Could this voluntary chat control be a weapon to kill encrypted messaging, through defamation?
If the non-encrypted messaging apps start promoting that they have implemented measures to protect children, could this be used to make people believe that other services support child abuse?
I had such a relationship, that recently ended. Apparently, I was not supportive enough.
Breaking up was a big relief, although I am still a bit worried about them.
It’s time to switch to IronFox
Well… Unfortunately, politicians sometimes tell the truth
NewPipe publishes their YouTube extractor, as a library called NewPipedExtractor. Piped is like a Web UI for the NewPipeExtractor. That’s the reason they look so similar.
Keep in mind that Google hunts third party YouTube clients, and most public instances may not work due to throttles or bans.
I talked about continuing to make money , after they sell the device. It’s usually just more profitable for a company to not respect their users.
Most companies, if not all, can probably sustain one time payments, but investors prefer growth.
I wonder whether mobile device manufacturers get a cut from Google’s spyware revenue.
Why would a company sell such a device? Unless it’s a privacy company, they will prefer to bloat the device with spyware in order to continue making money by selling user data.
What if I keep the apks for me and my family, instead of publicly releasing them.
This is probably similar to the state of Piped and Invidious. Google tries to kill them, so we are hosting private instances, instead of relying on public ones.
What if I come up with a random package name, like “online.discuss.jim3692”, register that name and a keypair, and then build ReVanced using that name and keys?
what can’t I get in the Play Store or the App Store that I actually want?
On the Android world, there are various Firefox forks with privacy enhancements. Such an example is IronFox. These apps are not listed on Play Store, and are, instead, distributed through F-Droid.
Besides this, there is a big difference between the policies of Play Store and F-Droid. Play Store takes your compiled blob, runs some security tests, signs it and publishes it. F-Droid, on the other hand, requires that all the source code is public and compiles the app.
This allows the users to be sure that the apps cannot be tampered by their developers. While, on Play Store, devs can easily submit applications that aren’t built based on the published source code.
Having given a shot to OpenRC on Alpine systems, I would say that I prefer systemd for creating and managing services.
I like its unified logging, which extends even beyond the host, integrating the logs of nspawn containers. I like its tmpfiles, which allows configuring temporary files, without writing scripts that create/cleanup them.
I have to admit, however, that I don’t like all of its subsystems. For example, I don’t want networkd and resolved anywhere near my configuration.
You can install SmartTube on Android TV. It’s the YouTube TV app, but without ads.
Hope EU puts pressure to make google allow apps to run independently without GMS or atleast install them as user apps(like graphene os sandboxed play services).
I doubt they will put any pressure. EU decided to rely on GMS for their upcoming Digital ID app. While they claim they want to switch to open source alternatives of big tech services, they designed their app so that it forces EU citizens to either comply with Google’s ToS, or Apple’s.
Related discussion: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/issues/18
Sandy Bridge is too old for CachyOS. Cachy compiles the kernel with optimizations for newer CPUs
Sandy Bridge is too old for CachyOS. Cachy compiles the kernel with optimizations for newer CPUs
I don’t think they will prohibit side loading. This will cause serious issues to developers, and other professionals.
Like, I cannot use the X tool from Github, just because the Y developer refuses to publish it in an organized store?
This also applies to Windows. What prevents a user from downloading a Firefox fork that does not properly implement age verification?
Since it is impossible to implement on Linux, it may just be flagged as adult-only software.
But, there is still hope. What if Snaps and Flatpaks get properly flagged, allowing Ubuntu and/or Fedora to be legal?
Some people don’t know it, but public transit is not always an option. Examples: