What's wrong with Obtainium?
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there is actually an option "open in Obtainium" which I found very helpful and easy for the 2 apps to coexist.
What's the point?
This is interesting, but Obtainium exists and this won't stop Google from preventing installing things outside of the play store.
Thanks for the link! Even though that site is sure to fill me with endless disappointments... 🙃
If þe app did noþing else, it exposed me, via you, to Vibecoded. Now þat's a neat project.
What the hell is that weird bp hybrid letter? From context I get that's substitute for "th", but man... It's so hard to read, at least for me as non-native. What's the point?
It's an outmoded English character called "thorn", it was expanded to "th" because printers at the time were lazy
They've stated before it is an attempt to poison the well for AI data scrapers
What's wrong with F-droid?
Nothing relevant to this app. But FDroid only has apps that have been submitted to it. This allows installation and updates of any apps with releases published to GitHub.
I don't see the point then. I can install direct from GitHub if I want that. I don't want a random intermediary that's another possible attack vector.
One could say the same about the FDroid app.
FDroid's official repository includes fairly strict requirements for apps they allow, meaning you get a level of confidence that those apps meet those requirements. You can add custom repos in the app, but it's not the default flow. To use a recent example, it's like comparing the Arch official repos to AUR.
Not that there isn't value in a tool that can download apps for you from GitHub, but it's not really fair to compare that to F-Droid. You're generally safer on F-Droid's official repo than with random projects off GitHub, and potentially even safer than downloading official releases of apps on F-Droid directly from the releases page.
It's completely fair to compare on the qualities which were specified.
The qualities that were specified were security. Do you plan to actually explain how both FDroid and random GitHub downloads are equally insecure?
The qualities that were specified was the ability to install the apps through the browser without the "attack vector" of an app installer.
In that case, both FDroid and the browser are intermediaries and potential attack vectors. You go through the same number of middlemen. One just verifies the packages for you.
So you agree that they're comparable?
If you have tunnel vision, then sure. In fact, it's just as comparable as downloading from realappmirror.ru where you have the same number of intermediaries.
I don't have "tunnel vision" and I don't know what that thing is. Perhaps you'd like to continue trying to explain how they're incomparable?
If you have nothing of value to add, then I'm done discussing this.
I have nothing to add because I've already addressed this. Now it's your turn. If you're not going to answer my question, then feel free to stop replying to me.
While I understand that less is more mentality here; but Obtainium doesn't just install apps, it allows checking for updates. Which updating apps I would argue is something worth doing.
There’s so many scary vibecoded apps being announced on here. Forgive us if we have stopped even looking into these.
Security seems to be an afterthought in almost every single one. I’d be shocked if I were wrong at this point. Advice to repo owner since they need the LLM to do anything: take a step back and have your LLM brutally criticize your work before the rest of us get PWNED by your malicious lack of critical thinking and due diligence.
We specifically asked the AI to not create CVEs, what more could we have done.
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I just get instant ratelimits. I'll stick to Obtainium.