Lucky for me I accidentally double tapped when trying to move the zoomed in image only to see this waiting for me

I paid for Sync to toss some money to a dev responsible for the #1 used app on any of my phones for the last 10 years. I paid a criminally low amount back then for how much I used the app.

It happened to also come with ad removal, but I block those and trackers on my network anyway.

I’m another Alacritty user. It’s been my daily driver for years at this point and I have no complaints

Yeah I’ve been using a lot of the available apps and while I had my favorites (Summit and Liftoff) there has always been little quirks that I’ve just been dealing with. The moment Sync hit my device it’s like I’m back to my reddit experience for the last decade. I’ll still keep an eye on the other apps, because I very much prefer and try to support open source developers. But I just can’t force a subpar experience on myself.

The Summit dev has been extremely responsive and has added in a few features I requested on a quick turnaround. They also happen to be out of town on a work trip this week so the timing probably sucks for them. And as I’m typing this I’m remembering that ones not even open source 🤦‍♂️.

Sorry I’m not sure what you’re saying. There’s 3 or more distinct groups here:

1. Lemmy devs, responsible for Lemmy itself + they run lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml
2. Server admins, responsible for whatever instance you’re browsing from and whatever instance the post is on (I use lemmy.dbzer0.com, you’re on sh.itjust.works, these are two different admins/teams of admins)
3. App devs, in Sync’s case ljdawson

Are you looking for a single donation to go to all of these groups?

I’m not sure how that would work with those being two separate sets of developers + instance admins. I don’t even think you can do instance admins + Lemmy devs in one place.

IT FEELS SO GOOD TO BE HOME

Thanks for this. I’ve been using it for almost 2 weeks and aside from having to manually tell Lasts/AntennaPod to sync it’s been a seamless replacement for pocket casts. Well, once I figure out how to get the f-droid version of AntennaPod to play nice with Android auto (a problem I only came across yesterday)

That’s again for the recommendation.

Any chance you also listen to them on PC? I’m looking to move away from Pocket Casts to Antennapod but haven’t looked into desktop players yet (web/win&lin)

I’ve been with Fastmail for about a year and a half now. The number of complaints in their subreddit about outages had me a little worried but I’ve never once missed out on an important email or anything like that.

My literal only complaint is lack of offline viewing for messages but I just run K-9 and shit’s solid.

This is what I do on ipt, my ratio is insane because the 24/7 seeding + redeeming points. Def the way to go if you can swing it.

They’re probably the same based on file size

That’s a very narrow definition of self hosting. Do you also not consider it self hosting if you use a cloud provider VPS? It relies on a 3rd party so I’d love to see the gymnastics that keep stuff on a VPS as self hosted but not Plex. If you don’t consider things on a VPS as self hosted then I’m not sure what to say other than I disagree.

Also Plex is a staple of the self hosted community (though I prefer Jellyfin.) I’m wondering if they’ve confused self hosting and FOSS somehow

The apk isn’t always what f-droid compiles. There’s two scenarios where they publish the apk signed by the developer.

https://f-droid.org/docs/Reproducible_Builds/

It’s one added layer of security to you, but to others it’s a man in the middle that could be an extra attack vector.

If you don’t trust the dev to put out an apk that’s compiled from their public source why are you trusting any of your data with them?

How does f-droid solve this problem? From my understanding they confirm that the .apk provided by the dev matches what compiles from source and run it through Virus Total. Those are trivial steps for a malicious dev to take to slip in something nefarious.

At that point you’re relying on the community to check every commit for nefarious code $x. Not to mention they could simply build up community trust for some time before slipping in the code, since they’d effectively be burned once (if?) their very first shady code commit is found.

I can’t imagine f-droid would go on the hook and say everything they build is also code reviewed for malicious stuff, right?

Fair point. I guess it boils down to if you prefer speed of update (obtainium) or the extra checks f-droid has in place and if you continue to trust that f-droid’s stuff doesn’t get compromised.

It’s also worth mentioning f-droid’s workflow far from guarantees there’s nothing nefarious in a package. The bar looks to be passing virus total and then ensuring the provided apk matches source. If nobody reviews the source each time then every release could be the one that gets a nasty surprise.

Which developer?

E: Lol @ the ninja edit.

That’s hardly a meaningful advantage for f-droid and the whole man in the middle risk you’re exposing yourself to there. If you don’t trust the developer to do the bare minimum of providing a release that matches source then why are you even installing their app? Satyr’s response about developers getting compromised has way more weight in that conversation, but still falls short IMO.

Making sure the apk matches public source and running it through VT aren’t going to catch a malicious apk that has the nasty bits buried in various commits but checks out in VT and matches the public source code. Sure, it’ll burn them as a developer if/when they get caught, but how often does the community truly do code reviews on one-off Android apps? Not often enough to catch that kinda thing before it spreads without getting insanely lucky.

The developer of obtainium or the packages we’re installing? I’ll assume the former. If you’re skeptical about obtainium you could still use it as a source to monitor && notify and then do your install manually.

Am I missing something? In my experience using Obtainium it pulls apks from sources I tell it to, usually the developers git releases and even sometimes f-droid repos. This app doesn’t compile anything.

The main benefit is watching for updates directly from developers which, again in my experience, has been quicker than waiting on f-droid. You could even have it do just the notification and you can manually go download and install if you’re the cautious.