Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

I work on #FDroid because I believe in #FreeSoftware. One of the hardest things about working on a project like F-Droid is when someone decides to publicly campaign against our work, and its only loosely based on fact. We get a constant stream of inquiries from people who just found out, asking the same questions again. Now I understand why companies hire PR staff. Communications can require a ton of work and stress. And when a project is mostly volunteers, no one is keen to take on that stress

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@tsiolkovsky@infosec.exchange @SwiftOnSecurity I see this as a central goal of #Debian. It is a collection of integrated services with defaults that just work for most cases. Many if not most Debian Developers work for small organizations, oftentimes with high security needs (including me). Debian also has a great track record there. You might criticize Debian for being too hard to learn, that is not because we want it that way. It is only because of lack of resources.

@ErinInTheMorn The hard part of this question is that testosterone improves performance in certain physical tasks related to sports, and people with testes tend to have a lot more of it. Anyone can get performance benefits by taking more testosterone, which is of course rightly banned. So I think it is clear that some kind of separation in sports is helpful, but the hard part is drawing the line. I thought this #Radiolab covered it quite well: https://radiolab.org/episodes/dutee

@Aurimas I mean Android Studio should handle when Gradle throws errors based on the verification metadata. Right now, our app is stuck in some mode where command line runs all work fine with verification, but Android Studio errors out with bizarre stacktraces. So to use this app in Android Studio, you have to delete gradle/verification-metadata.xml

@Aurimas I'd like to help improve the verification support in Android Studio. How would you recommend I engage? I've had mixed results submitting things to official Android channels, mostly I get silence, so I'd like to know if there is a channel where you think my feedback, testing and experiences would be heard.

@RyunoKi @n8fr8 Thanks! Would you be interested in hacking together some kind of app listing UI based on the fdroid repo index? for example https://guardianproject.info/fdroid/repo/index-v2.json

@RyunoKi @n8fr8 I'm talking about the UX of finding, adding, and managing fdroid repos. That mostly means work on fdroidclient, but will also touch on web stuff.

@n8fr8 @RyunoKi We will also be working on improving the repository management UX in F-Droid client, in the coming months, so feedback welcome.

@n8fr8 @RyunoKi I was just discussing getting Orbot into f-droid.org with @uniq . He thought it should be totally possible, probably also via reproducible builds. That would be a good thing to have for Orbot anyway.

@overflo Fascists did not invent air or breathing. Nazis did invent the Autobahn and VW. Henry Ford was a supporter of Hitler. Mussolini and Hitler were big supporters of their domestic car companies. Fascists changed laws to make things easier for car owners. Like in Austria, we still have a law from the Nazis that there must be a new parking place added for each new dwelling built.

@overflo Call them Identitäre, Proud Boys, etc then. They are not calling themselves fascist. There were actual political parties that called themselves Fascist (e.g. Mussolini, Falangists, etc). I'm opposed to them. A Nazi is a member of the NSDAP. They are all long gone. Using these terms is a dehumanizing construct since it does not engage with the actual problematic ideas nor how people describe themselves. Actual Fascists promoted cars and highways, so are people driving cars fascist?

Putin constantly talks about fighting fascists because he specifically aims to dehumanize. He can say everyone Russia kills was a fascist, and people buy it. And so many people call protestors Antifa to dehumanize them, so they can justify treating them badly. And I heard too often from friends, things like "I don't advocate violence, but he's a fascist so he deserves it".

I'm pretty sick of the obsession with #antifa / #fascist. It really is a counterproductive debate. There basically are no actual Fascists these days, current political parties are organized differently, and the people who are actually part of Antifa groups have always been small isolated groups. The words have become meaningless and dangerous, like just "person who I think is bad". Using the terms dehumanizes the situation and makes political solutions much harder.

@Aurimas @grote ok, no luck so far, there are still bugs with #Kotlin #Multiplatform and #Gradle verification.

@Aurimas wow that's quite a script! Thanks for sharing it, I think it might help solve a really annoying problem that @grote and I have been struggling with https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/2475

now this is interesting, Meta is claiming to have busted a #US Military social media #disinfo campaign: https://about.fb.com/news/2022/11/metas-adversarial-threat-report-q3-2022/