Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About
We all love open-source software, but there are so many amazing projects out there that often go unnoticed. Let's change that! Share your favorite open-source software that you think more people should know about. Here’s how you can contribute:
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Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!
I advise you to post any recommendations to the original post, I was just sharing it here so others can find it! I also wanna see those recs myself so that's the motive for posting this 😅
What open-source software would you like more people to know about?
Please answer with a single option per comment without duplicating and upvote the topics you've seen active. That way we can also find out the most popular software.
I advise you to post any recommendations to the original post, I was just sharing it here so others can find it! I also wanna see those recs myself so that's the motive for posting this 😅
Okay, just curious, does anyone else have a bug preventing them from using Openkeychain? Whenever I try to confirm a key, it simply gets stuck at the "My Key:" selection drop-down. There's a 8 year old GitHub issue that was started and it never got solved...
And like, there's no alternatives for this app are there? It seems Thunderbird defaults to them.
EDIT: I've been trying to create a keypair from Open keychain and simply export the pair to my laptop to use it there but any key it generates is unable to be imported by both gpg and Thunderbird. It seems I'm not the only one having this issue, meanwhile the project seems to be no longer maintained. What do I do? Give up on using Thunderbird on mobile?
I used deltachat and sent an auto crypt setup message, and k-9 handed it off to open keychain just fine. k9 is being merged with Thunderbird Mobile so this should work fine... for mobile. but man was it a hassle getting the keys to my desktop
LibreWolf is what FireFox was supposed to be: no VPN ads, no telemetry, no AI, uBlockOrigin built in. It's literally the latest FF release, but with the crap ripped out and decent privacy installed.
Ironfox is pretty great for privacy, and tries to not break things, but they do have some configs you really have to dig for and already know about if something breaks.
I had the displeasure of finding out that the loopback and localhost was listed as a blocked domain for extensions, which is why an extension of mine couldn't connect to an app running on my phone. It was hard to find help for my issue, and I had to get lucky to find a solution for it (literally one person has my issue). Honesty, this extension gets broken every few months due to IronFox configs, due to JavaScript, WASM, SCP, or now this... I almost gave up on IronFox and went to Fennec 😅
They went too far in pursuing their foolish dogma and castrated a decent browser to the point where you don't want to work with it at all. For example, they removed the interface element that allows you to save passwords, even though the password manager is still there.
Do you even read the bullshit you linked? That's three lines of selfish nonsense telling me what's best for me. But if I missed something, I would love to hear from you how to enable password saving the old good firefox way.
I honestly wonder if the OP in that thread is in good faith or has some other problem screwing up his config. No, neither FF nor LW randomly change settings on you; you have some process, somewhere, that is either corrupting the sqlite db or straight up changing the config.
Anyway, if you literally did a web search
how to enable mozilla sync in librewolf
you would get the correct answer, which works for 99.99% of people 99.99% of the time:
To enable Mozilla Sync in LibreWolf, go to the about:config page and set the option "identity.fxaccounts.enabled" to true. After that, you should be able to log in to your Firefox account and use the sync features.
I don't understand why you're trying to steer the conversation toward mozilla sync for the second time, ignoring the original saving password problem. If I needed mozilla sync, I would use it. But I don't need it. I don't want it.
So that you don't make any assumptions, I'll just show you what the folks at librewolf have patched out in their struggle against suitable UI:
There is no way I know to have it back into the browser except to find and revert the patches and compile librewolf yourself.
Honestly, soft forks of either Firefox or Chrome by a small team are a stop-gap hack and not anything truly effective at fixing the issues because they are entirely dependent on the large teams developing the upstream browsers. As hard as they work, they simply don't have the in-house expertise to develop the browser, and can even make mistakes when ripping things out. It's certainly a trade-off for better privacy now, but with other risks.
Some of the more clean-slate browsers out there seem more interesting, even if they lack features, because the developers can actually make design decisions and develop codebase expertise.
But it's based on a browser that's not made to be secure, but instead to have the most features and comply to all these standards. So removing them will make it a bit more secure, but it will never be good. The best browsers are the ones that aren't made to support javascript and all these other standards. A private browser would be something like w3m or links. Ideally, it wouldn't be HTML but gemini's gemtext or just markdown.
Picocrypt, which is an encryption tool for files and folders. It's a 3MB application that utilizes XChaCha20 as its encryption algorithm. It isn't developed anymore, but it's well worth it regardless.
Neigsendoig, my producer, just started using it, learning how it works.
I'm curious, I've never had the chance to really use Signal much, and I've never used an XMPP client before. What made you dislike Signal and use XMPP instead? I wish I could convince my iMessage loving mom to jump to anything else.
I had no issue with signal (except phone number verification) but according to my family members signal uses a lot of ram and battery. Non of them have Google play services. XMPP doesn't use that much resources and it's simple, no unnecessary bloat.
Maybe Signal drains battery when it can't use Google Play Services for notifications and falls back to keeping a connection alive to Signal servers instead?
Im running grapheneos with molly foss (signal fork). I tried both notification deamons, Websocket and Selfhosted UnifiedPush. Both dont drain my battery at all.
I haven't ever found a better open source keyboard or voice type than futo. It really is that good. With so many languages. I'm unsure why some of them got downvoted but oh well. I'm sure there's a ton more to add that are privacy focused open source apps but those were off my head.
Unfortunately those tools are not open source, they are under some source-available proprietary license. That may be why they (rightfully) get downvoted.
You can use them if you like of course, but they should not be advertised as open source.
A fork of Signal for Android with proprietary Google binary blobs removed. Uses OpenStreetMap for maps and a websocket server connection, instead of Google Maps and Firebase Cloud Messaging.
It's not letting me register. When I have my VPN turned off it can't conbect to servers, and when I have it turned on I get swamped with recaptchas and the veriification code doesn't send
Portmaster is a free and open-source application that puts you back in charge over all your computer's network connections. Increase your privacy and security. Get peace of mind.
Do you find Portmaster to be viable? I've seen it around and read a couple brief articles about it. I've just never found anyone who uses it. I use MalwareBytes Firewall Control from Binsoft (Alexandru Dicu - binisoft.org/). It's fairly bare bones but it does the trick. I'm always looking for something better. I do have the whole network behind a standalone pFsense box. I just needed something local on the machine to silence chatty programs and services.
Windows Firewall Control is a powerful tool which extends the functionality of Windows Firewall by adding outbound notifications and many other features.
Portmaster is the most powerful GUI firewall out there.
The learning curve is steep and it is not a good fit for the filthy casual.
It has very good block lists... Too good.
