FC (Fay) Stegerman obfusk

Edit: originally posted here on 2023-11-17.

Edit 2: "blocking protecting marginalised community members from abuse" refers to the events during the incident (which was never made public, which unfortunately leaves me unable to provide more detail) that prompted the creation of the Community Council to begin with.

Edit 3: please note that this statement was originally addressed to the F-Droid team, not a general audience.

Leaving F-Droid

With a heavy heart, I have no choice but to leave @fdroid, effective immediately.

If this app -- which many people had no choice but to rely on -- was supposed to be open source, then IMO it failed.

You had F-Droid maintainers willing to help bring the app to F-Droid and thus make it available to people without being forced to use the Play Store and accept Google's terms of service; however:

The code may use an open-source license, but the images are not redistributable

Finally – The EUPL 1.2 and the CC0 do not apply to photos, videos, infographics or other forms of images. It is therefore not permitted to reuse or transfer the image, unless the image explicitly states that it is permitted or you have received written permission of the Dutch Government. Such permission will not be withheld on unreasonable grounds.

I asked for permission several times but never received a reply. So the app had to be forked -- and looked much worse without the images -- for no good reason.

	#!/usr/bin/python3
	# encoding: utf-8
	# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 FC (Fay) Stegerman <[email protected]>
	# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later

	import apksigtool
	import dataclasses
	import sys

	# Usage: cat_sigblock.py [--prepend] APK_A APK_B

	#!/bin/bash
	diff -Naur \
	<( sed -n '/name="locale_values"/,/string-array/p' < app/src/main/res/values/settings.xml \
	\| grep '<item>' \| sed -r 's!.>(.)<.*!\1!' \| sort \| grep -v '^en$' ) \
	<( ls app/src/main/res/values-* -d \| sed 's!.*values-!!' \| grep -Ev 'night\|w600dp' ) \
	\| bat -p -l diff

	#!/usr/bin/python3

	import json
	from typing import Any, Dict, Iterable, List, Set, Tuple


	def packages(data: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, str]:
	d = {}
	for k, v in data["packages"].items():
	m = v["metadata"]

	curl -s https://f-droid.org/repo/index-v2.json \| ...
	... \| jq -r '.packages[] \| [.versions[]] \| max_by(.manifest.versionCode) \| .manifest.usesSdk.targetSdkVersion' \| sort -n \| uniq -c
	... \| jq -r '.packages \| to_entries[] \| select([.value.versions[]] \| max_by(.manifest.versionCode) \| .manifest.usesSdk.targetSdkVersion < 23) \| select(.value.metadata.lastUpdated/1000 > now-365/2243600) \| .key' \| wc -l

	#!/bin/bash
	LC_ALL=C exec grep -ahPo '[\x09\x20-\x7E]{4,}' -- "$@"