As if these issues weren't raised before they ever voted on the bill in the first place.
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F-Droid not being trusted. They build and sign a developer's code on their behalf, so there is a chance for injection there.
There are reproducible builds, but I would argue it's not taken seriously enough. Like right now nobody is publicly verifying Signal's supposed reproducible Android builds and they've historically had problems keeping it working.
Also how most (or all?) Play Store apps (including FOSS) contain proprietary code.
I assumed the topic was more about online privacy.
You can use your own builds of Signal (or preferably Molly-FOSS) including a self-hosted server. You can bring your own push notification as well.
Yes which is why other countries were notified first so they didn't retaliate automatically. A lot more discussion goes on behind closed doors than most people realize.
If the people pirating weren't going to buy the product in the first place, are they even hurting anyone?
Like life in general, there has to be a balance.
You can be not a helicopter while also teaching your kids not to go into the street.
The people who don't want to see openers aren't going to buy their music anyway
To be fair there's lots of power-tripping mods on lemmy as well, often using their colorful interpretations of subjective rules/terms to suppress opinions they don't like.
I will go one step further and say 1. most strong opinions are not based on deep knowledge, and 2. a lot of this drama is legitimate mental illness... a niche of a niche that by design is run by extremely paranoid people, often aren't all there in the head, or you could say they have simply crossed over the fine line of genius.
I'll take stories like this over the usual stuff any day.