@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social
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IzzyOnDroid

@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social

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#Android Enthusiast, #Privacy Proponent, #FOSS Promoter, #Linux User

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IzzyOnDroid, to trackers
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1.2+ million downloads and a rating of 4.2 – a good indicator for a safe app in Google's ? One should think so – until one takes a look at its (46, including access to quite personal data) and the number of KNOWN reports (28!!).

Just wow. Had to add that one to my app lists, as a warning example.

https://android.izzysoft.de/applists/category/named/office_contacts_callerid

IzzyOnDroid, to random
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"Your feedback is valuable to us. Please join our Discord…"

Muahaha… Nope.

IzzyOnDroid, to linux
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"If Microsoft can change and compete on quality, I've won." -- L. Torvalds

No More Windows! Indian Defense Services are Switching from Windows to on all computers that are connected to the Internet. For reasons, as some sources report.

https://news.itsfoss.com/indian-govt-linux-windows/

IzzyOnDroid, to random
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Oh wow: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/STATEMENT_23_3674

No more enforced apps on your smartphone, no more lock-in to their services… That sounds nice! Now please, someone call the delivery service 🤩

IzzyOnDroid,
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@revk I hope that part will never come. I don't want my Fedi-Toots show up on Shitter or Threats 😱 And who cares about their "Tracking apps with a social component"? 🤪

IzzyOnDroid, to random German
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WTF: Fast immer schneller, immer korrekter: Bots schlagen Menschen bei Captchas
https://www.heise.de/news/Fast-immer-schneller-immer-korrekter-Bots-schlagen-Menschen-bei-Captchas-9240739.html

Bots lösen Captchas bis zu 5x schneller und auch öfter richtig als Menschen. Tja...

IzzyOnDroid, to random
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You've read about F-Droid's recently? Now, the repo makes use of that implementation. How, you ask?

Well: part of the process is to compare APKs and make sure they carry the signature of their authors. That's done by fdroidserver whenever the YAML file of an app has "AllowedAPKSigningKeys:" defined. APKs with not-matching signatures are rejected. That's used by my repo now to make sure updates are "legit" (and not placed to the repo by a malicious actor). (1/4)

IzzyOnDroid,
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So whenever my updater fetches an APK from its Codeberg/GitLab/Github/… repo, fdroidserver will now validate it was really signed with the key of the author. If not, it won't be published, but I'd receive an alert by mail to investigate.

So the plus for the authors: I will inform them – and of course ask what happened. Usually it's just that the authors lost their signing keys, which is really bad: it means that you have to uninstall and re-install the app to get the latest version(s)! (2/4)

IzzyOnDroid,
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During the process of updating the metadata, I discovered that 26 of the 1105 apps checked encountered that issue: the signing keys were changed. That makes 2.35% of the apps checked. Not good! Hence: (3/4)

IzzyOnDroid,
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Dear , take good care of your keys! Watch them like your crown jewels! Don't let them get into the wrong hands!

NO! Do NOT upload them to Github/GitLab etc. Have a good (encrypted!) backup of them – not on the disk of your development machine, but elsewhere. So should your machine crash, you'll still have them. Your code is in your repo, your keys are in a safe place – then you and those using your apps are fine! (4/4)

zerforschung, to random
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Brandmeister*in, wir wissen wo dein Auto steht!
Kennt ihr Rosenbauer? Das ist einer der weltweit größten Hersteller von Feuerwehrfahrzeugen 🚒
Und damit man den Überblick nicht verliert, bieten sie Software an, mit der Feuerwehren ihre Fahrzeuge rund um die Uhr GPS-tracken können.

ein endlos reinzoomendes Satellitenbild

IzzyOnDroid,
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@zerforschung Nochmal langsam: So'ne internationale Bude, die im Sicherheitsbereich unterwegs ist, hat keine security.txt? 🤯 Wow. Die habe sogar ich auf meinem Server (weiß ich, weil gerade kürzlich der jährliche Reminder zur Aktualisierung ("Expires:") bei mir los ging)…

Und ja, tolle Technik. Will ja jetzt nicht unken, aber wahrscheinlich aus Frameworks zusammen geklickt, und nicht alle "Hintergrund-Prozesse" im Blick gehabt (oder verstanden)…

Uff.

IzzyOnDroid, to free
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at https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 12 updated and 2 new apps:

  • Alibi: record your audio continuously and save the last 30 minutes when you need it
  • Autu Mandu: control the income and expenses of your vehicles

Enjoy your with and the :awesome:

georgetakei, to random

It's astonishing what she thinks the media ought to be covering! https://bit.ly/3s0Lwqs

IzzyOnDroid,
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@georgetakei 😢 I still can't tell who "she" is, or what you refer to – as you still use link shorteners I cannot follow 😢

I really loved to follow your witty toots. Learned a lot about your country through them. Love your humor, the way you see and show things. Appreciate your sharing, have the deepest respect – but since you started replacing the "real links" by bit.ly, I don't get any of that anymore. Please, will you?

georgetakei, to random

How quickly he forgets. https://bit.ly/3rZFo1H

IzzyOnDroid,
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@georgetakei Could you please use "normal links" again, as you did before? There's no need to use link shorteners on the Fediverse, each link is counted as 23 chars regardless of its length. And seeing the original link it's transparent where it points to – count it as "security feature" 😉

Which btw is why some of us won't klick bit.ly links 😮

Thanks a lot! We love to read your posts 😍

aral, to random
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Fuck billionaires.
Fuck tech bros.
Fuck adtech.
Fuck Silicon Valley.
Fuck capitalism.

