Yesterday, Pebble watch software was ~95% open source. Today, it’s 100% open source. You can download, compile and run all the software you need to use your Pebble. We just published the source code for the new Pebble mobile app!

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    5 hours ago

    Apparently the packaging requirements for F-Droid are more challenging than just “must be open source” and aren’t for everybody.

    https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Inclusion_Policy/

    The “no Google Play services” alone are a non starter for many apps. My preferred messenger, Signal, is plenty open source and runs its own notification daemon, but cannot be found on F-Droid. I have to get it via Obtainium instead.

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      22 minutes ago

      Signal, the messenger that lags code sumps for a year so they can get a leg up with insider knowledge of their own cryptocurrency?

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      4 hours ago

      Signal […] cannot be found on F-Droid. I have to get it via Obtainium instead.

      You can get Molly on F-Droid. It’s a soft fork that iimplements UnifiedPush, among other things.