For example, if you want to play a vidiya game esp online it will likely block half the connections so you need to go in manually unblock what's needed.
Ain't no normie ever gonna figure that out lol so I stopped telling people to get it.
We were all 'normies', to use your vernacular, at one point or another. Could it possibly be more complicated than building an Altair with less than supportive instruction manuals of the time?
Yes, the filters are deadly eeficient, you can block global all tracking from Google, Facebook, Amazon, Ms, but than you need to set what you will block exactly, if you block eg,Google globaly, forget to be capable to access any of its services, including YouTube. Globally I blocked only Facebook, because I don't use any of the Zuckerbot services and clicking on a Facebook link or any of it's other services or AIs, I see only this (and in change it's pixel or any other tracker or logger, embedded in any website, my middle finger)
Anyway, Portmaster is not so difficult in its settings or the learning curve, well, at least not for someone with minimal basic nocions, I found it pretty intuitive, way more complicated is to set up Pi-Hole, which is certainly nothing for noobs. Portmaster is installing as is and maybe selecting the DNS server you want use from the list, because it has good default settings which guarantee a reasonable privacy. Everything you block is easy restaurable if the result isn't what you want. No problems to recommend, because it's save to use and relativ easy to handle, even for newbies
All true but vast majority of people will never be bothered to be blocking/unblocking per connection, at best they will do per app and even that is a very small minority.
As said, Portmaster by default already has a good setting, a newbe don't have to do nothing to improve a lot his privacy, more than download, installing (run on boot) and forget about it. Grandmother safe.
Malwarebyte may be also valid, better than nothing, but Malwarebyte is proprietary soft, not OpenSource like Portmaster, which also include DNS crypt and custimizable dynamic filters, Optional also an SPN service (paid), something like an VPN on steroids, which permits multilevel tunneling, individual for every app.
Thing is, I already have a standalone, whole network, pFsense firewall in place. I already run DNSCrypt as well as PIA VPN, & Tailscale on my servers. I run Windows Firewall Control on my Windows PC, which was bought out by MalwareBytes, for a couple things I like to have precise control of but only at certain times as needed. I really was just interested in someone's personal perspective. I do have Portmaster bookmarked, as I'm not one to dismiss useful software off hand. Never know when I might just have a use case for it.
Multi-Level Tunneling Sounds interesting. Is that like choosing which layer you want to use in the OSI stack? I'd be all in if Portmaster could generate network noise for obfuscation. That's what I'm trying to educate myself on currently.
Portmaster works from the OS, because this way you can selective allow or block the traffic of every app and even from the OS itself, which with Pi Hole, needed for router level isn't possible, there you can only monitor the global traffic.
Home of the DNSCrypt project, a protocol to improve DNS security. Download DNSCrypt clients, the DNSCrypt server proxy, and read the specifications here.
You can use lists to keep in touch with family, friends, and cow-orkers.
Tonto2 keeps four kinds of lists:
You can use an address list to keep track of contacts' phone numbers, mailing addresses, and eMail addresses.
You can use a calendar to remind you about events and appointments including date, time, and duration. You can add notes about finding the location and other prerequisites to attendance.
You can keep separate passwords in a password list for every website you visit and every piece of gear you own.
You can keep links to favorite websites in a bookmark list.
Additionally you can make a list of bibliographic entries for writing research papers and for saving well-formatted footnotes for Web sites, but this is an arcane topic that will probably not be of general interest.
The information in these lists is at your fingertips.
You own it, and you can keep it. You can share it piecemeal with other people and computers without having to trust anyone or any thing with the whole enchilada. This is the idea of Tonto2.
Coworker is a funny word. It’s often misread, sometimes accidentally, sometimes on purpose. And while I love a good double entendre, in my editorial role as a professional clarifier I feel it is wo…
Surrey for the tangent, that might be my favourite comic of all time. I think it's an incredibly valuable lesson menu pepper still and always will need to learn at some point in their lives
Sorry for the tangent, that might be my favourite comic of all time. I think it's an incredibly valuable lesson many people still and always will need to learn at some point in their lives
Florisboard. Android keyboard, doesn't have spell checking yet but I've been using it for years, you might not need autocorrect as much as you think! (Note for Samsung users: Samsung Keyboard keeps adding items to its clipboard history whether it's default or not. Clipboard history is also accessible through Edge Panels. Your passwords might end up and sit there for a long time... you can use adb to disable com.samsung.android.app.clipboardedge and com.samsung.clipboardsaveservice.)
Just to post an alternative (correct me if there is something wrong with the app) but I have been using Futo keyboard for a week now and I've been pleayed. Clipboard disabled by default, drag typing, local autocorrect that you can load any dictionary (as a file), can use local text or voice ML model that you have to download yourself (their site has a browser), customizable quick actions, smart key hitbox enlarging (increases key hitbox according to how likely it is to come next). It is free, but asks for a support of about 9€.
FUTO Keyboard is a modern, privacy-focused keyboard that runs fully offline. Enjoy swipe typing, autocorrect, predictive text, and more—no internet connection required.
After losing a suit that took seven years to resolve, Fintiv is trying to sue Apple again, and is again alleging the company built Apple Pay using stolen mobile wallet technology.
The rollout of a new Instagram Map has prompted confusion among some users of the app, who voiced their privacy concerns online after Meta unveiled the feature
video is in Arabic but there are high quality english subtitles!
a note: for burning BDXL discs on Linux, i've seen conflicting reports about K3b, some say it works, others say it doesn't... if someone has had any luck burning BDXL discs on Linux, i'd love to know what setup you used!
Nah, max capacity for the Blu-Ray format was always around 100GB, but some go higher. The limiting factor is actually the data transfer speed - it's worse than fucking USB2.
Some games on Steam are DRM-free, so you don't have to buy these games twice. You could either burn just the game files, or you could create your own setup wizard using Inno Setup or some similar software.
Is a blue-ray (or optical media in general) more lasting/durable than an SD card? Archiving my games library in Switch-like jewel cases would be pretty cute.
that’s a very good point! personally I always buy on GOG first but there are still some DRM-free games on steam (or itch.io) that aren’t on GOG
SD cards are typically rated to retain data for 10 years, which for preservation is pretty bad, tho some high quality cards could last longer. archival-grade optical media is way more durable if kept in good storage conditions; in the video he uses M-discs, which are rated for 1000 years (even tho let’s be honest that’s more marketing than anything)
SD cards are one of the most volatile mediums for data storage. Flash memory in general runs the risk of discharge over time. Being powered every now and then can help IIRC.
