Interesting, that’s the guy that develops calibre as well

Likewise. I am loving koreader

There is a fork that is available on the izzyondroid repo

Huh this is news to me. Wonder why dd has been the defacto standard in guides everywhere for the past 15-20+ years

Even if recaptcha is solvable by bots, what you’re effectively doing is making it more expensive to run these bots at scale, which is a deterrent and necessary.

Now there’s definitely ways to do it without tracking user data, but I doubt they’ll give up that control without being forced

Tangentally related, FUTO put a bad taste in my mouth when they were harassing the graphene os team https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/113443396794247106

You can also set up MollySockets for notifications via unified push!

I agree with your points. I’d much rather a decentralized solution would pop up that would be easy to onboard “normies”.

As outlined in this mastodon thread, you can see a few pain points mentioned, a solution offered, but then there’s a glitch in fluffy chat that doesn’t allow for uName/PW sign up.

Decentralized alternatives are great in theory, but in order to gain the critical mass of users needed for a successful migration, there needs to be a happy middle that results in better/easier UX. Mastodon is much more fleshed out than matrix in this regard IMO as you don’t need to deal with key mgmt, yet you still see users migrating to a less mature platform, Bluesky.

Dessalines also has a good write up on a few of the other alternatives here. https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html#abandonment-of-open-source

Matrix, however, also exposes metadata that can be used to link who is talking to who

GNUNet seems promising

The only instance of being hostile to a 3rd party developer was when they used their name (a trademark) open signal I think it was?

MollyIm has been alive and well for years. Are there other instances I’m missing?

Other than that, yes signal is definitely better than WhatsApp with the amount of data they collect.

Does deleting old accounts really do much? Once you do something online, you should assume it’s there even if you delete it.

Best you can do is adopt a more privacy conscious way to go about things and just let your old footprint go stale

Onprem has always been cheaper. Cloud compute was the most successful marketing campaign I can think of.

When did they claim to be an expert??

Edgecase no camera perms:

Get a KVM that gives you remote access if you’re really worried but your server really should stay up without issue unless you have some faulty hardware or setup

Chromium based browsers are more secure but less private on android.

I get a unique fingerprint when I check EFF “cover your tracks” on cromite.

Pretty sure gitlab requires you to enter a CC to make an account as well, which turned me off from submitting a bug report a few weeks or so back

I’ve been using mullvad’s browser on my laptop. It’s basically tor without the network, and has the lowest bits of identifying information exposed via the EFF test I could find. Havent tried this out though

I’m not rooted, but I used this guide with mulls user.js

https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox/issues/240

That’s presently what I’m using, but I have added the mull version of the arkenfox user.js via Firefox devtools.

Fennec does release updates a bit slower than mull did via DivestOS’s repo, unfortunately, and doesn’t have a build up for these CVE’s as of yet. Granted, I don’t think FF android has these updates yet, but I feel like I remember Mull’s updates making it to my device faster than FF’s even, as they didn’t need to go through external review processes.

That’s interesting, I wasn’t aware of that.