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Client maintenance sponsored by the Calyx Institute

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The official client app is an essential piece of the F-Droid ecosystem.
Therefore, the Calyx Institute as a member and benefactor of the F-Droid
community offered to
sponsor a maintainer position to ensure continuous maintenance of the client
app independent of grants or available volunteer time.

The Calyx Institute suggested Torsten Grote as the first person they would
fund as a maintainer, due to his familiarity with the code base and due to
his substantial contributions in the past year. Calyx hopes that this would
free up time and energy of the current maintainer(s), so those could benefit
F-Droid in other areas.

The offer was discussed with the F-Droid community and the existing
maintainer(s). It was meanwhile approved and work is already
underway. The new F-Droid
Basic app variant of the
client enabling app updates without root or privileged extension is just one
example. The Calyx Institute hopes that this new maintainer role will
enable more external contributions to F-Droid and encourages other
benefactors of F-Droid to set up similar sponsorship agreements.

Other tasks of the maintainer include:

  • Try to identify and fix bugs, prioritizing critical issues
  • Responding to issues filed
  • Reviewing and merging merge requests
  • Continued improvements as the Android app landscape evolves
  • Making releases as needed

F-Droid Basic

Announcing F-Droid
Basic. Testing and feedback
appreciated!

F-Droid Basic 1.17.0:

  • targetSdk set to 33 (Android 13), and a bump to 34 (Android 14) planned
    soon.
  • Need to confirm updates only once per app, after that they’ll install
    automatically in the background.
  • No extra privileges required!

Apple held talks with Microsoft about acquiring Bing in 2020

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But come 2020, a new round of talks opened between Apple and Microsoft. Bloomberg reports that Microsoft executives met with Apple’s Services VP Eddy Cue to “discuss the possibility of acquiring Bing.” These talks were reportedly “exploratory” and “never reached an advanced stage,” Bloomberg says. The revenue generated from its deal with Google was a “key reason” Apple’s talks to acquire Bing never advanced beyond that stage. “The company also had concerns about Bing’s ability to compete with Google in quality and capabilities,” today’s report explains. Apple Bing sounds like something from hell. Imagine being forced to use Bing on every Apple device you own. That has to be one of the circle of hell Dante decided to not tell us about.

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La réduction de Meghan Markle et Harry de l’accord Netflix devrait être beaucoup plus faible que pré

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