I've looked into long-term data hoarding and found that there's not too much consensus on the best mediums. They all have their problems. Most turn their noses up at the idea of a set-it-and-forget-it system, preferring laboriously maintained arrays of HDDs. These fail somewhat regularly so they maintain multiple backups and plan/build around that.
I like optical media, but its problems include high cost per GB, taking up significant physical space, the inability to rewrite data, slow speed, and the waning availability of disk drives. Its longevity also depends on the specific technology the disk uses. Some disks are chemically active and the chemicals can break down over time. These can have comparable life to just storing it on a USB drive or something, so I wouldn't bother with those.
I've been using discs specifically made for longevity called M-DISCs. They are supposedly chemically inert and can last for hundreds of years. They're expensive compared to normal BDXLs, you need a bluray drive rated for burning them, and some people say they're hokey...their lifetime claim is pretty lofty, to be fair. I also use archival gold DVDs (4.7GB) for smaller files.
“90% of developed countries allow the indefinite reelection of their head of government, and no one bats an eye. But when a small, poor country like El Salvador tries to do the same, suddenly it’s the end of democracy.”
The difference is those governments usually have civil liberties etc that constrain the government. (The erosion of which is partly why trump is so concerning.)
Bukele has been arresting journalists and politicians he doesn't like. If you are arrested you effectively have no recourse.
You can literally get arrested for social media posts in Europe. Anybody who's still pretending that there are some civil liberties in the west is deeply unserious.
I am saying that a country with a functional judiciary is categorically different than one without.
Saying democratic countries with laws you dislike are the same as a country where the state is unrestrained by law is utter nonsense.
Edit: To put it very simply, in both places you could be arrested for social media posts. In El Salvador, that could be the last anyone hears of you. In the other, you have a lawyer, a fair trial and if you lose, you still have some human rights.
These aren't democratically popular laws and the people never voted to have these laws put into place. These laws were imposed onto them because their democracy is limited by what they are allowed to even vote for - in the end, there is still a ruling class.
The regimes that disappears citizens are western "democracies". The only thing that's mind bendingly dumb here is fact that you're evidently unaware of this fact.
I am saying that a country with a functional judiciary is categorically different than one without.
Saying democratic countries with laws you dislike are the same as a country where the state is unrestrained by law is utter nonsense.
Edit: To put it very simply, in both places you could be arrested for social media posts. In El Salvador, that could be the last anyone hears of you. In the other, you have a lawyer, a fair trial and if you lose, you still have some human rights.
To unsimplify it, in both places you will have your civil liberties violated when you are arrested for making bad posts. In El Salvador, that's it. Game over. In the other you have a lawyer and a trial and other various rights, so you don't disappear.
But, your civil liberties are still violated when you get arrested for posting. That doesn't go away just because there is a process to ameliorate the harm, even if you win your court case your civil liberties were still violated! You also probably won't win in court if you are guilty of bad posts, despite the fact that the law is absurd. The government letting you have your day in court after already violating your rights and then finding you guilty anyway doesn't really mean civil liberties are protected.
The country you prefer to live in is entirely irrelevant to the actual question: are civil liberties being violated?
By that logic, you are in all likelihood no better than any of the child rapists at Epstein's island. Why? Well, children mined the cobalt in your phone and you're probably wearing some sweatshop clothes.
Both the child rapists and you are harming children. Whether one is raping children or just buying stuff that comes with child harns is irrelevant, both are hurting kids.
Do you see how goddamn silly an argument you are making? Yes, neither is a utopia but there is a fundamental difference between a government acting in accordance due process enacting laws and the government disappearing people.
You keep trying to make this relative, but that's moving the goal posts. Originally you just said that other countries have civil liberties, which makes them categorically different from El Salvador and so it's okay to have indefinite reelections.
But, the reality is that civil liberties are also being violated by those other countries, so your original argument doesn't work. The truth is that those other countries are trampling on civil liberties too, and it's getting worse over time. It's not just Trump! It's everywhere, and some are farther along the slippery slope than others.
Maybe they shouldn't have indefinite reelections either. It doesn't seem to be helping at any rate.
Or maybe indefinite reelections don't actually matter and it's not worth focusing on it.
But to just declare El Salvador as fundamentally different is clearly wrong. The difference is of degree, not kind.
Is your position that you are not categorically different than a child rapist? That difference in the harms you both cause to children is of degree, not kind? And thus should be treated or considered the same?
The west is literally commiting a genocide. They are mass disappearing people into the afterlife. Mind boggling that in 2025 we still have incredulous libs who believe in western exceptionalism.
You're right, it would be entirely idiotic to compare a socialist government dealing with violent extremism by providing education with a fascist regime incarcerating people protesting a genocide it's conducting.
Bukele, the Bitcoin-toting collaborationist with the Trump deportation scheme, is now a socialist. A self described "Third Way"-ist is now a socialist. A man who hangs out at CPAC, is now a socialist.
What kind of speech posted in social media post do you find it awful that people can get arrested for? One should not escape prosecution for death threats, child pornography or hate speech just because it's published in the form of a social media post. But I suspect you probably have something closer to a grey area in mind.
Yeah, and everyone was totally fine with Trump talkimg about a third because, as we know, term limits and democracy only matter in small, poor countries.
"the adults in the room" angle doesn't even encompass you considering your defense for western "democracies", fucking ageist.
Let me guess, GenZ/Y drawing a hard red line on and being vocal about genocide and western interventionism is attributed to their "youthful fervor" that will wane away in time too?
“the adults in the room” angle doesn’t even encompass you considering your defense for western “democracies”, fucking ageist.
It's more that the take being espoused, that there's no difference between a state that disappears journalists and citizens compared to a Western democracy is a childish take, and to argue it makes you seem a child.
It's like when my friend's adorable toddler asked why she can't have ice cream "an a broccli" every meal (as she understands vegetables are important.) It's a reasonable question for a child as we don't expect her to understand all the nutrition etc that makes that a terrible plan. If she asks it, no worries. If a teenager or older asks, I immediately assume they're kind of a child.
Arguing a place that locks up journalists and 'suspected' citizens is in the same realm as a western democracy with some laws you don't like, is a childish position, that you expect from someone with little to no understanding of the role/importance of a judiciary, checks and balances between branches of government or the fourth branch. They likely know and understand little about the many regimes where this has happened and the horrific tragedies that ensue. And fair, not everyone has time to read or the fortune of knowing people who have come from those places. But it is still childishly ignorant.
Let me guess, GenZ/Y drawing a hard red line on and being vocal about genocide and western interventionism is attributed to their “youthful fervor” that will wane away in time too?
More word-salad that basically amount to patronizing "it's nuanced" ageism is all I'm reading here, fucking racist age-chauvinist.
