Notices by Sylvia (sylvielorxu@chaos.social)

RE: https://toot.teckids.org/@nik/116540880770634816

As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad.

If I was banned from being part of tech communities until the age of 16 or even 18 I would've never been able to learn all I did. I would've never been able to truly get into FOSS.

I would've never had a chance to become who I now am.

Age verification is literally killing the ability for kids and teens to excitedly participate and learn cool stuff and learn how to have digital agency.

I'm amazed that Google's stupid new nonsense "Android developer verification" program is so broken that they literally fail to auto-register one of my three apps that are *on Google Play*. I need to "prove ownership" over an app I published to Google play in February 2020 and that's still in my account...

Sigh.

Google, if you're going to be evil, can you at least be competent for once? Please? I have better things to do than this nonsense?

Many societal problems cannot be solved with technology. They can, however, be made worse.

Begrudgingly dealing with the Android Developer Verification bs.

Added the IzzyOnDroid/GitHub and F-Droid fingerprints for Catima to not have them blocked by Google.

I submit them and... "In review"?

What do you mean, "In review". How about you let *me* choose which keys *I* sign *my own goddamn app* with?

This shit is utterly disgusting. I have no words for it.

Fuck Google. Fuck this "developer verification" lockdown. The EU needs to fine the shit out of them for this bullshit.

@cwebber Having OpenClaw installed without my consent is some of the nastiest malware I've seen in a while :(

Well, it's been 12 days of being refused over and over. Right now, I would really prefer people not use Google Play, so I put up an (at least temporary) warning: https://github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Website/pull/52

Tried yet again, despite nothing changing, but this time it didn't get auto rejected in a minute. Manual review though...

Got an email the appeal was approved, but the console states it's both approved and not approved.

Well, resubmitted, we'll see 🤷♀️

Aaaaaaand rejected again for the same reason.

Someone needs to give Google some money so they can build a functioning app store

Please make up your mind, Google

New appeal filed 🤷♀️

I sure am glad this is not a critical bugfix release...

Appeal approved again. Please don't be stupid and insta-block it again Google.

Rejected again...

Aaaaah, that makes sense why I've been blocked for the same reason 3 times in a row.

GitHub has deleted an issue I was working on *again*.

Beyond frustrating.

https://chaos.social/@SylvieLorxu/114110872930085101

#Catima 2.39.2's release on #GooglePlay has been delayed due to the regular incompetent review program blocking the update due to "lack of provided login credentials for testing".

I've filed an appeal, stating that Catima is fully offline and has no accounts. We will see.

If you're a Google Play user, to be honest, please just use Catima from #IzzyOnDroid, #GitHub or #FDroid. The more people not on Google Play, the less power Google has on blocking updates :)

This is not the first time an update is blocked for this exact nonsense "reason", by the way.

Vorige keer "strategisch" op GroenLinks gestemd. Geen slechte partij, een groot en "breed acceptabel in de samenleving" links hebben is goed. Maar als de enige opties links en steeds extremer rechts is blijft "breed acceptabel" verder en verder naar rechts schuiven.

Dit keer zal ik volgens mijn hart stemmen. Om links weer terug naar links te proberen te trekken. Laten we dat allemaal overwegen. Ik wil dat links weer normaal wordt. Dat liefde weer normaal wordt in plaats van deze haat.

Dat is niet te zeggen dat ik niet blij ben met GL stemmers. Het blijft een goede stem en een sterk "breed acceptabel" links blijft goed om te hebben. Maar overweeg in plaats van enkel strategisch ook volgens je hart te stemmen. Want 1 zetel is zo veel meer voor een kleine dan een grote partij.

Mag GL lekker groot blijven, maar klein links ook gewoon eens groeien :rainbow_heart: