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carnha

@ carnha @lemm.ee

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    Why doesn't Signal Desktop support reproducible builds?

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  • The Signal Foundation does work on Signal Desktop - but they only release binaries for Mac, Windows, and Debian-based Linux distros. Those are the downloads available on their website, there is no link to the Flatpak on their website.

    The community turns that official Debian release into an unofficial Flatpak release. This means that you need to trust the community packagers to be doing the right thing, along with trusting the Signal Foundation. It's an additional layer of trust that you wouldn't need for an official release.

    An alternative option would be building the app yourself - there's documentation here and the repo is here, but then you're responsible for keeping up and rebuilding when they have updates. I definitely hope the Signal Foundation releases an official Flatpak, it's not a great position to be in if you're not on a Debian-based distro.

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    Why doesn't Signal Desktop support reproducible builds?

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  • Just a note that the flatpak is not made by the Signal Foundation, it is maintained unofficially by the community. See the last sentence on the app description on Flathub:

    This flatpak is maintained by the Flathub community, and is not necessarily endorsed or officially maintained by the upstream developers.

    There's a discussion about the community flatpak's trustworthiness on their repo here and here, a feature request for the Signal Foundation to have an official distro-agnostic release here, but for now the only official Linux release of Signal is for Debian-based distributions.

  • A closer look at e/OS: Murena's privacy-first 'deGoogled' Android alternative - TechCrunch

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  • Accrescent is in early alpha, but it looks like it's on its way to be a great, modern app store.

  • No lemmy.world community results on lemmyverse.net?

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  • There's been an issue about this on lemmyverse's Github for about a month, link here. It seems like there's an issue where lemmy.world is responding incorrectly when it is scanned for communities, and since it hasn't been fixed lemmyverse hasn't been scanning lemmy.world.

  • 2b2t @lemm.ee
    carnha @lemm.ee

    Server Rollback (1.12 items restored)

    www.2b2t.org /rollback/
  • Privacy Guides @lemmy.one
    carnha @lemm.ee

    meet.jit.si, the Jitsi Team's instance, now requires a Google, Microsoft, or Facebook account for their online service

    jitsi.org /blog/authentication-on-meet-jit-si
  • 2b2t @lemm.ee
    carnha @lemm.ee

    2b2t updated to 1.19 - The biggest letdown ever. (SalC1)

  • Minecraft @lemmy.world
    carnha @lemm.ee
    UPDATE: Reverted

    2b2t updated to 1.19 - The biggest letdown ever. (SalC1)

  • Recommendations re writing tablets e.g. reMarkable

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  • I found the My Deep Guide youtube channel to be a really good source of reviews when I was choosing an eink tablet, here's a link to his 2022 roundup.

    I went with a Supernote A5X around 2.5 years ago. My usecase was for college to take lecture notes and to read academic papers/epubs. I went with the Supernote over the reMarkable for the software support: I really like the concept of reMarkable's Linux-based OS and being able to use community mods, but it felt like I would need the mods to have all the features I wanted, while the Supernote wouldn't allow for modification but would have everything I wanted built in. I've been satisfied with the writing and reading experience, customer support is responsive via email and Reddit, and OS updates have been adding new features without a subscription.

  • handling of links

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  • Jerboa does maintain a list of instances for you to select how to open in the app - list here and see my other comment on how to pick the instances you want.

    The list can be updated with this generation script, it seems to get all the Lemmy instances with at least 50 users from fediverse.observer.

  • handling of links

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  • Disclaimer: I've only tried this with my home instance and it's worked fine, I think I ran into issues with links from other instance, but try it out and see if it works now!

    If you hold down on the app and click on "app info", then go to "open by default", you can select which websites should open in the jerboa app:

    It's worked perfectly for me with links from my home instance.

    (This "Open by Default" feature is very useful to know about for unofficial frontends like squawker, because if it isn't an official app this setting is how you choose it to be the default app.)

  • Why isn't there a "Spotify premium" for news?

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  • I'd love to try out Apple News, but as far as I can tell you can only access it on an Apple device, there's no web access :(

  • Google Pixel @lemmy.world
    carnha @lemm.ee

    Best Buy will soon offer Google Pixel repairs at select stores - 9to5google

    9to5google.com /2023/08/04/google-pixel-repairs-best-buy/

  • Sync for Lemmy is now available for everyone

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  • Hasbro May Be Eyeing AI for Dungeons & Dragons

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  • There's a github issue about this if you want to add anything to it, this separate issue also has some details about the sanitation. The issue seems to have been introduced in v0.18.3.

  • Irregularly Updated Community Feedback: Re-opening Edition

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  • Edit: fixed :)

    Hi! Incredibly small note - it looks like the community name has a trailing space (it seems like it's "Android ", with a space after the d), so it looks a bit goofy on non-lemmy.world instances with a space before the @:

  • Should phones have something that shows your profile to people in the proximity?

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  • This isn't exactly what you're going for since it isn't automatic, but Apple is introducing NameDrop in iOS 17 which will allow you to share contact info by holding iPhones next to each other (similar to Bump back in the early 2010s). Of course NameDrop is closed to Apple devices which sucks (Android has Nearby Share, but it doesn't default to sharing your contact), but the idea of being able to hold phones to each other to share contact info would be ideal for me - it'd be quick so I wouldn't have to think about it and would be willing to do it for brief interactions, but also ensures my info is only shared with who I choose.

  • Google Pixel @lemmy.world
    carnha @lemm.ee

    Android 14 Will Bring Support For Satellite SMS Starting With Pixel And Galaxy Phones, Will Require Supported Hardware

    wccftech.com /android-14-satellite-sms/

  • Has anyone had any luck with the Google Pixel 7A fingerprint sensor?

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  • For my 6a, when it gives me trouble I've run my finger against the outside of my nose and tried again - that's consistently worked for me.

  • What CLI apps you use to do common tasks like editing (pdf, audio, video, image) files.

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    • pdfcrop (commonly included with LaTeX) for cropping margins - it cuts the pdf down to its contents then adds a margin of your choosing, extremely useful for forcing academic papers to have consistent margins, pdfcrop --margins 72 *pdf here* will create a document with a ~1in margin all around (it uses bp as its units)
    • vips for resizing/converting images - it's a bit faster and lighter than imagemagick in my experience, although the main reason I use it instead of imagemagick is just because I like playing around with stuff I haven't used before :) It has an officially supported python binding too