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Is it another "another repository reset"

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[โ€“] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think that's generally agreed and no one seems entirely sure why catfriend1 chooses to do it this way.

[โ€“] helix@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe they created a backdoor and every time someone finds out a group of hackers rush to find another sneaky way to include a new one? ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] paper_moon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeaaah.. As a user, I didn't know they were doing this, its enough to make me question the integrity of the code and maybe switch to something else, like syncthing Tray or just using termux to install it.

For real. I'm probably gunna swap over to something else, this is pretty sus.