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F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]
- matheusmoreira 4y agoIs there a transcript available?
- c4mpute 4y agoF-Droid is great!
- cinntaile 4y agoIt should be Sylvia Van Os, I'm aware the original website gets it wrong too but Von OS makes it sound like she changed her name because of some sort of Open Source fanaticism.
- red_trumpet 4y agoAlmost, her website[1] spells it "Sylvia van Os", with a lowercase "v". In the Netherlands the spelling is mostly "van", in Belgium they use "Van" [2]. [1] https://sylviavanos.nl/ https://sylviavanos.nl/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_(Dutch)#Collation_and_capitalisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_(Dutch)#Collation_and_capi...
- sigg3 4y agoCamper and caravan are fine too.
- pluijzer 4y agoAs a Dutch person with a van-prefix working for a Belgium company it is a constant, losing, battle.
- hilbert42 3y agoI sympathize. Some incorrect usage just seems immutable. No matter how simple a matter it is to understand, no matter the effort needed to fix it, it just cannot be changed. For instance, in English, the incorrect use of the apostrophe to indicate an acronym plural, DVD's instead of DVDs. This misusage is so entrenched that even as I type this my Android phone's speller is trying to make me use the incorrect form! Another widespread problem is incorrect word usage of fewer and less to distinguish between 'discrete numbers' and 'bulk quantity'. Supermarkets are recalcitrant offenders, they perpetuate the problem at checkouts with signs such as less than 12 items. These two examples are just lost causes. I think we just have to accept that the entropy of English is increasing with word usage becoming less precise (I wonder how long it will be before fewer precise becomes acceptable). One could say people like me who notice the problem are just being pedantic and they're probably correct. However, a wider problem emerges here. Whilst the incorrect usages above are two notorious instances, there are others and when one comes across them one temporarily loses focus on the text to fixate on the bad usage, it is distracting and disrupts the flow of one's reading. Perhaps it's just me, but I find incorrect usage more distracting than typos or bad spelling, for instance people that run instead of people who run is more distracting than, say, the incorrect usage of its/it's, which is easy to overlook or mistype even when one understands the correct usage. Whilst I have a smattering of other languages I don't feel sufficiently competent to comment about them, but with English it seems to me if we're unable to fix the notorious examples, then we'll have even less success in fixing others.
- biorach 3y ago> For instance, in English, the incorrect use of the apostrophe to indicate an acronym plural, DVD's instead of DVDs. This misusage is so entrenched that even as I type this my Android phone's speller is trying to make me use the incorrect form! It's not as clear-cut as you think - that's a borderline case - many people view it as falling under the "small words" or "symbol" categories of appropriate use of the apostrophe for the plural: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Letters_of_the_alphabet,_and_small_words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Letters_of_the_alph... > Another widespread problem is incorrect word usage of fewer and less to distinguish between 'discrete numbers' and 'bulk quantity'. Supermarkets are recalcitrant offenders, they perpetuate the problem at checkouts with signs such as less than 12 items. The countable/uncountable distinction in English is eroding and may well be dead in a generation. It's a distinction that does not exist in many other languages and it seems that many native speakers feel it adds little to clarity. > I wonder how long it will be before fewer precise becomes acceptable You could try paying attention to how people actually use the language instead of hyper-focusing on imagined rule breaking and you'd quickly see that's unlikely to happen In the real world what is happening is that it has become acceptable to use "less" to describe countable quantities. It however has not become acceptable to use "fewer" to describe uncountable quantities and there is no sign of that happening. > people that run instead of people who run now that's getting really pedantic - spoken English in any register has always been fairly free about choice of relative particles. I'm not sure use of "that" in this context has ever been considered bad usage outside of highly prescriptive "Good English" guides.
- cinntaile 3y agoGood point, I can no longer fix it unfortunately. In Belgium you can also have both van and Van so it's not only Van.
- brokencipher 3y agoBoth in dutch (van) or french (de, d') in small caps in a name, indicate nobility.
- jorams 3y agoWikipedia says that's not true: > The German "von" is a linguistic cognate of the Dutch "van", however, unlike the German "von", the Dutch "van" is not indicative of the person's nobility or royalty. Van has a history of being used by commoners and nobility alike to simply signify ancestral relation to a particular place, (e.g. Willem van Oranje "William of [the] Orange [family]"; Jan van Ghent "John [who hails] from Ghent").
- mariusor 4y agoI have to admit I'm a little tickled at the nominative determinism here.
- paroneayea 3y agoThe case was correct, but I misspelled "van" as "von"... how embarassing! Fixed on the website.
