I would not have as big of a problem with it if it was a transparent arrangement that the app is free of cost, but the Internet connection would be shared with customers of RoboVPN. The issue is that the often invisible arrangement is not obvious and likely breaks the terms of service with the Internet Service Provider. If the user was intentionally running a TOR node, I would not have a problem with it. The current reality of it is absolutely unethical and breaking the Internet as we know it.
This monetization scheme benefits the botnet controller and the developer who added the SDK and not the user who likely did not realize they signed up to become an exit node.
iptables has been mostly a wrapper for nftables for some time now. The choice of iptables + ipset with reaction is the difference in their configuration. Compare restart performance between the ipset and nftables example configurations with lists of greater than 1 million IPs.
This is not a traditional article. The LibrePlanet wiki is a public wiki where anyone can post pages related to software freedom. This is a public post edited by several people. https://libreplanet.org/wiki?title=Going_NoPhone&action=hist... You can make an account and change the content.
They lost me with their article "Why I’m Ditching Android" which is a switch from Google to Apple. Just like switching from Coke to Pepsi is not going to help you lose weight. You have to make a real change to be private.
Climate emissions are only mentioned in a brief side-note. Makes me wonder what their motivation is. Sounds like the writer was a crypto investor, got scammed out of their money, got mad that they could not reverse the payment, and are now against the entire tech stack.
Is there a repository for Fork Freshness? I could see the twitter account ignoring requests in the future and the same fate could fall to this project. I would recommend releasing the project under AGPL-3.0-or-later to partially solve this issue so the project can continue in the event of abandonment. I could see people contributing code to search for projects in other known forges such as GitLab, Sourceforge, Savannah, Gitea, pagure, and sourcehut as sometimes projects are forked outside of the original forge.
I have noticed this issue that Fork Freshness tries to solve. My example is Twitter's project murder https://github.com/lg/murder When a project becomes unmaintained whether officially or unofficially, the future home is often lost unless the original points to the new home at the top of the README file. You can dig within GitHub in the Insights > Network section to get a visual glimpse of what has changed since. https://github.com/lg/murder/network The original repository put up a notice that the project is unmaintained and archived the project which effectively ends the project in practice. In this case, ervinb's fork seems to be the most active commits before being abandoned. https://github.com/ervinb/murder Other forks also had independent commits that never were pulled into other projects. Looking at the network method fails to differentiate 30 grammar fixes from 30 new features without digging into each promising looking fork. Even then, you may miss a single commit that included more work then the entirety of the other commits. Disclosure: I have not worked on murder.