By the way, archive.is and archive.ph are Tor unfriendly.
Not just Tor, they poison DNS queries from Cloudfare and Quad9, basically any DNS that doesn't give them sufficient location information about the end user.
VLC don't update on Fdroid, Fdroid compile all the apps on their repo (the one that comes with the app). Fdroid do some checks on the updated app before they compile it, so it's always a little behind the main release.
Edit: it could also be that VLC haven't yet released the updated app (and in particular its source), so Fdroid have nothing to work with.
Generally with small time apps, sure, but VLC are trustworthy enough to get it straight from the source. However, it's not like VLC is an app that you need to keep up to date as soon as possible.
That's right. Fdroid the app is just a program that accesses repositories. It's not even the only one, Aurora has a similar version of their own called Aurora Droid.
Fdroid the repo is a repository of FOSS apps maintained by the Fdroid team with apps they've reviewed and compiled themselves, to provide an element of trust that you might not get from every random developer.
There's no fool proof way of handling app trust other than developing your own understanding of the code. Otherwise you have to trust someone. Fdroid seem pretty trustworthy, more than the big corporations, and more than many unknown small time developers - however you can get app updates quicker direct from the developer, through the Fdroid app, if you're willing to trust them.
On Windows you should be downloading from the website.
Also FYI I think lemm.ee has some automation that blocks these. I don't ever seem to get them, yet when I check other instances I can see them. Either that, or our admin are just hot on this stuff and ban them early on - both of these users were banned 3-4 days ago.
lemmy.tf seems to be a problem instance, it's still running v0.19.0 and doesn't have captcha for sign ups.
You wrote usernames as email addresses. You should have put /u/ in front to make links. You can also use @, however that will send a metion notification to the user.
- /u/ThuleanSneed@lemmy.tf in !coffee@lemmy.world
- /u/ThuleanPerspective2@eviltoast.org in !anime@ani.social
Driving around Germany is probanly a similar distance, it just doesn't take as long.
Wish someone would file a motion to oust Greene.
Just don't ask the UK for nuclear weapons lol.
Yes, but only because it's Google. Fdroid do exactly the same thing in their repo.
The idea behind it is sound, because otherwise you're putting all your trust in the app developer. By having the store do some basic checks and compile the app the idea is they can guarantee no third party/bad actor has inserted malicious code.
However, this being Google, they are the bad actor.