imsodin

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[–] imsodin@infosec.pub 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

As the statement says I wont - it will be fully discontinued. This statement applies to the official app only. It doesn't say anything about other apps or forks - any existing once can and hopefully will continue to exist. Also all the code is free.

[–] imsodin@infosec.pub 179 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I am not the creator, funnily that is/was one of the Lemmy creators: Nutomic :)
I am a syncthing co-maintainer that kept the android app on life support since a while.

[–] imsodin@infosec.pub 27 points 2 weeks ago

It's all in the open, you can go dig around for reasons. As usual there wasn't a single simple one. Neither was it some kind of complete fallout, we e.g. collaborated on translations and I have been in contact around various things with the one that forked.

[–] imsodin@infosec.pub 50 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Oh don't worry to much, mine too: If there wasn't an alternative for syncthing on android, I might have kept it on lifesupport :)

[–] imsodin@infosec.pub 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

What?! All that noise about Switzerland mandating usage of open sourced software in gov (there was a great step, but it's far from mandating anything) was already weird, now we are switching to linux? And caring about security and fiscal responsibility? There has to be another country called Switzerland than the one I live in.

[–] imsodin@infosec.pub 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's indeed confusing. The wording linked below suggests the eula is for packages distributed by owncloud. so to my understanding the source itself and any third party packages don't need to care about it.

https://github.com/owncloud/ocis?tab=readme-ov-file#end-user-license-agreement

[–] imsodin@infosec.pub 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah I was also thinking about multiple users for this, but that's a terrible hack on so many levels...

[–] imsodin@infosec.pub 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah that sounds good too, but it's not the same thing. I just want a client side filter for lists of communities. No need to involve AP or get consensus amongst many users/communities, just my preferences. If we want to get fancy, have some APIs to store these lists server side so or can with across clients - still strictly single user. It feels so simple I am tenors to get my hands dirty, but for one diving into a new project is usually quite since work and it hardly ever turns out to be as easy as it seems (then again the new python lemmylike thing already has it instance wide, so it at least is doable).

[–] imsodin@infosec.pub 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh dang, I got excited about a new update. Then I started getting deja-vus. And finally I checked the date: This is from early May. Still a good read, unless you already did read it before :P

[–] imsodin@infosec.pub 52 points 7 months ago

Technically that wasn't the initial entrypoint, paraphrasing from https://mastodon.social/@AndresFreundTec/112180406142695845 :

It started with ssh using unreasonably much cpu which interfered with benchmarks. Then profiling showed that cpu time being spent in lzma, without being attributable to anything. And he remembered earlier valgrind issues. These valgrind issues only came up because he set some build flag he doesn't even remember anymore why it is set. On top he ran all of this on debian unstable to catch (unrelated) issues early. Any of these factors missing, he wouldn't have caught it. All of this is so nuts.

[–] imsodin@infosec.pub 1 points 7 months ago

Right. I was focusing on the point that what matters is the copyright notice. While your pointing out that you can relicense MIT code because MIT is so permissive, while you can relicense GPL to almost nothing, as it's not compatible with most other licenses. However that's kinda moot, you couldn't include GPL code into an MIT licensed project anyway due to the copyleft.

(Thanks for the "ingenuous" correction, I did indeed - to my non-natively speaking brain the "in" acted as a negation to the default "genuous", which yeah, just isn't a thing of course)

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