Yes, I've been thinking about a burner phone but difficult to find pay as you go sims these days here. You end up in some form of contract. There you go .... You want privacy, you have to pay for it. Wtf! We'll soon be screwed altogether. They'll soon ban non-stock ROMs too ... Not long till this happens ....
Molly.im does not have a lot of documentation. Does it equally rely on a centralised server? If it does, then surely one of the downsides is that there probably isn't a huge foundation behind it ensuring the bills are paid, etc. Or is it that Molly is piggy backing on Signal servers? And is the Signal Foundation happy to be have Molly users using its services? How long before Signal Foundation kicks Molly users off it servers?
Also I note u can download two different version: one with Google blobs and one without. What compromise do I have to make if I choose the Google version?
Its the first time i hear about Molly ... Cant believe i didnt know about it
It used to be a breaze with linux, mozilla and AirVPN up till a few years ago. Now, it's almost impossible to navigate the web, use public authority websites without having to disable VPN and all the privacy focused plugins of Mozilla. It makes you realise how invasive the internet has become. Even for people in this group that are above average aware of privacy risks, its just so hard. The internet would have to be redesigned by privacy conscious people but that will never happen as big tech would see their interests at risk and would strongly oppose. How do you get people to switch to Simple X Chat when I struggle to get them to use Signal.
But setting up a VPN on a VPS is not really going to do much for privacy is it? It wouldn't take much to work out who is renting the VPS and the VPS has no incentive to hold back any info if a they were issued a search warrant.
Feels like it becoming more and more challenging living on the Internet without leaving breadcrumbs all over the place.
This post got me to search in FDroid and i found Chatlaunch forma Whatsapp. Anyone used it?
I'm not sure what the right model is to get money flowing in. It seems like they took the easy route. 100 dollars for a server licence is not really that small amount considering that most server users are families? I would have preferred massive fund raising campaigns .... I'm a bit lazy and need lots of nagging to get my credit card out .... But its right these guys get some income for their work. As long as code remains AGPL ... I bet soon there will be a fork like happened with Emby. I ended up purchasing the server licence a a few month later moved to the forked version ...๐
Well, this is what I thought too. Also, any other country under US influence would have handed him over to the US. See the saga that poor Assange has gone through. What worries me is that public opinion is rather silent to stories like those of Assange and Snowden. Whistle blowing should be seen as a right. If the organization I work for is ethically and morally misbehaving, I have the right to blow the whistle through the right internal channels to start with. If nobody listens, then you take it to the next level.
I totally agree. Used pixels are superb with grapheneos. Syncthing is what i use ad a backup. I think the problemi is that google stops releasing updates after 5 yearss old units don't get updates I think. I have the 5th June build and it reports a security update of December 2023.
I solve this with immich too. Its a real game changer and agree with others that have indicated this as one of hthe best pieces of OSS.
Absolutely second this. Its been a game changer
The problem is that many banks are using mobile phones 2FA devices and they don't allow other means. I asked why I couldn't go back to SMS as 2FA and they said that they deem it to be insecure.