org/@nik/116540880770634816 As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. If I was banned from being part of tech communities until the age of 16 or even 18 I would've never been able to learn all I did. I would've never been able to truly get into FOSS. I would've never had a chance to become who I now am. Age verification is literally killing the ability for kids and teens to excit...

• Post #2335947

  If anyone is curious, my current Android setup is as follows: I use #NeoStore or #Droidify (currently Neo Store, the new stats support is just too tempting) with the #IzzyOnDroid repo as primary app source, the #FDroid repo as secondary. If I need something not on either of those, I will use #AuroraStore to access #GooglePlay. Random APKs from GitHub or whatever only in very very specific cases. I will generally wait until the app drops on F-Droid or (preferably) IzzyOnDroid.

• Post #2113889

  Many societal problems cannot be solved with technology. They can, however, be made worse.

• Post #2113888

  Catima 2.42.0 is out! https://github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Android/releases/tag/v2.42.0 #Catima is an #Android app to store and organize tickets, loyalty cards and other barcode/pkpass-based data. A new feature this release is a setting to disable NFC while showing a card, preventing accidental NFC payments from other apps. Dutch train travellers rejoice :) It also contains some small refactoring and modernization under the hood. Coming soon to an app store near you. #IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitH...

• Post #1825560

  #Catima 2.41.0 is out! https://github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Android/releases/tag/v2.41.0 This release adds support for UTF-8 barcodes (by default, the encoding will be extracted from the pkpass file or auto-detected if set otherwise). It also contains some bugfixes and UI tweaks. Due to Google dropping Android 5 compatibility in their libraries, this will be the last release available for Android 5. Coming soon to an app store near you. #IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay

• Post #1825557

  2025 had ups and downs, but I loved my 2025 at #IzzyOnDroid. Our team has grown with several new members and we launched https://izzyondroid.org/, our new web home! We even got our first grant ever (thanks, @nlnet!), allowing us to bring download statistics to IzzyOnDroid and integrate it directly into #NeoStore (and soon #Droidify), improve the #ReproducibleBuild system and more. I'm grateful to the team for giving me a space where I feel able to make a difference ❤️ Here is to 2026!...

• Post #1802236

  I'm amazed that Google's stupid new nonsense "Android developer verification" program is so broken that they literally fail to auto-register one of my three apps that are *on Google Play*. I need to "prove ownership" over an app I published to Google play in February 2020 and that's still in my account... Sigh. Google, if you're going to be evil, can you at least be competent for once? Please? I have better things to do than t...

• Post #1440931

  Begrudgingly dealing with the Android Developer Verification bs. Added the IzzyOnDroid/GitHub and F-Droid fingerprints for Catima to not have them blocked by Google. I submit them and... "In review"? What do you mean, "In review". How about you let *me* choose which keys *I* sign *my own goddamn app* with? This shit is utterly disgusting. I have no words for it. Fuck Google. Fuck this "developer verification" lockdown. The EU needs to fi...

• Post #723263

  RE: https://chaos.social/@grote/116257002625921666 For the purpose of preventing someone over the phone or remote control guiding someone to sideload malware just disallowing app/sideload installs during a phone call/screen share would be more than sufficient. But of course, now I am arguing in good faith, which Google is not. It is literally faster to install a custom Android ROM at this point. Over 24 hours of waiting? I need to wait a full day to be allowed to install my own apps on my own...

• Post #723261

  RE: https://chaos.social/@grote/116257002625921666 I quote boosted this before focusing on the 24h delay, but the worst part is having to enable developer options. Fairphone: Settings -> About phone -> Build number (7 taps) Samsung: Settings -> About phone -> Software information -> Build number (7 taps) Given the steps differ per device it is impossible for any third party app store to give clear instructions. To top it off, the first 3 taps give *no feedba...