Shamot

joined 10 months ago
[–] Shamot@jlai.lu 34 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I think that using gecko based browsers like Firefox is the best thing to do in the short term. But having no competition is a bad thing. So supporting new web engines, like Ladybird, is important too: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird

[–] Shamot@jlai.lu 4 points 3 months ago

And there is still the 14 eyes agreement

[–] Shamot@jlai.lu 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It doesn't interoperate well with FOSS software like K9 and Thunderbird.

[–] Shamot@jlai.lu 4 points 3 months ago

Thank you for your comment. Since I deactivated Google Play services, I don't get notifications on many apps. I didn't know there were alternatives. Unfortunately, the app server must be compatible, but if I can have it at least for Telegram with this fork, it would be a good start. I'll take time to compare the different alternatives and see if other push servers are compatible with more apps.

For what I understand, there are self hosted push servers, like NextPush that works on Nextcloud, and some that provide you a server, liked ntfy. For the latter, you have to check the privacy policy to see if it's better than the default Google firebase server.

[–] Shamot@jlai.lu 1 points 4 months ago

In some countries, you need an ID to buy a sim card, so it's linked to your identity, even if you pay cash.

[–] Shamot@jlai.lu 1 points 4 months ago

I vote for political parties that are explicitly against facial recognition when possible (always a small party that nobody knows). I use cash.

[–] Shamot@jlai.lu 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Libretube works for me, but not Tubular.

[–] Shamot@jlai.lu 3 points 7 months ago

He wants to try before accepting the deal.

[–] Shamot@jlai.lu 2 points 7 months ago

I don't know if there exists such a thing as GrapheneOS account, but it is not required. You can add Google, Facebook or other accounts like with regular Android. I use a self hosted Nextcloud instance to synchronize contacts and calendar with DavX5 app. GrapheneOS has built-in apps. I use most of them. For the app stores I mostly use Fdroid and Aurora store for non open source software. I don't use Google play store even sandboxed because I don't accept the terms of use, mostly because they have the right to uninstall apps from your phone without consent or notice.

[–] Shamot@jlai.lu 18 points 7 months ago (24 children)

Like Windows, Ubuntu is installed by default on many computers. In my university, all the computers have a dual boot Ubuntu Windows.

[–] Shamot@jlai.lu 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Some like Phind or Perplexity cite their sources. And they give you directly the answer you're looking for without having to search it in a mess of "subscribe to our newsletter", "other articles that may interest you", 3 paragraphs of "if you read this article, you will know what you want to know", "special promotion for you",…

[–] Shamot@jlai.lu 30 points 8 months ago (16 children)

Glad to see you use cash. It's often forgotten in privacy advice, despite being one of the most importants.

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