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In the past two days, the official Syncthing Android client has been discontinued, making the use of KeePass harder. Bitwarden has been trying to move away from

In the past two days, the official Syncthing Android client has been discontinued, making the use of KeePass harder. Bitwarden has been trying to move away from a fully FOSS system. And now this?

tjoff 2y ago
> Bitwarden has been trying to move away from a fully FOSS system Details?
- josephcsible 2y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41893994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41893994
levzzz 2y ago
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tout 2y ago
fwiw i've recently moved to sharing my kpdb using taildrive. The KeePass Android app can open databases from WebDAV
- TheBozzCL 2y ago
  For iOS, Keepassium can use WebDAV as well.
sunshine-o 2y ago
The reason is the idea of a free operating system and software has been shattered and is now a guest in big corporations and Github. It still kind of work but it is starting to crack in a few places.
dailykoder 2y ago
I've been using keepass for quite a number of years now. I have my database and a security key. I sync my database with dropbox (because I am too lazy to self-host something like nextcloud) between devices and just manually copy my key on everry device. My key was never synced through the internet. I hope that's secure enough and works fine for me. I guess syncthing is just smaller and obviously doesn't need a third party?
- deleted 2y ago
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pjmlp 2y ago
Turns out living the FOSS dream is kind of hard.
- prmoustache 2y ago
  Tbh the same struggle affect proprietary software. It is more about individual developpers/small teams versus large companies.
  - pjmlp 2y ago
    Indeed, but it more acute when people don't give anything back, and hobbies don't last forever.
  - toomuchtodo 2y ago
    You have financial gain to show when proprietary software ends. When FOSS ends, you just have the experience. That’s fine for some, know what you’re getting into.
    - prmoustache 2y ago
      The license doesn't have anything to do with the financial gain. There are plenty of proprietary freeware and OSS devs who sell their apps on the playstore.
- azurezyq 2y ago
  it's not FOSS or not. Basically, who owns it or who pays for it. People have interest and people need earnings to live. Business is business.
- jasonm23 2y ago
  Why? The app can still be built / installed / source forked etc. That is the FOSS dream.
prmoustache 2y ago
A fork of syncthing had been in development and released for a while though, so use of keepass isn't really getting harder unless this developer also pull the plug. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncth...
kreyenborgi 2y ago
At least the Play Store version has: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2064 https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2064 But isn't https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid... still being kept up-to-date? I switched to f-droid at least, remember to Backup your config before uninstalling the Play Store version.
- zinekeller 2y ago
  It's discontinued, period (https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2064#issuecomment-2424797592 https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2064#i...). The fork seems to be fine currently though.
crossroadsguy 2y ago
> Bitwarden has been trying to move away from a fully FOSS system Again, as Harvey Dent said it…

In the past two days, the official Syncthing Android client has been discontinued, making the use of KeePass harder. Bitwarden has been trying to move away from a fully FOSS system. And now this?

tjoff 2y ago

> Bitwarden has been trying to move away from a fully FOSS system Details?

josephcsible 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41893994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41893994

levzzz 2y ago

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tout 2y ago

fwiw i've recently moved to sharing my kpdb using taildrive. The KeePass Android app can open databases from WebDAV

TheBozzCL 2y ago
For iOS, Keepassium can use WebDAV as well.

sunshine-o 2y ago

The reason is the idea of a free operating system and software has been shattered and is now a guest in big corporations and Github. It still kind of work but it is starting to crack in a few places.

dailykoder 2y ago

I've been using keepass for quite a number of years now. I have my database and a security key. I sync my database with dropbox (because I am too lazy to self-host something like nextcloud) between devices and just manually copy my key on everry device. My key was never synced through the internet. I hope that's secure enough and works fine for me. I guess syncthing is just smaller and obviously doesn't need a third party?

deleted 2y ago
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pjmlp 2y ago

Turns out living the FOSS dream is kind of hard.

prmoustache 2y ago
Tbh the same struggle affect proprietary software. It is more about individual developpers/small teams versus large companies.
- pjmlp 2y ago
  Indeed, but it more acute when people don't give anything back, and hobbies don't last forever.
- toomuchtodo 2y ago
  You have financial gain to show when proprietary software ends. When FOSS ends, you just have the experience. That’s fine for some, know what you’re getting into.
  - prmoustache 2y ago
    The license doesn't have anything to do with the financial gain. There are plenty of proprietary freeware and OSS devs who sell their apps on the playstore.
azurezyq 2y ago
it's not FOSS or not. Basically, who owns it or who pays for it. People have interest and people need earnings to live. Business is business.
jasonm23 2y ago
Why? The app can still be built / installed / source forked etc. That is the FOSS dream.

prmoustache 2y ago

A fork of syncthing had been in development and released for a while though, so use of keepass isn't really getting harder unless this developer also pull the plug. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncth...

kreyenborgi 2y ago

At least the Play Store version has: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2064 https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2064 But isn't https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid... still being kept up-to-date? I switched to f-droid at least, remember to Backup your config before uninstalling the Play Store version.

zinekeller 2y ago
It's discontinued, period (https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2064#issuecomment-2424797592 https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2064#i...). The fork seems to be fine currently though.

crossroadsguy 2y ago

> Bitwarden has been trying to move away from a fully FOSS system Again, as Harvey Dent said it…