The others in other threads have clearly expressed their points in great detail as to why Western regimes, currently committing genocide and adding multiple war crimes under their belt, are not "liberating", "civilized" states upholding "civil liberties". Applying jurisprudence to regime changes, land-grabbing, enslavement, disappearance, murders and torture and going through court circus to justify their actions doesn't make them "civilized" or much better than their client states, European settler.
Dictators aren't immediately bad and democracies aren't immediately good.
Since most people are dumb as shit and are being herded like sheep, it requires individuals who can resist the influence of the crowd to fix problems the crowd has been conditioned to allow.
In the case of El Salvador, since whatever they were doing before wasn't working, they now need to deal with an alternative that works better.
They only have themselves and the people sucking off their gang members to blame.
Certo che è incredibile che più passa il tempo e più mi accorgo di quanto infinitamente Python sia pestilenziale, sempre più di quanto avrei finito per pensare in un momento precedente… E ok, non che gli altri linguaggi non siano comunque terrificanti, per carità, ma Python è una roba grave. Purtroppo, ahinoi, l’ecosistema è comodo, […]
Certo che è incredibile che più passa il tempo e più mi accorgo di quanto infinitamente Python sia pestilenziale, sempre più di quanto avrei finito per pensare in un momento precedente… E ok, non che gli altri linguaggi non siano comunque terrificanti, per carità, ma Python è una roba grave. Purtroppo, ahinoi, l’ecosistema è comodo, i pacchetti che stanno a giro facilitano il vibe coding (in senso classico eh, senza parlare di IA), e quindi cosa mai si potrà fare per rimediare? Assolutamente niente, perché noi ragazze magiche (…io in special modo) esistiamo per soffrire, e quindi la sofferenza continuerà fin quando non esploderò definitivamente. 💔
Giustamente — progetto segreto pretende — mi serve usare la API di Misskey nel programma che sto cercando di mettere su, e quindi dal web ho preso una bella libreria ormai abbandonata (e con la documentazione perlopiù in giapponese senza controparte inglese; un fatto che attorno a Misskey è una costante, ma ops), che però fortunatamente ancora funziona: Misskey.py. Il problema è che non è completa, e mancano (a parte certi metodi di convenienza, immagino) diverse funzioni necessarie… prima tra tutte, una per aggiornare i metadati del profilo utente, cosa che mi serve. E quindi le rogne sono ufficialmente certificate infinite da questo momento. 🥴
Non volendo fare un fork della libreria, che poi diventa un casino, ho provato a risolvere il problema nel modo corretto, ossia estendendo la classe, come il modello OOP prevede… ma, purtroppo, Python è per l’appunto pestilenziale, e tra moduli nelle classi permette di fare delle schifezze allucinanti; e quindi, in questo caso, per come la libreria è strutturata internamente, da nuovi metodi che aggiungo alla classe estesa non riesco a chiamare il metodo interno _api_request (e ricrearlo io sarebbe una porcheria, quindi evito). Avrei allora provato semplicemente a ridefinire io la classe principale (che è semplicemente una composita dei vari pezzi divisi in moduli interni della libreria, mamma mia che roba!), ma Python è pestilenziale, e nel percorso della mia app non vuole saperne di importare quegli specifici moduli, che palesemente sono scritti per essere solo interni… ma, appunto, non voglio ricopiarmi l’intera libreria, quindi bella rogna. 🤮
Vabbè: dopo fin troppi minuti di lavoro effettivo, il risultato è insomma che alla fine ho reimplementato io una versione molto base della libreria da zero, con la stessa interfaccia… una classe di meno di una ventina di righe e appena 5 metodi, cioè quelli che al volo mi sono serviti ora, più cosa aggiungerò strada facendo (poca roba, credo). Ovviamente senza tipi stretti, o controllo di errori, o chissà che altro, ma purtroppo sono stata costretta a fare così dalla corrente pestilenza… e a funzionare funziona, quindi mi sa che me ne sbatterò il pitone, perché qui sennò vado davvero ai matti, fa tutto schifo. 🕳️
…Tra l’altro, qualcuno qui dirà sicuramente “skill issue“, ma io i miei metodi li ho provati, su Internet ho cercato, alle IA ho chiesto… e niente, nessun modo pulito, corretto, piacevole, per sistemare questa merdata. Boh… se non mi piacesse Flask, mi sa che lo butterei via Python, in casi come questo, in cui mi serve giusto qualcosa che interagisca con delle API e mostri un pannello admin… uffa. (Diventerò “pestilenzioctt” a brevissimo, se nessuno inventerà octolang per salvarmi, mannaggia!!!) 😩
Misskey.py, The Misskey API library for Python. *Misskey is made by syuilo. 🐡( '-' 🐡 )hug punch!!!!*
* https://github.com/YuzuRyo61/Misskey.py
* https://misskeypy.readthedocs.io/ja/latest/
China is forecast to account for 45% of the world’s global industrial production by 2030. That growth comes at the expense of the West, which is projected to drop to 11% of global production in the next five years.
The new 'Friend Map' feature on Instagram might be sharing your precise location without your knowledge. Here's how to turn it off — and why you might want to.
Activists from 44 countries plan to launch the largest civilian flotilla in history at the end of August in an effort to break Israel’s siege on Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid to the starving population of the enclave.
The Global Sumud Flotilla, along with three allied initiatives, will send dozens of boats from Spanish ports on 31 August and Tunisian ports on 4 September, aiming to establish a humanitarian corridor and confront what organizers call Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.
“This summer, dozens of boats, both large and small, will set sail from ports across the world, converging on Gaza in the largest civilian flotilla of its kind in history,” said organizer Haifa Mansouri at a press conference in Tunis hosted by the Joint Action Coordination for Palestine.
The mission brings together four groups: the Maghreb Sumud Flotilla, the Global Movement to Gaza, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, and Sumud Nusantara.
I exported my settings from a Lemmy instance running v 0.19.11, and it seems that the import doesn't bring in anything (subscriptions, blocks, etc.). Does Piefed use a different JSON schema or is it just not possible to import from Lemmy into Piefed? I have tried importing multiple times, waited a few days, and still nothing.
I think I know the problem - I fixed an issue with the settings import a week ago but piefed.ca hasn't updated to the latest version yet.
If you're not committed to piefed.ca then check the footer of any other instance. You want it to say PieFed v1.1.0 instead of PieFed v1.0.x. piefed.zip, feddit.online, quokk.au and piefed.social are all on 1.1.
