privacy

This magazine is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

Valmond, in Common misconceptions about privacy and security

Who the hell thinks open source software is always sure??

bionicjoey,

I don’t know but I have a GitHub repo with a keylogger cool new utility to show them

DeadNinja, in New Advertisement and Internet connection permissions for Simple SMS Messenger on Google Play Store...
@DeadNinja@lemmy.world avatar

They were sold to ZippoApps, who specializes in adding crapware to apps.

What else would we expect anyway…

rolandtb303,
@rolandtb303@lemmy.ml avatar

deleted_by_moderator

  • Loading...
  • dubyakay,

    No. No it doesn’t. Israel might be a shitty country built on apartheid and illegal settlements, and netanyahoo might be genociding Gaza via IDF, but that doesn’t mean every individual should be regarded with a blanket statement.

    But fuck ZippoApps anyway.

    labbbb, (edited )

    This BS about “genociding” Gaza again… do you like HAMAS terrorists?

    greybeard,

    If we judged citizens based on what their government does, I don’t think many of us would come out clean. As an American, I don’t want the whole world thinking that I agree with what the Feds are up to all the time. I recommend extending that same courtesy to people in countries who’s government you don’t like as well.

    Amaltheamannen,

    Shouldn’t judge their citizens, but should sanction and boycott their companies.

    moon, in New Advertisement and Internet connection permissions for Simple SMS Messenger on Google Play Store...

    Oof, those permissions alone scream proprietary spyware. There’s no more speculation here, it has officially become enshittified.

    mnglw,

    that’s because that’s what happened. Simple mobile tools got bought out by a company known for exactly that: putting ads and spyware in apps

    thankfully since its open source, there’s already a fork in the works called Fossify

    labbbb,

    That’s why I love open source

    LWD, (edited ) in Nova Launcher Alternative?

    deleted_by_author

  • Loading...
  • apfelwoiSchoppen, (edited )
    @apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world avatar

    Fossify forked all the Simple Mobile Tools apps and are working on open source, free and ad-free apps with that as the foundation. They have published a few already, Launcher is in the pipeline: github.com/FossifyOrg/Launcher

    Sir_Kevin, in Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies – The Markup
    @Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    20 years ago there would have been an outrage. Today, people are fine with it. I don’t understand that shit. Yet those same people were quick to jump on byte dance, because china.

    There should be rules and regulations across the board, un- influenced by bribes lobbying.

    Father_Redbeard, in Nova Launcher Alternative?
    @Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml avatar

    I haven’t found one that I like as much. My biggest hangup, and this is probably dumb, is the ability to edit the icons for PWAs so they don’t show the stupid browser icon that screams “I’m a web shortcut!!!”. I tried Hermit as a PWA/lite app replacement and Android just slaps the hermit badge on it instead. For whatever reason that annoys me enough to stick with Nova.

    Xavienth, (edited )

    Could shove it in a folder and then make the tap action open the first item in the folder, then set the folder icon to whatever your want. Disadvantage is that if it’s already in a folder you can’t do that because it would require nested folders

    Father_Redbeard, (edited )
    @Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml avatar

    Not a bad idea. I get picky about aesthetics though. Dumb, I know. But I’ll give it a try. Just seems silly to me that default launchers can’t manage editing the dang app shortcuts

    edit: Samsungs OneUI launcher does not put the badge on a PWA. But I’m not sure I trust them any more than Nova at this point…

    yamanii, in New Advertisement and Internet connection permissions for Simple SMS Messenger on Google Play Store...
    @yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

    Will this be pushed to the F-droid version? Only downloaded from there.

    amnesiac,
    @amnesiac@lemmy.world avatar

    I don’t think so but might be though.

    TechieDamien,

    Can’t include any proprietary code, so using the google sdk would invalidate it I believe.

    Darken,
    @Darken@reddthat.com avatar

    I believe fdroid + google services = nono

    So we are safe on fdroid

    antonim, (edited )

    It seems F-droid won’t accept the new versions, as the Suite has been acquired over a month ago and they haven’t accepted any new versions, all Simple apps I’ve checked haven’t been updated for 3-4 months; in fact, I can’t find Simple Gallery there anymore at all.

