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.

[–] TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 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!

[–] Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is it?

[–] TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] samsy@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] unknown@sh.itjust.works 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.

[–] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 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

[–] eleitl@lemmy.ml 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.

[–] Scrath@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

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