Hey! I had this same issue on Piefed.ca about a month ago. Tried several times at different times of day. I waited a few more days, then randomly tried again to check and it worked. Not sure what happened. Meanwhile importing settings on Piefed.social worked fine. But I really wanted a Piefed.ca account lol
Interested what you guys make of these WhatsApp messages I just received...
...I have no such booking...
Obviously this sort of scam/phishing nonsense is nothing new to me, but a few things stood out...
They have my full name and phone number 😕
I do use booking.com (but I suppose many do so they could assume...)
This WhatsApp message has been marked as "using a secure service from Meta"... So this isn't just a random phone (I have anonymous messages blocked) they have some sort of privilege on the platform... WTF
They even have some special reply buttons at the end of the message.
I just don't get it... Like, what are the odds they guess the dates and hotel accurately that I would bite...? And having gone to this length, why then fall at the last hurdle by having a weird sender name like "Rus Education"...?
Unfortunately, I just don't have the social capital to move people off of Meta messaging services... A good 50% of my friends have ditched FB, but somehow saw WhatsApp as the solution 🤦
I get that, and it was almost certainly Booking.com who leaked it as I have had shady messages through even their own messaging platform before...
I think what baffles me is that this gets so close to convincing (if you're not internet savvy), and then they throw in something so bizarre like having a username of "Rus Education" 🙄
Where I am META is OK-ing a LOT of phishing ads on Facebook with poorly AI slop of local personality so it may have sold your data to what it thinks to be a publicity company
"You’ll see the following messages, when a business chooses to:
Use a partner: You’ll see “This business works with other companies to manage this chat.”
Use the WhatsApp Business Platform Cloud API (Hosted by Meta): You’ll see “This business uses a secure service from Meta to manage this chat.”
If a business is using the WhatsApp Business app or managing and storing customer messages themselves, you’ll see: “Messages and calls are end-to-encrypted. Only people in this chat can read, listen to, or share them.”"
So, hypothetically, if I were running a scam, yeah, I'd set up a business account using the Platform Cloud API to get that sweet, sweet "secure service" note.
Curious if the account is a legitimate Rus Education account that got hacked. I've been seeing that a lot lately where random legitimate businesses are contacting people about totally unrelated subjects. Seems scammers are probably using hacked business accounts to allow them to send messages to anyone without restrictions.
In recent weeks, the US has been pushing for the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah. The government had already been moving in that direction, but not at the pace the US wanted. Lebanese media began to fill with warnings from unnamed sources that if Hezbollah’s arms were not confiscated soon, a second war with Israel could be on the horizon.
Near-daily Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon, in violation of the November ceasefire, have also undermined the Lebanese government’s claims that only the state can protect sovereignty.
The day after Lebanon announced it would draft a plan to disarm Hezbollah, an 11-year-old child was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon.
The Lebanese army has not responded to any of the thousands of Israeli airstrikes on the country since November – nor does anyone expect it to. The under-equipped, under-staffed army can do little in the face of an Israeli military equipped with US fighter jets, which drop the latest US munitions by the thousand.
“The US, Saudi and EU are in agreement on this point: the question is no longer if Hezbollah should be disarmed, but how to do it,” the diplomat said.
In the contemporary world, Japan is again following its policy of remilitarization and is endlessly arming its armed forces. Japan is also a part of the
The 14th Shanghai International New Energy Auto Technology and Ecological Chain Expo (NEAS CHINA 2025) will take place from August 13 to 15, 2025, at the Shanghai New International Expo Center, China.
The intative promises to be privacy-friendly with no tracking. Stating:
Your privacy is important. The WiFi4EU app ensures a private online experience with no tracking or data collection. Simply connect and enjoy free public Wi-Fi without concerns.
Will be interesting to see how this spans and plays out in reality. Looks promising too, did a quick scan of their builtin permissions and trackers and looks good too. (Scanning tool is called Exodus)
Could someone test this with programs like GIMP, Darktable, and Inkscape? I’m curious about the potential of the Android phone as PC, particularly with the merging of Android and Chrome OS. If Android’s desktop mode progresses enough to a level of maturity to run Linux programs sufficiently, this combined with the general Linux on ARM efforts of Asahi and others could prove to be THE solution. Just imagine one of those tri-folding phones unfold to a tablet size with a folio-style keyboard and trackpad, then plugging the tablet-phone into a monitor and desktop setup to “get real work done.”
Gimp already runs OK on ChromeOS, so I would expect the same on Android soon.
Because Linux runs in VM on ChromeOS, there were some annoyances and there will likely be some on Android.
Maybe they fixed it, but for a long time Linux on ChromeOS couldn’t access Yubikeys because Google choose not to expose those devices to the container.
And some keyboard shortcuts and mappings couldn’t work because again Google limited what the container was allowed to see and control.
And if certain kinds of problems happened, you ended losing both the apps and your data inside the Linux container.
Yeah, it will be cool to run desktop Linux from your phone. But if doing Real Linux Work on Chromebook doesn’t appeal to you, don’t expect it to be better on Android.
I don't really care for this one (though it is pretty cool) but I'd love to be able to run Android applications natively on Linux in a way applications cannot detect so some moron dev doesn't try to block Linux.
I wonder if this effort is going to bring us any closer to that.
Edit: I realize there's no context here. Android tablets have great displays and battery life. Being able to run desktop apps, like Firefox, Codium, GIMP, etc, is a great way to have a low-power ARM laptop, while easily being able to switch to landscape mobile apps for say, reading magazines or Lemmy, etc.
Basically great "single devices", especially for travel.
Why can't I run firefox on my home server and just project the window as a video stream to my phone, like moonlight except for just the app, not the whole damn desktop !
Higher battery usage, mostly. Especially on cellular service. Also font rendering can be pretty blurry, and any GPU playback would stutter (GIMP/FreeCAD would be painfully slow for rotating/panning), along with audio.
Basically androids is linux but on crack. One thing that's holding developers back from further developing Android are Google and smartphone manufacturer. As time goes by, Google implements many things they consider "security," but they turn out to be the biggest stumbling block. Don't believe it? We used to be able to customize our Android devices to our liking without having to worry about "Play Store Integrity Check," "Play Store Protect," or "Bootloader Check," etc. Now, we can simply resign ourselves to using the stock Android device that came with our smartphone, without being able to modify it or sacrificing the features lost due to custom ROMs.
What’s super ironic is the “Android is more versatile than iOS” crowd is suspiciously quiet now.
We told you, Google doesn’t give a shit about you. That was a strategy for rapid growth. Once they got everything they wanted out of you they were going to lock it down just like Apple did.
