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[–] botorfj 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

idk man i see that discord logo

whats that cube looking app with fdroid and obtainium?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

GrapheneOS Apps

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's one nice home screen. Shame we still have Discord tho

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, and I only use it for some Linux support groups, don't know why they are not on matrix.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

So many open source projects on discord unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because matrix is absolutely not there yet like lemmy and mastodon are.

I‘m an admin and a coder for roughly 20 yrs, yet it took me hours to understand matrix and elements. There is just not enough knowledge out there atm and the apps dont do a well enough job themselves imho.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Used matrix too. But for the next try I wait for dendrite is out of beta state. The bridges fucked me up. One reason I use beeper, lets doing the pros the fucked up bridges.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes sense. We‘ll see if matrix clients can catch up to the other two. Usability is what we need. Matrix has been around for a long time but so far I only see enthusiasts and privacy obsessed peeps talk about it. That needs to change.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If EU and others starts their hunt for breaking decryption, matrix could get more interesting. They wrote a blog article about being unable to break decryption of selfhosted instances.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, I agree. I recently read an article somewhere here about the web 2.0 being on the way out and the need of taking it back from the megacorps through decentralization. If you search for it I recon you‘ll find it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This bullshit comes up every five years or so and has done since the naughties. It goes like this.

  1. Government states they need a backdoor to encryption to stop terrorism/pedophilia.
  2. Privacy and tech groups say it's a bad idea, children's charities and anti-terrorist groups say it's a good idea.
  3. Someone in the Civil Service informs a top politician that if there is a backdoor, hackers will find a way in and that could mean leaks of things the government doesn't want the public to see like their affair with their intern or how they are doing to abolish devolution.
  4. They use an event to cover it up again.
  5. Next government, return to step one.

This has happened under Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Boris, Truss wasn't around long enough (lol), and now Sunak.

It's funny because Boris Johnson is currently using an encrypted phone to stop giving evidence to the Covid Enquiry (namely his WhatsApp messages, yes, the UK government uses fuckin' WhatsApp.

We keep telling them it won't work, that it will only put the data of law abiding citizens at risk, but they don't listen and they keep playing the same game over and over.

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[–] PaperTowel 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Love this, funny how we have a lot of similar apps, but Discord stays on the bottom row, it's hard to get rid of.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Man I wish I could uninstall it. It's just plain spyware, at least from my point of view, but everyone uses it. I wanna be part of society too you know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nobody I know uses Discord. It's an age/social circle thingy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is there an alternative frontend for discord

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There are alternative client for discord but you can get banned for using them soo ¯_ (ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] BaronVonBourbon 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the implication is that they don't use anything from any of those companies. I see icons for Bitwarden, Nextcloud, and Lemmy. So they're probably a big selfhoster.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure that's Mull rather than Lemmy. Just started using it and it's excellent!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes lemmy icons are on page 2. thats the mull badger not the Lemmur icon.

[–] Bonskreeskreeskree 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's a "more private/hardened" version of Firefox. Add-ons are possible as with Firefox Nightly.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From memory the UK gov is trying to (or has?) pass anti-encription laws targeting the big tech giants GAFAM (google, apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft). I am in Australia so not up to date with this.

Its hard to tell from the icon pack they are using but I think this might be a screenshot from a degoogle phone? For example I don't see any Facebook or Microsoft specific apps. But I do see a nextcloud app which is an open source self hostable replacement suite for Google's cloud apps.

Basically the law change won't affect them as they are not using any GAFAM apps/software.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's pretty hard to make open source developers all over the world comply with unreasonable demands of nation-states. Ditto locking down the national Internet to block people from accessing them. Even in North Korea it's hard, not impossible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe he thinks they need to find the app and open it on his phone?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

You don't need to decrypt if it hasn't encrypted. (Discord)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Do not be afraid! You have nothing to fear, for you have nothing to hide, do you? /s

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What are you, some kind of terrorist?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol no. Just a privacy hardener. Idk it started with replacing all google stuff with nextcloud. And more and more I became free.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I might bite the bullet, and buy a Pixel tablet, to flash it with GrapheneOS. Lineage OS tablet support is pretty spotty lately. I use a Samsung SM-T720 that is doing well, but will die eventually.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes it's kind of annoying to buy a google phone to replace google. Lineage is good but they use some google stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

GrapheneOS are sticking to Google hardware for security features and upstream support. I'd rather wish for a maximum privacy platform that doesn't leak anything to Google. I'm currently not aware of anything like that.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/RIuf1V1FhpY

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

cmon you're almost there, you can self host everything!

(for the curious the icon pack is arcticons (f-droid))

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You got access to Beeper? Lucky bastard

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sheesh! I mean, I did get a token around 100k when I signed up, but they definitely need a better way of screening if it takes an average user more than a year to get through the screening :/

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[–] Wispy2891 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So they just come home with a warrant and take your unencrypted hard drive that's self hosting all that apps

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You think its unencrypted? Hah, nice try.

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[–] StewartGilligan 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] StewartGilligan 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ayyyy... Cheers mate... 🥂 I've been using Mull ever since Bromite got abandoned.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Graphene has vanadium, it's okay same (or better) like bromite. But it's chromium based, meh.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Did that godforsaken bill get passed yet?

[–] hellishharlot 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can someone give me a rundown of what those apps are?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Okay okay,

From up left:

Settings, K9-Mail, Tutanota, (Stores: GrapheneOS Store, Aurora Store, F-Droid Basic, Obtainium),

Simple Calendar, JTX, Aves Gallery, Camera,

OSMand~, Nextcloud, Immich, Paperless

Transportr, Nextcloud Bookmarks, Quillpad, Clock,

Termux, Bitwarden, Breezy Weather, Calc,

Material Files, ntfy, Simple X Chat, AdGuard Home (its a browser link)

Phone, Contacts, Mull, Discord, Beeper

My second page is full Lemmy Apps, haha.

For completion: wallpaper is one of KDEs Plasma 5.24 (maybe). And Icons are: Arcticons Dark. Android 13 Graphene OS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I love Beeper, but the android app is so far behind the desktop app in terms of polish

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