“Amigurumi (編みぐるみ?, literally knitted or crocheted plush) is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small animals and anthropomorphic creatures.” Wikipedia

Here you'll find my amigurumi plush creations inspired by mascots, Linux logos and other computer systems, crocheted in 100% cotton and stuffed with anti-mite synthetic wadding.

Ideal for decoration, key rings

Having recently had trouble updating my #Nexus 5 (also manufactured 7 years ago) to #Android 10, I asked myself:

"Why is my e-reader still getting regular OS updates, while #Google stopped issuing security patches for my smartphone four years ago?"

To try to answer this, let us turn to economic incentives theory.

This device was supported in #LineageOS until v. 14.1 (Android 7.1.2). It’s not maintained anymore and the LineageOS d2tmo page.

Please note I AM NOT THE AUTHOR - This is an Untested build. Please try at your own risk.

Ubuntu, Tux (Powered by LINUX) and Android PC stickers

About a month ago (aug. 2017), the new xWatch smartwatch, xWatch EX18 was leaked online with nothing but a photo showing the watch. Time has come and the EX18 is officially revealed with its killer feature being its superb battery life. This is accomplished mainly due to the different display type that in neither LCD nor OLED. It is the kind that existed in older type of watches.

The application is licensed as Free Software under the GPLv3. It is available via F-Droid for easy installation and updating.

The current version of /e/ mobile OS includes free software and a single-login setup that comes very close to the UI experience when you first signup to Google Android or Apple iOS devices. See the list of available devices at https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/wiki/en/wikis/devices-list

/e/ is a non-profit project, in the public interest. We build open-source mobile operating systems that respect users’ data privacy. We’re an international core team of experienced entrepreneurs, developers and designers, and a growing community of contributors.

F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device. It is particularly helpful on Android devices to replace or augment the Google Play store, and when de-googlifying such mobile devices.

LineageOS is a free and open-source operating system for various devices, based on the Android mobile platform. It originated when the CyanogenMod project was stopped.

privacytools.io provides knowledge and tools to protect your privacy against global mass surveillance.

This page describes my experiences with the HTC One S, a handy little Android phone I have on a loan by a friend. It's a neat device because it's small and I can wipe it with Cyanogenmod (CM) to have more control over the machine, including running more free software on it and removing the stock proprietary google apps shipped with the phone. It also happens that CM has more recent versions of Android for the phone, which only runs Android 4.1, an unsupported release.

We've been discussing some of Jelly Bean's new security features, but this post will take a few steps back and focus on an older one that has been available since Honeycomb (3.0), announced in the beginning of the now distant 2011: disk encryption. We'll glance over the implementation, discuss how passwords are managed and introduce a simple tool that lets you change the password from the comfort of Android's UI.

This post is about Android and my current setup of running only Free Software on my smartphone. I know what you are thinking.. that Google is also part of NSA's "special friends". Android is self-defined as an "Open Source Platform" (AOSP), and pretty much it is since it's released under a mix of Apache and GPL license (although mostly developed behind closed doors). But this isn't what you get when you buy a smartphone. Your device will certainly have preinstalled all of the Google's proprietary stuff (gmail, play, etc) and probably manufacturer and/or vendor applications. Things that you have no idea what they do, besides their "normal" functionality, because we don't have the code to look at.

The discovery demonstrates limitations in Google Play's antimalware service.

The code family used to push malware circulated as early as June 2012.