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Re:Darpa wants to make a better, more secure, version of Wha... by dominotw on Monday April 15, 2019 @05:42PM (#19669194)
> It’s hard to compile on your own

It was pretty easy to compile your own desktop version. I had to change some colors because white was hurting my eyes and i was able to do it easily.

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Re:Darpa wants to make a better, more secure, version of Wha... by snazz on Monday April 15, 2019 @06:27PM (#19669467)
Unfortunately, the Android app requires Play Services to compile even if not to run, which means F-Droid can’t include it by their own free software requirements. See the forum thread: https://forum.f-droid.org/t/signal-discussion-about-google-p...

Building it reproducibly and with 100% FOSS is very hard and you can’t fork it, otherwise they’ll stop you from using the official servers.

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