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Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by ryanlol »

throwaway3699 wrote: post #163
ryanlol wrote: post #100

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Twitter is right wing Twitter, Gab is decidedly a far right website. Just take a quick look at the comments on the top stories in the “Gab trends” section: https://trends.gab.com/item/60163b8f144291532b8bccb0 Bill gates conspiracy theorists https://trends.gab.com/item/601682466beb1e3de3156fe1 “Pence is a traitor!” https://trends.gab.com/item/6016992e144291532b8d5986 “Socialists are murderers!” Are these normal right…

The populist right has been systemically purged from Twitter. It's not that Twitter is left wing but they ban right wing thought, leading it to be a slanted echo-chamber. Gab is definitely right wing Twitter. I've seen equally whacky things trending on the left side, e.g. "Russian Ads on Facebook won Trump the election".

https://gab.com/groups

3 of the top 10 gab groups are pushing the Qanon conspiracy theory, one is pushing the “StopTheSteal” extremist movement.

Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by dolmen »

Irishsteve wrote: post #109
vagrantJin wrote: post #72

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The devs are the consumers. So it can be a niche store? I dont know what a normal person would be doing on github.

What I meant is - GitHub could create a Google Play store. The supply side (Devs) are on GitHub in abundance, so they could have a big catalog. If GitHub could somehow solve the demand side (Phone users) they'd be sorted.

Great. I will just have to click on "Fork" to make a scam.

Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by thiht »

villasv wrote: post #32

> They already host source code of millions of apps. Release integration should be trivial to implement. Release integration is trivial for anyone. It's the easiest and most irrelevant part of the app stores. > Unlike Google they actually listen to their users. They were awesome during youtube-dl debacle. And controversial on others, like shutting down Popcorn Time's repository. As any other, they'll listen if there'…

> And controversial on others, like shutting down Popcorn Time's repository.

What's the controversy? Popcorn Time IS illegal. Butter-desktop however is not, and is still active on GitHub.

Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by jitendrac »

SulfurHexaFluri wrote: post #257
jitendrac wrote: post #94

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Do you Host it at Home with static IP or DynDNS?? and which internet service provider do you use? Edit:Found its BSNL

Hosting with a dynamic IP is not particularly hard. I had a raspberry pi ping my IP back to the dns server minutely and it worked well.

would you mind sharing the script? I earlier used noip.com,and my router's dyndns, I will love doing it other way.

Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by dolmen »

GekkePrutser wrote: post #226
rrdharan wrote: post #120

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Samsung security, privacy and general software qualify are all a joke as far as I can tell and it’s amusing anyone would put them in even the same ballpark as Google. Dog bites man is not news, and neither are most of the Samsung software travesties ranging from software supply chain debacles to TV spying to data breaches. Nobody even cares in the tech community because no one expects anything of them.

We were just talking about privacy, in that sense I think Samsung is roughly at the same level (considering it can't get much worse than Google :) ). I think Google is doing a good job with their Pixel phones indeed in terms of security, though they need longer support IMO. Samsung seems to just call everything 'knox' but not really specify what exactly they're doing. So from a security point of view I agree.

> I think Samsung is roughly at the same level (considering it can't get much worse than Google :) )

Well, what about Huawei who want to send your data to China?

Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by dolmen »

mjoin wrote: post #15
Pfhreak wrote: post #4

Sounds like a great way to create incentives that undermine githubs mission while simultaneously taking a huge amount of developer resources for a product that will have niche interest at best. Building app stores is hard. Moderating app stores is hard. Both are significantly different from running GitHub. While I appreciate the author's intent here, this just doesn't feel like it was deeply thought out.

GitHub has been expending its services, diverging from its original intent (e.g. remote visual studio code). I disagree. I think providing that a way to distribute applications through GitHub, with builds certified as coming from the original authors, would be beneficial.

About remote visual studio code, I don't think that's diverging: it's just one more client for their hosting services. Users remain developers.

Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by Phemist »

bruce511 wrote: post #266
tester756 wrote: post #229

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Blame Libre installer then?

Yes, I agree. To fail to register as the default program for all the extensions you support, ideally optionally, is surely the fault of the installer not the os? There are perhaps better anecdotes for reasons to dislike windows...

Im not sure if libreoffice is fully to blame, I don't think it is possible for applications to _change_ the default app directly themselves, they now need to link to the windows settings screen to have the user manually do it. It is a fair point that libreoffice currently fails to do even this.

Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by GekkePrutser »

dodobirdlord wrote: post #242
GekkePrutser wrote: post #226

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We were just talking about privacy, in that sense I think Samsung is roughly at the same level (considering it can't get much worse than Google :) ). I think Google is doing a good job with their Pixel phones indeed in terms of security, though they need longer support IMO. Samsung seems to just call everything 'knox' but not really specify what exactly they're doing. So from a security point of view I agree.

> considering it can't get much worse than Google :) What? It can get way worse than Google. For all the privacy invasive things that Google does it’s one of the least bad. Unlike most companies that collect data it doesn’t directly sell user data, and it has a good history of avoiding security vulnerabilities that leak data.

Avoiding vulnerabilities that leak data to others except themselves you mean :)

I suppose the Chinese state and the apps they control like WeChat is worse in terms of what they do with the data (this social credit score etc). You're right. I was mainly thinking about the collection itself, not what is done with it.

What I mind mainly about Google is that they use it as payment for their services but don't provide any option to opt out and just pay with money. Though I suppose even if they did that at this stage, I wouldn't trust them.

Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by GekkePrutser »

dolmen wrote: post #275
GekkePrutser wrote: post #226

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We were just talking about privacy, in that sense I think Samsung is roughly at the same level (considering it can't get much worse than Google :) ). I think Google is doing a good job with their Pixel phones indeed in terms of security, though they need longer support IMO. Samsung seems to just call everything 'knox' but not really specify what exactly they're doing. So from a security point of view I agree.

> I think Samsung is roughly at the same level (considering it can't get much worse than Google :) ) Well, what about Huawei who want to send your data to China?

True but Huawei is no longer a player on western markets. I didn't really consider them.

Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by canofbars »

jitendrac wrote: post #274
SulfurHexaFluri wrote: post #257

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Hosting with a dynamic IP is not particularly hard. I had a raspberry pi ping my IP back to the dns server minutely and it worked well.

would you mind sharing the script? I earlier used noip.com,and my router's dyndns, I will love doing it other way.

Its different based on what service you use but pretty much all of them just involve dropping a line of curl in to your crontab file to run every minute.
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