Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

Now that I'm focused on #FDroid client development, I have lots of time to toot because Gradle/Android builds take so damn long as compared to Python. 😂 😭

@fdroidorg Plus it looks like the operators of the official mirrors are getting about 2TB a day of traffic, at least until we added a couple more official mirrors, you can see that sudden drop in the fau.de statistics: https://ftp.fau.de/cgi-bin/show-ftp-stats.cgi?statstype=2&what=bytes&mirrorname=fdroid&timespan=-1&graphsize=large&submit=Go%21

@strypey @fdroidorg The newly installed F-Droid should be able to update apps just fine. Hard to know about the install/cancel bug, based on that issue. If you have info for how we can reproduce the issue, then please file an issue on GitLab.

I guess the tricky part there is that those stub classes need to be named the same as the proprietary dependencies, including the gradle lines. I wonder if it would make sense to have a #Maven repo that parallels Maven Central and maven.google.com that just contains stub libraries with the same Maven coordinates as the proprietary libs that many projects depend on.

#Gradle and #Java both operate by loading all dependencies and classes that are used in a project, unlike C or C++, which can #ifdef them out. This makes #FreeSoftware a bit harder when touching proprietary libraries, since all dependencies must be present at build time. If a build requires proprietary blobs, the resulting binaries cannot be free software. One workaround is to make free stub classes in build flavors to replace the proprietary build dependencies when building.

After years of being one of the few to keep pushing dependency verification and even #PGP signatures on binaries, while getting responses like "gpg in 2022? wtf?", it is gratifying to see that not only has #Gradle full adopted this workflow, but also #Android developers at Google:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/support/+/HEAD/gradle/verification-keyring.keys

@ShallowWater@mas.to @gloam@mastodon.sdf.org @jxyzn @mattblaze It goes deeper than not being Twitter, Twitter comes from startup and corporate culture, where users are the product. Mastodon comes from free software and hacker community culture, were users are people that you want to communicate with, free from abuse from random people on the internet.

Thanksgiving: Celebrating the day Americans fed undocumented aliens from Europe

@neglesaks Now that I think about it, there is a $25 fee for the account to publish apps, and now you have to set up a "payment profile". These things would dissuade lots of users from just posting their learning app, in my opnion.

@SylvieLorxu thanks for that info, I don't know what the criteria are. I am seeing your ratings coming over Tor without being logged into anything:

@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @dsfgs @Some_Emo_Chick @cy@mstdn.io @strypey This is great! We need a lot more of this, since corporations are so good at hiding in the abstractions of modern life.