So, what’re you all doing for the weekend? Got any fun plans? :)

IzzyOnDroid,
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@aral fuck walled gardens.
fuck intransparency.

(I'm currently adding "AntiFeature reasons" to F-Droid apps having AntiFeatures such as NonFreeNet to make clear why. Currently running: Batch 19. Next build cycle will lift the latest F-Droid client to "recommended"; that one is already available and able to display those reasons. I'd say "try it out", but it's Android and you're on iOS 😉)

IzzyOnDroid,
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@aral Then you might wish to have a look after the second-to-next index is pushed (I expect that early next week) to see it in action. I'm still in the process of adding those details to the apps' metadata (about 250 have it by now, guess it's about 100 more with my current batches). For an early view without app, you can always use my repo browser at https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid – AntiFeature reasons are in effect for my repo (fully) and F-Droid's (partly, working on it). Select repo via drop-down 😉

aral, to random
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In response to the popular “checking you’re not a robot” pop-up, I implemented a “checking you’re not a douchebag corporation” pop-up and now I can’t log in to anything.

IzzyOnDroid,
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@aral that works amazingly often to unblock content indeed… @dissonancE

aral, to twitter
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Elon could change the name of Twitter to 💩 and some of y’all would still stay on it.

“But all my friends are on 💩!”

“I need 💩 for work!”

“I’m changing 💩 from the inside!”

“💩 is easy to use!”

#x #twitter #poop

IzzyOnDroid,
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@aral I've just replaced the 💩 from your toot by "shrink" – and … well, does it make sense? I mean, no offense meant to shrinks…

OK, make it "drugs" then, fits as well 🙊 💨

trancefish, to random German
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    IzzyOnDroid,
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    @caos Da fehlt mir leider die Zeit zu, Sorry. Kurz mal probiert, aber nach Deiner Anleitung brachte die Suche hier (<ät>Oldenburg(Oldb)@discuss.tchncs.de – das <ät> natürlich durch @ ersetzt) leider keine Treffer 😢

    IzzyOnDroid,
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    @caos Yupp, da kommt was :awesome: Da steht dann was von 3 Posts (die ich nicht sehe – aber ja, das passt mit dem auf Feddit zusammen) und 65 Followern. Wahrscheinlich gehören die 3 schon zu den "older posts", die man auf dem Original-Server anschauen soll? Kann ja mal folgen und sehen, was kommt. Danke Dir!

    IzzyOnDroid,
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    @caos Hehe, "Oldieburg". Ist bei mir schon soo lange her (23 Jahre mittlerweile). Aber schön war's!

    sesivany, to mastodon
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    💡Want to see stats of your account? Check out https://mastometrics.com/. It will tell you who you interact with the most, who of your followers has the biggest reach etc.

    ⚠️ Note that you give the service a read access to your account. I don't mind since I consider everything I write here public, but you might.

    IzzyOnDroid,
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    @sesivany and if you mind, you can do that locally on your computer. Check out https://github.com/kensanata/mastodon-archive – you will have a backup of all your stuff locally then(I have a cron job running syncing it once per our), and can let it generate stats based on that. Or a local static HTML. And more :awesome:

    neil, to linux

    What was the first distribution you installed / attempted to install?

    For me - a Debian user - it was gentoo, around 2003, which was a mistake.

    IzzyOnDroid,
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    @neil Debian in around '93. Had a quick look at Caldera Linux around '95/96 (while running OS/2 on my "main drivers"), then went a good circle via SuSE (2000) => Ubuntu (2005) => Mint (with the 2014 "Amazon disaster" of Ubuntu my trust in them was gone), today sticking with the latter for my desktop machines – and am back to Debian on the servers. Oh, and Raspian on the "pocket-sized servers" 😉

    ayoprez, to random
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    IzzyOnDroid,
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    @ayoprez That depends on so many criteria that an "average" is not really helpful: How complete are the data provided, are all inclusion criteria met, is it easy to build (some stuff simply cannot be build because of missing libre/cli build tools), when does a team member find time to process it…

    In an ideal case, it can be done within a week. 2-4 weeks are more likely, more than a month is not uncommon – and some inclusion requests (luckily few) can take a year or more 😱

    weddige, to random German
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    Ich brauche eine Einschätzung von einer größeren Bubble als mir selbst.

    Ist es ernsthaft üblich, für ein Interview zu bezahlen, das explizit als Fachartikel in einer Zeitschrift veröffentlicht wird? Natürlich habe ich als Experte ein wirtschaftliches Interesse an einem Interview. Dennoch macht es einen Unterschied, ob ich den Autor dafür bezahle, dass er meine Meinung veröffentlicht.

    Das finde ich super unseriös. Wer ein Interview mit mir will, soll sich das Geld dafür woanders besorgen.

    IzzyOnDroid,
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    @weddige Ich würde sagen: Du sollst Zeit investieren, damit sie ein Interview drucken können – dafür solltest Du auch bezahlt werden Auf der anderen Seite hast Du auch etwas davon – also zahlst Du das Honorar zurück (kannst Du ja als "Werbekosten" abbuchen).

    Win-Win, oder? Also Du zahlst unterm Strich nix. Und das wäre Entgegenkommen Deinerseits.

    Anders sähe es aus, wenn Du die Schaltung von Werbung beauftragen würdest. Aber Fachartikel? Nope, das ist unseriös.

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