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#interoperability

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"Readers may recall that Japan recently passed the Smartphone Act, officially the Bill on the Promotion of Competition for Specified Software Used in Smartphones. Among its most important reforms is a direct prohibition on Apple’s long-standing ban on third-party browser engines on iOS.

This ban has functioned as an effective ban on browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave & Vivaldi, by forcing them to use Apple’s WebKit engine, which they cannot modify or control. This results in no effective browser competition on iOS, and web apps being deprived of the APIs and performance they need to compete with native apps."

open-web-advocacy.org/blog/jap

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Open Web AdvocacyJapan: Apple Must Lift Engine Ban by December - Open Web Advocacy
#Japan#Apple#iOS

Oh FFS.

"This decision undermines software freedom principles that have defined Android's open ecosystem since its inception. Privacy-focused users who specifically avoid Google services now face forced participation in Google's verification infrastructure."

EU Age Verification App sparks ban on non-Google licensed Android apps:

talkandroid.com/512861-eu-age-

How on earth can @EUCommission possibly justify this in any way?

Talk Android · EU Age Verification App Sparks Ban on Non Google Licensed Android Apps - Talk AndroidThe European Union will ban apps not licensed by Google under its new age verification system, which has been met with controversy. Set for pilot testing

The AGNTCY project is here!

Backed by Cisco, Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, Oracle, Red Hat & 75+ other organizations, AGNTCY enables agent discovery, observability and interoperability across systems. 

Learn more about the project that provides the foundational infrastructure for the “Internet of Agents” ⬇️ linuxfoundation.org/press/linu

www.linuxfoundation.orgLinux Foundation Welcomes the AGNTCY Project to Standardize Open Multi-Agent System Infrastructure and Break Down AI Agent SilosLinux Foundation Welcomes AGNTCY Project

The world needs a music app which lets the user plug in their streaming account(s), but also plays locally stored & self-hosted music.

I would be nice if it could hold mixed-source playlists but it doesn't have to - think of it as an old-timey stereo, where stuff goes in from any source that has an audio output & from there to your ears.

I'm prepared to pay good money for this.

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@foone I.wish @EUCommission would actually enforce #Interoperability & #Accessibility standards and not be spineless cowards and bootlickers towards the #Trump-Regime cuz then we'd have good Multiprotocol IMs for all the hot platforms today.

Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)One thing that really pisses me off personally is the #regression in terms of #Messenger #Apps. My personal distaste and dislike for #proprietary, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider #services like #Signal [¹](https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114234551915193036) [²](https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114935952643402592), #Telegram, #Discord [³](https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114865723904157014), #WhatsApp [⁴](https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114873895410403238), #Slack, #MicrosoftTeams, etc. aside: - *WHY* is there no #CrossProvider #Messenger to handle that shite? - *WHY* does everyone of these shitty providers think people want to download their #bloated #WebApp that takes up triple digit Megabytes if not entire Gigabytes and will gobble up all the #RAM and #CPU each of them can?? This problem ain't new and *already got [solved for corporate social media](https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114862619013462466) ages ago!* (Not to mention actually good messengers!) - And no, [bridges](https://toots.ch/@dalai/114862754556459439) *[don't](https://swecyb.com/@troed/114862774972645542) count*! - I mean `API 0` - [style](https://digipres.club/@foone/112685423773959519) access because obviously [none of the platforms](https://digipres.club/@foone/112685414638522984) will *allow, endorse or support such an endeavour* and [*actively fight the developers and users*](https://digipres.club/@foone/112685441496803574) ! So yeah, consider this a call for a @gajim@fosstodon.org / #Gajim or @pidgin@fosstodon.org / #Pidgin *for garbage platforms!* - Cuz back in the day we had *way worse messengers* yet people actually made #AIM, #ICQ, #MSN, #QQ, #IRC & #XMPP work just fine from one single *"phat" client*! - Can we please get that back? Cuz #WastefulComputing pisses me off! #api0 #Enshittification

More #Geosocial coming..

delightful.coding.social/delig

@bonfire request feedback on #UX designs for #Bonfire Geosocial.

socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/

The designs may also be inspiring to other devs working on #Geo functionality for the #fediverse and there's opportunity to align approaches for max #interoperability.

People are highly encouraged to start related more general discussion topics on improving protocol support for geosocial-enabled #ActivityPub platforms in the federated forum categories.

delightful.coding.socialdelightful fediverse experienceDelightful curated lists of free software, open science and information sources.

Well! Look what #Twitter founder and #Bluesky / #Nostr co-founder Jack #Dorsey just gave $10m to...

'The team at “and Other Stuff” is also working on a social media “Bill of Rights”…which spells out what social media platforms need to provide in areas like #privacy, #security, #interoperability, #transparency, #identity, self-governance, and #portability.' 👏 #DMA #DMCCA
techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/jack

As a new Technician and ARRL member, I'm reading through the archives of On The Air magazine. The Mar/Apr 2020 issue has an article on digital modes: D-STAR, DMR, and System Fusion.

"There's a catch, though. None of these systems are interoperable."

Having seen how the internet went (as pointed out by, e.g., @pluralistic), getting locked into a proprietary system seems like a Very Bad Idea.