BubuIIC

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by BubuIIC 8y ago
Uh, well, both WhatsApp and Signal are single device only to begin with.
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by BubuIIC 8y ago
F-Droid the client started out as a fork of the aptoide app, yes. This was quite a while ago and I doubt there's any resemblance in code or appearance at this point in time. F-Droid the ecosystem is far more than that though.
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by BubuIIC 8y ago
> You have to root your device to run it, allow third party code. Most likely one of those, yes. Though on Android 8+ you can only give that allow-install from unknown soures permission to F-Droid. Also both Copperhead and Fairphone Open
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by BubuIIC 8y ago
The linux-crypto maintainer seems to agree: https://marc.info/?l=linux-crypto-vger&m=153310819905231
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by BubuIIC 8y ago
I'd argue that in this case the centralization helps because blocking GCM would kill all notifications for all apps. As long as they (Russia) are not willing to do that Telegram can use this as a side-channel to update their IPs for al
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by BubuIIC 8y ago
Telegram datacenter IPs.
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by BubuIIC 8y ago
Unfortunately Telegram-FOSS from F-Droid doens't have GCM support so won't be notified about DC updates via push messages. I this particular case the centralization around the push service of google actually helps.
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by BubuIIC 8y ago
To be fair Firefox for Andorid has gotten a lot better lately as well.
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by BubuIIC 8y ago
Not much rumor there, it's right in the spec: https://core.telegram.org/api/push-updates#service-notificat... It's also actually pretty clever.
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by BubuIIC 8y ago
I strongly disagree. I never used an android phone with google services. Apart from the mentioned unique apps I never missed anything from the FOSS ecosystem. Often the free alternatives are vastly superior over their google counterparts. A
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by BubuIIC 8y ago
https://f-droid.org/ has a catalouge of ~1500 apps which have absolutely no dependencies on the proprietary google play services. Those few proprietary apps for which there are no free alternatives (spotify, duolingo) seeme
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by BubuIIC 9y ago
I just needed to test if I can send emails to gmail accounts form my selfhosted mailserver without them getting put into the spam folder. I'm using that email for ~6 months now, I haven't yet send an email to gmail... I checked. A
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by BubuIIC 9y ago
For android there is NewPipe: https://newpipe.schabi.org Completely free, uses none of the google internal APIs and manages your subscriptions, watch and search history locally.
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by BubuIIC 9y ago
Analytics is there, depending on platform it's either opt-in or opt-out. Android is opt-out for now, desktop seems to be opt-in. Not sure about web.
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by BubuIIC 9y ago
Here is the issue on F-Droid side: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/issues/73 I recently buidling riot for F-Droid completely from source, which includes the jitsi-meet android library. So added the jitsi app sh
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by BubuIIC 9y ago
Except from searching for addresses I find that OpenStreetMap offers a vastly better data source, nicer rendering and far superior routing capabilities. This come from an admittedly from the PoV of not using a smartphone with google ser