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Vexz, in Switching to more privacy friendly alternatives

Either they're okay with a switch and it's easy or they are not open for that and it's impossible to change their mind.

Pretty much nobody I know wants to switch to Signal or any other messaging app. So it's SMS communication with them because I definitely won't install WhatsApp.

majestic, in Switching to more privacy friendly alternatives

Why everybody is talking about signal? Isnt a matrix also a good alternative? It requires no phone number + has almost the same feature set. For chatting with family and friend it scales enough good. It is fully open source.

governorkeagan,

I’ve started using Matrix instead of Discord (not that I really ever used Discord).

RandomVideos,

Why are so many people comparing discord with matrix instead of revolt

governorkeagan,

In my case, I’ve seen a lot of Discord groups linked with Matrix. As well as it being mentioned a whole bunch online

lseif,

personally, signal is a lot easier to set up for a family member who doesnt care about privacy. its just a sms replacement basically, just need a phone number (which is also a downside, of course)

majestic,

In Matrix all u need is username, email and password and ur ready to go. Homeserver is configured automatically to matrix.org (which is a problem, but nvm)

The downside of matrix is complexity of choosing a client though. And in general understanding a concept of matrix is not easy for regilar person.

For example u can say: “Im on Signal”, but u cant say: “im on FluffyChat”, or Element whatever, it sounds wrong, cuz these are only the clients and everything is working on matrix. But the regular person needs an object: telegram, signal, whatsapp - these all are just single entities. On the other hand u have matrix with clients, homeservers, spaces and all of this complexity, and that is not easy to understand.

Yeah, i hope in future this problem will be resolved.

Gekoloniseerd, in The LAPD Is Using Controversial Mass Surveillance Tracking Software

I’m shocked I tell you SHOCKED. suprised picachu face

Touching_Grass, in The LAPD Is Using Controversial Mass Surveillance Tracking Software

Same guys that screamed about government over reach during covid

tesseract, in Switching to more privacy friendly alternatives

I don’t have anything to hide

Great! Then I guess they don’t mind giving you their bank password, credit card pin, details of all the medicines they take, information from the work they do, their detailed weekly activity schedule, their browser history, their investment portfolio and assets, etc, etc… I’m salivating at the thought of the hundreds of different ways in which I can make money with all that info!

Chinzon, (edited )

Sacrificing privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you’re ok giving up free speech because you have nothing to say

Vexz,

Not even gonna name the source where you got that from? :P

spookedbyroaches,

Funny thing is that a lot of people actually do give pins and shit. I know more than a few people that straight up gave me their card and the pin number to buy shit when I was a kid.

Besides, giving embarrassing information to a faceless billion dollar company does not feel as bad as giving it to someone who judges you if they find that info embarrassing. It’s illogical but that’s how a lot of people think.

tesseract, in Australian privacy watchdog refuses to investigate employer that allegedly accessed worker’s personal emails

These companies dig up everything from a prospective employee’s past, starting from childhood. Things that you said come back to bite you, even if you got wiser and changed your stance. But companies get to pull shit like this without consequences.

There should be a public blacklist database with every company and their dirty infractions like these. That way, at least very competent and desirable candidates can avoid them and look for better jobs.

CADmonkey, in The LAPD Is Using Controversial Mass Surveillance Tracking Software

It probably won’t save them from getting Dorner’ed again.

jacktherippah, in Switching to more privacy friendly alternatives

I got no one to switch. Eventually I just gave up as people were getting sick of me always recommending alternatives no one else uses.

root, in Switching to more privacy friendly alternatives

“I don’t have anything to hide”

I prefer to suggest a different mindset - “It’s not that I have nothing to hide. It’s that I have nothing I want anybody to see”

