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Rikj000

@ Rikj000 @discuss.tchncs.de

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Full stack developer and privacy advocate. I like to keep the mentality, if you can program one language well, then you can program in any language!

  • dafuq are they doing over there

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  • What old movies hold up because of a lack of special effects or because clever use of effects?

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  • Alien,the original 1979 one.

    Imo it really aged well,recently rewatched it and was amazed by how good the special effects looked, especially for that time.

    It's also a really good movie,scores 8.5/10 on IMDB,kept me on the tip of my chair for the full 2 houra.

  • De-everything enough?

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  • Huh, if your parents are the blocking factor,how about trying to educate them a bit about F-Droid and data privacy?

    Software from F-Droid really is much more privacy/battery/storage friendly. Just open source software, no spyware services bloating up the apps.

    Perhaps after some convincing, they'll at least allow you to use F-Droid and Aurora Store! :)

    3xodus can help with convincing them:

    It shows known trackers (= spyware) in applications.

    ClassyShark does it by de-compiling the apps and scanning them on the fly.Their website shows reports by other users that scanned applications.

    Nearly everything from the PlayStore contains trackers, while nearly nothing from F-Droid does.

  • De-everything enough?

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  • Ufff sad to hear.

    What you could do:

    • Not recommened: Search on XDA for an un-official build of a custom rom for your device (stability may vary)
    • Recommended: Be patient, until it's time to buy a new phone, then first look for the OS you want, then choose a device from the list that the OS supports, that's how I do it nowadays :)

    Also interesting, but annoying that you can't install apks from outside the PlayStore :/ No way to circumvent it?

  • De-everything enough?

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  • Not really imo,however doing good taking small steps OP! :)

    Suggestions I'd make:

    • Aim to use nothing/as little as possible from the Play Store (proprietary, often filled with trackers)
    • Aim to use everything/as much as possible from F-Droid (open source, no or nearly no trackers)
    • Switch GApps for MicroG (The open source implementation of the Google system apps to make things like notifications work, which removes spyware)
    • Switch your Xiaomi OS (also spyware filled) for a more privacy friendly OS like LineageOS

    I'd suggest LineageOS4MicroG:https://lineage.microg.org/

    It's vanilla LineageOS,with MicroG + F-Droid pre-included.

  • Android Auto Alternatives

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  • You're very welcome! ^^

  • Android Auto Alternatives

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  • I absolutely love every single part of this.

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  • Check the changes,they're quite funny :P

  • Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular?

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  • As many pointed out, lack of apps.

    Don't know how much it improved over the years,but battery life wasn't the best either.

    What Linux mobile needs to gain traction imo,would be Android app virtualisation.

    Kinda like Waydroid, WSL, WSA, WinApps, WinBoat...But then specifically for seamless Android apps on Linux mobile.

    That could close the gap of lack of apps,resulting in more users/devs,resulting in more native apps,eventually resulting in less need for Android apps on Linux mobile.

  • Searxng search getting waaay worse. Anyone else?

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  • I've noticed this too.

    My assumption is that it might be mostly Chinese instances being hosted, configured to return such results, but it's just a hunch.

    How do you use SearXNG btw?

    I use instance randomizers,so each query goes through a random SearXNG instance, e.g:

    GimmeASearX could help here,since you can white/blacklist instances you want to use, but that can become tedious.

    Searloc + Neocities are great for mobile devices and other places where you can't self host GimmeASearX.

  • Discord Data Breach - Customers Personal Data and Scanned Photo IDs leaked

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  • "bUt wE nEEdeD iT tO pRoTeCt tHe cHiLdrEn"

    No you lying politicians, you needed it for surveillance reasons and now you harmed everyone instead.. -.-"

    Same for the chat control which keeps getting put on the table in Europe, there aint no thing like a backdoor "only for the good guys", bad actors will find and abuse it eventually.

    Hit up your politicians, tell them to start actually caring for your best interests instead of speedrunning towards a surveillance state.

  • For people who are choosing between Librewolf and Brave

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  • IronFox is closer to LibreWolf on mobile then IceRaven.

    Both IronFox and IceRaven have extension support :)

  • Android Auto and GrapheneOS

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  • Heya,I'm the dev of AAXLU and contributor to AA4MG,glad to see my work bringing you joy! :)

  • Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication

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  • Sure the client is open source,server code is closed source.

    So if proton enshittifies or ceizes to exist,the open source clients will be useless,since you or someone else can't host the server, since that is closed source.

    But whatever man, good for you if you like them and want to remain oblivious of the risks! c:

  • Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication

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  • No, I mean their email server + protocol.The thing you'd use to self-host a proton mail email server.

    What you linked is the source to the client,which interacts with the proprietary server code to fetch your mail from them.

    If you can't self-host / switch to a different server if they enshittify due to being closed source, then it's not "open source" nor "portable"

  • Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication

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  • Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication

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  • 2 words I want you to keep in mind:

    • Entranchment
    • Enshittification

    I purposely do not use the whole Proton suite for those reasons. It would be quite bad if one is entranched by their whole suite if they went on the enshittification route, which large companies eventually tend to do.

  • Looking for: Browser extension for intercepting and modifying HTTP req/res

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  • (SPOILERS) Bethesda is shit - Fallout 4 (2015) Impressions

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  • Not modding a Bethesda game is a mistake though.

    They're notorious for publishing half assed games with great potential, but tend to be fairly open to the modding community patching things up and enhancing the experience.

    If you ever would consider replaying it,look into TheMidnightRide,which is a great quality of life modpack for Fallout 4: https://themidnightride.moddinglinked.com/

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Poisoning AI with ".ass" subtitles

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Dis/connect from Netbird through NetworkManager?

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Happy socially enforced consumerism day everyone!

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Blocking Copilot + AI feed bloat on Github?

  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
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    Release

    SVN-to-Git-convert

    github.com /Rikj000/SVN-to-Git-convert
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Release

    SVN-to-Git-convert

    github.com /Rikj000/SVN-to-Git-convert
  • Android @lemmy.world
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    Release

    Belfius Root

    github.com /Rikj000/Belfius-Root
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Forgejo or Radicle - Which do you prefer?

    github.com /orgs/community/discussions/49869
  • Emulation @lemmy.ml
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    Help preserve Yuzu's code base

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Am I the only one getting agitated by the word AI?

  • Monero Mining @monero.town
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    Guide

    Introduction to fair Monero mining