Search results for tag #android
Does anyone know of any #FreeSoftware implementations of the #RCS encrypted messaging protocol? There is the nine year old
https://github.com/android-rcs/rcsjta I wonder if that is usable?
Seeing the latest #google nonsense with #gemini on #android, I guess what I want is a simple phone with a data connection, and a pocket sized linux device or a different OS in my android phone. I can live without pay-by-phone, and I am fed up having to play with the settings to disable things companies feel it is quite OK to add with the default of enabled. I even feel that my preferences would be ignored, and my privacy invaded anyway! Then I need to convince people I contact that WhatsApp is not a solution. I might just become an #XMPP evangelist (once I have a server and client set up...). I have already set up a discourse instance for my local community band, to encourage less dependence on WhatsApp...
History & Plan:
2020: no more Apple devices
2025: (planned) - Microsoft cancellation and windows deletion
2025: investigate alternatives to android phone... Since I use a Google Pixel, I guess this could be #graphene, or #postmarketos ...
The browser I use on Android (Fennec F-Droid) just switched my default search engine back to Goggle, and what's worse, completely removed Mojeek and Brave as search options. This is an anti-feature!
It would be great if F-Droid builds of Android browsers stripped out the code that pulls dick moves like this.
#search #SearchEngines #Android #WebBrowser #FDroid #FennecFDroid
An open call to #Android #developers! The #EuropeanCommission needs help evaluating #GooglePlay's #security claims. I'm going to do what I can. Anyone with knowledge of how app installation, uninstallation, sandboxing, signing, etc. could really help here. If you want to contribute, please reach out!
For the next release of #Conversations_im I’m switching the default for showing all messages, including sent ones, left aligned, to 'on' for all tablets.
Combine this with disabling 'Colorful chat bubbles' and this looks pretty clean and almost like a regular desktop app.
This post is also a reminder to existing tablet users that those two settings exist. Too bad there aren’t that many of you.
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A screenshot of Conversations in tablet mode. The chat list is visible to the left hand side of the currently open chat.
#Signal bekommt E2E-verschlüsselte Cloud-Backups, die man nun unter #Android testen kann: https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-signal-backups-testing/
Die neuen #Backups sollen dann übrigens auch dann auch plattformübergreifend nutzbar sein, was auch endlich den Umzug der Chatinhalte zwischen Android und iOS ermöglicht.
Auch lokale Backups sollen deutlich besser werden. Bleibt zu hoffen, dass sie dann endlich inkrementell funktionieren. 👀
@kfdm what you are daydreaming about is called #UnifiedPush and exists and is working well on #Android.
Depending on what distributor you use (multiple are available) it will literally use #XMPP. For example via #Conversations_im
Privacy vs Security: Yandex is spying on their users in an insecure manner, Meta (Facebook, Insta) in a more secure manner. Both of them are a threat against user privacy
This is yet another example showing that there are reasons to be more suspicious against proprietary apps. We should avoid installing GAFAM apps, and reducing as much as possible our dependency on their services is healthy
Nachdem Google der App #Nextcloud die vollen #Dateizugriffsrechte entzogen hatte, erhält die Anwendung bald ihre volle Funktionalität zurück.
#Google lenkt im Streit um die #Zugriffsberechtigungen der #Android-App von #Nextcloud ein. Wie The Register unter Berufung auf Andy #Schertzinger, Director of Engineering bei #Nextcloud, berichtet, ist man nun in der Lage, die volle Funktionalität der #Dateisynchronisierung in der App wiederherzustellen.
https://www.golem.de/news/open-source-google-lenkt-im-streit-mit-nextcloud-ein-2505-196341.html