ANDROID-SICHERHEITSUPDATE SEPTEMBER 2026 SCHLIESST ACHT KRITISCHE RCE-LÜCKEN

https://gadgetchecks.de/android-sicherheitsupdate-september-2026-schliesst-acht-kritische-rce-luecken/

#technikaktuell #android #sicherheitsupdate #smartphone #cybersicherheit #gadgetchecks

Ich hatte ein Tutorial zu RethinkDNS angekündigt. Das kommt auch - allerdings erst nach der angekündigten Überarbeitung der Benutzeroberfläche. So kann ich die Anleitung direkt auf Basis der neuen GUI erstellen und muss sie nicht kurz danach wieder neu erstellen bzw. anpassen.

#RethinkDNS #Android #Privacy #Datenschutz #FOSS #OpenSource

🤳 Tired of your #Android phone's push notifications going through Google's servers? #UnifiedPush lets you process them on a server of your choice.

Enabling it for the Nextcloud Talk app only takes three steps. Read the instructions here: 👉 https://nextcloud.com/blog/unifiedpush-android-nextcloud-talk/

Pixelix is now free!

After two and a half years of developing Pixelix and having it as a paid app, we've decided to switch things up and make Pixelix free for everyone.

We’re really excited to see where this takes Pixelix, and we’re incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported us so far.

#Pixelix #Pixelfed #Vernissage #Fediverse #OpenSource #Android #iOS

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Green grid background. Centered from top to botton: Pixelix logo, Text "Pixelix is free now", App Store and Play store buttons, app.pixelix.social link

Wer jetzt noch kein Custom ROM hat, sollte sich vielleicht langsam mal mit GrapheneOS beschäftigen. Für Appentwickler werden die Zeiten leider deutlich härter.
#keepandroidopen #android #nogoogle #unplugbigtech

https://keepandroidopen.org

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Ausschnitt aus der deutschen Version der Website keepandroidopen.org, die darauf hinweist, dass in 118 Tagen Googles neue Bestimmung greift, von Appentwicklern für Android eine Registrierung zu verlangen.

Welche App könnt Ihr für die Reiseplanung in Nahverkehr empfehlen?

Am liebsten eine visuelle Lösung.

@marudor

#Deutschland #android #fdroid #BahnBubble

#DoeiDag tip: veel mensen gebruiken #Spotify voor podcasts. Maar 't leuke van podcasts is dat je juist geen dienst nodig hebt om er van te genieten. Gebruik een losse app voor je #podcasts.

Bijv #AntennaPod @AntennaPod Dat is degene die ik gebruik op mijn #Android #LineAgeOS telefoon:

https://antennapod.org

Heb je tips voor een fijne #iOS #opensource podcast app?

PS: Voor de podcast makers: check CastoPod @Castopod om je podcast te verspreiden:

https://castopod.org

#DiDay #Didit

Dateien schnell und einfach zwischen unterschiedlichen Geräten austauschen? Mit LocalSend geht das sogar Plattformunabhängig, egal ob PC, Mac, Android oder iOS. In meinem Video zeige ich euch Schritt-für-Schritt wie ihr LocalSend einrichten und direkt nutzen könnt. Ganz ohne Server, peer-to-peer.

https://gnulinux.ch/localsend-dateien-einfach-austauschen

#Android #Linux #LocalSend #diday

Yesterday, I set my brother's #Android phone up, which required a #Google account. UGH. Not 24 hours later, Google suspended his account for suspicion it was created by a bot.

#Signal #Android Beta Has Support for Numberless Accounts

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/09/03/signal-android-beta-has-support-for-numberless-accounts/

#privacy #cybersecurity #FOSS

I have a new d-googled phone

its grapheneOs. The most secure Os on a phone you can get at this moment. Lets see if I like it the coming months.
I had e/os from #murena until now. Also quite good, but the particular phone I bought it on was not very good
The new phone is a #pixel 9a, because I want a good camera (well decent).
Both grapheneOs and e/os are d-googled #android systems. So google cannot look into your phone all the time and you dont need a google account. However on grapheneOs you kind of do need one if you want Whatsapp, later more.
The phone costs 509€ https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/nitrophone-5a-807?category=4#attribute_values=134,124,250
#digitalsovereignty #DigitalAutonomy #DigitalEurope

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a welcoming screen on a phone while setting it up. it shows the molecule graphene

My favorite Mastodon app, Fedilab, is no longer on Google Play, but you can still get it from F-Droid.

