This week Noah and Steve dig into the announcement that Google will verify the government identity of all Android developers, and not just those publishing on the Play Store. Google intends to verify developer identities no matter where they offer their content, and apps without verification won't work on most Android devices in the coming years. -- During The Show -- 00:48 Steve's Idea Pre-Show as a presentation Honesty and Vulnerability 04:06 Android Developer Verification Verifying all developers First smartphone We gave up administrative access Mass adoption Privilege escalation Breaking things to make them work Effect on self hosting Large apps vs small apps KYC - Know Your Customer SSL Government ID vs Screen Name 3 Glowing Stores ArsTechnica.com 26:35 iPhone Trash 1.2 million kilograms of ewaste Owning your tech The Register 28:32 Smart Phone Addiction Physical signs of addiction Administrative access limits 30:20 NewPipe and Noah's Internet Alternative front end to YouTube Google and apps they don't like Being annoying enough Trying to block YouTube YouTube at Noah's house OpenWrt solution VPN blocks Mitigating double NAT Hosting at home 43:29 News Wire MAME 0.280 - mamedev.org OpenZFS 2.3.4 - github.com MIR 2.22 - github.com LLVM 21.1 - llvm.org IceWM 3.9.0 - github.com Dbeaver 25.2 - dbeaver.io QEMU 10.1 - qemu.org DocumentDB - itsfoss.com Garuda 250902 - sourceforge.net Linux Lite 7.6 - linuxliteos.com Armbain 25.8.1 - phoronix.com Roblinux Cinnamon 14.1 - robolinux.org KylinOS v11 - theregister.com AerynOS 2025.08 - phoronix.com Hardened Rocky Linux - ciq.com Essedum 1.0 - networkworld.com Hermes 4 AI Models -