Honestly even though I'm fully invested in desktop/laptop Linux. I kinda don't get the buzz for a fully Linux phone, When de-googled Android exists and is already optimized for phone/touch use.
Only argument I have in favour of it is, it's less dependant on Google.
But outside of that I don't get the hype for running desktop apps (that normally aren't designed for small touchscreens) on a phone.
You aren't meant to use it on the small screen. We have increasingly powerful computers in our pockets that we use to watch TikTok, wouldn't be nice if you didn't have to buy a laptop/desktop for school/work and could just dock your phone and have a full desktop experience?
You could already do that with a lot of use-cases, but we can't yet fully utilize the power of our phones when docked.
I happen to really like a lot of the motifs used by Ubuntu. Regardless the merits or demerits of the distro, the graphical iconography is pretty cool. Likewise with Arch. Like, that Arch pointing forward on the surface would be cool. The Ubuntu circular logo on the wheel rims, as well.
Add every settler colonial country to that too. Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Northern Ireland. Basically any country where speaking English is considered a good thing.
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Look, the hospital is going to put me in enough debt that I’m going to have to give them one (or two) kidneys if I don’t want them to end up with my house. No time to pay back any loans right now.
To a degree, paying off loans in full actually reduces your credit score. Credit score is purely a score of how juicy you are to lendors. Lendors don't like people who pay off loans in full because that means you're not paying them anymore.
To increase your credit score, take on more debt that you can pay off and pay it dutifully every month.
Very unserious and deeply ahistorical. If you can see a parallel between the USSR's end and the end of, say, Nazi Germany or Pinochet's Chile, let alone the US and China rn, you have been watching too many infographics show and not been reading nearly enough.
No, lmao. Socialists and fascists are entirely different, economies run with public property as the principle aspect are entirely different from economies run with private ownership as the principle aspect. Anti-communists that equate the fascists with the socialists implicilty hand the power to the fascists by demonizing the only real alternative.
It's a good idea to check the community first... For example, this is the memes community on lemmy.ml. definitely worth appreciating a bit of self aware humor here.
The "authoritarian" label never gets levelled at the US, great britain, france, or other imperialist powers who carved up the global south and bled it for hundreds of years. It only gets used against their enemies, who dared rise up and fought back against colonialism.
Even fascism is far less effective than bourgeois parliamentarism at killing millions of innocent people. The nazi's failed to accomplish in eastern europe, what the US successfully carried out and its liberal democracy is still carrying out in north america.
10 million people die every year because it is not profitable to feed them or give them medicine. Capitalist wealth comes from the blood and sweat of everyone else.
Washington has financed the Israeli war machine for decades, ensuring Tel Aviv’s impunity. Since October 7, 2023, with the direct support of the U.S. and
A lead contractor for a company providing security at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s controversial food distribution sites is a member of a Crusader-inspired motorcycle club that touts its opposition to the “radical jihadist movement.”
Johnny “Taz” Mulford belongs to a Florida chapter of the Infidels, a biker group for veterans of U.S. wars and private military contractors like Blackwater. In May, Mulford began recruiting among his Facebook network for an unspecified job opportunity, asking anyone who “can still shoot, move and communicate” to contact him.
Reached by phone on Friday, Mulford confirmed to The Intercept that he is currently in Israel, adding that he was “on his way to a checkpoint,” but declined to comment further. Two sources directly familiar with the Gaza operations of UG Solutions, including former contractor Anthony Aguilar, confirmed Mulford’s employment to The Intercept. Mulford’s ties to the motorcycle group were first reported by Zeteo.
Sudan’s air force has destroyed a UAE aircraft carrying Colombian mercenaries as it was landing at an airport in Darfur controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), army-aligned state TV reported.
The attack late on Wednesday killed at least 40 people, the state broadcaster reported. A military source, speaking to the AFP news agency on condition of anonymity, said the Emirati plane “was bombed and completely destroyed” at Darfur’s Nyala airport. There was no immediate comment from the RSF.
AFP quoted an Emirati official denouncing what he considered false allegations that the Sudanese army had destroyed the plane. Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said his government was trying to find out how many Colombians died in the attack.
The army, led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has long accused the United Arab Emirates of supplying advanced weaponry, including drones, to the RSF via Nyala Airport.
So Israel threatened the UK. I'm still groggy and reeling from the implications, there, not just for the UK but the rest of the West. The implications for Israel is the only way to check them is to make them physically Isn'treal. The West won't because they're greedy, sadistic, sociopath, Nazis, and possibly also because of the implications of the threat made to the UK, but!
All these smaller states without defense/communication entanglements with Israel and without huge defense budgets can do so much to check Israel?
The British government faces renewed scrutiny over the nature of its military cooperation with Israel after it emerged that it is spending taxpayers' money to hire American contractors for surveillance flights over Gaza.
It was revealed last week that aircraft from the Royal Air Force (RAF) have conducted hundreds of surveillance flights over Gaza throughout Israel's war on the besieged enclave.
Middle East Eye asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) under the Freedom of Information Act whether it holds video footage taken by RAF planes of two Israeli attacks in Gaza on British citizens or volunteers working for British charities.
The MoD refused to disclose the information, citing national security and defence exemptions.
One of the Israeli strikes MEE asked about killed eight volunteers working for the UK charity Al-Khair Foundation in March as they were setting up tents for displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza's Beit Lahia.
The MoD has previously confirmed it holds information gathered by spy planes on Israeli attacks, and has been widely criticised for not disclosing it.
The British government faces renewed scrutiny over the nature of its military cooperation with Israel after it emerged that it is spending taxpayers' money to hire American contractors for surveillance flights over Gaza.
Daily reminder that the Middle East Eye has no physical address. Which is extremely unusual.
That's because it's run by the Qatari embassy in London.
Notice how it doesn't depend on paying subscribers. It doesn't sell any advertising. And it doesn't ask readers for donations. How do they make any money? This is a serious red flag.
When Qatar was in a diplomatic crisis with Saudi Arabia, the Middle East Eye criticized Saudi Arabia 24/7.
Hi all! I am running some recent version of Mint. I have been away for a bit but came back and thenpc reads 0 bytes free. Ooening the directory shows tons of files in home/private/ecryptfs some as small at 12MB and some as big as 170GB.
I tried to get some info but the terminal returned nothing on them, thought it might be shit and I dont have anything precious on it so I moved to delete but was told there are no such files when I did. I tried to sudo remove but got permission denied.
At this point, realising I dont have this connected to the web, and it hasnt been switched on in months despite the files showing ages 1-6 months - I thought an aold fashioned reboot would solve but now Mint won't let me passed the password login.