You can import your old settings, too. It's easy and only takes a few minutes. I'm not an experienced F-Droid user, but everything went smoothly...

Thanks for the great work! @apps

#fedilab #fdroid #android #google

MOTION ASSIST FÜR ANDROID, NEUE GALAXY-BETAS UND MOTOROLAS WEAR-OS-UHR

https://gadgetchecks.de/motion-assist-fuer-android-neue-galaxy-betas-und-motorolas-wear-os-uhr/

#androidkompass #android #google #samsung #motorola #wearos #gadgetchecks

#Android is a cornerstone of #FreeSoftware on phones, but only community distributions, sometimes called #CustomROM, put you in control. Which distribution suits your use case? Which one respects your freedom and supports your daily life? As part of #FreeYourAndroid, we took a closer look at several of them and today we release our report about @LineageOS https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260904-01.html

#LineageOS #FYA

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Latest thoughts on mobile devices...

* Done with Android. Google has killed any cachet it had with their recent developer registration and side loading BS. I won't waste any more time on Android messing around with embedded stuff for my projects.

* iOS phone that I currently own (13) will be my last. Apple is just as bad as Google, will leave this platform also, even if for the last 4-5 years it was a sort of pseudo-privacy respecting mobile safe space. It was all BS and is about to get worse.

* I really haven't used phone apps beyond Firefox (and now Waterfox and Librewolf since Firefox turned) in the set 10 years or so. Won't miss anything from this perspective. I've never trusted the platforms with my payment systems so I won't miss "tap phone to pay" either. CarPlay/AAuto is convenient but a huge privacy leak.

* My next phone will be something that takes calls/sms and can create a hotspot and does effectively nothing else; a decent camera that doesn't have AI BS ruining the images would be nice. Device suggestions appreciated.

* I'll probably start researching small, flip convertible, touchscreen laptops that can act as a tablet and pair it with the phone. The device needs to be able to run Linux and/or BSD (of course). The older Lenovo Tab 11 I have now is serviceable in the meantime until I find a decent lightweight convertible.

* Would consider a Linux phone but I don't care enough about this segment to put up with being a beta/gamma tester. Also, lot of money for an uneven and potentially bad experience.

* If we consider new cars a mobile device <wat!?> then I'm done with them as well. So much so that I recently bought a 2000 Volvo S70 5spd for my wife as a winter beater. No mobile telemetry there - unlike my son's new Toyota GR86.

* While navigating all this, boycotting U.S. tech/manufacturers.

* There's no fun/joy in any of this stuff any more. #RantyMcRantFace

Pretty tall order. Makes the further case for throwing the phone into the crusher and migrating from "digital man" to "analog man" and fleeing into the woods/workshop. Ha.

#Mobile #Android #ios #Apple #google #DigitalNomad #Linux #RunBSD #TMI

On my Google Android phone I can't download MapQuest map app because my Play Store country is set to UK, which is how I want it.

But it turns out CoMaps is an excellent alternative to Google Maps.

CoMaps didn't appear when I searched Play Store for "map" apps. I had to search for "comap" by name. That feels like Google was putting its thumb on the scale.

#UserExperience #UX #GDPR #map #maps #MapApp #wayfinding #location #Android #PlayStore #Google #BigTech

I'm getting a bit frustrated with the various Mastodon apps for Android.

Tusky doesn't support quote posts, and scrolling is janky.
Fedilab scrolling also stutters.
Pachli doesn't group notifications.
Mastodon official doesn't let you swipe between the tabs or customise them much.

I'm on a Pixel 8 Pro - so scrolling performance shouldn't be this bad!

What's your favourite #Android app for the Fediverse that you personally use on a regular basis?
(Not interested in websites / PWA thanks.)

in #ArcaneChat you can have several profiles separating private life from work!

you can mute your work profile while you keep available for family and friends, ex. during weekends or vacations

#privacy #anonymity #family #Europe #European #android

Please boost for a greater reach. ❤️

Wczoraj pisałem, że wygoda to największy wróg bezpieczeństwa. Obrona prywatności często wymaga radykalnych kroków i odcinania telemetrii. To prawda, ale nie oznacza to wcale, że cyfrowa higiena zawsze musi pochłaniać mnóstwo czasu i wymagać zaawansowanej wiedzy inżynieryjnej.

