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The fdroid maintainers are... Less than competent. I recommend anybody not to use the main repo at all if they care about security, as any update could take weeks to arrive.


F-Droid maintainers are solely a volunteer effort. The CI helps a lot. The biggest slowdown in the chain is the manual offline signing step.

You can see here the history https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/commits/master/metada...

You can donate to support them here https://opencollective.com/f-droid or here https://liberapay.com/F-Droid-Data


Probably they are just overworked and understaffed. Possibly also lacking money for more/beefier build-servers?


The maintainers aren't really the problems - it's their, long and silly build process + schedule. Updates are _always_ at least three days behind, because their build schedule is set in stone and they refuse to change it.


That's a bold claim to make without something to back it up; care to share what warrants a rating of incompetent?


4. The decisions are taken by the unaccountable EU. (Precisely what's been happening for quite some time now)


Yes, that's what's been happening but it's exactly what I'd call "just-sort-of-happened without informed consent of the masses" - which is sustainable only while the costs are relatively trivial. If the impact grows, it will have to devolve to one of the three scenarios; the EU core institutions are composed of country's prime ministers and of directly elected representatives - all of those could and would be held accountable as soon as the people started to be bothered enough about the EU-wide decisions; currently they mostly vote for local parties based on their local issues, but if (when?) climate change and various options for tackling it (or not) would become an important issue in elections, then the same parties will put their EU-level votes as a key part of their election agenda.


Toothpaste doesn't pay tax?


Not sure if you’re being obtuse, but it’s common knowledge that transacting in crypto in the USA creates taxable events.

source: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...


Oh yes? I'm so looking forward to tomorrow's keynote then.


We have to flatten the curve, that must be our first priority. Once we are done with that we can consider other unimportant things like health


I don't have a business and I don't want to be shut in home. If you want to then lock yourself down, thanks.


No one wants to do chemotherapy or have tumor excisions, but you need to or you suffer a worse fate.


Chemotherapy is actually an excellent analogy. We don't give chemotherapy to everyone just because a few people might have undetected cancer.


It’s a reductio ad absurdism, I’m not saying everyone has potential cancer, I’m saying that sometimes protecting your health isn’t convenient or fun. The idea is that it is temporary.


Cancer does not spread rapidly through air. Also, chemotherapy is done after you get cancer. It is not a preventative measure.


It is preventative though, it prevents the cancer from progressing and metastasizing.


It is not preventative in the sense that you can't ask millions of people to get chemotherapy just in case.


Not a good analogy. Many doctors chose to bypass chemotherapy and tumor excisions. Chances are the gain is a handful of years of utmost misery. If that.

https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2014/05/How-do...

> “dying patients continue to be hospitalized and subjected to ineffective therapies that erode their quality of life and their personal dignity” while doctors “have a striking personal preference to forego high-intensity care for themselves at the end-of-life and prefer to die gently and naturally.”


I’m not good at analogies I guess. I’ll come up with a new one.


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