Category: Open Source

German Arias: FisicaLab 0.4.0 is out!

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After many years FisicaLab 0.4.0 is available. Comes with a new module for thermodynamics and a bug fixed in chalkboard. Most changes are internal, a reorganization of different solvers that will make easy, in future versions, save and load physics problems from a file. Due to a bug in GNUstep with Tool Tips, now there is an alternative interface based on IUP. Tool Tips are used in FisicaLab to show information of each element at chalkboard. For the moment there ins´t binary packages. But maybe later.

Vulnerability Patching for F-Droid apps

Posted on by Michael G

TWIF generated on Thursday, 12 Oct 2023 ,Week 41

F-Droid core

Vulnerable Apps in F-Droid patched and updated for you

This week we updated and patched some apps for the
0 day vulnerability in libwebp .

Please update them as soon as possible:

More apps will be fixed in the future so please keep an eye on the Updates
tab warnings notices. There are still many apps using the libwebp from Android system.
If your system hasn’t got the fix yet then you may be still in danger.
You should check them by yourself as we can’t fix that from our side.

Krita has released a new version with the fix but we can’t
get it built correctly yet. You can switch to the upstream build (non-foss libs included) meanwhile.
If you keep using the old versions please be careful to not open untrusted webp pictures.

New F-Droid Client

A new F-Droid client v1.18 is out.
Some of the new updates include:

  • Fixed using repos and mirrors from External Storage on recent Android releases
  • Improved WiFi management in Nearby
  • The navigation bar now remembers its position even when F-Droid restarts
  • New Language support: Swahili is supported in this new release yay!
  • Fix downloading images for repos still using index-v1
  • Fix crashes related to swap, managing repos and more
  • The Downgrade button was removed, Android no longer allows that

We are now starting the 1.19 alpha cycle which includes a major overhaul of adding and managing repos and mirrors.
It also includes the ability to automatically install updates on newer Android versions.

Community News

RadioDroid is back!

As highlighted in the TWIF last week,
RadioDroid
is back and is out running on V0.86. The author has been hard at work to ensure a
couple of additions and changes have been included.

Some of the additions are:

  • Auto stop support for auto start-play

Changes included in this update include:

  • Enabled Android TV again
  • Distribute package as AAB on Play store from now on
  • Sorting of entries from loaded files is now the same as the file
Reproducible builds on F-Droid

reproducible-builds.org published their September report mentioning F-Droid:

September saw F-Droid add ten new reproducible apps, and one existing app switched to reproducible builds. In addition, two reproducible apps were archived and one was disabled for a current total of 199 apps published with Reproducible Builds and using the upstream developer’s signature. […] In addition, an extensive blog post was posted on f-droid.org titled “Reproducible builds, signing keys, and binary repos”.

You can read the full report here.

Removed Apps

2 apps were removed
  • LibreAV – too many false positives, development has stalled
  • Voice Recorder Plugin – long overdue as Conversations has integrated the functionality years ago

Newly Added Apps

11 apps were newly added

Updated Apps

207 apps were updated

Thanks for reading, updates and new apps will come, some apps might be removed, but as usual the cycles continue onward.

Feel free to join the TWIF forum thread if you have any news piece from around the community, maybe it will be featured next week.

Google killed the website star

Posted on by Michael G
Mustafa Suleyman, the British entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind, said: “The business model that Google had broke the internet.” He said search results had become plagued with “clickbait” to keep people “addicted and absorbed on the page as long as possible”. Information online is “buried at the bottom of a lot of verbiage and guff”, Mr Suleyman argued, so websites can “sell more adverts”, fuelled by Google’s technology. Anyone who has tried to find anything on Google in recent years knows that Suleyman is 100% correct. Google’s search results have become so bad because website makers play the SEO game, and that means creating content that Google’s algorithm likes – but, and here’s the kicker, what Google’s algorithm likes, is not really what people like. Writing an article to please a computer is entirely different from writing an article to please a human. There are very clear and well-understood and thoroughly studied rules about writing in a way that makes things easy to read, but Google’s algorithm doesn’t optimise for that. And now “AI” is being trained on this crap content, so that they will also produce crap content. We’re not far away from a future where bots are writing content for other bots that teach other bots to write content for bots. In fact, that future may already be here, judging by some of the style of writing I’ve been seeing even on otherwise venerable outlets. This is also why so many websites have started posting basic, simple how-to articles. You see stuff like “How do I move my apps on an iPhone?” or “How do I delete a folder in Windows?” or “The best neckband headphones of 2023” all over the place now, even on websites where they clearly don’t belong and don’t fit the audience, not just on content farms – these articles are not designed for readers, they’re designed to catch Google search queries and generate traffic. It must be absolutely soul-crushing and mind-numbing to write stuff like that and optimise it for SEO, but you know – fish’ gotta swim, bird’s gotta eat. Here’s a little inside hockey for you: on several occasions over the past year or so, both OSNews as a whole, and me individually, have been approached by serious parties to effectively turn OSNews into one of those content farms. Some have even tried to get me to write such “content” for their own content farms. Clearly, we’ve never accepted such offers – I’m no cheap date – but the pressure is there, and not everyone can resist. It’s why so many tech websites that used to have a clear identity and tone have become so much more bland and repetitive. They are all tiny cogs in massive content networks now, with their original stated goals and interests shoved to the wayside – all to chase the SEO. We’ve clearly not yet fallen victim to this – OSNews is still just me posting news – but that also means we’re not making any money in the ways other tech websites do, and in fact, why we’re not making enough to keep things going without OSNews’ owner footing the bill out of his own pocket. That’s why I’ve been more active and persistent in promoting our Patreon, Ko-Fi, merch store, and Liberapay, since it allows us to not worry about the financials as much. It always feels awkward to do, but I also realise that if I want OSNews to keep going for another 25 years, that’s really the only thing I can do. Because Google has thoroughly ruined every other avenue for websites like ours to make money. I’m so sorry for the headline.

Nisam lud – Domaćice sa Bosfora 14 Epizoda

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Kerajaan peruntuk RM788 juta untuk bantuan awal persekolahan

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The Ebb-Tide by ROBERT Louis STEVENSON and LLOYD OSBOURNE

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24 Oras Weekend Part 1: Mandatory repatriation sa Gaza, walang face-to-face classes dahil sa…

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Castlevania_ Nocturne _ “I’m Free” -Sydney-James-Harcourt, Lindsey-Stirling_|N TRAILER|

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