New TWIF Submission Thread

Licaon_Kter · November 5, 2025, 5:12pm

~~did we cover Manifesto 2025: the freedom to communicate belongs to us yet?~~

~~. https://jami.net/jami-survival-kit-your-backup-solution-in-case-of-internet-failure/ .~~

Licaon_Kter · November 5, 2025, 5:21pm

~~. OsmAnd 5.2 (Android) | OsmAnd .~~

Licaon_Kter · November 7, 2025, 5:20pm

~~. Luanti Non-Profit: We've Joined Open Collective Europe - Luanti Blog .~~

shuvashish76 · November 8, 2025, 11:47pm

Summary

Shutting down our search proxy Leta | Mullvad VPN

linsui · November 12, 2025, 7:43am

~~Kotasu:~~

In light of recent challenges — including threating actions from Kakao Entertainment Corp and upcoming Google’s new sideloading policy — we’ve made the difficult decision to shut down Kotatsu and end its support. We’re deeply grateful to everyone who contributed and to the amazing community that grew around this project.

Licaon_Kter · November 12, 2025, 10:06pm

~~. Uwolnić Smartfona: Aplikacje – Wolność w Kieszeni .~~

CodeDoctor · November 13, 2025, 2:42pm

~~Butterfly 2.4.1 is here with the biggest set of bug fixes and improvements in a long time.~~

Highlights:

Delayed autosave
Thumbnail capture improvements
Template import and export improvements
Improved PDF handling
Drawing improvements
File view and UI improvements
Multi-input and tools improvements
Stability and performance for large files

Read more here: Butterfly 2.4.1 released

paulali · November 13, 2025, 3:36pm

This week there was Droidcon Kampala happening on the 10th to the 11th of November. I had the opportunity to talk about F-droid and how users can distribute their own apps using F-droid and Repomaker. The talk was aimed at college students interested in Android development.

The slides are here: Copy of Distribute your own Apps with F-Droid - Google Presentaties

Many thanks to the Droidcon Uganda team and the F-droid team for making an amazing project. \o/

linsui · November 13, 2025, 5:14pm

~~. Releases · jurihock/voicesmith · GitHub An update after 11 years.~~

linsui · November 14, 2025, 8:32pm

~~Mensa new maintainer. GitHub - famoser/Mensa: eth & uzh mensas in zurich .~~

Licaon_Kter · November 17, 2025, 1:59pm

~~. VIDEO: An Android Retrospective .~~

linsui · November 17, 2025, 3:33pm

~~. status · Issue #16 · researchxxl/syncthing-android · GitHub Syncthing fork is transferred to other devs.~~

shuvashish76 · November 19, 2025, 9:30am

Summary

After Nearly 10 Years of Building Mastodon, Eugen Rochko Steps Into Advisory Role

hans · November 24, 2025, 7:54pm

~~## Reproducing and testing together~~

In the process of doing all this development work, we ran mass rebuilds of the whole collection of apps, killing two birds with one stone. First, it served to test our new build automation with the existing apps, and second, it showed us with apps are reproducible. For the apps that were not reproducible, we have looked into fixes in our stack, in upstream build tools, and in the app themselves. and what kinds of issues

We mapped out all the issues we have encountered caused by running builds in VMs versus containers. There are two classes:

Those that are sensitive to CPU/RAM configurations, since VMs and containers present CPU and RAM limits differently.
Builds needing privileged calls that containers normally do not normally support in production setups (direct writes to sysctl or /sys/devices/system/cpu/)
The method for presenting CPU and RAM limits are implemented differently between virtualization (e.g. libvirt) and containerization (e.g. Podman) are different, and are not interchangeable. This can lead to build differences. We currently know of no workaround or fix for this.
we’re up to 68% reproducible builds now too