KDE community Plasma 6 megarelease | Celebrations in the coming weeks

2024-02-27 Thread Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss
Dear FSFE Community, over the next several weeks KDE will celebrate the KDE community's Plasma 6 megarelease in locations around the globe. https://community.kde.org/Promo/Events/Parties/KDE_6th_Megarelease Celebrations are planned at the following locations, among others: - Málaga, Spain (

Re: banking and Free Software

2024-02-27 Thread Guido Arnold
Hello Florian, hello all, Am Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 07:35:24PM +0100 schrieb Florian Snow: > > As part of my job at the FSFE, I have been working on the topic of > Free Software in banking and I would like to share some of my findings Thanks for that! Do you mind sharing some sources of your resea

Re: banking and Free Software

2024-02-27 Thread Wojtek Kosior
> I'm curious to hear what you think about this topic. What's your > experience with your bank? How do you do your banking? Is there an > important angle that I missed? I appreciate any feedback. I heard of at least one bank in my country that charges more for transfers made via the website than i

Re: banking and Free Software

2024-02-27 Thread Alessandro Rubini
> I'm curious to hear what you think about this topic. In my opinion it is a serious problem. Not only about banks: everybody and everything is willing to install trojan horses in our telephones. And the telephone is becoming a bad SPoF -- but most users don't care because everything is backed-up

Re: banking and Free Software

2024-02-27 Thread Lionel Élie Mamane
On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 07:35:24PM +0100, Florian Snow wrote: > I'm curious to hear what you think about this topic. What's your > experience with your bank? How do you do your banking? Is there an > important angle that I missed? I appreciate any feedback. I have to interact with many different

Re: banking and Free Software

2024-02-27 Thread Wojtek Kosior
I have some more thoughts. First, context (which most of you know): The roots checks performed by apps are a strong problem because they (1) block people from using a nonfree app on an otherwise free phone and (2) have the potential to prevent reverse-engineering efforts against the app. Stateme

Re: banking and Free Software

2024-02-27 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday, 22 February 2024 19:35:24 CET Florian Snow wrote: > Hello everyone, > > As part of my job at the FSFE, I have been working on the topic of > Free Software in banking and I would like to share some of my findings > and thoughts with you. This is part of the larger topic of > appificati

Re: banking and Free Software

2024-02-27 Thread André Ockers
Hi Florian and other discussion list members, If you are in the Netherlands and want to avoid proprietary bank apps, then you have the following options for logging in to public banks: - ING: scanner device - Rabo: scanner device - Volksbank: - ASN: browsercode - Regiobank: browsercode (phas

Re: banking and Free Software

2024-02-27 Thread Nico Rikken
Hello all, Thank you for sharing these details. I think it will be a valuable basis for further steps. I can see us tracking this issue in a similar way to how we track the status of Router Freedom. Do any of you see political opportunity to adress this issue? Paul Boddie already touch on this