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Noxious

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  • GrapheneOS now officially supports Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL | GrapheneOS is a private, secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility, developed as a non-profit open source project

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  • Their camera app got much better recently, but you can also just go ahead and install the stock Pixel camera app from the play store, and use Graphene's network toggle to deny it internet access

  • What's A Piece Of Software You Could Never Do Without?

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  • Yeah the search is pretty nice, but I prefer my selfhosted instance of bitmagnet

  • What's A Piece Of Software You Could Never Do Without?

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  • Going back to a "normal" text editor after using Vim for a few years would be horrible

    Life without qBittorrent would also be pretty difficult, hell no, I'm not paying for DRM content that requires proprietary software to watch

  • Zen Browser | Privacy focused, open-source, Firefox Fork

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  • Has anyone tried loading arkenfox user.js on there? That's the bare minimum for me to use a Firefox-based browser. I'm not using that without hardening.

  • GrapheneOS now officially supports Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL

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  • Because Google is a monopolistic piece of shit and they try to lock you in to their shitty, privacy-invasive ecosystem. In my opinion it's like a hundred times worse than Apple. Only Google hardware (phones and tablets) are worth buying, but only for the strong hardware security features, definitely not for the stupid proprietary software they come with by default.

  • You can now share video timestamps via YouTube mobile

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  • LibreTube could do that like forever

  • Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested in France

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  • The Signal protocol is the de-facto standard for E2EE, and it works just fine even in large group chats. But you refuse to accept this reality. The Signal protocol is used by so many apps, obviously Signal itself, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram direct messages, Google Allo (back when it existed), Google Messages (RCS), Skype, Wire and many others. MTProto is developed by Telegram, only used by telegram, not properly audited and full of flaws. No one should actually use it. And the fact that it doesn't support group chats is a design choice, because ultimately Telegram doesn't give a fuck about their users privacy or security. They have repeatedly worked with governments and worked against the interests of their users. Their funding is also pretty unclear and shady, and the entire company just appears scummy. Give me one single reason why anyone should use this trash over a proper E2EE messenger like Signal, Threema, SimpleX or Wire.

  • Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested in France

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  • Uh you appear not to understand how encryption works? Either something is end-to-end encrypted, and the service provider doesn't have access to the encryption keys, and thus can't read the messages, or it is encrypted in transit, the keys are held by the provider and the messages are decrypted on the server. The latter is exactly what Telegram does, even though they falsely try to market it as something else.

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  • Also it seems there is still no proofs those vector attacks are being used at all.

    Ah yes, definitely go with a messenger that has known vulnerabilities in its crappy encryption protocol, instead of one with an actual secure E2EE implementation.

    no history is being saved in this mode

    You can still make encrypted backups of encrypted messages, as can be seen on WhatsApp or Signal

    and the desktop client doesn't support it

    I don't know what you mean, both Signal and WhatsApp have managed to ship desktop clients with full E2EE support for years now. Only Telegram is too incompetent to do that.

    Telegram got implemented e2e between 2 users before other messengers got it working in any form of group chats

    Just stop lying. Telegram Secret Chats have been introduced in 2017, both Signal and WhatsApp have had E2EE (including for group chats!) for much longer. Signal has had (encrypted) group chats in 2014, back when it was called TextSecure: https://signal.org/blog/the-new-textsecure/ And WhatsApp followed in 2016.

    I'll think about it if they ditch electron.

    Are you mad that Signal is focusing on privacy and security by improving their encryption protocol, instead of wasting time on some UI garbage? This shows your priorities really well. Keep using unencrypted Telegram, for the cool stickers and convenient cloud backup, and keep in mind that Telegram can read all of your messages, as well as hand them over to governments.

  • Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested in France

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  • Stop pretending that Telegram cares about the security of their users, because they clearly aren't, as can be seen in their shitty encryption protocol, and the fact that by default all messages are stored on their servers in plain text

  • Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested in France

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  • Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested in France

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  • That bad encryption was not cracked for now

    There is no encryption by default if you haven't noticed. There only the pseudo-E2EE which has been proven to have critical weaknesses: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf

    can't be enabled by default

    Yes it can, every proper E2EE messenger works like that. Signal, Threema, hell even WhatsApp uses E2EE by default.

    no support for group chats

    Signal has had group chats for many years now. WhatsApp uses the same encryption protocol and it also works just fine. Stop spreading misinformation, and use Signal if you want an actual secure, end-to-end encrypted, open and transparent messenger.

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  • You still need a phone number to sign up

  • Should yt-dlp be used behind a VPN?

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  • The IP address is shared between all people who connect to the same VPN server.

  • Let's give it a try - Weekly discussion thread - discuss whatever you want about Android!

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  • It does, but the nice thing about UAD is that it comes with lists of bloatware apps for different phone manufacturers, and you can simply uninstall anything from that list without having to worry about breaking something.

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  • Hell yeah. I always hated Telegram, because of its countless false promises, misleading claims, bad encryption (which isn't even enabled by default) and shady background.

  • Should yt-dlp be used behind a VPN?

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  • Well, you can change your IP as often as you want. You can go to a completely different ISP in a different country in a matter of seconds.

    So if you are using one tool to access YouTube while being logged into Google on your browser, doesn't that defeat the purpose of the VPN?

    Yeah, I didn't assume anyone in this community would log in to YouTube, but maybe I'm wrong

  • Full open source and private camera monitoring system

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  • Frigate is pretty nice. If you need a simpler setup, go with Rpisurv, it's made for a Raspberry Pi, and very easy to setup and use.

  • Let's give it a try - Weekly discussion thread - discuss whatever you want about Android!

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