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Comment · 2 years ago
a decent syslog daemon will stream it anywhere you like
Comment · 2 years ago
you mean, something like a new FOSS project called "OpenEye"? :-)
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
They suck to maintain.

I love the fact that you can just update one single openssl lib and all installed apps use the updated version after a restart.

Static builds have their legitimate use-cases so maybe change that to "mandatory static builds". (iirc go support for dynamic linking is worked on and will become stable eventually)

Comment · 2 years ago
https://textualize.io for python isn't bad either. (In case you don't like static builds like me.)
Comment · 2 years ago
> where the maintainers of F-Droid can intervene and prevent an update to an app from reaching users if it's deemed to be malicious

That sounds like a feature you want when using FOSS.

Imagine distros wouldn't have been able to intervene quickly and malicious xz would be still deployed through their channels just because the authors want to.

Comment · 2 years ago
That's not true tho. f-droid supports (true) https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Reproducible_Builds/ for quite some time now. Those are signed by both, f-droid and the author.
Comment · 2 years ago
Hm f-droid provides privacy friendly https://fdroid.gitlab.io/metrics/ for some time now.

I'm not sure what sort of "control" they have over the Play Store compared to f-droid, but I'd rather have a trusted 3rd party do the building transparently and verifyable.

Comment · 2 years ago
Signal has reproducible builds for android now? Why not f-droid then, too?
Comment · 2 years ago
yep. android 13
Comment · 2 years ago
mobile users should tap the canvas for the particles to move.
Comment · 2 years ago
Hence "hack". It needs keys for administration but at a first glance, I see no reason why a git-anon user couldn't be part of gitolite's git user.
Comment · 2 years ago
ledger-cli is rock solid but it lacks a decent TUI.

Really all I want is an 80s TUI accounting app that "just works" as ledger does but with a menu driven interface with keyboard shortcut support.

Modern stuff like multi-user capabilities, plugins, templates, API etc. wouldn't hurt.

Comment · 2 years ago
For a single author you don't necessarily need any server at all. A cloud directory or zip files work well.

But gitolite is so easy to setup & maintain, it's not a big difference and for r/w-access management within teams, it's priceless.

I guess one could even hack anonymous access with "PermitEmptyPasswords yes" and "AuthenticationMethods none"

Comment · 2 years ago
not sure how lightweight any of these are, but https://gitolite.com/gitolite/ just needs git and ssh deployed. And it works like a charm.

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