- pluijzer 4y agoRight now I have put LineageOS on my old tablet together with F-Droid and Termux. When used with its keyboard case this makes for a suprisingly capable device. It is small and lightweight and I can use it to get actual coding work done. It is basicly my traveling laptop now. On F-Droid, these FOSS offerings of apps can be amazing. Trying to find a piano app for my baby. The once in Playstore pieces of ad delivery shouting garbage. The one I found on F-Droid is simple, clean and exactly what I was looking for. If it wasn't for the Microsoft Authenticator I need for my work I would have no need for the entire Playstore.
- ZiiS 4y agoDepending how locked down your work AD is; andOTP can scan and generate 6-digit codes which Microsoft support.
- pluijzer 4y agoI never knew this, thank you for the tip! I will try and get it to work this evening.
- CorrectHorseBat 4y agoandOTP is unmaintained, I would recommend Aegis
- ZiiS 3y agoThank you; I had missed that. Aegis is also great; but always a pity to loose such a trouble free piece of software.
- NoGravitas 3y agoThankfully, Aegis imports andOTP vaults with no trouble.
- raybb 3y agoDo you have any opinions on 2fas.com ?
- thejosh 4y agoFdroid is amazing. If you use it and your download speeds are crazy slow, double check the mirrors. Today I was shaving an issue where downloading was extremely slow, I ended up picking another mirror and my speed went from 2kb/s to instant downloads.
- nelblu 4y agoFdroid is my go to app store. Being on calyxos I really don't have much choice but every once in a while I search apps on aurora (play store equivalent for cayxos) I see it being full of junk apps
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- padraic7a 4y agoI love Fdroid and the way it makes FOSS software more available. I wish it was a bit more polished though. On my stock unrooted OnePlus6t there is no option for updating all possible apps at once. Like if there are 3 apps to update it takes at least 6 clicks to update them.
- SylvieLorxu 4y agoThat's being worked on actually and is already available in the F-Droid Basic Alpha: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fdroid.basic/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fdroid.basic/ Do note that the new APIs from Google require apps to take "ownership" of the update process of another app so if you update from another app then F-Droid Basic Alpha loses its ability to automatically update it until you manually update is from F-Droid Basic Alpha. As you'd guess from the name, it's still an alpha, but from my experience it works pretty well. Bug reports are helpful, of course :)
- padraic7a 4y agoBrilliant, that's great to hear.
- BLKNSLVR 4y agoThe Neostore app (available on F-Droid) is a slightly improved front-end to F-Droid that smooths some of those rough edges.
- SpaghettiCthulu 3y agoDroidify is my go-to F-Droid frontend and it supports one-click updating of all apps without confirmation (most of the time).
- jostiniane 4y agoFDroid is fantastic, all the apps are straight to the point, most of my utilities are now from there, email client, vpn client, call, sms, IM, browser, ... If I need something I start from there. I would love to go for LineageOS or GrapheneOS, just trying to make sure I have banking apps backup in an older phone before fully committing to it.
- gloghmalogh 3y agoFor what its worth, my banking app has worked without a problem on GrapheneOS with the sandboxed play store. Truly loving it. (I also went in with a backup and would suggest it just in case).
- NoGravitas 3y agoMy two banking apps have run fine on LineageOS with microG. There are plenty of other things that don't work, but the banking apps are fine.
- codethief 3y agoMaybe give GrapheneOS a shot then. In my experience, pretty much everything works out of the box.
- netbioserror 3y agoI do banking through the browser and it works just fine. That and Google Maps if I really need a pinpoint business location or traffic. We underestimate just how much still works fine in a browser, with the added benefit of being sandboxed and sucking very little comparative power to a native app. Often, mobile versions of websites are stripped down and quite nimble.
- UI_at_80x24 3y agoWhat email client are you using?
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- zoobab 4y agoTried to install on an old Android 4, absolutely nothing worked.
- zoobab 4y agoMy bad, I tried to install a too recent version: https://f-droid.org/docs/Running_on_old_Android_versions/ https://f-droid.org/docs/Running_on_old_Android_versions/
- Valodim 3y agoSlightly related shoutout, https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium is a fairly new app on the block for installing apks directly from source, wherever that is. It supports a variety of sources, including fdroid or github releases. Very promising :)
- pulpfictional 3y agohttps://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/ https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/ I like how F-Droid enabled the Android FOSS scene but I avoid using to get apps everytime I can. I'll use it as search and get the apps from their source repo with Obtanium.The way the F-Droid team dismissed those arguments is very off-putting. https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium
- kernal 3y agoF-Droid isn't a very good app. If you want to see proper apps I suggest you try Droidify or NeoStore.