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Ok, so the Affinity Suite of tools (Photo, Designer, and Publisher) which is basically the best Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign replacements have gone free, but with a major catch: they are now owned by Canva and they want you to sign up for a Canva account.

Why is it free? They want you to upgrade to a Canva Pro account to use AI features.

The good news is that everything that was in Affinity V2 (the paid ones) is free in this new version. You can even remove the AI tab by just right clicking on it.

I'm only recommending it because it's very good software.

Pros:
  • One program for all your needs
  • Works well on PC/Mac
  • Free*
Cons:
  • Historically it's run like trash over Wine in Linux
  • Free Canva account now required
  • Free*
I'm honestly pretty pissed off at the change after buying V1 & V2 over the years, but this may help some people in the future.

 
I am currently on my phone, while the site's SSL certificates are borked. I always had issues with the Tor Browser working like piss (never connecting, losing everything whenever I switch from app to app).

I however found a combo that works for me, and I'm obliged to share:
Monocles Browser is part of the Monocles Project, basically a private WebView browser for Android with some nifty features, mainly its support for Orbot proxies.

You may need to enable cookies and javascript in order to sneed on here, but it looks to be a much more pleasant experience for long-term sneeding.

https://codeberg.org/monocles/monocles_browser
 
If you're using Syncthing-Fork on Android, you may want to stop auto-updates, downgrade or even uninstall for now: The project has changed hands without any forewarning or any kind of communication from the original developer. Nobody knows the new guy, and as far as I can tell, it's not yet clear whether he can be trusted.

Discussion on the Syncthing forum

nel0x, who already manages the Play Store releases, has forked the last known “save” version and plans to continue developing and managing it under the name Syncthing-Android.
 
Hamsteroid said:
If you're using Syncthing-Fork on Android, you may want to stop auto-updates, downgrade or even uninstall for now: The project has changed hands without any forewarning or any kind of communication from the original developer. Nobody knows the new guy, and as far as I can tell, it's not yet clear whether he can be trusted.

Discussion on the Syncthing forum

nel0x, who already manages the Play Store releases, has forked the last known “save” version and plans to continue developing and managing it under the name Syncthing-Android.
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Ah yes, fantastic. Wouldn't have known something fishy is going on otherwise.
I blame the Syncthing troons for deciding to just abandon the official Android app instead of getting new maintainers for it.

And now after a few hours I am beyond pissed because this new fork refuses to install as it detects a non-existent conflict and I seemingly lost all backups and configs so my configuration is whack. Amazing.

EDIT: In the end I have installed version 2.0.10.2 from the researchxxl repo as seemingly the original Catfriend1 APK is lost and I had to reconfigure everything by hand, while cutting my lifespan and accelerating my hair loss from anger in the process. One of the troubleshooting attempts I've done was rebooting into recovery mode, which thoroughly fucked with everything root related, as well as resetting all app defaults, so I had to re-enable and re-configure most of that shit by hand.
 
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Slav Power said:
Ah yes, fantastic. Wouldn't have known something fishy is going on otherwise.
I blame the Syncthing troons for deciding to just abandon the official Android app instead of getting new maintainers for it.

And now after a few hours I am beyond pissed because this new fork refuses to install as it detects a non-existent conflict and I seemingly lost all backups and configs so my configuration is whack. Amazing.

EDIT: In the end I have installed version 2.0.10.2 from the researchxxl repo as seemingly the original Catfriend1 APK is lost and I had to reconfigure everything by hand, while cutting my lifespan and accelerating my hair loss from anger in the process. One of the troubleshooting attempts I've done was rebooting into recovery mode, which thoroughly fucked with everything root related, as well as resetting all app defaults, so I had to re-enable and re-configure most of that shit by hand.
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All I did was exporting my previous config, uninstall and reinstall, then importing everything. Luckily I was lazy in how I updated the app so I kept the old v1 version.
 
Hamsteroid said:
If you're using Syncthing-Fork on Android, you may want to stop auto-updates, downgrade or even uninstall for now: The project has changed hands without any forewarning or any kind of communication from the original developer. Nobody knows the new guy, and as far as I can tell, it's not yet clear whether he can be trusted.

Discussion on the Syncthing forum

nel0x, who already manages the Play Store releases, has forked the last known “save” version and plans to continue developing and managing it under the name Syncthing-Android.
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Is there any actual evidence that one should be concerned apart from Syncthing forum denizens concerned that the new maintainer may not have signed a CoC to suck tranny cock?

Someone in the forum thread claims that the wiping of the old repo was done to hide something that might have compromised Catfriend1- who knows what, build artifacts with a username, an accidental git commit with a real email address, etc, etc. In which case, it seems just as likely that researchxxl is Catfriend1 (rather than someone he met modding SS13).
 
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Is there any actual evidence that one should be concerned apart from Syncthing forum denizens concerned that the new maintainer may not have signed a CoC to suck tranny cock?

Someone in the forum thread claims that the wiping of the old repo was done to hide something that might have compromised Catfriend1- who knows what, build artifacts with a username, an accidental git commit with a real email address, etc, etc. In which case, it seems just as likely that researchxxl is Catfriend1 (rather than someone he met modding SS13).
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Counterpoint: there have been so many situations where an open source extension changed hands only to suddenly become malicious, push a malicious update and compromised millions of users that there's (ironically) an extension meant to keep track of exactly that. Not to mention the xz backdoor fiasco that made people more aware of supply chain attacks. When a repo suddenly switches hands to someone who seems to have zero established presence and they refuse to explain what happened, you're rightfully distrustful of it. The trust in repo maintainers is more important than ever nowadays, and when you can't trust the maintainer, you can't trust the software. Simple as.
 
Slav Power said:
Counterpoint: there have been so many situations where an open source extension changed hands only to suddenly become malicious, push a malicious update and compromised millions of users that there's (ironically) an extension meant to keep track of exactly that. Not to mention the xz backdoor fiasco that made people more aware of supply chain attacks. When a repo suddenly switches hands to someone who seems to have zero established presence and they refuse to explain what happened, you're rightfully distrustful of it. The trust in repo maintainers is more important than ever nowadays, and when you can't trust the maintainer, you can't trust the software. Simple as.
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Counterpoint- if anything malicious was involved, it would have been easier to just seize control over the login to the previous maintainer's github.

Yes, obviously anything genuinely malicious, like ZippoApps buying Simple Mobile Tools, or Lennart Poettring seizing control of udev, must be rejected, but there's no real evidence of this here, just a bunch of fags from the syncthing community panicking because someone who refuses to dox himself and be a puppet of NATO like nel0x controls the repo.
 
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Counterpoint- if anything malicious was involved, it would have been easier to just seize control over the login to the previous maintainer's github.

Yes, obviously anything genuinely malicious, like ZippoApps buying Simple Mobile Tools, or Lennart Poettring seizing control of udev, must be rejected, but there's no real evidence of this here, just a bunch of fags from the syncthing community panicking because someone who refuses to dox himself and be a puppet of NATO like nel0x controls the repo.
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Nobody asked for a dox - just transparency. If Catfriend1 had announced the change, preferably with an introduction of researchxxl, there would have been (close to) no problem.
 
lowkeyl0ki said:
Proton VPN or Mullvad VPN are THE best VPN’s.

Don’t change my mind, fuck your opinion.
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On that note, what's the alternative (not Tor) for anonymization / obscuring my traffic now that websites are increasingly blockading vpns? Is there a service out there that uses my spare bandwidth to query for pure garbage, obfuscating my true query?
 
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