"Things happen" ???
Trump has definitely killed some poor girl and had the body disappeared in the past to have this level of sympathy for Khashoggi.
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Every Catfriend build since v2 has been reproducable. Most apps on F-Droid are and they are encouraging it for all devs, to build trust.
https://verification.f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingfork/
It does more or less follow the age-old Microsoft pattern: One disaster OS, followed by one improved OS people mostly enjoy.
Only problem for them is that this time there's actually way more viable OS options for average people to turn to, and they've simultaneously leaned heavily into surveillance capitalism, monitoring, and AI when all of those things are broadly unwelcome. Its a recipe for a big loss in market share, and I can't say I don't love that for them.
Update from Simon aka imsodin, Syncthing Maintainer
tl;dr for android users: No need to switch apps at this time, the current install continues to work and is safe. If you can disable app auto-updates, please do that for now to be on the safe side.
Good news: Had a good chat with @nel0x. He is a collaborator on researchxxl’s repo and just marked those releases as “pre-release”, which prevents the obtainium auto-upgrades. So we are back to no immediate risk for users and we can take it slowly, trying to establish communication and more context. It’s still possible and imo likely that nothing nefarious is going on, just a very suboptimal handover that needs clearing up. There’s no need to go dig for repos on github, the technicalities of continuing to publish an app are not an issue - the open/relevant points are about a possible direct continuation of the existing app (or not), the time/effort that needs to be volunteered to publish an app and the trust in whoever does that. Hopefully we can work something out. If you are interested in helping maintain the app, let us know, other than that imo nothing to do here except if you are a user, to do the above in the tl;dr and every now and then check-in on the status (now and then being more like every week than every hour 😉 ).
Sounds like a really good reason not to use Obtainium, if any repo you have tracked for updates can just redirect you to a completely different repo If they have the keys - and throw no complaints when updating to an entirely different apk.
With F-Droid they at least have to have the same signing keys, and the code is built by F-droid from source - meaning the code for the supplied APK always matches the code on the repository for the build. Whereas Obtainium will just offer you any APK the dev releases on their GitHub/Gitlab/etc, this places much higher trust on the dev.
Edit:
my bad, I wrote earlier that all F-droid builds are reproducable. But that's not accurate F-droid does not enforce that all builds must be reproducible. They have been helping devs with the tools and assistance to do so since 2015, and all the apps that I use I'd checked in the past and are all using reproducable builds, so I wrongly presumed it was mandatory now. Eg, Syncthing-Fork from Catfriend has had all builds reproducible since v2:
https://verification.f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingfork/
Well, they sell homeopathic 'medicine' and Christian bracelets on their online store, so they're maybe not the brightest bulbs.
Where have Steam said they are partnering with a company to offer replacement parts? As far as I've read, Valve have not provided any details around sourcing replacement batteries for the Steam Controller. All they've said is that the controller is able to be serviced by opening via the screws and clips - ie it's not glued closed like many user-hostile companies, eg Google Stadia.
This is in no way the same as old smart phones (eg Galaxy S1-S5) toolless battery replacement, where you would just slide off the battery cover, pop out the old battery insert new, click battery cover back on. PS3 Dualschock 3 controllers are also exactly as user-serviceable - clips and screws, no glue. So I agree with OP: batteries that are built for toolless user replacement to a standard format are far superior. This is just asking for e-waste.
Ephebophilia covers 15 to 19, you will not find 15-17 year olds in any legal porn. And yeah anyone 30+ who's primary sexual preference is 15-19yos (which is what ephebophilia is) is at best a predatory loser if they act on it, and likely a statutory rapist.
Interesting thing to choose to downplay. You Republican?
That is allowed and respected.
Valve have not provided any details around sourcing the batteries. All they've said is that the controller is able to be serviced by opening via the screws and clips - ie it's not glued closed like many user-hostile companies, eg Google Stadia.
The PS3 Dualschock 3 controllers are also exactly as user-serviceable - clips and screws, no glue. So I agree with OP. Batteries that are built for user replacement to a standard format are far superior.
Yeah I love having non-user-replaceable batteries in my electronics devices to give them an inbuilt death timer.
Very zeitgeist.
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The AI bubble makes the Dot Com bubble blush by comparison.
US GDP is $29 trillion. The Dot Com bubble wiped $1.78 trillion in value from the US stock market in 9 months, and had a lot of flow on effects to banking - ultimately the bubble cost about $5 trillion, had dropped the stock market 78% from its peak, and triggered a recession that lasted most of a decade.
According to leading economists, the AI bubble is 17 times larger.
I believe the AI bubble today is in many ways worse than the Dot Com bubble of the 90s because we're now so heavily reliant on technology for business, and so many major tech companies have invested heavily in AI, pretty much everyone has some exposure. A crash of the tech sector and multiple big names failing today would be just as bad economically as banks failing in the 90s.
If you think the US economy is somehow insulated by the wealth of the big tech companies.. I strongly disagree. They borrow against their stock valuation, if their price dips a lot their lenders will be looking for loans to be repaid as their collateral has decreased. They are not too big to fail and when it pops they'll cause a lasting recession.
It would be different if the rest of the US economy was booming, but all US economic gain in GDP over the last 5 years has been due to the AI bubble, take it out of the picture and you're already in a recession. Add Trump as president and a Republican-led congress defunding so many US social support institutions and you may have a depression.