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F-droid themselves gave an update in April:

https://f-droid.org/en/2026/04/03/twif.html

If you’ve been holding off updating Syncthing-Fork we have two pieces of news for you. First, the original dev continues to collaborate still, we know this was a pain point back then. Second, we’ve just added BasicSync, A simple app for running Syncthing, which just controls Syncthing’s running behaviour as hands off as possible, while the original service hums in the background.

So it seems since the handover things have settled but there is also a new fork which takes a more bare-bones approach.

A shame one of the alternatives mentioned in the article is down but available via wayback machine. They wrote their own reply after being linked to:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250905155850/https://belkadan.com/blog/2023/11/GitMounter/

A few days ago Julia Evans posted this:

has anyone made a read-only FUSE filesystem for a git repository where every commit is a folder and the folder contains all the files in that commit?

the idea is that you could just run cd COMMIT_ID and poke around instead of checking out the commit

and maybe the branches could be symbolic links to the commit folders?

And I did in fact do something very like that, back when I was playing with FUSE! But I never put it up anywhere cause it had an annoying build process, and didn’t seem to add much, and—

Well, in any case, Evans asked to see it, so here it is, cleaned up to be a plain old SwiftPM package. It should work on macOS and on Linux as long as you have FUSE (macFUSE or libfuse-dev), libgit2, pkg-config, and Swift installed; on Linux you’ll have to create the mount directory first. (If you run the command and it fails it’ll tell you what path it tried to use.)

% swift run mount-git /path/to/checkout

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By the way, if you don’t know who Julia Evans is, they make blog posts and zines exploring all sorts of software in a way accessible to newbies and veterans alike, all with a lovely sense of discovery and enjoyment. This follow-up post to the original prompt really underscores their approach:

guys this is such a fun idea I cannot believe people are in the replies trying to explain to me why they think it is impractical

the whole point of computers is to do impractical things and see what happens

You should definitely follow them and/or subscribe to their newsfeed. :-)

Grateful the SFC has got users’ backs!

This is the meat of the headline:

For example, the Anthropic-claimed 181 Firefox exploits ran with the browser sandbox turned off and the FreeBSD exploit transcript “shows substantial human guidance, not autonomy.”

Additionally, the “‘thousands of severe vulnerabilities’ extrapolates from 198 manually reviewed reports. The Linux kernel bug was found by Opus 4.6, the public model, not Mythos,” Devansh said.

Another researcher, Davi Ottenheimer, pointed out that the security section (Section 3, pages 47-53) of Anthropic’s 244-page documentation “contains no count of zero-days at all. With no CVE list, no CVSS distribution, no severity bucket, no disclosure timeline, no vendor-confirmed-novel table, no false-positive rate.”

Ottenheimer likens it to “the ending of the Wizard of Oz, a sorry disappointment about a model weaponizing two bugs that a different model found, in software the vendor had already patched, in a test environment with the browser sandbox and defense-in-depth mitigations stripped out.”

From the github if you were wondering:

Free, open-source, self-hosted wardrobe organizer. Catalog clothes, build outfits, PWA. Docker one-liner deploy.

I mention https://lemmy.ca/c/linuxphones in case you’ve not found it already. It’s not like an authoritive, central forum where everyone goes but maybe it’s a start.

More than one it seems:

https://forum.typst.app/t/tinymist-vs-typst-vim-vs-typst-preview-nvim/1775/7

Rick Astley’s birthday is 6th Feb 1966, just saying

Hello

Somebody developed a Home Assistant integration for monitoring and managing sourdough starters

I like your thought so I wondered if there is a site to help people pick a distro and found this:

https://distrochooser.de/

For a windows gamer type of person it came up with Linux Mint

https://distrochooser.de/en/d59f9b3e7b9b/

…at the top of a long list of other choices. Not bad!

NY is next

New York Senate Bill S8102A goes further. It “requires manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to conduct age assurance” to check all users’ ages, and provide this info to “all websites, online services, online applications and mobile applications” – as well as app stores.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/os_age_verification/

At 5mbps it should take about 1 hour for 2GB. It sounds like your actual speed is 2-3x lower. Can you take that up with your ISP? Are you certain your machine has the best connection within your control, i.e. directly wired into the router? Network equipment is not faulty? Have you tested with iperf within your network? Just in case there’s another issue beside the slow external speed…

Another thing that springs to mind is to use a backup tool like restic that will not only compress but deduplicate your data into hundreds of small files that might make upload faster. Dedup can save significant space and you can try it out locally first. Just do restic init then restic backup PATH.

Restic can use rclone as a backend also and upload straight to google: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html#other-services

Finally there’s sometimes nothing faster than physically moving data. A person jogging with a 100gb drive has great bandwidth! Is there a location with better internet within reach? A library or school perhaps?

The danger being raised with the licensing is that you can’t license something if you’re not considered to be the author. There are growing examples of courts and lawmakers determining AI output to be public domain:

The US Supreme Court recently refused to reconsider Thaler v. Perlmutter, in which the plaintiff sought to overturn a lower court decision that he could not copyright an AI-generated image. This is an area of ongoing concern among the defenders of copyleft because many open source projects incorporate some level of AI assistance. It’s unclear how much AI involvement in coding would dilute the human contribution to the extent that a court would disallow a copyright claim.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/ai_kills_software_licensing/

This is an evolving, global situation and hard to know what to do right now. I think what you’ve got is fine though - you’ve made it clear your intention is to license with AGPL. It’s just that depending on the jurisdiction it might be public domain instead.

This is another reason to be clear about the use of AI in the README so your users can make an informed decision.

https://strudel.cc/

What can you do with Strudel?

• live code music: make music with code in real time
• algorithmic composition: compose music using tidal’s unique approach to pattern manipulation

Interesting, some effort required to keep it on track:

Claude can be very persistent when it really wants to do something. I’ve seen Claude run the contents of a make command when make itself is blocked, or write a Python script to edit a file it’s been told it can’t edit. But hooks at least offer better enforcement than prompting alone.

There was a moment in time where maybe it was qmail:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmail

Ten years after the launch of qmail 1.0, and at a time when more than a million of the Internet’s SMTP servers ran either qmail or netqmail, only four known bugs had been found in the qmail 1.0 releases, and no security issues.

More on how it was accomplished:

https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/17/some-thoughts-on-security-after-ten-years-of-qmail-1-0/

Wow that’s bad. The original idea of standing up, I understand, was to keep the meeting short through physical discomfort and only speak of blockers to progress or ask for help. It is not meant to report status, which can make people feel like they have to continually justify themselves and their work.

Don’t encrypt the drive, encrypt the backups and put your keepassdb alongside. Use restic or similar that encrypts backups.

The contention is that Mattermost say it’s licensed under AGPL but then they add conditions which are incompatible with that license. So it seems they want to give appearance of AGPL but not give the actual rights that come with it. So therefore it’s not AGPL.

This reminds me of RSS, designed for reading and pared back to the minimum required to deliver the message and nothing more.