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by pserwylo 6mo ago
F-Droid has spent many years trying to step out of the "only for technical/power users" into the "This is a tool that normal phone users should have and use". A one time 24hr wait moves back to the "F-Droid is
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by pserwylo 7mo ago
And just like that, another major policy statement from the Android team that is completely devoid of actionable information for those impacted: > Our new Registered App Stores program will provide a more streamlined installation flow fo
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by pserwylo 7mo ago
Many people online and in person telling me "Google backed down" or "Google has an advanced flow" are typically referring to these two statements from Google staff: > Based on this feedback and our ongoing conversatio
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Google Developer Verification Policy and the DMA(f-droid.org)
10 points by pserwylo 1y ago|0 comments
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by pserwylo 2y ago
While this is true of many projects, F-Droid has a track record of sourcing funding for security audits. To date there have been at least three audits, in 2015, 2018, and 2022. https://www.opentech.fund/security-safety-audit
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by pserwylo 3y ago
The last two places I've worked I added a custom "debug bar" of sorts. We typically use in dev and lower QA environments, and they quickly become indespensible to help answer questions like "which version of service X is
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by pserwylo 3y ago
I find a good IDE that you are already familiar with from other languages/environments goes a long way. Pick your poison, but for me because I'm already using IntelliJ for Java at work and Android Studio for open source projects,
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by pserwylo 3y ago
This is the discussion on implementing a popcon-style feature in F-Droid if you want to read through where the project got to: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/396
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by pserwylo 3y ago
I love this so much. I remember reading about this game in a PS1 magazine as a kid, but I could never get my hands on it. For some reason, it stuck with me for all these years until I finally got around to making an open source Android game
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by pserwylo 3y ago
Those who enjoyed this should also have a laugh at: "Vim Exit% Speedrun [WR - 2.50:13]" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLbfqZBL8t8
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by pserwylo 3y ago
The Centennial Light mentioned in this article also features in a later chapter of the wonderfully written 17776 [0]. It will take a while to get through it, but very much worth the time. [0] - https://www.sbnation.com/a&#x2
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by pserwylo 3y ago
I always loved over-the-top, somewhat impractical visual effects like this. Reminds me of growing up playing with Compiz Fusion. For a retro Android game I maintain, I use the term "Gratuitous Eye Straining Effects" in the setting
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by pserwylo 3y ago
I write and maintain a GPLv3 multiplayer game for Android to satisfy a creative itch. While writing the game, sustainability of the server component is top of my mind. I'd hate for the game to stop working for others down the line beca
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by pserwylo 4y ago
When faced with the previous system [0] - where full table scans were the norm and filtering/sorting was done in Java afterwards - we certainly could have gone to proper database queries. I think it is mostly the first thing - that we
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by pserwylo 4y ago
Congratulations team. I was involved in the project for quite some time years ago. Indeed I ported the original “Read the full index.xml into Java memory using a giant DB class” with the first “Stream entries from XML into the database, and
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by pserwylo 4y ago
Although asking about books, I'll share my current experience as a software developer with 15 years experience trying to self-learn electronics. 1. "YouTube University" as per the top comment on this HN post [0]. I watch a fe
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by pserwylo 4y ago
I write Android apps for my baby-now-toddler. At a few months old I created BabyDots [0] as she loved this YouTube video of dancing dots [1] which really settled her when she was upset as a young baby. At over a year old I added BabyPhone [
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by pserwylo 5y ago
> F-Droid builds are custom signed and can be made by random parties without proper auditing after initial review. F-Droid follows a similar model to traditional linux package managers which has shown time anda gain the they are both tru
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by pserwylo 5y ago
I'm in a fortunate enough position that the day job pays the bills and I enjoy it, such that I don't need income from my open source efforts. However, about a year ago I did two things: - Enabled sponsorship through GitHub and Lib
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Microsoft 365 Outage(twitter.com)
4 points by pserwylo 6y ago|0 comments
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by pserwylo 7y ago
A good high level overview of the moving parts involved in front end dev is https://roadmap.sh/frontend . Not all of it is used all the time, but if you can talk intelligently about many of the parts you are doing fine. My r
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by pserwylo 7y ago
While I don't disagree about the fact it will likely cause a split similar to Angular, they seem quite explicit about the reasons (not to scratch the itch of the framework's designers). For me, working in a large project with Type
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by pserwylo 7y ago
The Android Firefox browser is great. Not only does it do everything you expect a modern mobile browser to do, but also supports extensions, including uBlock Origin.
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by pserwylo 8y ago
Good point. We had great success doing this with our PHP code base. For us it wasn't about pretty or not-pretty code, but rather about type safety. The idea that you can have a method which accepts "WhereClause $constraints"
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Encryption crackdown: Aus government putting finishing touches on legislation(computerworld.com.au)
6 points by pserwylo 9y ago|0 comments
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by pserwylo 9y ago
If someone is looking for the equivalent on Android, I'd recommend the free and open source Orgzly[0][1]. [0] - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orgzly [1] - https://f-droid.org&#x
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by pserwylo 9y ago
What you have described makes sense only if they were originally hired as penetration testers. I think an external hack of this nature, even if done by white hat hackers, should rightfully be treated differently. Having said that, you raise
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by pserwylo 9y ago
We added a new metadata format for this release to deal with translatable metadata, feature graphics, screenshots, etc. The server tools output the old and new metadata to the repository webroot though, so the old version will still be supp
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by pserwylo 9y ago
As a project, we are not very precious with version numbers. There have been many stable releases before this, but we named it 1.0 because of the shear amount of new features and improvements that went into it (Completely new UX, better man
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by pserwylo 9y ago
We are aware that it is not to everyone's liking, but we've done our best to modernise and appeal to a wider audience, all the while conducting UX tests and responding to feedback. One thing we'd really love is for there to b

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