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Sep 28, 2026
Juan Carlos BagnellHOST
And I do want to cover a little housekeeping.
Juan Carlos BagnellHOST
But some of the topics you all have been posting, you know, the F-Droid update, I have in the show notes.
Juan Carlos BagnellHOST
The Facebook lawsuit, I have in the show notes.
Juan Carlos BagnellHOST
So we've got some stuff that we can chat.
ChrisHOST
So happy.
ChrisHOST
And then, Brent, you found a tool this week that actually could be very useful for me as well, and probably a lot of us, a command line F-Droid desktop client to manage the software on your Android device with a command line interface.
BrentPANELIST
I basically have been asking for this forever, and I didn't know this existed.
BrentPANELIST
And it's been around, like, it's not brand new.
BrentPANELIST
It's been around for a while.
BrentPANELIST
So F-Droid CL allows you to, through ADV, control F-Droid, basically.
BrentPANELIST
It's exactly what it sounds like.
BrentPANELIST
And I have not tried it yet, so there's that.
denolfeHOST
Many users discussed the ongoing challenges with app review and verification, especially on newer Android versions, and debated the future threats posed by increased restrictions from Google, including the 24-hour delay for installing non-Google apps and potential legislative actions.
denolfeHOST
Overall, the community viewed F-Droid 2.0 as a positive step, but highlighted the importance of alternative app stores and operating system choices for true software freedom.
denolfeHOST
ShowHN.
denolfeHOST
Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard.
NateHOST
And so we'll talk about all of that.
NateHOST
So they have now rolled out F-Droid 2.0. And for the most part, it's really about, I don't want to say UI changes because that kind of undersells it as if it's just like all cosmetic, but it's all a user.
NateHOST
It's not all, it's mostly all F-Droid.
NateHOST
user interface stuff.
NateHOST
So that way it's not too cluttered, but you know, one example they give is like games.
NateHOST
Yeah.
NateHOST
Where did it go down here? Yeah, so F-Droid 2.0 now distinguishes between 17 different game genres, making it much easier to find the kind of games you'd actually enjoy playing.
NateHOST
So they've got much more detailed categories.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Official support for ARM 64 Vita, Armia BI, ViVi 7, and x86 64.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Pre-built AAR libraries, reproducible F-Droid builds, which were added September 24th, 2026.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Kotlin and Java APIs for integration, and pre-built APKs for testing, including a simulated streaming ASR build for Parakeet TDT 0.6B V2 on ARM 64 and the V3 multilingual equivalent.
CornHOST
Sizes.
CornHOST
Not because the tools got worse, but because Google Security Ratchet keeps winning.
CornHOST
F-Droid and Shizuku are the current stopgaps, and they don't solve the thing that actually annoys him, which is reprovisioning.
CornHOST
He curates apps across three ecosystems.
CornHOST
Some F-Droid, some Play Store, some direct APK installs.
CornHOST
and he wants to know whether you can version control that posture.
CornHOST
Define your installed app list as code.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
And if you don't register, your app gets silently blocked.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Not flagged, not warned about, blocked on every Android device worldwide, and the user doesn't necessarily know why.
Malcolm BryantGUEST
If they lock it completely down, everybody will say, what happened to our nice, you know, our nice open platform? So they're trying to get the balance right.
Malcolm BryantGUEST
But, you know, the kind of the consequences that, you know, for example, if you wanted to go to the the single place that probably is most unlikely to serve you malware, if you wanted to go to the most reputable app store, it's something called F-Droid.
Malcolm BryantGUEST
Because everything in there is open source.
Malcolm BryantGUEST
Everything in there has been personally checked by the people who run F-Droid.
Malcolm BryantGUEST
And they re-sign all of the apps that are, right, So far more than the Play Store, if you want to get an app and be 100% sure that it's completely legit and no problems with it at all, F-Droid is the place to go.
Malcolm BryantGUEST
This new verification that Google is introducing breaks that model.
Malcolm BryantGUEST
I was going to
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The register covered the backlash extensively.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Developers pointed out that this would effectively kill F-Droid as a distribution channel and make it much harder for open-source apps to reach users outside the Play Store.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
And Google walked it back.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Partially.
8 MINS LATER
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The app selection is smaller.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Updates can be slower because everything is built from source.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
And the sideloading verification controversy showed that Google can, if it wants to, make F-Droid's life very difficult.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Because F-Droid relies on sideloading.
CornHOST
He's back this week with something much older and, honestly, much more likely to actually work.
CornHOST
He found a Morse code transmitter and decoder on F-Droid.
CornHOST
It's slow, but it works.
CornHOST
He wants to dig into Morse as a practical acoustic data channel between two nearby phones with the flashlight as a secondary, occasional option.
CornHOST
His setup is two devices close together, one with a Morse keyboard app, the other with a decoder app, though in practice one app does both.
CornHOST
His questions are specific.
CornHOST
How sensitive is decoding to audio interference or competing frequencies? What tips make the process actually work? If discretion matters, how do you guess where the speaker and microphone are on any two random phones? And roughly how loud does a transmission need to be before it stops being a quiet beep and starts being a thing everyone in the room notices? So let's start with what actually exists on F-Droid right now.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The app Daniel found is almost certainly crazy, Marvin's Morse.
CornHOST
So here's what Daniel's asking.
CornHOST
He installed Heliboard, the open-source Android keyboard from F-Droid, and found that getting predictions working meant downloading a dictionary file manually.
CornHOST
That sent him down a hole.
CornHOST
He wants to know three things.
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