Ce să vă zic, mă, bine ați venit? bine ați venit, rău ați nimerit. La locu’ ăsta îi zice șerpărie, de la șerpii care umblă pe-aicea. Dracu’ știe cum au ajuns…
I frankly think there should be something like a Bluetooth-based protocol allowing for every messaging app to exchange messages, much like #XMPP. Then, even if you block one app, there will be others available that anyone can use with the people that managed to install that blocked app in the 1st place.
a link saver like pocket but simpler (mobile version)
I use Zettel Notes for this.
You’re welcome. Stay safe!
I think you’re in luck here. You can use XMPP or Matrix as the other person said, and pick from the myriad of different servers to let the authorities play whack-a-mole with them. If you’re picking XMPP, suggest them one of the clients that support OMEMO (it uses the protocol used by Signal too; edit: most apps that support it are modern and in active development). Briar is another good option, since it uses Tor, but you both need to be online in order to receive messages from each other since it uses no servers (unless they and you use something like this on a spare phone).
An option that would likely be a better fit for what you’re looking for, but which I haven’t tried yet is SimpleX.
Whatever you pick, I think it would be a great practice for you to teach them to use a panic button app such as Ripple (not sure if that’s maintained anymore though).
Hmmm, that’s true. Probably OP checked this, but now that you mentioned it, I would do the same 😁
Screw that, they were reading all the foreign mail coming through. And you could still be unable to see if they opened your envelope because they were either carefully opening it and close it back, or simply use another one.
What happens with ordinary email by the way?
I expect it was previously appealing based on the fact that only the vendor had access (of course, now it no longer applies).
Maybe another option is to use one of the private providers that do not track you and are less mainstream than Proton. Let’s say Tuta or Mailbox.org (if they are not blocked already too). Probably encrypt the emails with PGP too for more security.
Tbh I’d probably use snail mail letters for anything private on the theory that the RU govt doesn’t have the resources to open all the envelopes
Hahahaha!
I’m not a Russian, rather Romanian. But I heard stories how all the mail coming from the outside was checked and “vetted for anything suspicious” at the border during communism. Since we and USSR were on the same team I suppose they did the same. And how the way the public institutions work barely changed, nowadays, given the current situation, I expect them to return to that practice.
So yeah, I wouldn’t trust snail mail with anything sensitive.
XMPP is more niche but on the other side more established. It has been used by both Facebook (now Meta), Google and WhatsApp (now part of Meta) to develop their platforms on. Up until recently you could still communicate with someone on Hangouts through an XMPP client, despite only with someone that was also on Hangouts (that was until they pulled the plug on that app). It didn’t support all the features but hey, it was there.
XMPP does have some modern clients too, but indeed, Matrix has been more designed with the 2020s in mind.
Check the laws and regulations in your country (or ask others who know). In my country you pretty much don’t need these, especially if you use a private tracker. But I heard that in other places you are actually getting fined if they spot you.
Or with Lemmy. I view it perfectly fine in Friendica
I’m using last.fm to scrobble my music to. It brings me the most Spotify features minus the streaming part (even has a neat playback thing which appears at the end of the year instead of at the begining of december)
Did they release the actual music yet?
A while ago, I was arguing with someone (if I’m not mistaken) about how AI is incompatible with politics, law and democracy due to the nature of the whole process involved in writing laws. Now I notice that this is exactly the point. AI’s purpose has never been democracy. Democracy, as Peter Thiel and his followers argued, is an obstacle in the front of tech’s development, in the front of profit, of capital. As such, the logic solution is to get rid of it - and that’s exactly what Trump is doing.
@far_university1990 yes but the legal precedent has been set, lol
(/s maybe)
Hmmm, that got me thinking: if you selfhost, you make sure you also instal ollama or some LLM you can also self-host. You don’t need to use the LLM yourself at all. Then if something goes south, and you’re accused of piracy, you can just defend yourself that you used all these materials to train your own LLM. That should get you out of trouble, right?
I didn’t ask you how they shouldn’t get it. I asked you how they should. Like, only one way. Because even on Android, the average user is not gonna use F-Droid and using an apk file is simply not practical for many. Sure, you get users, but if your goal is to make it easier for the majority of the people, they sure as hell will not download F-Droid just for one specific app. Besides that, it is also a market opportunity. I’m sure the devs of these apps also make some good money on these.
As for Apple… sure, there is AltStore, but how many people are using it yet?
You had me at first half lmao
How else do you want it to reach mass audience? Especially on Apple.
I’m also thinking about the possibility of blocking/hijacking the network by the law enforcement forces. If every device is also a node connecting to each other, they can be more hardly taken down I think.
I’m not so familiar with meshtastic, but wouldn’t be more helpful to have something that actually runs on people’s phones instead of having a separate device? I mean, as you said, everyone has phones, and with something like the Ripple app (or any other panic button app) you could hide the app or clear its data (or you could do it manually). With meshtastic, in the event of a search, I think you would be more suspicious, I think.