Xiaomi has big issue with phone ownership, I think their new OS called HyperOS is step solely to make it as hard as possible to Unlock the bootloader..
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It gets worse when you watch his interview with Tucker Carlson .. guy said if a government forces us to censor a group it'll only censored from the app you get from big tech play stores... That's horseshit... If you censor a group from your platform, it'll be removed from all people's feeds regardless of their clients or from where they got the app...
I've seen it firsthand how some channels are not available on telegram downloaded from app store vs direct apk download
the right word is "visible".. discoverability on Telegram has always being broken, as in you search for a channel, good luck finding it!.. like you said it's because of your phone number region.. Etc... that has been fixed when they introduced similar channels feature, since then I never used that broken search functionality.. But once you find and join a channel, if Telegram mods decided to censor some posts or remove the entire channel, it'll be removed from all clients... unless there is some client out there who saves snapshots of all channels or posts ( somehow )
A lot of the issues reported here, started showing up on my device after each OS update, but VLC didn't push any updates for over a year now... VLC is king, but what went wrong?...
So have been testing over the past few weeks and made accounts on: a) Hubzilla b) Friendica c) Mastodon d) Kbin e) Lemmy f) Iceshrimp g) Bonfire h) Peertube i) Funkwhale j) Pixelfed
I'm only interested in moving my friends away from Facebook, and have the same fun we used to have as a group, for now nothing seem to match FB functionality unfortunately..
Have your own profile
Public and Private Groups
1 to 1 chats
And of course no one would consider joining a platform without a ( feature complete ) mobile app, Firefish is amazing but it has no mobile clients that look as a good as the website, and people say Friendica is the ethical Facebook, but it's ugly..😅 i don't know what to recommend ?
Sorry, should have expressed myself better, sometimes you're not exactly speaking what you thinking .. I was referring to the mobile apps, Friendica main app looks horrible last time I checked
It stops working after a while ( days or weeks ), your receipents will stop receiving your messages, and you'll not receive theirs, or you'll receive them with a big delay, it happens more frequently with iOS users
most people have to go out of their way to start a secret chat, the user journey to activate it is too long, it's safe to consider it hidden...
Hi, I used to use Instander to browse Instagram privately but it doesn't seem to be updated anymore, is there an alternative that you recommend that has similar features? Like "ghost mode" when watching stories
used to use Instander to browse Instagram privately
That's far from true, if you installed it on your phone, it'll collect all the data that the official Instagram app collects... Does it give you the option to use an anonymous account ?
there's another project called Honista, but I quited Instagram years ago... So idk about it's features..
I'm kinda embrassed to say that I used to think "based" meant : "a person who's is a purist in terms of their tech tools choices.. Like they use Debian or Arch, and GNU/Linux Mobile.. Or ReplicantOS... like Only FSF approved software... A person who hates mass surveillance and wants to go off the grid.."
when I understood what it meant, I was disappointed 🙄
Just leave your phone at home, and bring a Digital camera, and few SD Cards ... Oh, wait.. < insert company name here > makes Cameras that spy on you... nevermind...
maybe we should hire a fast sketching artist to draw police brutality ... What.!... your pencil can track you now... come...ooooonnn
Like it or not, email is a critical part of our digital lives. It’s how we sign up for accounts, get notifications, and communicate with a wide range of entities online. Critics of email rightfully point out that email suffers from a significant number of flaws that make it less than ideal, but that doesn’t change the...
I'm probably going to downvoted to hell with this... But didn't people say Proton might be a government Op, even Tuta was mentioned as a honeypot in a recent Court case, so they released a blog post titled: Tuta is not a honeypot....
Idk... my guts tell me, if something is too good to be true, then it's not true... Proton offerings are amazing for a free plan... And their clients looks good and they sponsor YT channels... I used to be happy to see an Open source project succeed as a business, but the concept of honeypots, made me rethink my view
first of it's a comment not a response.. secondly, you quoted everything in wrong order to make it appealing to further ridicule, which brings me to my last but not least point, is that what you do? you find something ridiculous and get your dopamine kick by saying how ridiculous it is!
I quoted the bits that answer your question and which completely undermine the bits I didn't quote
Not what I asked, I don't see ridiculousness in my comment, so if you care to reply with feedback, please do, otherwise stop bothering me
You thinking it's a honeypot is a win for the government. All they need to do is spread some propaganda
Good point, but I didn't think of it that way just because, I saw things and read stuff that made me suspect it...
to run a service that is hard to keep alive. And if they were to run a honeypot
But they did, and it worked for them before, and it'll always work unless no one start using that service, so there's no point in keeping servers operational.. time for a rebrand. plus they're getting paid.
having it outside 14 eyes countries would be the most stupid decision the government could make.
having it outside the US ( if we're talking about the US ) maybe, but the 14 eyes... It's just s story at this point, even countries outside the 14 eyes spy on their citizens and make secret deals.. So..
sans all the ads, dark patterns, and shitty business model.