It recognises incorrect passwords but correct ones give a quick flash of a black screen with a typing marker flashing and back to login.
It looks like you opted for home directory encryption when installing the OS and somehow it got unmounted. It is also likely that by trying to delete encrypted chunks you have corrupted your home directory, which might explain login not working.
0 bytes free might be causing this, many things won't work because they want to write something to disk. If logging in doesn't work using the graphical interface, can you log in using a terminal? You can get to one by pressing crtl + alt + f1 on the login screen. If that works, you can try deleting some files and see if you can log in as usual again after rebooting.
Encrypting home is good (although full disk encryption is better and with mint it's still easy enough)
Mint uses some helper scripts to mount/unmount your encfs, so maybe while trying to delete the files you deleted those too, and this would explain the login failing. It's been a while tho so I'm not sure, better to wait for someone else.
I wiped it, coincidentally I also wiped the negligible amount of linux knowledge I had from my brain... restarting the process. I might write what I do down, preferences and software etc.
The Government has secretly allowed police forces to search over 150 million UK passport and immigration database photos with “Orwellian” facial recognition technology for 6 years.
The number of searches of the passport database has “skyrocketed” from 2 in 2020 to 417 in 2023. 16 searches of the immigration database were made in 2023, increasing almost sevenfold to 102 in 2024.
Campaigners to institute legal action, claiming it is an “historic breach of the right to privacy”.
Former minister Sir David Davis MP says “It’s outrageous that parliamentarians and the public have been kept in the dark about this extraordinary surveillance system”.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva harshly criticized U.S. President Donald Trump following the implementation of a 50% tariff on Brazilian exports. Lula called Trump “authoritarian” with “anti-civilizational” behavior and accused him of creating “problems where there were none.”
“A president must not humiliate himself before another president. I respect everyone and demand respect in return,” Lula told Reuters, rejecting the idea of a phone call with Trump. “He doesn’t want to talk, and I have no intention of doing so.”
Lula slams Trump over Brazil tariffs, accuses Bolsonaro of betrayal
Thursday, August 7th 2025 - 10:33 UTC
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva harshly criticized U.S. President Donald Trump following the implementation of a 50% tariff on Brazilian exports. Lula called Trump “authoritarian” with “anti-civilizational” behavior and accused him of creating “problems where there were none.”
“A president must not humiliate himself before another president. I respect everyone and demand respect in return,” Lula told Reuters, rejecting the idea of a phone call with Trump. “He doesn’t want to talk, and I have no intention of doing so.”
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva harshly criticized U.S. President Donald Trump following the implementation of a 50% tariff on Brazilian exports. Lula called Trump “authoritarian” with “anti-civilizational” behavior and accused him of creating “problems where there were none.”
“A president must not humiliate himself before another president. I respect everyone and demand respect in return,” Lula told Reuters, rejecting the idea of a phone call with Trump. “He doesn’t want to talk, and I have no intention of doing so.”
it is the schools device and there free to do anything with it. sad to see schools are not a safe place for students but its just how it is now. and the parts about student personal devices should be against the law.
They need to be taught that anything they use their school email address to log in to or anything on their school laptop can be seen by others. That's the important lesson missing here.
They also need to be taught how to log out of their school accounts and use a personal account while on a personal device and not doing homework.
This can really hurt students who consider or are unaware of privacy risks while on the internet or on a school device.
In 70 years on this planet, I would have thought we'd put LGBTQ+ and racism to rest. I look forward to a day when being LGBTQ+ is as boring as being heterosexual. America could solve about 50% of it's problems by using this one simple trick: Mind your own fuckin' business. My sexual proclivities should only come into discussion if you're sitting on my lap. Otherwise, piss off.
Remote Learning Accidentally Introduced a New Danger for LGBTQ Students
Their laptop was given to them by their school, and it contains software that flags any student writing that uses, among other terms, “queer” or “transgender.”
The software must have slipped and fell into the laptop.
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in reply to commie • • •Okay, just curious, does anyone else have a bug preventing them from using Openkeychain? Whenever I try to confirm a key, it simply gets stuck at the "My Key:" selection drop-down. There's a 8 year old GitHub issue that was started and it never got solved...
And like, there's no alternatives for this app are there? It seems Thunderbird defaults to them.
EDIT: I've been trying to create a keypair from Open keychain and simply export the pair to my laptop to use it there but any key it generates is unable to be imported by both gpg and Thunderbird. It seems I'm not the only one having this issue, meanwhile the project seems to be no longer maintained. What do I do? Give up on using Thunderbird on mobile?
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in reply to Novaling • • •LibreWolf is what FireFox was supposed to be: no VPN ads, no telemetry, no AI, uBlockOrigin built in. It's literally the latest FF release, but with the crap ripped out and decent privacy installed.
librewolf.net/
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in reply to Truscape • • •IronFox OSS / IronFox · GitLab
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in reply to Truscape • • •Novaling
in reply to Truscape • • •Ironfox is pretty great for privacy, and tries to not break things, but they do have some configs you really have to dig for and already know about if something breaks.
I had the displeasure of finding out that the loopback and localhost was listed as a blocked domain for extensions, which is why an extension of mine couldn't connect to an app running on my phone. It was hard to find help for my issue, and I had to get lucky to find a solution for it (literally one person has my issue). Honesty, this extension gets broken every few months due to IronFox configs, due to JavaScript, WASM, SCP, or now this... I almost gave up on IronFox and went to Fennec 😅
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in reply to hobata • • •What are you even talking about? I use LibreWolf with the Mozilla password manager. It's a one click enable
librewolf.net/docs/faq/
LibreWolf Browser
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in reply to hobata • • •On that page it gives the setting to enable Mozilla Sync
If you were remotely nontoxic, I'd copy and paste the setting for you
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in reply to nymnympseudonym • • •nymnympseudonym
in reply to hobata • • •I honestly wonder if the OP in that thread is in good faith or has some other problem screwing up his config. No, neither FF nor LW randomly change settings on you; you have some process, somewhere, that is either corrupting the sqlite db or straight up changing the config.
Anyway, if you literally did a web search
how to enable mozilla sync in librewolfyou would get the correct answer, which works for 99.99% of people 99.99% of the time:
To enable Mozilla Sync in LibreWolf, go to the about:config page and set the option "identity.fxaccounts.enabled" to true. After that, you should be able to log in to your Firefox account and use the sync features.hobata
in reply to nymnympseudonym • • •I don't understand why you're trying to steer the conversation toward mozilla sync for the second time, ignoring the original saving password problem. If I needed mozilla sync, I would use it. But I don't need it. I don't want it.
