ccx

@ccx@sopuli.xyz

Computer, tea and ttrpg nerd.

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What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you’d love alternatives for?

ccx,

Certainly not as powerful as common office suites, but cryptpad.fr is not only open-source but also has already running instance (and has end to end encryption for your documents)

syncthing.net is a good general file synchronizer. Requires devices too be online simultaneously to sync, but gives you transport encryption with forward secrecy.

ccx,

It’s probably the best one when it comes to web-based videocalls. I had much better experience with native apps (e.g. Mumble) when it comes to sound quality though.

ccx,

For anonymous proxy (which is what you seem to mean instead of VPN) I just keep using Tor for almost everything. Sure, some services do block it - more than your usual commercial offering. But TBF that mostly saves me time from tying to deal with them.

ccx,

Slight difference is that Zuck has had control from the start, whereas other companies might have had “don’t be evil” leadership that was… optimized away for financial reasons.

Not that it really matters nowadays. Just an observation.

ccx,

It’s been a year or two, but last time I tried it their app worked fine on x86 Android in qemu. Not the most efficient way to run it, but at least it’s isolated from the rest of the system.

ccx,

Original WhatsApp was XMPP with phone number for your username. Pretty much what quicksy.im does now.

WhatsApp today is completely different beast.

ccx,

Honestly it was mostly a Discord competitor if anything. One with FOSS clients for desktop and Android.

The private chat is baseline implementation just to tick a box rather than anything practically useful.

ccx,

Re profiling, I don’t think instances will bother doing that (unless they start running ads). However, they also don’t prevent anyone from building that profile themselves from observable behavior. And creating such database might constitute original work by itself. Now, they don’t get as fine-grained interactions as you would with tracking-infested sites. But they will get the most valuable ones such as active participation.

(Please see comments) Alternatives to Signal if they exit EU due to ending E2EE

Like the title states looking for E2EE apps (Android and iOS) without going into much details or needs to be robust enough and easy to use for anyone and stable for operations that are susceptible to constant electronic warfare. I did some research and thought about replacing Signal with Molly and wondering if it will still work...

ccx,

EU is not doing it yet, however there is strong push from interested parties within and outside of the EC:

balkaninsight.com/…/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-f…

Including illegal use of targeted advertising / misinformation campaign:

eupolicy.social/

ccx,

I’m not convinced by Session’s decision to remove forward secrecy. I don’t care if it’s malice or incompetence, they shouldn’t be in business of encrypted messaging either way.

And their lack of transparency on their share of underlying network and the associated costs for new entrants doesn’t make them smell like a cryptoscam any less.

My personal advice is avoid. You’ll be far better off with simplex, or xmpp+omemo for something not paired with phone number.

ccx,

Look at simplex.im then. It’s work in progress but the design is good.

But I’m glad to have a better Signal client too.

Discord Alternatives?

Hi all, I’m looking for some Discord alternatives. All I really need is the ability to do voice calls and screen shares. It can be either via DM or channels, I only need to it be able to speak with a few friends that’d be open to moving over. I’ve tried Matrix/Element but there doesn’t seem to be a screen share function....

ccx,

It’s been doing the exact opposite and implementing more targeted advertising after several previous monetization attempts (including a cryptocurrency integration) flopped.

Similarly the feature set is increasingly locked behind “premium” paywall.

It’s headed in no good direction if you ask me.

ccx,

Issue : Make Show Read Posts More Relevant
github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3580

ccx,

Only when requested via special form I believe.

I should prepare a guide on how to take your data with you when quitting Reddit.

For instance when you want to be able to prove that it's your account without disclosing your legal name publicly on Reddit you may use keyoxide.org for cryptographic proof. I think I'll talk to keyoxide folks about a method of obfuscating those proofs so they are harder for Reddit to systematically delete.

I understand not everyone will be willing to go to court for this, but at this point I want enough of us to be able to to get them fined enough for every platform to notice.

Do You Think There Would Have Been a Large Protest if Steve Huffman Just Said We're Charging to Use the API to Increase Revenue?

I've been a long time Redditor and an Apollo user for about a year. I even paid for it. The main draw for me was the lack of advertising. In the back of my head I kept thinking that it couldn't last. Reddit is losing revenue from the lack of advertising views. It didn't...

ccx,

I call BS on that. Large-scale content scraping was already against the TOS to begin with. And you can't kill off slow stealth scraping without also blocking search engine crawlers. Or at least not without hurting the searchability.

ccx,

State authorities aren't bound by GDPR. That's something that's explicitly stated in it.

ccx,

Oh wow, this is great news. I expect there will still be uncomfortably many dubious black boxes left there. But it's certainly a step in the right direction. For me the sticking point with AMD was always shoddy SW/FW/drivers shipped with superior (compared to their biggest competitor anyway) hardware design. It's good to see them conceding that and outsourcing to open source community rather than some dubious third party.

Though for the time being if you want truly open firmware get a POWER chip instead. If you can afford it.

ccx,

I feel like both of these are extremely location dependent. From my friends across North America I know that network connectivity can be very very poor if you aren't living close to a big city.

And as far your example with school goes, I've seen the polar opposite happen where all kids got a mandatory Teams or Google account (depending on school) fairly early into the lockdowns.

Maybe subcontinents are still too big to generalize about from one person's experience. :-)

ccx,

One thing I'd love to see and would probably help quite a lot with searchability is to have blog and CMS software, instead of having dedicated comment system, integrate a "discuss on Fediverse" button.

It could bring up possible communities based on blogpost/article tags. And since Lemmy supports pingbacks the system would know about the discussion threads and it could even show few last posts from each.

To me it seems like win/win situation for all parties involved.

ccx,

Making it a Searx plugin would probably do better in terms of making it accessible to a lot of people.

I wonder how good are various ActivityPub instances at searching. Having pregenerated fulltext indexes of public content available for download could go a long way to make building search engine easy and fast.

Twitch Once Again Trips Over Its Own Tongue Messaging Ad Policy Change To Creators (web.archive.org)

How does simple communication and the rollout of new polices remain so very, very difficult for Amazon’s Twitch platform? Over the past several years, we have written up many posts of all the ways that Twitch has sucked out loud when it comes to communicating with its creators, particularly when it comes to policy changes the...

ccx,

It does but most instances disable it by default and you would have to ask admin to whitelist you.

ccx,

It does but most instances disable it by default and you would have to ask admin to whitelist you.

ccx,

While not backed by syncthing I'd recommend you look into https://www.etesync.com/ which provides end to end encrypted ical and vcard synchronization - that is standard formats for calendars, tasks, notes and contacts.

It has plenty of adapters so if backups/snapshots are what you want automating something like https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer to pull all your calendars and commit them to, say, private git repo should be fairly easy task.

ccx,

I’m probably missing something, but wouldn’t it be far easier to redirect people to install page of extension for their respective browser? Such extension could then transform the button as needed to point to whichever social web instance.

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