    The ads are probably against F-droid’s TOS.

    Banana_man,

    I found simple gallery though. It even showed me that I had it installed as it should.

    antonim,

    Huh, perhaps the problem is on my end then? But I can neither find it by searching the repository, nor is it on the list of my installed F-Droid apps, even though all the other Simple apps are there. And I’m 100% certain I’m not using the Play Store version.

    Banana_man,

    I’m not sure, it seems others can’t find it either. My own simple gallery works fine and without the new stuff everyone is complaining about here (I got it from f droid, so that’s why). Maybe it’s because it can’t take down the page for a downloaded app?

    antonim, (edited )

    Simple Gallery hasn’t and couldn’t have received the privacy-intruding update yet, as its last update was in October, according to the data on Play Store, i.e. before the acquisition. People are complaining about Simple Messenger, for now.

    My own install of Gallery is from F-Droid, just as yours, yet I don’t see it there anymore. It’s not visible on the F-Droid website, unlike e.g. f-droid.org/en/…/com.simplemobiletools.keyboard/

    Maybe you can see it if you’re using some repository other then the default one? Or your repository data hasn’t been updated recently? Idk, just guessing.

    Banana_man,

    I suppose we shall never know. F droid and all apps are up to date for me, so it’s not that… I am not tech savvy enough to find out lol.

    lesnake,

    They probably removed gallery since fossify galery is on fdroid now

    ArcaneSlime, in New Advertisement and Internet connection permissions for Simple SMS Messenger on Google Play Store...

    Shit, anyone have a good calendar on fdroid?

    LoveSausage,

    Etar on f-droid

    ParetoOptimalDev,

    etar maybe?

    ArcaneSlime,

    I’ll check it out, thanks! I’m on fossify for now.

    noodlejetski,

    Fossify Calendar, which is a fork of Simple.

    merde,

    export settings and events from simple calendar, import settings and events to fossify and voilà.

    ArcaneSlime,

    I already had em in an ics from recently switching phones lol.

    FlappyBubble, in Reolink camera app capturing your clipboard contents

    Bad but expected given that they are Chinese based. I use several of their cameras but only after kepping them isolated from the Internet and segmented from the rest of my network. I only access the streams from my NAS which in turn access the camera streams from a dedicated NIC.

    QuikxSpec,

    Based on your usage, how much storage is needed per day/week of footage? Working my way to this point but just getting started

    Vendetta9076,
    @Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works avatar

    There’s a good amount of storage calcs online for this sort of thing.

    cctvcalculator.net/…/storage-needs-calculator/

    www.seagate.com/ca/en/video-storage-calculator/

    Sir_Kevin,
    @Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Depends on compression/image quality/resolution x number of cameras. That said, I think my previous setup was using a 2TB for eight 1080p cameras. I believe that maintained about a month of footage with motion detection.

    ipkpjersi, in New Advertisement and Internet connection permissions for Simple SMS Messenger on Google Play Store...

    “have full network access” BIG YIKES

    eluvatar,

    I mean it makes sense for error reporting. Lots of apps automatically report errors so that they can be detected easily, which would require internet access.

    cupcakezealot,
    @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    that kinda makes me think google should to a log retrieval and storage api which can retrieve and send logs to developers.

    redline23,

    That just allows Google full access to all logs from any application you have installed.

    That service is not free either per month and those costs will be passed to the consumer in either a subscription or worse software.

    cupcakezealot,
    @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    i mean google would have it anyway; and the app developer would be collecting the logs any way so the cost would be there already. this would just make it so they wouldn’t need to request full network access; just enough to get the logs.

    JackSkellington, in [es] Spanish government is working in a digital certificate to identify adults and avoid minors to access porn sites

    So the biggest issues in Spain over the last years is kids watching porn? Really? Spain has been through a shitstorm and this is what they think of. This is just an excuse to generalise the use of digital identity certificates for all the stuff they want.

