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This Week in F-Droid

TWIF curated on Thursday, 26 Dec 2024, Week 52

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Will you be at the 38-th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg between 27–30 Dec 2024? If so, did you install the 38C3 Schedule and the c3nav Indoor navigation apps yet?

@thore proposed an F-Droid meetup at 38C3, so if you fancy a real human talk, add the FOSS Android App and F-Droid Community Meetup to your Day 2 TODO schedule!

Conversations and Quicksy were updated to 2.17.6+free polishing more of the UX about bubbles, avatars and reactions. While Audio and Video calls have been available since April 2020, recently the apps also got “Android calls integration” too. This makes an XMPP call behave like a normal phone call yielding useful features like: better Bluetooth integration and busy answer when you get called during an ongoing call. Not all Android versions support this, but newer ones do, so it all should be fine and dandy, right? Well, not quite. The integration was part of a larger code refactoring and the initial feedback was from plenty of devices, from many manufacturers, that… they stopped being able to call. Apparently this feature had a lot of bugs depending on the device and Android version, eg. tablets that advertised to have call integration or phones that did yet nothing worked. The developer started adding devices to an exception list with each new release making this an unwieldy endeavor. Latest version adds a toggle that allows users to just turn it off in case they’re unlucky and their device is one of the broken ones. Forks like Cheogram and monocles chat should follow suit soon.

Not all news is fun to type. We’ve been advertising the good work that the Divest project does, not only on the custom Android distro that helps old devices still be up-to-date but also about their apps in F-Droid. December marks 10 years of DivestOS, and this December will be the end of the project unfortunately. We wish Tavi all the best and thank them for all the work done during all this time!

Mull and Fennec we’re updated at the same time, so we hope there’s a way forward for Mull too and we’re tracking this in this issue. The rest of the apps might function by themselves or by having someone else host updated databases, we are tracking them in this issue.

@shuvashish76 fills the board:

LibreSudoku was updated to 2.0.0, with lots of changes. Major features include : Killer Sudoku, Backup & Restore.

Newly Added Apps

5 apps were newly added

Updated Apps

104 more apps were updated

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IncludeOS: a minimal, resource efficient unikernel for cloud services

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IncludeOS is an includable, minimal unikernel operating system for C++ services running in the cloud and on real HW. Starting a program with #include <os> will literally include a tiny operating system into your service during link-time. ↫ IncludeOS GitHub page IncludeOS isn’t exactly the only one of its kind, but I’ve always been slightly mystified by what, exactly, unikernels are for. The gist is, as far as I understand it, that if you build an application using a unikernel, it will find out at compile time exactly what it needs from the operating system to run, and then everything it needs from the operating system to run will be linked inside the resulting application. This can then be booted directly by a hypervisor. The advantages are clear: you don’t have to deal with an entire operating system just to run that one application or service you need to provide, and footprint is kept to a minimum because only the exact dependencies the application needs from the operating system are linked to it during compilation. The downsides are obvious too – you’re not running an operating system so it’s far less flexible, and if issues are found in the unikernel you’re going to have to recompile the application and the operating system bits inside of it just to fix it (at least, I think that’s the case – don’t quote me on it). IncludeOS is under heavy development, so take that under advisement if you intend to use it for something serious. The last full release dates back to 2019, but it’s still under development as indicated by the GitHub activity. I hope it’ll push out a new release soon.

Golems GABB: Drupal Project Browser: Guide

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Drupal Project Browser: Guide

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Fri, 12/27/2024 – 10:12

“In the past 18 months, Project Browser has gone from announcement to beta. And the latest beta has a full-featured user interface for discovering and installing projects, fulfilling the original vision of users not needing a command line.”
 — Dries Buytaert

How To Spot Covert Discrimination in the Ruby Community

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Covert discrimination is often hard to spot because it happens as personal microdiscrimination against one person or few people only without them belonging to a common minority group. As such, the people discriminated against are not protected by any minority group anti-discrimination measures, and are often abused without the abuse being detectable by outsiders because the abusing discriminators treat outsiders without discrimination, so they become none the wiser about the microdiscrimination happening against the one individual or few that are discriminated against. That is why I wrote a guide to spot covert discrimination in the Ruby Community and beyond.
https://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2024/12/how-to-spot-covert-discrimination-in.html

Microsoft puts an “AI” in a shell’s split view

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AI Shell is an interactive shell that provides a chat interface with language models. The shell provides agents that connect to different AI models and other assistance providers. Users can interact with the agents in a conversational manner. ↫ Microsoft Learn Basically, what Microsoft means with this is a split-view terminal where one of the two views is a prompt where you can ask questions to an “AI”, like OpenAI or whatever. The “AI” features are not actually integrated into your shell, which instead lives in the other view and acts like a completely normal, standard shell. Instead of opening up an “AI” chatbot in a browser window or whatever, you now have it in a split view in your terminal – that’s really all there’s to it here. I’m going to blow your mind here and say that in theory, this could be an actually useful addition to terminals and shells, as a properly vetted and configured “AI” that has been trained on properly obtained source material could indeed be a great help in determining the right terminal commands and options. Tons of people already blindly copy and paste terminal commands from websites even though they really shouldn’t anyway, so it’s not like this introduces anything new here in terms of dangers. Hell, tutorial writers still add -y to dnf or apt-get commands, so it can really only go up from here.

My Ration App KYC Kaise Kare | Ration card Kyc kaise kare | Ration Card e-KYC Gujarat

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My Ration App KYC Kaise Kare and Ration card Kyc kaise kare or Ration Card e-KYC Gujarat
and Ration Card e-KYC New Update 2025 | Ration Card eKYC online | ration card kyc kaise kare

Learn how to complete the KYC process for your ration card in this step-by-step guide! Whether you are in Gujarat or anywhere in India, this video covers all the details you need to know about ration card e-KYC. Stay updated with the latest 2025 guidelines for online e-KYC and make the process hassle-free.

Here’s a detailed explanation for completing your ration card e-KYC process with the two required applications:

Steps for Ration Card e-KYC Process
To successfully complete your ration card e-KYC, you need to install and use the following two applications:

🔷 1. My Ration App
Purpose:This app is used to manage your ration card details, check your beneficiary status, and complete the e-KYC process.
Download Link:
Search for “My Ration App” in the Google Play Store or follow this direct download link.

🔰 2. Aadhaar FaceRD App
Purpose:
This app enables Aadhaar-based biometric verification using facial recognition. It is mandatory for completing the e-KYC process.
Download Link:
Search for “Aadhaar FaceRD” in the Google Play Store or follow this direct download link.

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