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darth_tiktaalik ,
@darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml avatar

So they're trading on the smt name to....do a bunch of things that are the antithesis of what was attractive about the brand to begin with?

Tangent5280 ,

Yep

t0fr ,
@t0fr@lemmy.ca avatar

I wonder when the Fossify Voice Recorder will be dropped

SomeBoyo ,

Don't use it, the dev sold out

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

"simple"

petersr ,

Looks like a pretty simple breach of privacy to me.

Darkassassin07 ,
@Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca avatar

(stock Android) I've yet to find any android call recording app that works on a device that doesn't have permission from Google to use the built in call recording features :/

~9mo ago they all got broken by an android update and haven't worked since.

Sanguine ,

Didn't "simple" recently get acquired and is no longer to be trusted? Correct if wrong but isn't Fossify the new preferred fork?

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ,
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Yes.

InternetCitizen2 ,

Correct

HerbalGamer ,
@HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works avatar

for fucks sake

LinkOpensChest_wav ,
@LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Thank you for linking an alternative. I actually like it even more than the enshittified one.

BuddyTheBeefalo ,

This is still pinned on r/SimpleMobileTools:

11 Reasons why our apps rock

BaumGeist ,

Finally! Now I can finally have a voice recorder spy on me!

That's what I was missing back in the 90s, playing with a portable tape recorder without any strangers eavesdropping on everything I said. Isn't tevhnology grand!

mindbleach ,

Android damn well ought to let you lie.

This program wants my contacts? Okay, have fun spamming Blarvis Davies, e-mail TheBlarvDog@gofuckyours.elf. Camera? Random noise that looks like a lens cap. Microphone? Well make it real in this case, but if it's a photo app, quiet pink noise.

It's fine if the program doesn't work, work, with fake info. Obviously if I lie to an e-mail client then I'm either typing in addresses m'self or else I'm chatting up Blarvis. Maybe not even that, if I lie about internet access, and it looks like my connection just sucks.

But any program that tries to detect real versus fake info can be nuked off the face of the store.

If we're worried that your grandma will somehow enable those protections, but be unable to tell they're on, we can make the fake data even more obvious. After all - the program should never make any effort to detect this kind of chicanery. It can be blatant. FakeName@check-your-settings.grandma. A camera image of light grain applied over the words "you disabled camera permissions." Though the mic probably has to stay as a quiet hiss.

brbposting ,

Would be neat to have sandbox profiles for this!

veniasilente ,

Or you could just set the "mic" to blast some good ol' Rick Astley.

mindbleach ,

I don't want anything voice-controlled to misbehave. E.g. if the word "goodbye" makes it close out. These things are too stupid for context. You know the rules, and so do I.

LoveSausage ,

You need GOS for this, the function is called scopes combined with true separated user accounts. The shitty apps just get what I allow them.

Shamot ,
@Shamot@jlai.lu avatar

Is it part of the apps that have been recently sold to a commercial company? If so, you have to uninstall it and download the "Fossify" equivalent to keep the open source version.

TheAnonymouseJoker Mod ,

Nobody knows which ones got sold out commercially. Do not be so cryptic just to appeal to the "elitists", which is equivalent to preaching to the choir and helps no new person.

Always write your comments in ways they might be relevant even 1-2 years later, or if they may be guest post mini guides, ~5 years down the line. This is where the value of Reddit still lies, and how Lemmy can eventually replace Reddit.

/rant

Simple Mobile Tools suite of apps are the ones that got sold out.

southsamurai ,
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

My dude, you gotta put the pipe down.

TheAnonymouseJoker Mod ,

People who act elitist need to put the pot down. There is an odd kind of voting ratio with equal agreements, so maybe there is a good point.

southsamurai ,
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

Dude, it was word salad.

thecookingsenpai ,
@thecookingsenpai@lemmy.world avatar

"Simple", they said

Empricorn ,

Greed is simple.

QuazarOmega ,

The fukin audacity!

lemmyreader ,

https://www.fossify.org/

bl4kers ,
@bl4kers@lemmy.ml avatar

The website is still under development

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

If you search in fdroid, a few have been released

user224 ,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

https://i.imgur.com/odca6mA.gif
https://i.imgur.com/kcFMx5B.gifThat's fine. It at least links to their GitHub page for now.https://i.imgur.com/kcFMx5B.gif
https://i.imgur.com/qmRExsY.gif

Atemu ,
@Atemu@lemmy.ml avatar

Okay, you've convinced me, inline images are a bad idea.

tacofox ,

Lmfao! Bone hurtingly true.

LucidNightmare ,

Man, this brought me back to ye olden days where forums were where it was at. Thanks for this. 🥲

veniasilente ,

Geocities. Geocities still lives on.

All that post needs to be truly complete is some marquee or blink.

lemmyreader ,

The site has working links to their Github repository, and the apps arrived in F-Droid.

chevy9294 ,

https://monero.town/pictrs/image/664ec9fe-39d4-4fd1-8cbe-5498a1cd8a33.webp

I wanted to check out if that is true... and it is. Then I clicked on Simple Calendar > Trackers...

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