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fdroiddata
- F-Droid: WireGuard inclusion policy violation (auto-update w/o explicit consent)
- Proposal to relax in-app updater policy for Reproducable Build apps
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Publishing to F-Droid
Fork this repository.
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Help with ReactNative Reproducible builds in FDroid
For reference my app: project: https://github.com/balzack/databag merge request: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/12183
- Amethyst an Android Nostr client removed from F-Droid
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Gitlab pipeline - checkupdate stage failed
You should add a new entry in "Builds". Have a look at how Newpipe does it for each new version here for example.
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Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora
To me it's not very clear whether those terms practically apply only to their app, since clearly they can't grab logs from Aurora if Aurora doesn't dump those logs for example... but if this is something the F-Droid team should look into, open an issue on https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues or inquire in one of their official channels on OFTC (#fdroid) or Matrix (#fdroid:f-droid.org).
- Amethyst (nostr client) is not FOSS
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difference between the various Osmand versions - and f-droid
OsmAnd~ from F-Droid not having Android Auto is a known bug: see the discussions at https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/2567 , https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/13514, https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/3391 and https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/15400
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How to discover new FOSS apps?
You can also get F-Droid Build Status which I believe will let you see apps that are being attempted to be built even if their build isn't succeeding yet, again for the "catching things early experience". Or, just keep an eye on the issues, merge requests and commits at fdroiddata which is where people actually add new metadata for new apps to be built by F-Droid, and it often takes a while between an app being first mentioned, and it being able to be included, for many possible reasons.
simplex-chat
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What are your favorite End-to-End encrypted tools for online privacy?
For messaging I'm currently on Olvid (E2E with physical key exchange) but since it still use their servers, I'm currently testing SimpleX where I can host my own servers.
- Apple reveals 'push notification spying' by foreign governments
- simplex bugs/ missing features
- Launching Default End-to-End Encryption on Messenger
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Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users
Notice how SimpleX (https://simplex.chat/) has no push notifications by default because of this issue.
- Possible today in Signal? Disable link preview
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SMS Security and Privacy Gaps
I've been using SimpleX [0] with a couple of friends recently. It appears to work as advertised.
[0] https://simplex.chat
- SimpleX Chat v5.3.0 – Local file encryption and delivery receipts
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U.K. Abandons, for Now, Legislation That Would Have Banned End-to-End Encryption
If you have a mobile phone number, the domestic intelligence agency knows exactly where you are at all times and any LEO (without a warrant) can also find you. In addition, there have been numerous CCC presentations showing how insecure the global (excluding US) and (separately) US carriers are guilty of promiscuous metadata trafficking ($$) and insecure SS7 setups. As a consequence, for low $, you can go to any one of several shady websites and find the last location of almost any phone number (person unique ID) globally. There are additional varying exploitable vulnerabilities depending on the exact combination of {handset x carrier x country} to impersonate them, tap their line, reveal their exact location, and redirect their phone number through a third-party handset or even a PBX. These are more expensive and some capabilities are forbidden for all but a few selective intelligence uses.
Session (Signal fork) doesn't use phone numbers. It's pretty well-designed overall and uses an onion routing approach. It's already a superset of Signal except it doesn't use phone numbers. https://getsession.org
Also look interesting:
* (unproven) https://www.olvid.io/technology
* (unproven) https://simplex.chat
PS: Using regular TOR on home broadband or cloud servers is relatively risky and inefficient. Sybil attacks on it are common. And to network operators and security agencies it gives an easy "flow tag" of your uplink and exit node data traffic as automatically suspicious.
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Re: Profile Pictures
Why not open up a Feature request on https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/issues
What are some alternatives?
OsmAnd - OsmAnd
Element - A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.
nextdns - NextDNS CLI client (DoH Proxy)
session-android - A private messenger for Android.
adblock-rust - Brave's Rust-based adblock engine
nostr - a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working
Nebulo - Mirror of https://git.frostnerd.com/PublicAndroidApps/smokescreen. Feel free to contribute here as well.
Signal-Android - Fork from a private messenger for Android with extra options added: full backup and (partial, ony text) xml backup of messages. Restore can happen at any time, not only after a fresh install. Import SMS database. Import of (unencrypted) WhatsApp databases. Removed apk expire. Choose between passphrase protection and the Android screenlock. Choice for the backup location (internal or removable storage on Android < 11 (on 11 and higher this is already possible)). Set the maptype in the place picker. Option to treat view-once media as normal media. Option to ignore remote deletion. Choose between FCM or websocket notification delivery.
OpenBoard - 100% foss keyboard based on AOSP, with no dependency on Google binaries, that respects your privacy.
termpair - View and control terminals from your browser with end-to-end encryption 🔒
Smart-AutoClicker - An open-source auto clicker on images for Android
Signal-Server - Server supporting the Signal Private Messenger applications on Android, Desktop, and iOS