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Neither ICEBlock nor Red Dot are OSS. Seems a little hypocritical. Why not provide the code on GitHub? Why not offer alternative download sources?
by raffael_de 1y ago
Neither ICEBlock nor Red Dot are OSS. Seems a little hypocritical. Why not provide the code on GitHub? Why not offer alternative download sources?
- ajross 1y agoThat there isn't a free software implementation here is indeed bad. Trying to fight about software liberties at this moment when the apps are being de-facto banned is Just Not the Time. But absolutely start a project under a permissive license. That's a great idea.
- Y_Y 1y agoSeems to me like it would be a great opportunity to make a list of subversives, judt by exfiltrating their identity via the "app". Cooperation from the developer is optional. There's precious little reason to distribute as an app, except for exploiting the user. If all you wanted to do was show things on a map then the web is already well set up for that. In fact the apps are probably just embedding a web browser anyway (haven't checked). I'm no fan of ICE, but I wouldn't trust these developers either.
- tdeck 1y ago> There's precious little reason to distribute as an app, except for exploiting the user. This is a very Hacker News centric perspective; most of us probably use the browser on our phone for hours every day. But a lot of normal people simply don't - if it isn't an app, they won't really use it. I find it strange, but I've seen this over and over again.
- subscribed 1y agoThis app wasn't even the safest, see here: ICEBlock handled my vulnerability report in the worst possible way | https://micahflee.com/iceblock-handled-my-vulnerability-report-in-the-worst-possible-way/ https://micahflee.com/iceblock-handled-my-vulnerability-repo...