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Woodpecker (Drone community fork) v0.15.0 released(github.com)
10 points by BubuIIC 5y ago|2 comments
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by BubuIIC 5y ago
This isn't a project developed for the public sector really. Afaik it's a privately funded, for profit, product that has been licensed by several states in Germany by now. Apart from that the official (indeed publicly funded) Coro
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Corona Contact Tracing Germany: Corona App Without Proprietary Google Libraries(codeberg.org)
2 points by BubuIIC 6y ago|0 comments
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by BubuIIC 6y ago
> How do you leave? Maybe long-press the room name, or swipe? Nope, you enter the room, click on the triple dots, settings, scroll down, leave room. Long press sure works in a recent version of element-android. (And I remember that being
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by BubuIIC 6y ago
Have you looked at the beta versions yet? The UI was overhauled over basically the last 1.5 years and the points mentioned in the blog post are the bits missing to release that as a stable version (IMAP IDLE mostly): https://gith
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K-9 Mail is looking for funding(k9mail.app)
379 points by BubuIIC 6y ago|138 comments
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by BubuIIC 6y ago
I think where it went wrong here is that when it asked you for your "passphrase" (which is called a recovery key) it's very likely it wanted your login password instead. (Because that is indeed needed to reset the recovery k
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by BubuIIC 6y ago
I found the linked retrospective "The user has sobered up" quite an interesting read: https://medium.com/@richlitt/the-user-has-sobered-up-df0b411...
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by BubuIIC 6y ago
I think delta chat does exactly this: https://delta.chat/ (email as chat)
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by BubuIIC 6y ago
This has been going on for 2 days, not 2 hours.
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by BubuIIC 6y ago
That would be lovely indeed!
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by BubuIIC 6y ago
> removes one layer of Google code, but keeps building on the Google layers beneath it. Well, the layers beneath it are AOSP and free software. The situation is certainly not great, with source drops, nonfree firmware blobs, etc. But it
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by BubuIIC 6y ago
The package description doesn't do a particularly great job at explaining what this is: This is the German "Coroana Warn App"[1], the official German contact tracing app but instead of using Google's Exposure Notificatio
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Corona Contact Tracing Germany(f-droid.org)
29 points by BubuIIC 6y ago|15 comments
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Gitter is joining Matrix(matrix.org)
701 points by BubuIIC 6y ago|116 comments
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by BubuIIC 6y ago
A google account is not required for using the android SDK. You have to agree with the TOS if you download the prebuilt SDK from google, yes. Building the SDK from source is unfortunately quite hard but Debian has made some progress with th
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by BubuIIC 6y ago
Alternative repositories are a first-class feature of F-Droid. Alternative app stores aren't really a first class feature of Android (though they are obviously possible, in contrast to iOS) > bans your Android Studio account Don&#x2
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by BubuIIC 6y ago
Not sure what I'm doing differently but the search suggestions go below the history suggestions for me.
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by BubuIIC 7y ago
Author here (of that post and the framework). The solution to the background limitations for now is running as a foreground service. This shows a persistent notification (which can be hidden by the user) but can then run indefinitely. The o
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by BubuIIC 7y ago
There's also Transportr, they use the same library for accessing transit data though. Transportr has some really good guides here, how it works under the hood and how to help with contributing other networks: https://transpo
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by BubuIIC 7y ago
Are all the GTFS feeds that google maps consumes necessarily open? I've been searching for a GTFS datasource for TfL (Transport for London) data but couldn't find anything. Google maps of course has that data.
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by BubuIIC 7y ago
Matrix is the other IM service. This is the tool for getting whatsapp chats into matrix: https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-whatsapp
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by BubuIIC 7y ago
The alternative is of course to host your own repo. These can be added to the f-droid client.
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by BubuIIC 7y ago
The app exists and is going to be banned from google play in the next few days. It wasn't yet submitted to F-Droid when this piece was published.
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by BubuIIC 7y ago
> That is, half of Android devices were on an OS that hadn’t seen an update in at least 2 years. This seems quite wrong, older Android versions do receive some security maintenance releases from google. It's of course up to the devi
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by BubuIIC 7y ago
There's this: https://osmand.net/blog/osmand-telegram-released But I guess at that point you can just use Telegram for location sharing.
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by BubuIIC 7y ago
Agreed on that. Although in Canada the OSM data seemed really, really good when it came to national parks and trails. Not so much inside Vancouver. (Still enough for navigation by car and on foot, but finding addresses was a major PITA.)
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by BubuIIC 7y ago
Ugh. In it's core Maps.me might be a good app. But it's sooo full of tracking stuff [1]. And I'm not even sure exodus catches all of them :-/. There's a fork on F-Droid just called Maps, which removes all those trac
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by BubuIIC 8y ago
The real benefit of the F-Droid ecosystem is that it's easy to host your own repository. And the client is explicitly designed to have multiple package sources avialable, so the developers of these proprietary apps can easily host thei
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by BubuIIC 8y ago
> When I told it I didn't want to replace an app with its version it kept asking again and again, every day at least. F-Droid can't replace a version installed form GPlay with it's own version as they are (except a handful

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