    • this isn’t even a left or right thing, since its government is an amalgamation of left parties
    init,

    But think of the children!!

    XTL,

    It’s a classic excuse now. Let’s you do set any law.

    krigo666, in [es] Spanish government is working in a digital certificate to identify adults and avoid minors to access porn sites

    It’s called Parental Control software.

    zako,
    @zako@lemmy.world avatar

    I would say it is Government Parental Control, the government is your parent 😆

    TCB13,
    @TCB13@lemmy.world avatar
    konki,

    What does this have to do with Marx or communism?

    TCB13, (edited )
    @TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

    www.marxists.org/archive/…/communism-family.htm

    In communism there’s no space for the concept of family / family unit as there’s with the center-right and right-wing ideologies. To communists, or any other extremist regime, children are mostly state property that must be indoctrinated as soon as possible to follow the leadership’s mindset otherwise the system wouldn’t work.

    konki,

    “To communists […] state property”. Ah okey, so you just don’t know what communism is. Understood.

    TCB13, (edited )
    @TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

    Communism is all about state property in all aspects of life. You simply selling people the ideia that everything belongs to everyone (there’s no private property) and that everything should be shared when in fact what you’re trying to do is to instate an extremist government, very similar to a fascist one, that will take control over everything.

    It’s good to be communist when you’re on top and I’m sure Hitler felt the same. Not so good when you’re the working class.

    Psychodelic,

    Did you even try to read what you shared?

    She’s making a lot of good points. I mean, thanks for sharing, I guess. I didn’t know who she was

    TCB13, (edited )
    @TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

    Wait, how come you don’t know who Alexandra Kollontai is? I’m not even anything left leaning and I know about her and her works. And yes she does have very good point, as do a lot of communist but still paints an image of communist and family. Here’s a good example:

    Working mothers have no need to be alarmed; communist not intending to take children away from their parents or to tear the baby from the breast of its mother

    That’s fair, yet a few lines bellow:

    Society will feed, bring up and educate the child (…) Communist society will take upon itself all the duties involved in the education of the child

    So you start by saying that the communists don’t want to take children away but then proceed to bring up and educate. That’s kind of suspicious.

    To be fair, that could’ve even been true at some point. I see that a lot of the communist ideologies only work if seen from the right angle (ironic) and with good intentions, however what are really communist groups and parties nowadays?

    Half of those groups got mixed up with the gender/identity bullshit people - those who end up yelling to politicians about children not getting free gender conversion therapy and whatnot. Those communist groups/parties groups/parties that don’t particularly share their views but agree to “bite the bullet” just for the numbers. Numbers are all fun but this will eventually backfire once those same groups lose their true ideology / identity and become associated with those people and lose all their credibility.

    LWD, (edited ) in The AirDrop flaw exploited by China, explained

    deleted_by_author

  • Loading...
  • moreeni,

    They sat on this since at least 2016

    digipres.club/

    BearOfaTime,

    Like they sat on (and still haven’t resolved) the iMessage issues they’ve known about for years.

    news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38537444

    TwilightKiddy, in Nova Launcher Alternative?
    talentedkiwi,

    Lawnchair hasn’t had a release since 2018. I find it to be a bit buggy and sometimes won’t redraw the home screens. This makes me need to force close the launcher from the settings. I usually clear the cache too, just to be safe.

    Just tempering expectations for anyone else looking at it. If anyone knows of a fork that is more recent let me know. Maybe someone else is maintaining somewhere.

    Sylocule, in [es] Spanish government is working in a digital certificate to identify adults and avoid minors to access porn sites

    We already have digital certificates to identify ourselves on government websites to access services.

    Most likely the implementation will require sites to demand the cert for verification. What happens after that is the privacy creep

    tonyn,

    Just put the porn on the government websites. Problem solved.

    ExLisper,

    This is exactly what will not happen. They clearly talking about different certificate. Read the article.

    Sylocule,

    I can’t because I refuse their cookies and then it’s subscription

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • privacy@lemmy.ml
  • localhost
  • All magazines
  • Loading…
    Loading the web debug toolbar…
    Attempt #