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TWIF curated on Friday, 26 Sep 2025, Week 39

Community News

We often talk about what we look at when we choose our apps, we want: freedom, privacy, security, transparency and more. With FLOSS apps we get most of those, or at least we can check, fix and redistribute the apps that fit our wishes, from the technology perspective. We want the freedom that F-Droid provides to not only help us now, but set the stage for future generations well beyond our time.

When you are a child other people would bare the responsibility of your well being, your freedom, privacy and security will be the subject of their judgment. Based on their own childhood experiences and technology knowledge, parents and guardians will vary a lot in how they treat the relation of children with technology. From laxed attitudes where they pass the smart device to a child as a new-age pacifier (only to be later surprised that said children appear easily distracted or inattentive) to helicopter parenting behavior where every minute of screen time is controlled and predetermined (wonder what happens when the shackles are gone?).

From “The Privacy Dad” comes a post about teenagers and how they can and do manage their own time in front if the screens, when the parent teaches them about the good, the bad and the odd stuff technology can bring. The 10 minute post presents the point of view of the child themselves, acting even as a first hand review of the app used for parental controls (yes, from F-Droid).

The site is full of interesting posts about the subject, feel free to roam.

Godot Engine 4 was updated to 4.5.0.stable adding a lot of glitter and fun stuff for all your gaming dev life style.

Jami was updated to 20250917-01. The team summaries ‘Atlas’, the code name for the latest release.

The Battle for Wesnoth was updated to 1.19.16, but you should skip this version as it will fail to start. The developers are working on a fix.

Thunderbird Beta for Testers was updated to 13.0b2 as the team polishes the new UX. What UX update? Account drawer, colors and consistency all around. All these are part of the overall roadmap, laid out in their newest post.

@CodeDoctor uses more code names:

Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.4.0 and soon Linwood Butterfly too. What’s new in the Butterfly 2.4.0 Black Hairstreak release?

Long awaited, the next big Butterfly release is finally here! This release brings a lot of new features. This will be the foundation of new features in the future.

Highlights:

📝 New Butterfly text format
📦 Rebuild pack system
🏷️ Improved Label Tool
🖋 Improved Pen Element
🤝 Improved Collaboration
🧮 LaTeX Support
🎚️ Improved Pen Toolbar
🔷 Polygon Tool
📄 Reworked PDF System
⬆️ Binary and Version Upgrades

And all detailed in the attached post.

@linsui digitizes fiat:

Taler Wallet was updated to 1.0.11 and fixed a critical bug that prevented all payments.

Did you know that Apple Pay is real money from your credit card? It’s not like a bunch of Apple dollars you got by spending so much time on your phone, giving your data very freely and willingly to any place that asks, like whenever they say, “Are cookies okay?” you say, “Yes, yes, yes” because you think that’s how you get prizes, rewards, and Apple dollars.

Memes aside, Apple Pay is a powerful service that Apple uses as a gatekeeper. The Taler team wrote a post about ecosystem users freedoms and monopolies not dogfooding their own rules when it comes to payment services.

Removed Apps

1 apps were removed
  • Circles, Secure social sharing for friends and families, had its source archived a while ago. Just get a maintained Matrix client, but make sure it supports room version 12.

Newly Added Apps

15 apps were newly added
  • Conceal Mobile: Secure mobile client for the Conceal Network web wallet
  • Dockeep: Your pocket app for important files
  • Fluffy: A TV friendly file manager and archive viewer
  • Godot Dice Roller: A Godot UI control that rolls 3D dices in a box
  • GPA Calculator: GPA & CGPA calculator with support for AUIS grading rules
  • OpenCloud: File Sync, Workspaces, Smart Search & Web Office
  • Passwords: Local Material 3 Password Manager
  • PhotoSphereGallery: Gallery and viewer for spherical photos (360°)
  • Poker Tracker: Personal poker tracking app
  • RSAF: An Android Storage Access Framework document provider for rclone
  • SIS: Unofficial client for SIS CUNI (Student Information System, Charles University)
  • Tomodoro: A modern Pomodoro timer and task manager
  • Transport Widgets: Live arrival times widget for London
  • VMPK for Android: This is the Android port of Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard (vmpk.sourceforge.io)
  • Webview Kiosk: Turn your Android device into a locked-down web page in fullscreen mode

Updated Apps

200 more apps were updated
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