Sylvia

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 excitedly participate and learn cool stuff and learn how to have digital agency.

#Catima 2.45.0 and Catima #WearOS 1.0.0 are out!

Catima is a lightweight app to store event tickets, store cards and more in.

Catima 2.45.0 adds support for starting a Bluetooth server which allows other devices to read cards from Catima. The Wear OS companion app is the first app using this.

It's always a gamble to see if Google won't be difficult, so this may take longer to become available to GPlay users. But you can already sideload it:

https://github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Android/releases/tag/v2.45.0
https://github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Android/releases/tag/v1.0.0-wearos

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

RE: https://manganiello.eu/objects/ce45e084-7c4a-42de-b366-9f3fda371296

This is almost ready for release, just a few little tweaks here and there. Quite excited, this feature request is older than Catima, originally requested for Loyalty Card Keychain (which Catima is forked from). I hope it'll have been worth the (8 year!) wait :)

First Gadgetbridge 3 years ago, now WearOS, a lot of Google and non-Google smartwatch options :)

RE: https://manganiello.eu/objects/ce45e084-7c4a-42de-b366-9f3fda371296

It's live :)

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 phone?...

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@social.nlnet.nl!), 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! 🎉

#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

For others who have to deal with this nonsense, I've found the easiest way to get your fingerprint for your IzzyOnDroid and F-Droid builds to be the following curl command:

export INDEX_V2_URL="https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo/index-v2.json" # IzzyOnDroid
export INDEX_V2_URL="https://f-droid.org/repo/index-v2.json" # F-Droid

export APP_NAME="your.package.name"

curl -s "${INDEX_V2_URL}" | jq -r ".packages.\"${APP_NAME}\".metadata.preferredSigner" | tr [:lower:] [:upper:] | sed 's/../&:/g;  s/:$//'

@jessienab@wetdry.world There's basically 2 situations where this can happen:

1. The app needs Google Play Services, if you disable this (on stock Android) you'll need to enable it. If you use a custom ROM, you probably want microG
2. The app detects if it's installed by Google Play, either a weak check (can be bypassed with adb and using the -i flag I think or a strong check and... yeah, no luck.

If you're on stock Android, I see no reason to use Aurora Store, it doesn't give more privacy :)