@izzy: welcome. My choice is in both since it kind of overlaps, of not possible for manager, since in a sense, that is what it is doing while integrated to Android. Your call :)
@beeshyams OK, added it to the first place with a short comment. As for my repo: Though Playstore states its version is from 8/2015, the newest APK at GH is dated 11/2014. My policy usually is to not add anything that didn't have a release within the last year at least. Obviously, dev missed to add the latest release at GH (Play: v2.1 / GH: v2.0), so I'll drop a note in an issue there for now.
Done that – in case you want to follow up and "+1" it :) Depending on the answer/solution, I will then add it (if at least the most recent version is added to the releases/ page at GH).
Done that after creating an account now. Not aware of the format of +1. Anyway. Hope he responds. Personally I find both apps impressive and one fetched a bounty and the other may too !
Btw: Recommended food for my repo (closing up to 150 apps now) is always welcome :)
I'm just "training" my own crawler currently. It uses the Github API to fetch all Android related repos with activity in the last 3 days, then automatically filters out all those apps already present in my repo, then the same for the F-Droid repo. Following that, it applies a bunch of filters to get rid of "development stuff" (libraries, code snippets) etc.
It's already pretty efficient: Instead of myself having to check ~25 result pages with 10 entries each per day, it currently ends up with ~70 entries for 3 days – effectively filtering out about 6/7 entries. I'm targeting for even more efficiency, so I only have to verify a handful of entries per day (and the filter catches out 19/20 or better) :)
@beeshyams Thanks! Now let's see if that's enough motivation for Ian #D
That's not the repo, but the app listings. And not all apps from the repo are listed there (not from mine, nor from F-Droid, not to speak of "all from Play" :)
@izzy: Impressive, though honestly, I don't follow completely :). Buy how is Ian to know what you are upto? Suppose GitHub offers a view. Glad I could contribute and would do so if I find worthy candidates
Maybe you should consider linking in your profile the awesome curating of apps so that others too may enrich the collection while being benefited
Aside, of late , say last quarter or so, number of interesting questions send to have seriously reduced IMO
@beeshyams He follows the link I gave and finds the repo. Usually, devs of FOSS Android apps are aware of F-Droid, so they know what it means.
@beeshyams I often drop notes where it applies (i.e. useful apps which are not present on F-Droid so I'd consider adding them to my repo). Linking to my profile (here? at Github?) wouldn't help much, as that would require those devs to check the profile. They wouldn't without having reason to :)
Oh: And yes, Github offers a "view". Want an "initial link" to fine-tune?
@beeshyams Thanks! Never had that badge before, which is why I'm so excited about it :)
And as for the router: after some back-and-forth and we-have-no-solution, they finally offered sending me a downgraded replacement (with a firmware not yet "locked down" via signature check). So then I can install my custom firmware on it, configure everything, and send back the other router once everything is up and running.
@izzy: sure, it's a BIG one, congrats again. Sorry for the router bit- I was thinking you meant on the context of apps, wherein u were training your crawler but this hardware chat was not with me.. You will need to copy paste to the right guy
@beeshyams Yupp. I've just scrolled the chat window, that one goes to @DanBrown :)
Had to crawl my head a bit on what you had in mind... Probably the auto-update of my repo, or the auto-filtering of my query via the Github API?
Yeah, finally found a "cookie monster" that self-destructs cookies and localstorage of non-whitelisted domains as soon as their last browser-tab is closed, so I'm rid of that Google search popup annoyance hopefully without manual intervention. And of Amazon's tracking :)
> Cookies, LocalStorage from google.com just self-destructed
\o/
of course, first thing to do was to whitelist SE and a few others :)
Wow. Funny thing to see google.com cookies being destroyed without having a single tab open on one of their sites. Obviously some 3rd party stuff in another tab I've just closed :)
@Izzy Cool, they sent you a downgraded router! (Shame it seems that they were reluctant) Also, that Cookie monster sounds like the nightmare fuel of trackers and advertisers alike. I like it.
As for the router: I told you the company is reasonable and fair. I know this is not the only solution – but with any of the others they'd either enter a "gray zone" or go even darker (telling me some backdoor, manufacturing some firmware with "SecuOff"). So the opinion I had of the company was being confirmed: They do their best as good as they are allowed :)
@DanBrown No idea. I've locked my FF on v43 for several reasons I no longer completely remember. Two of them were: no installing of unsigned addons with v44+, and something with cookies.
@beeshyams Complete quote of what I started in that 3G/4G comment, allegedly from a lesson Einstein gave at some university:
> Gentlemen, everything is relative. Whether a minute is long or short depends on whether you're sitting on a hot stove – or rather having a sweet girl on your laps.
@Izzy Hmmmmm, yeah. I'm having hub problems on my end- It (for some reason) does not allow android devices using NuPlayer to stream, but happily allows them if the switch to AwesomrPlayer. It seems like a LAN issue (it's effecting all android devices connected)
Wait, Einstein (allegedly) said that? Not bad, we are all human ( I guess)
@DanBrown sounds like some host NuPlayer relies on is blocked. Not sure what that would say about NuPlayer if it were true.
@DanBrown As with many quotes, AFAIK this one is not proven to really be from him. But it would fit him, so he could have said that.
It's a very plastic explanation, isn't it? Especially considering that Einstein had to repeat a class at school as he failed the tests in Physics (sic!) :)
So he might have been sympathetic with his students :)
PS for the "shame" above: working in IT myself I luckily know the differences between 1st, 2nd and 3rd level support. So I pushed it far enough to get the 3rd level involved; 1st level usually only repeats the howto and/or articles from the knowledge base. 2nd level has some more background, but not necessarily knows all technical details :)
And with some details I gave, I had the feeling I even impressed 3rd level (they seemed not to know about one specific service running on their system, for example) and definitely 2nd level (I showed them were the "not existing setting" was located in the router interface #D)
Yeah. I didn't study that UI in so much detail within the past 10 years as I did within the past 10 days. And to give them credit: I read later that setting was just added with the latest update :)
@Izzy found an Issue with that Cookie monster- on mobile versions of FireFox, you cannot access the whitelist.
Also, it seems That NuPlayer was not agreeing with the busyboxes on all my devices and the one on the hub. So, Sky being nice people and thanking "this guys media player is broke" blocks the codec on my hub. By blocking any mp4 video. Heart is in the right place, I guess?
@DanBrown I tried it on the desktop at work today, up to now no issues. That whitelist seems to be the same dialog as you get for managing cookies without that addon (it was even pre-filled with the values from there). Just enter the domain (e.g. example.org, not www.example-org) and set it to "block", and the addon should deal with it.
Set it to "session only", and the addon seems to deal with that as "until browser restart" (not tried, but from the interface it seems like that).
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