I haven't given any updates on the #NewPipe development lately. Although it might seem that most NewPipe devs have been inactive for some time, a lot has happened behind the scenes. Let's catch up on the past weeks months and take a look into future steps of the NewPipe development.
Shortly after that, we were able to enable reproducible builds again. #fdroid now distributes an APK signed by us and one signed by them. This would not have been possible without the help of the great @fdroidorg team. Many thanks to everybody involved!
I took an action to tell Google to stop collecting location data and aiding abortion prosecutors.
Despite Google’s past commitment to delete location history for those who visit abortion clinics, Accountable Tech’s latest research shows that Google is still collecting and retaining both location history and location search queries for abortion clinics.
The #InviziblePro app sounds like a compelling solution that one can use mobile devices, with the help of friends at #FDroid.
Unfortunately, it seems #Australia don't allow ethical #telephony devices into the country. What we mean when we say that is devices that can easily be flashed with ethical #FOSS firmware. Otherwise it would be a contender.
Seems that the latest update from the Fdroid can not be installed as usual - over the previous one - due to the mismatched version number and changed minimal requirements.
@jr@Bubu@mynacol@Foxboron I would love to see documentation of real world cases of that APK signing key rotation in action. Know of any? Seems like thing we should include in the #FDroid docs too.
After Amazon started screwing over magazines, I subscribed to #Clarkesworld's Patreon. Which is cool! But I wanted to read the latest issue on my phone, but the file is in #PDF form. I hate PDFs. Anyone know an actually good PDF viewer for android? Bonus if it's #Fdroid, but I'll take just free with a bonus of not ad-laden.
Otherwise, I'll have to bust out my ancient Kobo Touch #eReader.
Special shout-out to @shiftphones thanks for supporting our team! If you haven't heard of #ShiftPhone, you might want to take notes. They build #sustainable electronics and also deliver their own #FOSS#android blend called #ShiftOSL, which comes with #FDroid preinstalled.
#WireGuard becomes the first VPN app on #FDroid to be built reproducibly! This means that WireGuard on F-Droid is now guaranteed to be 100% (bit-by-bit) equal to the WireGuard the developer builds.
If you're using WireGuard from F-Droid, please export your tunnels and re-install to switch to the developer's signature and continue receiving updates.
Trying new things while hoping to find some clients that actually care to respond 🙄
Among them #Android development.
At least I don't have to use Java!
Although I can't escape #JVM (but I already had contact to #Groovy via Jenkins).
@mlemweb Since it will be about sewing I was wondering whether you would generally be interested in testing?
The APK would be loaded onto the Android smartphone via ADB during development.
The emulator freezes my laptop.
I hope to release to #FDroid one day.
Anyone know why @fdroidorg marks the @Mastodon android app with "Anti-Features" as "This app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service"?
Es bereitet mir echt Sorgen, mit welcher Vehemenz die anderen Plattformen Stimmung gegen Mastodon machen. Vielleicht sollten sie einfach mal einsehen, dass sie offensichtlich nicht genug dafür getan haben, um die Millionen Social Media Wechsler von ihrer Plattform zu überzeugen. Mastodon kann nichts dafür, der Quelle dieser Flüchtlinge am ähnlichsten zu sein. Aber ich glaube, dass wir an diesem Punkt bereits vorbei sind. Aussagen wie von #fdroid, die nur die Aufgabe haben, Mastodon zu schaden, sind nur ein Beispiel. Da kann Eugen noch soviel Gegenargumente aufbringen, das Ziel ist erreicht.
Trotz aller Dezentralität merkt man gut, dass sich auch hier substanzlose Diffamierungen und Fake News sehr gut verbreiten lassen. Im Thread von Fdroid gibt es nur eine Handvoll vernünftiger (Gegen-)Stimmen, der Rest hat die Fackeln schon angezündet dabei.
Erschreckend ist auch, dass die Leute gar nicht mehr merken, wieviel Schaden sie damit im ganzen Fediverse anrichten. Der Ruf eines sachlichen Rückzugsortes als Alternative zu den proprietären Hassplattformen bröckelt. Dafür habt ihr nur 1 Jahr gebraucht. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
Just because some people now think #fdroid wanted to sabotage Mastodon or something: the post in question was primarily posted, to inform users that they have to do additional manual steps, to receive updates for the app in the future. Which is unfortunate, but needed because of Androids security model.
Ob die Probleme, die der #FDroid#AppStore gerade mit #Mastodon hat, vielleicht daher rühren, dass man bei FDroid gerne eine Version der Mastodon-App hätte, die beim Onboarding keine Default-Instanz anbietet?