InfiniWheel,

It still incredibly hard tog et even one person to agree tho. And even then they’d likely give up since most of our contacts are going to keep using WA

root,

Definitely. Now I just occasionally mention that I have and use more privacy friendly alternatives as a sort of “fyi” for them to know. It’s better for the other parties to want to switch out of their own desires than to be forced. If it is forced upon them and things don’t go smoothly, you’ll end up getting resentment or worse, blamed. Better to use subtle encouragement and if they decide to switch, offer lots of useful advice and assistance.

sibloure, in Switching to more privacy friendly alternatives

The only reason I got Signal to catch on with friends & family was that it made group chats between Android and iPhone just work for everybody. Although if they had already been using Whatsapp it may have been a harder sell. But Signal was easy to use to figure out.

mrecondo, in Alternatives for simplemobiletool gallery and calendar?
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I’m using their tools and now I’m worried. What happened?

Evkob,
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The maintainer sold it off to a company called ZipoApps. Here’s the Github thread about it.

ZipoApps seems to be a company who buys mobile apps to monetize (or further monetize) them. As per their website, their mission is “to find, evaluate, purchase and grow mobile apps”. I suspect the only growth we’ll see with the Simple Mobile suite is the growth of ad-revenue lining this company’s pockets.

mrecondo,
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Thanks!

Tibert, (edited )

This : github.com/SimpleMobileTools/…/241

As explained sold to ZipoApps (low quality add ridden shovelware, with extremely high price /week to remove adds, from the git discussion).

From a reddit post reddit.com/…/simplemobiletools_was_sold_alternati…

There seems to already be a fork : github.com/FossifyX

Tho not sure how trusted it can be, but seems to have some hope.

The reddit post also suggests some alternatives. The comments in that post also suggests more alternatives.

mrecondo,
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Thanks!

Evkob,
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The FossifyX fork is by naveensingh, who was active in SimpleMobileTools’ development. From what I can tell poking through Github, they might not have as much time to dedicate to the project as the original maintainer.

wincing_nucleus073,

thankfully they dont need constant updating

darcmage, in Alternatives for simplemobiletool gallery and calendar?
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    Looks like it was changed to github.com/FossifyOrg

    Tibert, (edited ) in Alternatives for simplemobiletool gallery and calendar?

    Hey on android? Didn’t know simplemobiletools was sold. Should be fine if updates are disabled from play store and only f-droid versions are used.

    But for alternatives :

    For a gallery app, I find Aves to look pretty good and has many great features github.com/deckerst/aves

    If you need gallery (still not that great yet) & backup : ente gallery (there are other ente apps too) ente.io

    For a calendar no idea.

    Lemongrab,
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    Aves Libre should be used from F-droid, since the Aves package has non-free components.

    jvrava9, in Alternatives for simplemobiletool gallery and calendar?
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    Aves Libre for Gallery

    Evkob, (edited ) in Alternatives for simplemobiletool gallery and calendar?
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    I’ve replaced the calendar app with Etar, but I have pretty limited requirements for calendar apps. For a gallery app I use this (which is very poorly named): Gallery

    That being said, if someone knows of any good FOSS clock apps (which lets you set more than one timer at a time) please let me know.

    Why AOSP’s clock, and therefore most apps based on it, only lets you set one timer concurrently is such a frustrating mystery to me. Have these devs never cooked? Have they never steeped tea while doing laundry?? In what world do you code a clock app which can’t have multiple timers?

    Extrasvhx9he,

    Loving gallery so far and yeah tried etar but the lack of import and export is kind of a biggie for me. Appreciate your help

    QuazarOmega,

    Agree 1000% on the timer thing, it’s so incredibly annoying exactly because it seems such an obvious feature to have

    Evkob,
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    Yet most FOSS clock apps I’ve tried miss the mark on this. And trust me, I’ve tried so many darn clock apps.

    Lemongrab,
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    I think this meets your requirements: www.f-droid.org/packages/com.best.deskclock/

    I can have a 15 min timer going at the same time as a 37 min one, and have them saved on creation to a list. Best clock app ive found that is feature rich and FOSS

    itsaj26744,
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    Clock you is maybe what u want

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