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Heading headwind with FOSS solutions

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This Week in F-Droid

TWIF curated on Thursday, 14 Nov 2024, Week 46

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Inter Profile Sharing, Easily share media and text between Android user profiles, was newly added, allowing you to share data between Android User profiles. User profiles come in several forms, most common one is the Work Profile and Android expanded over the years how these function and different manufacturers choose different ways to support them (eg. some have a ‘Clone apps’ feature). Profiles allow separation between apps and data, as the user sees fit, but if need arises to throw files and data over the fence to another profile, the newly added app will surely help.

Headwind MDM Agent was updated to 6.11, making the proposition for a FOSS Mobile Device Management (MDM) System for Android. We usually see proprietary solutions for this type of software, and while we’d be against limiting users freedom in using their devices, this might make sense in some situations.

Minetest was updated to 5.10.0 but now it bares a new name: Luanti. The whole name thing was the subject of discussions since Minetest started and you can read more about the decision in the team blog post. Latest version also brings some nice features, detailed in a separate post.

OSM Dashboard for OpenTracks and OSM Dashboard Offline for OpenTracks were updated to 5.0.0, and upgraded to reproducible builds. What does this mean? F-Droid now hosts the developer signed packages, but this also entails the need for its past users to uninstall old versions and reinstall the new one.

Removed Apps

12 apps were removed

ForRunners, Track your personal fitness, hasn’t seen an update since 2018.

We’ve covered the issue of the famously orange Simple Mobile Tools suite a year ago, and during this time, the green Fossify suite grew to completion. So the time has come to say our goodbyes to the following apps: Simple Calculator, Simple Calendar Pro, Simple Camera, Simple Clock, Simple Contacts Pro, Simple File Manager Pro, Simple Keyboard, Simple Launcher, Simple Music Player, Simple Notes Pro and Simple Voice Recorder.

The apps are now archived, so if you want them you can still get them, but we encourage everyone to embrace the green suite and switch already.

Newly Added Apps

8 more apps were newly added

Updated Apps

148 more apps were updated

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Startup’s “AI” tool spams GitHub repositories with bogus commits, without consent

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Most of the time, products with “AI” features just elicit sighs, especially when the product category in question really doesn’t need to have anything to do with “AI” in any way, shape, or form. More often than not, though, such features are not only optional and easily ignorable, and we can always simply choose not to buy or use said products in the first place. I mean, over the last few days I’ve migrated my Pixel 8 Pro from stock Google Android to GrapheneOS as the final part of my platform transition away from big tech, and Google’s insistence on shoving “AI” into everything certainly helped in spurring this along. But what are you supposed to do if an “AI” product forces itself upon you? What if you can’t run away from it? What if, one day, you open your GitHub repository and see a bunch of useless PRs from an “AI” bot who claims to help you fix issues, without you asking it to do so? Well, that’s what’s happening to a bunch of GitHub users who were unpleasantly surprised to see garbage, useless merge requests from a random startup testing out some “AI” tool that attempts to automatically ‘fix’ open issues on GitHub. The proposed ‘fixes’ are accompanied by a disclaimer: Disclaimer: The commit was created by Latta AI and you should never copy paste this code before you check the correctness of generated code. Solution might not be complete, you should use this code as an inspiration only. This issue was tried to solve for free by Latta AI – https://latta.ai/ourmission If you no longer want Latta AI to attempt solving issues on your repository, you can block this account. ↫ Example of a public open issue with the “AI” spam Let me remind you: this tool, called “Latta AI”, is doing all of this unprompted, without consent, and the commits generally seem bogus and useless, too, in that they don’t actually fix any of the issues. To make matters worse, your GitHub repository will then automatically appear as part of its marketing – again without any consent or permission from the owners of the GitHub projects in question. Clicking through to the GitHub repositories listed on the front page will reveal a lot about how developers are responding: they’re not amused. Every link I clicked on had Latta AI’s commit and comment marked as spam, abuse, or just outright deleted. We’re talking public open issues here, so it’s not like developers aren’t looking for input and possible fixes from third parties – they just want that input and those possible fixes to come from real humans, not some jank code generator that’s making us destroy the planet even faster. This is what the future of “AI” really looks like. It’s going to make spam even easier to make, even more pervasive, and even cheaper, and it’s going to infest everything. Nothing will be safe from these monkeys on typewriters, and considering what the spread of misinformation by human-powered troll farms can do, I don’t think we’re remotely ready for what “AI” is going to mean for our society. I can assure you lying about brown people eating cats and dogs will be remembered as quaint before this nonsense is over.

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