So that you don't make any assumptions, I'll just show you what the folks at librewolf have patched out in their struggle against suitable UI:
There is no way I know to have it back into the browser except to find and revert the patches and compile librewolf yourself.
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in reply to nymnympseudonym • • •Honestly, soft forks of either Firefox or Chrome by a small team are a stop-gap hack and not anything truly effective at fixing the issues because they are entirely dependent on the large teams developing the upstream browsers. As hard as they work, they simply don't have the in-house expertise to develop the browser, and can even make mistakes when ripping things out. It's certainly a trade-off for better privacy now, but with other risks.
Some of the more clean-slate browsers out there seem more interesting, even if they lack features, because the developers can actually make design decisions and develop codebase expertise.
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in reply to Novaling • • •Picocrypt, which is an encryption tool for files and folders. It's a 3MB application that utilizes XChaCha20 as its encryption algorithm. It isn't developed anymore, but it's well worth it regardless.
Neigsendoig, my producer, just started using it, learning how it works.
GitHub - Picocrypt/Picocrypt: A very small, very simple, yet very secure encryption tool.
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in reply to Novaling • • •XMPP doesn't use that much resources and it's simple, no unnecessary bloat.
Kekzkrieger
in reply to Stomata • • •Sure all family members dont have play services...
Also bullshit that Signals drains ram or battery, i wouldnt notice and never heard this before.
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in reply to F04118F • • •I tried both notification deamons, Websocket and Selfhosted UnifiedPush.
Both dont drain my battery at all.
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in reply to fruitycoder • • •Yeah because video calls just use battery.
Its like saying my car is draining gas when i use it heavily.
It just uses more when you use it heavily.
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in reply to OhVenus_Baby • • •Unfortunately those tools are not open source, they are under some source-available proprietary license. That may be why they (rightfully) get downvoted.
You can use them if you like of course, but they should not be advertised as open source.
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in reply to Novaling • • •There is also signal-FOSS as an alternative to signal and Molly
Signal-FOSS
twinhelix.com/apps/signal-foss…
A fork of Signal for Android with proprietary Google binary blobs removed. Uses OpenStreetMap for maps and a websocket server connection, instead of Google Maps and Firebase Cloud Messaging.
add the repo to your app store to F-droid basic
fdroid.twinhelix.com/fdroid/re…
The twinhelix repo is in the droidify and neostore repo list.
TwinHelix
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in reply to infjarchninja • • •infjarchninja
in reply to ssroxnak • • •yes, you can still use signal, molly and signal-foss. I have signal on my desktop and some of my family have molly and some signal-Foss.
The signal servers are primarily hosted on AWS with redundancies on Azure or Google Cloud. Molly and Siganl-FOSS use these too.
The official Android app generally uses the proprietary Google Play Services, although it is designed to be able to work without them.
Hence we use the signal-FOSS and Molly on our phones that do not have any google services.
Like any AOSP rom, Lineage, there are no google play services.
Its the google firebase that manages push notifications that seems to be the main privacy issue.
MollySocket allows getting signal notifications via UnifiedPush, not google firebase,
github.com/mollyim/mollyim-and…
GitHub - mollyim/mollyim-android: Enhanced and security-focused fork of Signal.
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in reply to Novaling • • •Safing Portmaster - Easy Privacy
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in reply to irmadlad • • •Portmaster is the most powerful GUI firewall out there.
The learning curve is steep and it is not a good fit for the filthy casual.
It has very good block lists... Too good.
For example, if you want to play a vidiya game esp online it will likely block half the connections so you need to go in manually unblock what's needed.
Ain't no normie ever gonna figure that out lol so I stopped telling people to get it.
It needs to have normie config IMHO
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in reply to sunzu2 • • •We were all 'normies', to use your vernacular, at one point or another. Could it possibly be more complicated than building an Altair with less than supportive instruction manuals of the time?
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in reply to sunzu2 • • •Yes, the filters are deadly eeficient, you can block global all tracking from Google, Facebook, Amazon, Ms, but than you need to set what you will block exactly, if you block eg,Google globaly, forget to be capable to access any of its services, including YouTube. Globally I blocked only Facebook, because I don't use any of the Zuckerbot services and clicking on a Facebook link or any of it's other services or AIs, I see only this (and in change it's pixel or any other tracker or logger, embedded in any website, my middle finger)
Anyway, Portmaster is not so difficult in its settings or the learning curve, well, at least not for someone with minimal basic nocions, I found it pretty intuitive, way more complicated is to set up Pi-Hole, which is certainly nothing for noobs. Portmaster is installing as is and maybe selecting the DNS server you want use from the list, because it has good default settings which guarantee a reasonable privacy. Everything you block is easy restaurable if the result isn't what you want.
No problems to recommend, because it's save to use and relativ easy to handle, even for newbies
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in reply to Zerush • • •Thing is, I already have a standalone, whole network, pFsense firewall in place. I already run DNSCrypt as well as PIA VPN, & Tailscale on my servers. I run Windows Firewall Control on my Windows PC, which was bought out by MalwareBytes, for a couple things I like to have precise control of but only at certain times as needed. I really was just interested in someone's personal perspective. I do have Portmaster bookmarked, as I'm not one to dismiss useful software off hand. Never know when I might just have a use case for it.
Multi-Level Tunneling Sounds interesting. Is that like choosing which layer you want to use in the OSI stack? I'd be all in if Portmaster could generate network noise for obfuscation. That's what I'm trying to educate myself on currently.
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in reply to Novaling • • •DNSCrypt - Official Project Home Page
www.dnscrypt.orgJustEnoughDucks
in reply to Novaling • • •Immich!
Keeping personal photos off someone else's server and stopping google and apple from training their AI on your nudes.
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in reply to Novaling • • •I recommend my python script, Tonto2.
What does Tonto2 do?
It keeps lists.
You can use lists to keep in touch with family, friends, and cow-orkers.
Tonto2 keeps four kinds of lists:
Additionally you can make a list of bibliographic entries for writing research papers and for saving well-formatted footnotes for Web sites, but this is an arcane topic that will probably not be of general interest.
The information in these lists is at your fingertips.
You own it, and you can keep it. You can share it piecemeal with other people and computers without having to trust anyone or any thing with the whole enchilada. This is the idea of Tonto2.
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in reply to RvTV95XBeo • • •The correct term is cow-orker (n. sing. masc.). See also, fact-index.com/c/co/cow_orker.…
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in reply to beSyl • • •Wow I did not proof read that at all
Sorry for the tangent, that might be my favourite comic of all time. I think it's an incredibly valuable lesson many people still and always will need to learn at some point in their lives
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