I have been following the development from the beginning and the TL;DR is that the original maintainer deleted his repository, and a new maintainer appeared out of thin air, with the original maintainer's signing keys. As of now, I would refrain from updating (the last presumed safe version to be found in the post linked below). In the future, there is a new fork from a trusted packager of the GPlay version of Syncthing-fork which might be the way forward, or one might use another client altogether.

More story: The new maintainer says they got the keys from the original maintainer after agreeing to maintain the application instead of the original maintainer so that the original maintainer can retire. However, the alleged "transition" was done so poorly (more like sketchy as all ...) that the community has mostly decided to, at least for now, not blindly trust the new maintainer as there is no indication from the original maintainer that such a transition was indeed done, and that nothing malicious is going on. Nothing malicious has been found for now, but everything is sketchy as ... Time might help mend the broken trust, but I would say that at this point and with the behaviour of the new maintainer so far, that is somewhat unlikely.

Read more on this in the official Syncthing forum post.

While I disagree with you, this made me chuckle. A great joke. Wish you all the best.

As a researcher, I am very happy that recently all the conferences and journals we usually publish to champion open access publishing. Due to this, all my work is currently FOSS and all the papers open access. That is a great change to the papers of the past where you have to have an affiliation to a university to get access to a paper and sometimes even that is not enough.

I especially appreciate that the graph is designed as "Linux" and "Other" instead of "Windows", maybe "MacOS" and "Other".

You are mistaking KMail (desktop client by KDE) and K-9 Mail (Android client that is being rebranded into Thunderbird for Android).

K-9 is rebranding as Thunderbird for Android, indeed. But since many users of K-9 expressed their desire to keep the logo and name of K-9, Thunderbird agreed to publish both versions: one rebranded as Thunderbird for Android, and the other keeping its original branding as K-9. We will see whether that will complicate things for Thunderbird team too much yet.

The Venn diagram of “FOSS app users” and “software enthusiasts” is closer to a circle.

Now this is the quote of the week for me 😂 It is mostly accurate, unfortunately, but I cannot stop giggling about it.

Beside concrete suggestions, I would suggest having a look at the applications you use. (Decide whether you actually use and need them first.) Search for the application on AlternativeTo or similar sites and look for a FLOSS alternative there. And also search the internet for general FLOSS replacements for the use-cases of the applications you use. No need to rush anything. Even replacing one application a week is good progress.

ConcernedApe thought so, too ;) He works on Stardew his whole game development career. It is difficult to stop trying to improve the game and let your baby go after so long.

People are starting to comment on the topic and take notice? That is great to hear. It is not often that this happens when such a study is released. It might be that ordinary people who lack the knowledge on the subject may be able to comprehend the concerns regarding privacy in cars more readily than in other areas. Whatever the case is, I'm happy the discussion is finally happening.

You could open an issue on Lemmy's GitHub for this feature. It sounds really interesting. The developers should be aware of such features and how many people are interested on them.

Nevertheless, there is the one hidden advantage of this approach: You learn new things while trying to automate everything. Remember, that it is the journey that is important, not the destination ;)