Notices by IzzyOnDroid ✅ (izzyondroid@floss.social)

#AndroidAppRain at https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brought you 16 updated (15 RB), 2 added and 5 removed apps:

+ URLCheck: analyze/share URLs before opening them 🛡️
+ Iconify (Foss): customize Android UI (rebranded from non-Foss)
- Monerujo (see previous toot)
- Howl: no longer maintained, author requested removal
- CameraRollX: same
- vTunnel: source gone 2y ago
- Compagnon HIIT: no updates since 2018 & source gone

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:

PS: RiMusic sends a warning, please read for yourself. One of their (now former) collaborators went rogue, so they ask you to NOT use their (former) Discord – and also be careful with the fake RiMusic app that showed up at PlayStore. RiMusic at IzzyOnDroid should still be safe.

https://github.com/fast4x/RiMusic

🇬🇧 After running #IzzyOnDroid on my own for over 10 years, we became a small team over a year ago. All done in our spare time, no grants.

That finally changed this week.

We're excited that we're one of seven projects being accepted for the NGI #Mobifree grant! 🥳

Finally we will be able to focus on some more things on our wish list that we've wanted to do for the community for a long time. Stay tuned, we'll update you with details later!

https://nlnet.nl/project/IzzyOnDroid/

@aral Ever seen the HTML produced by an MS Word export? Blood fountains from your eyes. I once cleaned up such a HTML, and the size of the resulting clean HTML was less than 20% of the original. They even used CSS classes, but then explicitly repeated their definitions every.single.time (like "<p class="foo"><font size…><font family…><b><i>blabber</i></b></font></font></p>", with "foo" of course having font size, family, italics, bold already).

But right, worse examples are no excuses…

@vegos_f06 @ksmichel "Schön wäre, wenn Hoster ein vorinstalliertes Mastodon, Hubzilla oder sonstwas anbieten würden."

Gibt es, mehrere sogar. https://masto.host/ zum Beispiel. Oder https://www.hostinger.de/vps/mastodon-hosting – beide bieten "managed hosting".

Das und mehr gibt es bei https://weingaertner-it.de/ – dort kannst Du auch PeerTube, Friendica und mehr hosten lassen, ab ca. 6 Euro im Monat. Der Betreiber ist auch selbst hier: @weingaertner_it

Anyone useing Paperless and can check if this app still works?

https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/eu.bauerj.paperless_app

It's repo had been archived half a year ago, and the last release was made almost 3 years ago – so it would be good to know if we should still keep it at #IzzyOnDroid or have to remove it as "no longer working".

Thanks for your help!

#callout #FediHelp #HelpNeeded

@dansup @loops looking forward to see you here! Read about loops a few weeks ago and was hoping for something like that, so I'm excited, too! 🤞 the APK will not be too big 🙈

@dansup feel free to ping me from the issue then should you create one, I can e.g. give you the full scan results there and maybe help finding "partial solutions". With the "library problem" solved, maybe I could also make an exception size-wise. We'll see. @derfopps

@dansup Das ist leider mehr als das doppelte des per-App Limits bei IoD. OK, ist ja ein "Fat Build" (mit mehreren ABIs) – mit per-ABI Builds ließe sich da noch etwas machen (native libs sind unkomprimiert, jeweils 8 MB – also single-ABI wären die APKs ca. 50 MB; immer noch zu groß) Oof, und der Sacnner findet 7 "offending libs". MLKit ist Schuld, zieht Firebase+GMS mit rein.

Hast Du ein Issue dafür? Dann kann ich mal schauen, ob ich helfen kann. MLKit wird aber schwierig…

@derfopps

@derfopps @dansup first start tagging releases (https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed-rn/releases). Please attach the APK to its corresponding release, Then I can take a look.

Btw: how big is the APK? Seeing RN suggests rather huge. Are there per-ABI builds? That would help.

@starlabssystems I must say seeing how you handled this makes me remember your name. Kudos! Should I ever need a device like this, I'll surely remember were to look first. Thanks for caring*!

*Unfortunately not a given these days, so happy seing your light shine bright there. @aral

Quite easy, @georgetakei – let me explain that with a different example:

If I clean my room, it might just be clean afterwards. But if YOU clean my room – wow, that's simply awesome, no matter the outcome! :awesome:

EU-Vorschlag: Selbstverpflichtung statt Cookie-Banner
https://www.heise.de/news/EU-Vorschlag-Selbstverpflichtung-statt-Cookie-Banner-9584447.html

Also weil Betreiber es falsch umsetzen, verzichtet man lieber ganz darauf - und hofft auf freiwillige Transparenz? Wow. Wieviel hat die Lobby dafür gezahlt? 🤦♂️

@user_mastodon None. Apple/iOS questions are the domain of to @aral – I'm just the Android guy 😜

@aral @opensourcedesign @simulo @fosdem If that's Google's belief – then why are so many of its core services proprietary, and why did they replace one AOSP app after the other with their own proprietary counterparts? 🤔

(rhetorical question, obviously)

@hiramfromthechi Let me fix that image for you:

@aaribaud @SylvieLorxu @ploum @LenticularCloud

"The actual risk scenario would be that a github repo owner build an APK from sources other than those on the repo and upload it to the repo"

That indeed is a real risk as I have no means to check that. There are other checks in place (library scanner, VT etc) which should reduce the risk of "bad stuff" – but a little risk always exists. So you need to trust the developer, too…

@ploum it indeed mostly is. The entire framework and all (see https://gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/). There were some contributions, and I got some help on questions – but for the most part (95%?) it's just me… Same with the companion site at https://android.izzysoft.de/ and my eBook server at https://ebooks.qumran.org/ (see my profile here). Glad to read you find it helpful! 😍 @aaribaud @SylvieLorxu @LenticularCloud

@aaribaud No. As the "Readme's" say, my repo serves the APKs built by the developers. Just follow the "details" link at the top of the list 😉 Or go directly to the question you raised via this link:

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/info#how_enter

@aaribaud Well, their APK is close to 0 MB. My repo runs on my personal space and thus has a size limit: 30 MB per app. Which means, their mail app simply does not fit in, or it would be there 🤷♂️