News - DivestOS Mobile
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This is so so sad, :( I’ve been using Mull for quite some time and recently Hypatia. I guess time to move to fennec since I doubt there’s a fork in the horizon, :(

  • Lonewolfmcquade@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 days ago

    Bummer!!! Sucks for all of us. But I understand the dev wanting to move on with his life. Hope someone takes the reins! I would if I had those skills. DivestOS is such a great project. I was literally about to buy a new phone specifically to run DivestOS.

  • d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3·
    2 days ago

    Hopefully we see some of these projects picked up by others. In a weird way, sometimes these sorts of events end up being exactly what a project needs to get forked/transferred and have even more funding/resources thrown at it.

    Ive only recently been utilizing mull, mulch, and hypatia, but they’ve been fantastic. All the best to the devs.

  • mac@lemm.ee
    13·
    2 days ago

    After a quick look at what I believe is mull’s most up to date repo https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/Mull-Fenix

    It doesn’t appear to be too complex to maintain (only looked at the past 3 or so commits as I’m with fam right now)

    Hoping someone continues with the project, as it was, in my opinion, probably the most privacy friendly browser for android other than Tor which has it’s usability issues.

    I may try to play around with setting up an fdroid build server for the interim after the holidays.

    Edit: I wonder if the old maintainer would be open to having some sort of knowledge transfer session?

      • mac@lemm.ee
        3·
        2 days ago

        I’ll reach out to the old maintainer early January, but I’ll try to spend some time understanding the repo before then.

        If it requires a lot of maintainace, I’m afraid I won’t have the time as I already work overtime as a software dev.

        • horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 days ago

          Feel free to DM me. It’s a good project and will look good on a resume so it’ll be worth my time. I’ll be learning the Android kernel but I’m comfortable with the Linux kernel so it’s the perfect project for me to be honest. I’m also willing to help organize the efforts of others, create documentation and respond to issues and pull requests.

          I was already considering contributing to Postmarket OS or Bliss OS but this sounds like a better fit for me.

          • mac@lemm.ee
            1·
            2 days ago

            Personally, I wouldn’t be interested in continuing DivestOS itself, as that is much lower level than I’m comfortale at. If I were to do this I’d focus on maintaining mull. I’ll reach out if this seems feasible for me. Will prob have a chance to deep dive on the 26th

  • zerozaku@lemmy.worldEnglish
    371·
    3 days ago

    Nooooooo Mull is dead now? It’s my default browser.

    I hope someone picks it up and forks it like we have Cromite for Bromite.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      Wait, Bromite was discontinued too?

      I really wish more devs would utilize the “pop up the changelog after update” technique to let users know. There has to be a better way than having to check each project’s individual page and/or discord regularly.

    • SatyrSack@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I have never really known the major differences between Mull and Iceraven. I keep them both installed, so I will probably be switching to Iceraven full-time now.

  • cinnamon_tea@programming.dev
    16·
    3 days ago

    So now what will I run on my one plus one? ಥ_ಥ

    I dunno how the guy managed this for 10 years for so many devices. I can’t even build my own ROM for just this phone. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • Tinkerer@lemmy.ca
    10·
    3 days ago

    AW man this is sad news, thanks to the dev for all their hard work!

    Any recommendations on a browser similar to mull on android?

    • skarn@discuss.tchncs.de
      19·
      3 days ago

      No, and simply somebody that know what they’re doing should pick it up. I’d certainly be willing to donate a little, just as I donated to the original project.

      The FOSS Android world has a new music player every week, and apparently still only one antivirus.

        • Hiro8811@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 days ago

          Hypathia uses the same method as clam-av. It hashes all the files and compares it to a known database of malware. It’s a lot faster than whatever Avast is using.