Hey folks! I know a while back there was a kerfuffle because syncthing-fork for Android went dark, and then a new person showed up and claimed everything was cool and they’d been privately given the keys or something, and people were concerned. I pinned my fdroid version to the at-that-time-current release until we got clarity.

Well, it’s been a while and I just noticed I’m still on that old release. So… how’d it turn out? Do we like the new person yet? Is there a promising fork y’all are using? Or is the project dead? I’m sure I could just go look at the repo, but I’m also sure the repo would tell me “yeah, we’re all cool” no matter what, so I’m curious what the community feelings are. Have there even been any useful new releases since then?

Thanks!

    • Star@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      12·
      8 hours ago

      I’m using BasicSync since a few weeks, the location permission is completely optional. This is what the app says:

      Location permissions are optional and are only needed when restricting allowed Wi-Fi networks. Even if the permissions are granted, they will not be used unless there are allowed Wi-Fi networks configured.

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        5 hours ago

        What a bs permission to have been invented.
        It should be it’s own special network permission or something but what the hell does that have to do with the general meaning of “location”?.
        Just allow the app to see what SSID I am connected to if I want to allow that

        Sry for having to endure my rant

        • theparadox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          4 hours ago

          It’s actually a bit informative. I believe Android approximates location using the SSID/WiFi information, so it’s not just network that it’s used for.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      Location is such a weird permission…
      For example the permission is also needed to find local devices via bluetooth (eyeroll)…
      And even then, local device finding is a sub-permission of location…

      • timochka@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        I think that’s more about telling users though that if they let an apl find local devices, that can be used to deduce your location.

    • tinsukE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      9 hours ago

      https://github.com/chenxiaolong/BasicSync#permissions

      ACCESS_WIFI_STATE, ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION, FOREGROUND_SERVICE_LOCATION

      Optionally used for stopping Syncthing unless connected to specific Wi-Fi networks.

      And location isn’t a permission granted by default on install (unlike Internet access), the user has to approve of it explicitly.

    • BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      10 hours ago

      To know if you are on your home network and use direct lan etc, rather than finding a sync relay in the cloud…something like that.

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      At least it’s open source so anyone can look at the code and figure out why it asks for the permissions.