• @botorfj
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    251 year ago

    idk man i see that discord logo

    whats that cube looking app with fdroid and obtainium?

    • samsyOP
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      71 year ago

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

      • exu
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        81 year ago

        So many open source projects on discord unfortunately

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        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.

        • samsyOP
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          21 year ago

          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]
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            21 year ago

            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.

            • samsyOP
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              21 year ago

              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]
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                21 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]
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    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.

  • @PaperTowel
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    161 year ago

    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.

    • zazaserty
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      121 year ago

      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.

    • @BaronVonBourbon
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      271 year ago

      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]
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      121 year ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        I think its targeting all encryption, but these are self hosted end to end encrypted typically, all upon grapheneOS, so would be all but impossible to crack

    • @[email protected]
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      41 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.

    • samsyOP
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      101 year ago

      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]
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        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.

        • samsyOP
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          41 year ago

          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]
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            21 year ago

            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.

            • samsyOP
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              11 year ago

              Linux phone. Okay they are years behind. But it gets better.

      • Goddard Guryon
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        11 year ago

        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 :/

        • samsyOP
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          11 year ago

          For real, I fully forgot my subscription. And I know someone who subscribed some days ago and he is on waiting place >100.000. It’s suspicious exactly after 500 days.

    • caboose20
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      11 year ago

      How long is the wait now? I’ve had it for a bit and I know they’ve been ramping up their onboarding.

        • samsyOP
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          I wrote on another comment, got my invite after 500 days.

      • Goddard Guryon
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        I’ve been waiting for almost a month now, and I’ve seen a few people complaining how they’re in waiting list since multiple months (recent ones, i.e. after they announced lesser waiting time)

  • @Wispy2891
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    41 year ago

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

    • samsyOP
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      81 year ago

      You think its unencrypted? Hah, nice try.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      When you visit the UK? That’s how I interpret the OP.

      They could possibly keep the device to study it and create tools by the time the next guy with the same software comes along. Or simply confiscate and pressure you to give access. A lot of people simply crack.

      • @StewartGilligan
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        Ayyyy… Cheers mate… 🥂 I’ve been using Mull ever since Bromite got abandoned.

        • samsyOP
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          31 year ago

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

  • spez
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    31 year ago

    Did that godforsaken bill get passed yet?

  • hellishharlot
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    21 year ago

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

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      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.