Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

@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/

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.