Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

@divested @Kurt right, I think this is the issue we're tracking here:
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/2525

I'll see what I can do.

@FAU oops I mistranslated the country code ES, it should be Spain not Estonia.

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@Kurt @divested F-Droid supports the session installer already in the 1.19.0 alphas.

@divested @Kurt I cannot think how #FDroid PrivilegedExtension could be incompatible with an #Android ROM. Could you expand on that?

Privileged Extension provides a much better user experience than the official Android "Unknown Sources" update mechanism because it uses the same mechanism as Google Play. Google does not use the automatic updates API that Android provides, and it is buggy and not so well supported.

I would be happy to work with you to get FDroid PrivilegedExtension included

@Kurt that makes sense. I don't follow them so closely, any ideas if a new one launched support for mirrors then? From what I've seen, none of the third party clients support fetching from mirrors. I think they just use f-droid.org

At the beginning of 2023, there was a sudden increase in the rate of growth of #FDroid bandwidth usage on the ftp.fau.de #mirror. I can't think what might have caused such a dramatic, acute event. It is really an elbow. Any ideas?

@zorun @FAU After including https://mirror.level66.network/ as an official #FDroid mirror, bandwidth usage went from 35-40 Mbit/s to 80-85 Mbit/s

@FAU

Countries by percentage total bandwidth usage in 2023:

44.88% Germany
11.30% China
9.52% United States
3.25% Italy
2.33% United Kingdom
2.04% Russia
1.96% Estonia
1.88% Austria
1.85% France
1.59% Canada
1.50% Switzerland
1.40% Netherlands
1.25% Poland

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So I messing around a bit more with stats data from the f-droid.org mirror hosted by @FAU in Germany:

* About 25% of the bandwidth of the mirror is for #FDroid
* Countries by percentage total bandwidth usage since /fdroid/ was added in 2019:

47.83% Germany
9.04% United States
5.13% China
3.68% Italy
2.69% France
2.55% United Kingdom
2.07% Russia
1.93% Switzerland
1.87% Estonia
1.82% Poland
1.70% Austria
1.40% Netherlands
1.38% Czechia
1.28% Canada

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Assessing the #security of computer systems is really hard because of "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns". For example, there are lots of reports about #NSO #Pegasus being found on #iPhone but few about #Android. One might be tempted to conclude that Android is more secure. The truth is unfortunately much harder to pin down. For example, it is harder to detect and confirm Pegasus on Android, although it is clear that there have been plenty of infections on both platforms.

When reading about things like "almost half of British teens feel addicted to social media" https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/02/social-media-addiction-teenagers-study-phones

It is important to remember that #SocialMedia was designed to be addictive using science and techniques developed by universities like #Stanford and widely taught https://stanfordreview.org/how-stanford-profits-tech-addiction-social-media/

#SurveillanceCapitalism and #AddictiveSoftware came from the same forces as generated the dominant forms of explotation in the 20th century.

"[People] all have a right to exist but only because they are human beings. And there is no justice in securing your own right to exist by denying it to others." https://newrepublic.com/article/177768/israel-right-to-exist-rhetorical-trap