Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’
by BelleOfTheBall on Thursday February 16, 2023 @02:10PM
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From their official announcement of reproducible builds. And this seems to be the instructions: https://core.telegram.org/reproducible-builds
Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’
by wheresmyshadow on Thursday February 16, 2023 @03:14PM
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GitHub builds directly from their source code just fine:
https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS/actions/ru...
(uses this script: https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS/blob/maste...)
And here are few recent examples of them helping people to solve build issues: https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS/issues/968... https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS/issues/986... https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS/issues/992...
How were you digging to find an irrelevant issue yet omitted all of this? I really don't see the picture you're trying to paint.
Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’
by shiomiru on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:55PM
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It certainly is usable. I'd used Telegram FOSS from F-Droid for quite long before switching to Nekogram (also on F-Droid), a third-party Telegram client with some extra features.
Incidentally, Signal is still not available on F-Droid, and Signal developers are known to be hostile towards third-party clients (for "security reasons." Almost like I've heard that argument before from a certain smartphone manufacturer...)
Their client code is not usable because they don't provide working instructions for compiling it. If you can't compile it, they can't have reproducible builds.
For example, see this issue from 2019 which the developers still haven't replied to:
https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS/issues/97
There are a lot more issues about people not being able to use the code, none of which get any replies from the owners.