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airikr ,

I can highly recommend Baïkal.

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Fossify Calendar and Fossify Contacts on Android and Thunderbird in Linux.

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Yes. You have to use DAVx5.

The Best Secure Email Providers in 2024 (blog.thenewoil.org)

Like it or not, email is a critical part of our digital lives. It’s how we sign up for accounts, get notifications, and communicate with a wide range of entities online. Critics of email rightfully point out that email suffers from a significant number of flaws that make it less than ideal, but that doesn’t change the...

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Why isn't posteo.de in the list? They are like Tuta, but with some more features like IMAP/SMTP.

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Wait, what?! You can self-host Signal? Please send me a guide!

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  • Your IP address will be logged as soon as you login.
  • They store everything you send in plain text on an encrypted storage unit.
  • They store if your microphone and/or camera is on or off + more of what settings you have made in your own device.
  • They force you to give them your phone number in order to identify you.

Source: https://discord.com/privacy

Discord is a privacy nightmare, but not as much as for an example Spotify. Spotify even logs how you hold your device and how fast you move it! Source: https://www.spotify.com/uk/legal/privacy-policy/

airikr ,

Why not Mumble and IRC or XMPP?

airikr , (edited )
  • Nope. Not everywhere.
  • The actual data is stored in plain text. The hard drive is encrypted. This is called encryption at-rest which Discord uses. Even Google uses this for Google Drive. Hackers "can't" access the data, but the people working there can. It doesn't matter if they have fancy roles, your personal data can be access by the people at the company. Your personal data should always stay personal.
  • No cookies. Stored on their servers.
  • I was forced to enter my phone number before I got as privacy aware as I am today. I doubt that has changed.
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XMPP with OMEMO.

airikr ,
  • Your IP address should always be private even if it is good with IP bans. But IP bans do not fix the issue if it is not a static IP address that the users always has.
  • Exactly :)
  • Yepp! But they do log it anyway. So the question is why do the log this data? To build a better service? Might be, yes, but it would be much better if they let their users to choose if they want to share this information. Not log it automatically behind their backs (many do not read privacy policies).
  • I understand that, but they should not force users to enter their phone number. They should instead come up with another solution like require more CAPTCHA's. Phone numbers is "the best" solution, but should not be standard.
airikr ,

Vaultwarden, linkding, Snikket, Miniflux, and some more.

airikr ,

What accepting cookies popup? I don't get such thing in Privacy Browser1.

I made wanderer - a self-hosted trail and GPS track database (lemmy.world)

Over the last two months, I developed wanderer. It is a self-hosted alternative to sites like alltrails.com or in other words a self-hosted trail database. It started out more as a small hobby project to teach myself some new technologies but in the end, I decided to develop it into a fully-fledged application....

airikr ,

I tried Wanderer few days ago and I did find it very nice, yet quite buggy.

I was forced to update the page a second time before being able to do something, for an example using the menu.

But other than that, I find Wanderer very nice! Just miss seeing mainly how fast I was travelled in km/h. The statistics and details provided in workout-tracker1 is absolutely amazing! If you add such details into your project, that would be awesome!

airikr ,

Very nice :) Me like! But the bug is still there when you have clicked on a trail on the home page. The page just scrolls up to the top and you have to update the page to see the trail.

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Hello Sheldon.

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Hehe, I know. Just trying to be funny due to boredom :)

Android phone saving metadata for screenshots (i.ibb.co)

I always remove this data from my screenshots before sharing, but is there any way to prevent this from happening in the first place? I've searched and searched, but all I can find is information about how to remove the data after the fact, which I already know how to do, but it would sure be nice if it never got added in the...

airikr ,

Same here, but no "sensitive" information like what Android version I use or anything like that. It depends on what phone you use, I guess. I use a Pixel 6a with GrapheneOS.

airikr ,

I must agree on the bloated part. Telegram was awesome before Pavel got greedy and added more and more stuff that are just not related to any chat service, for an example payments and crypto.

I installed Snikket on my server few weeks ago and are now trying to move everyone to it. It seems to be a very slow process, though.

But I might keep Telegram only for the porn channels. Mighty good stuff!

By the way. Do you have the source for your claim that Russian authorities were messing with people's deleted messages?

airikr , (edited )

Well, Telegram already have a preview feature for every public channels. Just copy the direct link to the channel and add /s after t.me/ (or choose "Previous channel" without opening the link in Telegram) and you're good to go. If only Pavel will add an RSS feed to that feed. That would be mighty-mighty awesome!

More work to save the media files, though. You have to inspect the element and get the direct link to the image through background-image for the tgme_widget_message_photo_wrap class. Much easier and takes less time to just save it inside Telegram, as of now.

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I use Pingvin Share to share one or more files. Have set the max limit for each share to 4 GB. All files will be stored temporary which is awesome privacy-wise.

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I just one a solution for that: RSS-Bridge. Just tried it through one of their instances and it works really well. At least for some of the channels.

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Indeed! I get excited when it is Friday, but sad/empty when I have read the newsletter. And after a few minutes of sadness, I start counting down the days to next Friday again.

airikr ,

I have used SimpleX Chat for a few months and the following made me switch to XMPP:

  • It literally drains my battery on my Google Pixel 6a with GrapheneOS. I had to charge my phone 1 time per day. Before and now after, I only need charge my phone 1 per 2 days.
  • It is "impossible" for me to connect SimpleX Chat on Linux. Haven't tried on Windows because I don't use that shit due to privacy reasons.
  • If you're in a voice call and goes back from the call to send something in the chat (like a picture), the call will end. You are not allowed to use the chat while you're in a call in SimpleX Chat.
airikr , (edited )

True regarding the battery life. I did find the calls to be working really well.

My replacement? I installed Snikket on my server. And if the calls doesn't work (haven't tried it yet), I might use MiroTalk for that.

airikr ,

Apparently yes 😃 Such joy! Didn't knew it either until I read about it here.

Arch users can install it through AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cromite-bin

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