Dla zachowania zdrowej równowagi wrzuciłem nowy materiał do sekcji /guides. Zawarłem w nim absolutne minimum cyfrowego przetrwania dla każdego. To cztery fundamentalne kroki (w tym sprawdzony model 3 Tier Password System), które wdrożysz w zaledwie 15 minut. Zbudujesz solidny fundament, zyskasz cyfrowy spokój i odetniesz lwią część realnych zagrożeń.

Zapraszam do lektury:
https://eteryu.space/guides/jak-zabezpieczyc-telefon-w-15-minut/

Jeśli macie w swoim otoczeniu osoby, dla których cyfrowa higiena to czarna magia, podajcie ten wpis dalej. Pomóżmy wspólnie innym zrobić ten pierwszy krok.

#cyberbezpieczenstwo #infosec #prywatnosc #opsec #android #ios #poradnik #cyfrowahigiena

I’m watching some videos about the new Pixel 11 Pro. I’m…I don’t know, but I don’t like what I see.
It looks a total downgrade.

#Android #Pixel #Google

Często powtarzanym mitem w świecie cyfrowej higieny jest przekonanie o magicznej prywatności prosto z pudełka. W nowym wpisie na blogu rozkładam na czynniki pierwsze architekturę microG oraz obietnice popularnych systemów. Wyjaśniam zjawisko teatru prywatności oraz dlaczego poleganie na domyślnych ustawieniach to pułapka. Prawdziwe bezpieczeństwo to nawyki, a nie tylko zmiana oprogramowania.

Pełny tekst znajdziecie tutaj:
https://eteryu.space/zudzenie-prywatnosci-z-pudeka-dlaczego-podejscie-set-and-forget-to-puapka/

#infosec #prywatnosc #cyberbezpieczenstwo #grapheneos #android #degoogle #cyberhigiena #opsec

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Dzień dobry! Ja właśnie piję kawę i szykuję się na rozmowę o pracę (życzcie mi powodzenia, hehe).

A jeżeli Wy też już szykujecie się do kawki, to pijąc ją, możecie zadbać o swoją cyfrową prywatność w kilku prostych krokach, które opisałem na blogu:
https://eteryu.space/cyfrowa-higiena-podczas-przerwy-na-kawe-jak-atwo-odzyskac-kontrole-nad-telefonem/

Miłego dnia i smacznej kawy!

#Prywatność #Cyberbezpieczeństwo #Edukacja #InfoSec #FOSS #Android #iOS #CyfrowaHigiena #DzieńDobry

Zamiast siać ferment wokół afery w Poznaniu, warto zacząć działać i edukować się, w jaki sposób firmy oraz aplikacje zbierają o nas dane i tworzą całe profile behawioralne. Odzyskanie kontroli nad telefonem nie wymaga wiedzy eksperckiej, a najważniejsze kroki, od neutralizacji identyfikatora reklamowego i ukrytego skanowania Wi Fi czy Bluetooth, przez blokowanie tła, aż po wdrożenie prywatnego DNS, można wykonać samodzielnie podczas krótkiej przerwy na kawę.

Jak krok po kroku zabezpieczyć swoje urządzenie i świadomie zarządzać prywatnością:

https://eteryu.space/cyfrowa-higiena-podczas-przerwy-na-kawe-jak-atwo-odzyskac-kontrole-nad-telefonem/

#Prywatność #Cyberbezpieczeństwo #Edukacja #Android #iOS #Inwigilacja #DataBroker #InfoSec #Security #Poznań #AdGuard #NextDNS #Mullvad #ProtonVPN

We have exactly 100 days left until our Androids become locked down worse than Apple phones

https://keepandroidopen.org

#Android #locked #down #Alphabet #Google #Enshittification

Google is marching ahead in locking down Android, via its developer registration mandate.

I am hopeful that we will find a way - through regulatory intervention or otherwise - to preserve software freedom on Android, including for apps available via @fdroidorg , but I am not overly optimistic.

(Sure, it doesn't affect non-Google Android, but that is irrelevant to many, many Android users.)

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/06/android-developer-verification.html?m=1

#Android

The convenience of synchronisation between devices are the most common argument that I hear from friends why they are so invested in the respective walled gardens. But the same advantages can be obtained with old well-tested and open standards. Example: get an SMS with e-mail, add it to contacts and then have it autocomplete in @thunderbird@mastodon.online connecting to whichever mail provider your heart desires, thanks to the magic of CardDAV and IMAP. No need for Giant Mail :)

However I can highly recommend the FreeOTP+ fork which has some other nice features, but crucially, saves and loads data correctly.