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F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026

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Re: F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026

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Post by _emacsomancer_ »

miroljub wrote: post #16
microtonal wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even with Google's changes, F-Droid will continue to work with Android phones that do not use Google GMS. If you care about your actually owning your device, install something else than stock OS. I would recommend GrapheneOS, since the security of some/most other alternatives is pretty bad.

GrapheneOS works only with Pixel devices, which doesn't make it much useful for the vast majority of Android users.

GrapheneOS is working with a manufacturer to change this:[0]

> We're working with a major OEM and the devices will be the future versions of existing models they have now. The devices will be priced similarly to Pixels. The initial devices will have a flagship Snapdragon SoC for the best security and support time. Snapdragon flagships have significantly better CPU and GPU performance than Pixels. Snapdragon provides high quality Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GNSS and cellular support as part of the SoC. eSIM and other functionality is also provided by the SoC. Snapdragon has decent image processing functionality included too, and good neural network acceleration.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/1o32gpg/deleted...

Re: F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026

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Post by kruffalon »

pmontra wrote: post #33
ekjhgkejhgk wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do people need banking on their phones though? Banks have websites too.

This is asked again and again. Apparently you guys in the USA or in other parts of the world are still lucky, but in Europe banks must be compliant with regulation that more or less force them to do 2FA through their app with the biometric authentication of either an Android or an iOS phone. There are other ways (eg giving a hardware OTP generator to customers,) but apps are the cheapest solution.

Do you have a link with information about this?

I'm just wondering since I'm currently using 3 different European banks without any biometric authentication to unlock my phone, password manager or provide a 2FA.

I'm asking so that I can adjust in time to any new regulations I'm not aware of.

Re: F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026

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Post by frenchy »

9864247888754 wrote: post #60
bentley wrote: post #53

Were any of the current directors or new nominees involved in the incident where F-Droid marked Bible and Quran apps as NSFW, hid them from search by default, and expressed the intent to remove them completely ( https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/252#note_2578531026 )? (Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45638096 ) If I’m charitable, I could assume they intended to make a controversial move t…

She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a horse. 21 And so, Oholibah, you relived your former days as a young girl in Egypt, when you first allowed your breasts to be fondled. Ezekiel 23:20

I find it funny and sad that this is the sort of thing that people like to bring up as somehow bad and not the part where the Isrealites are admonished for not genociding the Cannanites hard enough.

Re: F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026

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Post by limagnolia »

saintfire wrote: post #32
microtonal wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed. Sadly the reality is that most other Android devices are simply not secure enough. Many Android phones do not have a separate secure enclave (outside Pixel and IISC Samsung flagship and A5x range), so they are vulnerable to breaking PIN-based unlocking, side channel attacks, etc. Besides that they often only provide old vendor kernel trees, old firmware blobs, etc. So, you have to wonder whether you want such…

Reduced security has always annoyed me a bit as an argument. Sort of in the same way as signal deprecating SMS because it's insecure. I get all or nothing when your threat model is state actors. However, for most people, the benefit is just freedom from corporate agendas. Not everyone needs kernel hardening, or always E2EE (as with signal). Personally I just like the features it provides (e.g. scoped storage, disabli…

Graphene is OSS, so if you want to create a fork that supports other phones, you are free to do so. The maintainers have limited amount of resources, why wouldn't they focus those resources on the most secure hardware if that is what aligns with their goals? If you have different goals, create or fund a fork to support more hardware.

Re: F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026

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Post by limagnolia »

fsflover wrote: post #57
izacus wrote: post #51

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There's really nothing odd that company that runs Project Zero also builds devices that are well secured.

Qubes OS, operating system designed for security, doesn't prevent its installation on computers without VT-d. It will just warn you.

Graphene doesn't really try to stop you. They just don't spend their own efforts on making it possible. It is OSS so, your free to spend your efforts where you want to.

Re: F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026

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Post by jajuuka »

9864247888754 wrote: post #60
bentley wrote: post #53

Were any of the current directors or new nominees involved in the incident where F-Droid marked Bible and Quran apps as NSFW, hid them from search by default, and expressed the intent to remove them completely ( https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/252#note_2578531026 )? (Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45638096 ) If I’m charitable, I could assume they intended to make a controversial move t…

She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a horse. 21 And so, Oholibah, you relived your former days as a young girl in Egypt, when you first allowed your breasts to be fondled. Ezekiel 23:20

Yeah, kids need to read this. Totally. /s

Re: F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026

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Post by zwarag »

scrollop wrote: post #7
microtonal wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even with Google's changes, F-Droid will continue to work with Android phones that do not use Google GMS. If you care about your actually owning your device, install something else than stock OS. I would recommend GrapheneOS, since the security of some/most other alternatives is pretty bad.

Would love to ditch google and use grapheneOS, however have so many banking and (stupid) outlook for work.

Theres e/OS where you can have a locked bootloader with some phones

Re: F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026

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Post by [deleted] »

9864247888754 wrote: post #60
bentley wrote: post #53

Were any of the current directors or new nominees involved in the incident where F-Droid marked Bible and Quran apps as NSFW, hid them from search by default, and expressed the intent to remove them completely ( https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/252#note_2578531026 )? (Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45638096 ) If I’m charitable, I could assume they intended to make a controversial move t…

She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a horse. 21 And so, Oholibah, you relived your former days as a young girl in Egypt, when you first allowed your breasts to be fondled. Ezekiel 23:20

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Re: F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026

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Post by caaqil »

9864247888754 wrote: post #60
bentley wrote: post #53

Were any of the current directors or new nominees involved in the incident where F-Droid marked Bible and Quran apps as NSFW, hid them from search by default, and expressed the intent to remove them completely ( https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/252#note_2578531026 )? (Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45638096 ) If I’m charitable, I could assume they intended to make a controversial move t…

She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a horse. 21 And so, Oholibah, you relived your former days as a young girl in Egypt, when you first allowed your breasts to be fondled. Ezekiel 23:20

Setting aside the context of this quoted verse and how NSFW stuff is judged in religious texts, this doesn't address the more important point that OP raised: the visuals of this verse and more extreme ones can be easily found on Reddit and similar allowed apps. So OP's points stands.
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