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The Syncthing Android drama is exploding
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But overall, feels a bit overblown.
Better safe than sorry.
Also, from what i just read, he seems to be playing dumb in some of his answers, while also repeatedly ignoring important questions and closing the issue because "too heated".
In one issue (from 3 days ago) he also asks, kinda angry, if people want to see the chat he had with the previous maintainer before receiving ownership of the repo, but in the next comments he says he didn't save that chat as screenshots.
Like... WUT??
I started reading thinking it was just people being too cautious, but now I'm sure the guy is full of shit and I would expect the worse to have happened here, honestly.
Even when well meaning sometimes malicious code can slip through like with smarttubenext due to a compromised machine.
So I think people forget that just because something is foss doesn't mean it is automatically safe and caution can be thrown to the wind. Skepticism and being overcautious is still good practice before installing things.
I like to wait a while before installing new updates just to see if anything is caught by the community to try to reduce potential risk.
When did smartube next have malicious code. Some news site said it not the maintainer. Maintainer changed keys to be cautious.
It always is. The thing with FOSS vs a private company is that internal debates are:
Meaning we not only see the ""drama"", but that it can become more verbally intense. Buuuuut it almost never ends up mattering much to the average user, and when it does, the public certainly won't learn about it on github or the replies to a toot.