Zsigmund

I'm mostly here for the laughs. Don't take it too seriously and you might be ok. I only post stolen memes. No crypto, DMs, Lottery billionaires or OF troles.

[KATU News @KATUNews]

At least 40 charged in Oregon-led crackdown on SNAP fraud schemes that stole over millions of dollars in benefits using stolen EBT data, involving multi-state indictments.

https://t.co/2au90xEvee

[Zsigmund @ZsigmundZ]

Android was sold to us as an open platform. Now Google wants every developer to register and submit ID just to let you install their apps. Don't let them rug-pull 3 billion users. https://t.co/nJaZgoHNEq @AlteredDeal #KeepAndroidOpen

[Captain Double Blade @CaptainDB123]

F-Droid, the open-source Android app store, calls Google's developer verification an "existential threat" to alternative app distribution. The EFF warns it creates a pathway to censorship. https://t.co/djF3mjT2PB #KeepAndroidOpen

[HOSTIS @hostis_black]

Google is building a registry that ties every piece of Android software to a government ID, and your phone will soon refuse to run anything that is not on it.

Starting September 2026, an app will not install on a certified Android phone unless its maker has handed Google a government photo ID, paid a fee, registered a payment profile, and signed over the keys to their own code. And not just apps from the Play Store. Every app. The one a friend builds you. The one a stranger across the world wrote and gave away. The one you wrote yourself, for your own phone, in your own home.

Your hardware will check it against Google's list, and if the name is not on file, the door stays shut.

Android was the open one. For fifteen years that was the entire pitch, the one phone where you owned the device and chose the software and no one stood at the gate. That is what is ending.

The phone goes from a thing that runs what you tell it to a thing that runs what Google has approved, and approval now means a legal name in a database.

A malware author will buy a stolen identity for $40 and ship his poison the same as ever. He always has. The registry does not touch him. What it touches is the developer who cannot put his real name on his work. The one building a secure messenger for people a government wants dead. The one shipping a tool that embarrasses the powerful. The one who writes under a handle because the alternative is a knock at the door.

The purpose, in Google's own words, is to "remove the cover of anonymity."

The mask is the oldest tool the free press ever held. The pamphlet with no printer's name. The essay signed with a fake one. Every government that ever feared what its people might read started by demanding to know who set the type. Google has volunteered to be the one who keeps the list.

If you want to install software from a maker who refused the registry, you can, after you enable developer mode, swear to your phone that no one is forcing you to do this, restart the device, wait a full twenty-four hours, and authenticate again. A day-long cooling-off period and a coercion check, to put a program you chose on a phone you own.

It is the permission slip with enough friction that most people stop trying, which was always the point.

F-Droid, the free software catalogue that has handed out unsigned, unregistered, no-name software for over fifteen years, called it existential and refused to comply.

67 organizations told Google to kill the plan. Google moved the date for no one.

So learn the way out now, while the door is still open. The stores that answer to no registry. The phones that were never on Google's list. The skill of putting what you choose onto the machine you own, before that skill becomes a thing you have to wait a day and swear an oath to use.

A phone that asks permission before it runs your software was never your phone. It was theirs, parked in your pocket, billed to your name.

Take it back while taking it back is still allowed.

[AdGuard @AdGuard]

🤖 Android's always been about freedom. Now Google's pulling a power move

The whole point of Android was that it wasn't like iOS — no walled garden, no gatekeeping. Build what you want, install what you want, from wherever you want. But that era's about to end.

Google's rolling out a new developer verification policy that basically makes them the sole boss of the entire Android ecosystem. Soon, every single developer (even the ones distributing apps through their own site or third-party stores like F-Droid) has to jump through Google's hoops. We're talking $25, a government ID, and begging for "permission" just to exist on the platform.

This hits close to home for us. You know why the full AdGuard for Android isn't on the Play Store? Because Google bans system-wide ad blockers there. We've always relied on Android's openness to get our software to you directly. Now Google's reaching way beyond its own store and trying to control the whole thing.

We signed an open letter with F-Droid, EFF, the Free Software Foundation, and Vivaldi telling Google to reconsider.

Security matters. That's what Play Protect is for. Forcing indie devs to dox themselves and pay up just to distribute privacy-focused software? That doesn't protect users. It kills competition and hands Google the keys to everything.

Android's strength was always freedom. Let's not lose it.

