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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • And that’s the issue. I totally understand that one does not want to look through tens of thousands of lines of code just to use a silly little app. Even if you can understand the programming language and even if you took your time to look into it, its really unlikely that one would find either malicious code or simply security relevant bugs just from skimming through it.

    However, if everyone just relys on others no one actually checked it. Yes it is possible to look into OS code but that alone doesn’t make it better. There has to be at least someone to check it. The open source community is such a small one already.

    It’s like buying a ticket for the train. There might be controls so almost everyone does it. But as soon as it gets common knowledge that there are never any checks some will start to not do so. And in case of software even if something gets spotted eventually it might have had enough time to cause serious damage





  • Well they can promise updates yes. But they are limited on the android version to the manufacturer of the chips. The company shift which has a similar concept as Fairphone currently suffers from that problem: they cannot upgrade their shift5me to a higher version than android 8 and a lot of apps recently dropped their support to older android versions (e.g. banking apps)




  • Thank you for your response! My phone uses Android 8 (saidly the manufacturer doesn’t provide the software upgrade…) and at least I did not actively revoke any permissions (as I don’t know how :D)

    However, your explanation what’s actually happening gave me an idea what the problem might be and I found it: I am using Blokada and apparently this interferes with the check. Deactivating Blokada solves the problem and reactivating it will cause the same issues again. Then I also noticed that my Blokada version is way to old and it didn’t received any updates because apparently it was removed from fdroid and there was a lot of fuzz about it which I need to catch up with.

    So I guess it’s not a jerboa issue. Still, thank you for your help! I really appreciated it.







  • I’m new to the fediverse and as I was looking for new communities to subscribe to, I missed that feature as well. What I found more confusing is that the cursor actually changes to that “click me” finger when hovering over a column title like it would be able to sort. That’s why I first thought, it isn’t working only for me.

    Searching through the github repo I found this issue of three days ago which asks for this feature. OP has given a work around there: You can filter for your instance and sort the communities at https://lemmyverse.net/communities