To me it's enshitification because they grabbed Linux and KDE and added all the unethical spyware on top of it, EDGE browser comes to mind...which last I checked shares you data with 927 advertising companies.. Maybe it's a higher number now..
windows is actually a halfway decent os underneath all the enshittification crud.
even that I would argue is enshitified due to all the spying stuff they put into it.. Microsoft is real life E Corp
I use GrapheneOS ony phone and a Mac with the security options as optimized as possible. For most of my emailing etc, I use Tuta and Proton. There are instances however, where having a Google account is beneficial (some apps for example won't download from Aurora store in anonymous mode)....
knowing a phone model is not the same as seeing and ID card with all the Details, that makes a huge difference for the individual's privacy..
most ISP operators I have seen don't give a damn about your privacy, if you're their friend, just ask.. give them a phone number and they'll give you all the details ( Face, Home Address... Etc ).. In other countries like Iraq, you can buy that information for a very very low price..
removing the ID card from the equation provides huge privacy benefits for people from these sick fucks.. If you're worried about being found by the authorities.. Avoid SIM cards alltogether
second, because there is no one else to pass the project to.
If I ever maintain a FOSS Project this one will be one of the things I need to figure out along the way, surely there's someone trustworthy out there, surely
This could be a simple answer as : I don't wanna cause inconveniences to my users to a more complexe one such as.... umm, ideological reasons... I don't want to see a project I started get archived or taken down..
Let them prove themselves.
It's a requirement..
to me finding mainteners is part of what makes a FOSS project successful
In my opinion, one of the main benefits of selfhosting ( aside from controlling your data,) is that you don't have to pay for the VPS/CMS service, of course you pay for the infrastructure.. As someone who HATES monthly subscriptions it's one of the main reasons I don't have an online presence yet
I tried to run Ubuntu server and slapped something on top of it ( CasaOS ), which i didn't like, then I tried Ghost ( and failed miserably )..
It's not easy and YouTubers are full of shit ( they skip so many details )
That monthly sub is worth it for reclaiming my time
Yeah definitely, it's a small price for the benefit, but also to add to how I feel about subscriptions, I think their major flaw is they don't consider poor parts of the world like Africa were I live, while 6 $ is reasonable or even cheap for some people, here it's a lot of money ( x200 which means 1$ = 200 ), so it's not accessible..
Only few, very few websites change their pricing based on my IP address, or send me to a different domain, but for the most part it's not affordable
You might ask, does you ISPs have VPS plans ? Yes they do,
Tap for spoiler
waaaay more expensive than European VPSs combined ... LoL...
There's also politics and agenda involved but won't get into it, it's just bad news, and we have enough of that already
It is an authoritarian regime after all, do you think that these phones are being used to aid their goals ? or maybe simply buying them helps support that regime ?
Invidious
hey mah doods...
Ulefone Armor Pad 3 Pro: Rugged tablet launches with gigantic battery, two bright flashlights and three card slots ( www.notebookcheck.net )
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I made an app to install websites as desktop applications on Linux ( flathub.org )
Fake WhatsApp and Instagram apps that can steal personal data ( www.infoterkiniviral.com )
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/13793778...
Telegram apparently censor queer groups ( mastodon.social )
cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/6433881
what happened to VLC for Android ?
A lot of the issues reported here, started showing up on my device after each OS update, but VLC didn't push any updates for over a year now... VLC is king, but what went wrong?...
*Best* video for explaining the Fediverse to a total noob?
Suggestions?
Telegram founder and CEO alledges signal has backdoors, they don't provide reproduceible builds, etc.
Here's what he said in a post on his telegram channel:...
Is Instander dead?
Hi, I used to use Instander to browse Instagram privately but it doesn't seem to be updated anymore, is there an alternative that you recommend that has similar features? Like "ghost mode" when watching stories
Free Software Webmail Systems (fsf recommended email providers) ( www.fsf.org )
Basedflare - Open source alternative to Cloudflare ( basedflare.com )
How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? ( themarkup.org )
Simple steps to take before hitting the streets
The Best Secure Email Providers in 2024 ( blog.thenewoil.org )
Like it or not, email is a critical part of our digital lives. It’s how we sign up for accounts, get notifications, and communicate with a wide range of entities online. Critics of email rightfully point out that email suffers from a significant number of flaws that make it less than ideal, but that doesn’t change the...
What would an ENSH*TTIFIED Linux distro look like? [video] ( tilvids.com )
Did Fedora 40 break something for you? ( gehirneimer.de )
I am running Fedora 39 right now and the last time I did a distro upgrade my graphics drivers were a huge PITA. Did your upgrade to 40 went smooth?
Creating dummy Google accounts
I use GrapheneOS ony phone and a Mac with the security options as optimized as possible. For most of my emailing etc, I use Tuta and Proton. There are instances however, where having a Google account is beneficial (some apps for example won't download from Aurora store in anonymous mode)....
telegram ads
As Telegram ads are getting more misleading and dangerous than ever (specially crypto ads) just wanted to know is there a way to block them?...
Digital surveillance is omnipresent in China. Here’s how citizens are coping ( theconversation.com )
First Phone 2, now the Nothing Phone 1 is getting ChatGPT integration ( www.androidauthority.com )
Beeper is joining Automattic ( blog.beeper.com )
Automattic has added Beeper to their project roster that includes Wordpress, WooCommerce, Penpot and more....
PiVPN Releases Final Version and Announces Project Shutdown ( linuxiac.com )
PiVPN is no longer maintained....
German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog ( blog.documentfoundation.org )
Reddit started blocking VPN users on old.reddit.com ( lemm.ee )
At this point, I'm not even going to bother trying to go on there anymore.
Huawei P70 Pro: Leaks indicate peculiar design, powerful cameras and imminent launch ( www.notebookcheck.net )
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Indian government moves to ban ProtonMail after bomb threat ( www.androidcentral.com )