Full breakdown and the open letter on our blog: https://t.co/C1EodCQJpi

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

Google's Android developer ID requirement is now live. Apps from unregistered developers are blocked on certified Android devices in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand. The rule goes global in 2027.

To register, developers hand Google a government ID, their legal name, address, email, and phone number. They also pay $25. This applies even if the app never touches Google Play.

Google says sideloading isn't going anywhere. F-Droid called that claim "clear, concise, and false." Users who want an unverified app now face ten steps, developer mode, several warning screens, and a 24 hour wait.

Google is clearly putting the squeeze on Android's openness.

https://t.co/dhJ63S2uOK

[Tuta @TutaPrivacy]

🚨 Google is killing Android freedom. 🚨

In 2027, Google plans to roll out mandatory developer verification globally. Apps from developers who haven't registered with Google will face restrictions on certified Android devices → including apps installed outside Google Play.

🚩 F-Droid and other independent app stores will become harder to use
🚩 Sideloading unverified apps will require a special “advanced” process
🚩Independent developers and hobbyists will have to deal with Google’s registration system
🚩 Google is becoming a gatekeeper for software running on Android devices

This undermines one of Android’s defining features: the freedom to install software from wherever you choose. 😤

Android is supposed to be open, and your phone should be yours → NOT GOOGLES.

It’s time to support open alternatives like GrapheneOS, CalyxOS and LineageOS. ✊

Find out more: https://t.co/c89lutjb4k

Sign the petition:
https://t.co/pMT2XhrZGC

[Jackson2244 @PatriotWoman22]

@GuntherEagleman @grok This is what the people of Austin are saying

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

California, the universe is trying to tell you something.

JUST TRY IT!

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

FYI… Being here illegally with a rap sheet doesn't make you a New Yorker, Zohran.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[JoForOregon @JoforOregon]

Over one third - ONE THIRD - of the state's occupants (legal citizens and illegals) is on taxpayer paid government assistance. That is appalling and points to complete failure on Kotek's watch. Instead of being ashamed of her abysmal metrics, she wants more of the state at her whim. Kotek is a power and control freak. She wants you to fail so she can control you. It's textbook narcissism.

Tina Kotek must be removed from office in less than 30 days. There's no other option.

@TinaKotek
@GovTinaKotek

cc: @ChristineDrazan @TeamDrazan

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

For those complaining that you “don’t want to watch a terrorist be executed…”

Don’t! NOBODY is forcing you to do so.

But I believe it’s important to set an example: kiIIing American soldiers results in PUBLIC EXECUTION

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

A 19-year-old charged with stabbing a man in Pittsburgh so badly his intestines were hanging out was released the SAME DAY without posting a dime.

Eight days later, he’s the prime suspect in ANOTHER stabbing.

District Judge Dan Butler let Delvin Dobbins walk on a non-monetary bond. Just a promise to show up to court.

Pittsburgh Police Chief Jason Lando couldn’t believe he was out.

“How can that be? I mean, he just stabbed someone in the stomach a week ago.”

And it’s happened before.

Two years earlier, Dobbins was let go after a burglary arrest because the juvenile detention center had closed. Two months later, he was charged with SHOOTING a convenience store clerk.

Two stabbings and a shooting. The man keeps racking up victims because the judge keeps SETTING HIM LOOSE!

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Agreed

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

Minneapolis daycare operator Fahima Egeh Mahamud pleaded guilty to a $5 MILLION fraud.

$850,000 in fake meal claims through Feeding Our Future.

Over $4.6 million from child care assistance.

She was stopped at the airport trying to leave with the money.

Minnesota.

AGAIN.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

Here's how food stamp fraud works:
- Gov funds EBT cards with $
- Fraudster offers to buy the card for cash
- Local business partners with the fraudster to adjust food price to the EBT card's balance
- Everyone gets paid with your tax dollars

END THE FRAUD.

[Oregon Citizen @oregoncitizen_]

😂🤣people are delusional….voting for the same asinine policies is moving “forward”

[JoForOregon @JoforOregon]

This is now twice that Tina Kotek has placed her wife ahead of Oregon taxpayers. We are funding her wife's office, staff, and resources. She is not an elected official. Kotek's nepotism requires a full investigation and we cannot allow the ethics board director, Susan Myers, to let Kotek off this time. Enough is enough!

@TinaKotek
@GovTinaKotek

cc: @ChristineDrazan @TeamDrazan

https://t.co/09IlK1h0kt

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

Portland woman suggest that 12 year olds should learn to do drugs: