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I have been following the development from the beginning and the TL;DR is that the original maintainer deleted his repository, and a new maintainer appeared out of thin air, with the original maintainer’s signing keys. As of now, I would refrain from updating (the last presumed safe version to be found in the post linked below). In the future, there is a new fork from a trusted packager of the GPlay version of Syncthing-fork which might be the way forward, or one might use another client altogether.

More story: The new maintainer says they got the keys from the original maintainer after agreeing to maintain the application instead of the original maintainer so that the original maintainer can retire. However, the alleged “transition” was done so poorly (more like sketchy as all …) that the community has mostly decided to, at least for now, not blindly trust the new maintainer as there is no indication from the original maintainer that such a transition was indeed done, and that nothing malicious is going on. Nothing malicious has been found for now, but everything is sketchy as … Time might help mend the broken trust, but I would say that at this point and with the behaviour of the new maintainer so far, that is somewhat unlikely.

Read more on this in the official Syncthing forum post.

It is definitely worth looking at. I am working with mostly blog posts RSS feeds, but this might come useful one of these days, too. Thank you for the suggestion.

Exactly. Otherwise, DecSync would be perfect (and I even used DecSync in the past).

Aha, I haven’t thought about using the same Linux application. This approach might be worth investigating. Thank you for the idea.

My only gripe with RSS is the usual dependency on a synchronization server (whether it is a 3rd party server or self-hosted). I have been searching for way too long for a local-first RSS application for both Linux and Android which would store the RSS feeds (as in, the downloaded posts) in a local folder that could be then synchronized between Linux and Android applications using Syncthing or similar. Sadly, still no results. Anyone know about something?

Never thought about it, but yes, this is exactly what I need. I like to experiment with extensions, so I have a plethora of extensions, which I often turn on and off. Therefore, most of them are just in the dropdown menu and scrolling through the menu is taking way too long for my taste.

I have been using the previous version since before it was pulled down. I still think Raccoon is the best Lemmy client I came up across.

While I disagree with you, this made me chuckle. A great joke. Wish you all the best.

(Also what’s HTH?)

“Happy to help.” or “Hope it helps.”

I especially appreciate that the graph is designed as “Linux” and “Other” instead of “Windows”, maybe “MacOS” and “Other”.

You are mistaking KMail (desktop client by KDE) and K-9 Mail (Android client that is being rebranded into Thunderbird for Android).

Brave Search currently, but I am still in the experimenting and search engine-hopping phase. Henceforth, Brave Search is not my final search engine, either.

I had used it for a while in the past. The results were surprisingly good. I have moved to other search engines to experiment since then, but I have nothing bad to say about my time with Qwant.

Syncthing encrypts the data, so it will be encrypted when being transferred. However, Aegis can export the vault into an encrypted file, too. So the vault file you will be transferring over an encrypted channel is encrypted itself as well. That means that the vault is secure even when at rest on some device.

It is way better now, but it is still a work-in-progress, especially regarding some more advanced features (none of which I found myself missing when on trips) and some polishing (not enough man-power to polish everything as of now).

I am going on trips with Anytype as well. Worked fantastically for my last two week-long trips. Relatively quickly, you can prepare on your PC an itinerary with files such as boarding passes, tickets, both as a normal file and embedded images to show at gates and similar. You can copy-paste e-mails, information from the web, links (URLs, etc. with additional context). Prepare for your travels, tick off things to do before leaving for your trip as well as creating tasks (as reminders, though without an actual reminder in your notification bar on mobile. You have to check the app for them.) to do before each day on the trip. All of this can be dumped into a single “page”, or organized into a hierarchical structure annotated by tags, relations between the objects and more.

To put it simply, I always find something missing in various itinerary apps. Anytype gives me the freedom to input every and all type of information I need for and during the trip.

Slight warning: If you input the files on PC, you need to them click on them (download them to your local storage) in the mobile as well. Then you can access them without requiring connection to the internet from your mobile later on. If you do this, everything you put in your Anytype itinerary will be accessible offline. Ideally, try accessing everything on mobile when your Wi-Fi and data connections are turned off.

Aegis is so great especially because it allows you to set an automatic backup every time you add a new TOTP. This way, a backup is made immediately after modifying the MFA vault, stored in your phone storage, where it can be grabbed by your synchronization system of choice (e.g., Syncthing), replicating the backup on your other devices, for example. This way, you can rest assured you will always have your MFA vault no matter what.

Librera Reader is the best reader I have had the honour to try. I have been using Librera Reader for several years now, and I think it is safe to say I love the app. It is actively maintained, and new features are added continuously. There are plenty of settings to allow you to modify the user experience exactly to your liking. If you are considering reading any e-books or PDFs on your Android devices, give Librera Reader a try. It is a fantastic app.

K-9 is rebranding as Thunderbird for Android, indeed. But since many users of K-9 expressed their desire to keep the logo and name of K-9, Thunderbird agreed to publish both versions: one rebranded as Thunderbird for Android, and the other keeping its original branding as K-9. We will see whether that will complicate things for Thunderbird team too much yet.

The Venn diagram of “FOSS app users” and “software enthusiasts” is closer to a circle.

Now this is the quote of the week for me 😂 It is mostly accurate, unfortunately, but I cannot stop giggling about it.