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Where did the dust settle on Syncthing Fork? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by psycotica0@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hey folks! I know a while back there was a kerfuffle because syncthing-fork for Android went dark, and then a new person showed up and claimed everything was cool and they'd been privately given the keys or something, and people were concerned. I pinned my fdroid version to the at-that-time-current release until we got clarity.

Well, it's been a while and I just noticed I'm still on that old release. So... how'd it turn out? Do we like the new person yet? Is there a promising fork y'all are using? Or is the project dead? I'm sure I could just go look at the repo, but I'm also sure the repo would tell me "yeah, we're all cool" no matter what, so I'm curious what the community feelings are. Have there even been any useful new releases since then?

Thanks!

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

What a bs permission to have been invented.
It should be it's own special network permission or something but what the hell does that have to do with the general meaning of "location"?.
Just allow the app to see what SSID I am connected to if I want to allow that

Sry for having to endure my rant

[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 16 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

It's actually a bit informative. I believe Android approximates location using the SSID/WiFi information, so it's not just network that it's used for.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Hm...Still so.
It should be its fully own permission to allow even if it belongs both to location and networking.

[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I think the idea is that it is not something separately securable? I don't disagree, I'd like to be able to disallow any app not explicitly granted permission to use any method to determine my location. Unfortunately if Google can scan WiFi and figure out your location, anything with access to WiFi can too maybe?

I don't know. I love technology but this fucking surveillance state situation is really getting to me. Routers using WiFi signal passing through your body to identify and locate you regardless of whether or not you are carrying any tech and all the other shit I don't know about... ugh.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

I'd like to be able to disallow any app not explicitly granted permission to use any method to determine my location

Yep. That's what ai want.