This is a cool user script.

Thank you !

I do want to encourage anyone running user scripts on their email clients to be very careful.

What about stuff that runs everywhere, including email clients ?

uBO for example, is a much bigger codebase that no random user is gonna read, yet it does run on ProtonMail and there's no way to be sure no malicious person injected something in there to read people's emails.

In addition, I also have userscripts that technically do run everywhere, but only do something concrete on some websites, that I don't have a finite list of URLs for.

For example, Fediverse redirector is a userscript that redirects any Fediverse app instance to the user's choice. But, any URL may be a Fediverse app, and I need to check it first. Same with Enhancements for Forgejo, this one adds features to Forgejo instances, but any URL could be a Forgejo instance.

if you don't understand every bit of the script you are opening yourself up to exploitation

Yeah, maybe I should add some comments, and also highlight the import of createFetchInterceptor (still my own code but in a separate file for reusability).

This is the privacy community after all.

* Piracy 😉

It doesn't, that's provided by Cortile.

My point is that I'm working a solution for end users.

The solutions you're offering are not user-friendly.

I'm and end user working for end users.

Well, I'm just automating what people currently have to do manually : visit GitHub and download DEB and install DEB.

If the automated process would be dangerous then the manual process also would be, and that would be on the maintainer for not providing an APT repository or a Flatpak, not on the user for just downloading from GitHub.

I didn't know there was one, that's interesting, thanks.

Updates must still be delayed because of being third-party though.

Discord not automating downloads of DEBs is one of the reasons motivating me to do this.

Personally I need the desktop client because I mod it with plugins that are so useful that I can't do without these anymore.

Alternatively, there are third-party repositories here and here.

There still is delay between Discord releases and repository updates so I still believe dynapt to be the better solution.

In an APT package OMG 😂

I found an online version though, which I would never have found through my search engine (and on a site that doesn't even support HTTPS) 😅

Looks like difficult reading too 😭

Thanks anyway.

Sorry to ask

Don't be. I would love to know that an existing and more experienced program does what mine does.

I've been looking for it myself for a long time before deciding to build it.

isn’t this basically the same thing as apt-cacher-ng?

Here's what I'm reading :

Apt-Cache-ng is A caching proxy. Specialized for package files from Linux distributors, primarily for Debian (and Debian based) distributions but not limited to those.

A caching proxy have the following benefits:

• Lower latency
• Reduce WAN traffic
• Higher speed for cached contents

+------------+         +------------+        +------------+
| Apt Client |  <------+ Apt Cache  | <------+ Apt Mirror |
+------------+         +------------+        +------------+

So, not the same thing.

It locally mirrors existing repositories containing existing packages, it doesn't locally create a new repository for new packages from standalone DEBs.

local repo with file:// scheme

With that, I couldn't trigger a download when apt update is ran, I could only do a cron, i.e. a delay, that I do not want.

custom apt-transport

I thought about that, but found no documentation on how to do it. If you have any, I'm interested.

Even just finding documentation on how to generate DEBs and APT repository metadata files was very hard.

Thank you for your appreciation !

Je ne mettrai jamais une personne enceinte de ma vie car j'estime que ce serait une condamnation pour cet enfant compte tenu du monde dans lequel on vit, pas besoin de citer d'éléments spécifiques.

Mais si je finissais quand même un jour par changer d'avis, aussi improbable que cela soit, j'adopterais, car j'estime qu'il y a déjà assez d'enfants sans parents dans ce monde.