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Cake day: April 13th, 2024

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  • F-Droid not being trusted. They build and sign a developer’s code on their behalf, so there is a chance for injection there.

    There are reproducible builds, but I would argue it’s not taken seriously enough. Like right now nobody is publicly verifying Signal’s supposed reproducible Android builds and they’ve historically had problems keeping it working.

    Also how most (or all?) Play Store apps (including FOSS) contain proprietary code.







  • I will go one step further and say 1. most strong opinions are not based on deep knowledge, and 2. a lot of this drama is legitimate mental illness… a niche of a niche that by design is run by extremely paranoid people, often aren’t all there in the head, or you could say they have simply crossed over the fine line of genius.