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by hex-m 5mo ago
I'd love a Thunderbird extension that shows where the mailboxes I correspond with are hosted.
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by hex-m 6mo ago
Reminds me of the "semantic web". Making content machine-readable has positive side effects. (clear structure, reduced ambiguity, separation of data and presentation) It's another example where the reason for better engineeri
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by hex-m 7mo ago
tldraw used to be FOSS but they changed the license in 2023. https://tldraw.substack.com/p/license-updates-for-the-tldraw... BigBlueButton had to fork tldraw because of this. https://docs.bigbluebutton.org&#
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by hex-m 8mo ago
According to the WhatsApp-leak, it is 51.41% Android and 48.59% iOS in the Netherlands. https://github.com/sbaresearch/whatsapp-census/blob/main/cou...
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by hex-m 9mo ago
"Google-free" FOSS Android-builds (Graphene, /e/, iodé) are available today and usable for most tasks. Just make sure your government IDs and banking apps don't depend on proprietary Google-only features.
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by hex-m 9mo ago
Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Edge and even Brave have "HTTPS first" or "HTTPS by default" enabled out of the box. HTTP is only used as a fallback.
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by hex-m 9mo ago
It can't handle OpenDocument files (odt, odp, ods) well. Only a one-way import is supported. https://helpcenter.onlyoffice.com/docs/userguides/document_e... There are parts that are not released under a Free
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by hex-m 9mo ago
If you want LibreOffice with less Java, you should try Collabora Office. https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/collabora-online-now-av... (I'm not affiliated)
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by hex-m 11mo ago
The dependency is much weaker in this case. Finding somebody else to manage/host Nextcloud is easy while using MS Office without Microsoft is impossible.
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by hex-m 1y ago
The partnership between Nextcloud and Stalwart was announced 4 months ago: https://nextcloud.com/blog/press_releases/nextcloud-stalwart...
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by hex-m 2y ago
@jospoortvliet did a comparison of the two projects that's very much worth a read. https://blog.jospoortvliet.com/2020/06/collabora-vs-onlyoffi...
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by hex-m 2y ago
> Part of the source code are located in private repositories. You can't compile the project without them. https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/documents-app-android/issues/3...
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by hex-m 2y ago
Web-apps in the browser can't be used for encryption because in that model the server is always trusted to send whatever code it wants. That defeats the point of end-to-end encryption. That's why Mailvelope is a browser add-on and
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by hex-m 3y ago
If you mean "FIDO2 platform authenticator", this project looks promising: https://github.com/AlfioEmanueleFresta/xdg-credentials-porta...
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by hex-m 3y ago
https://passkeys.dev/docs/reference/terms/#passkey
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by hex-m 3y ago
The term is often used without a clear definition. As a passkey should be used instead of a password, it means that you need "user verification" (PIN or biometrics) to protect the access when the device is lost. The other thing is
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by hex-m 5y ago
You don't have to "do" Nextcloud yourself if you don't want to. Find a hoster[0] that does the work for you. The client apps and the user interface are super boomer friendly. [0] https://nextcloud.com/par
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by hex-m 5y ago
As explained on the site the data comes from OpenStreetMap. Feel free to add cameras from your neighborhood.
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by hex-m 6y ago
A quick check didn't lead me to a single reproducible iOS app. What are you currently using?
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by hex-m 8y ago
GAFAM is pretty common in french. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFAM
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by hex-m 8y ago
Both use-cases (VPS and homeserver) are valid. As FreedomBox is just a bunch of Debian packages it should be easy to offer it as a base image (or 'apt install freedombox' it yourself). The similar project YUNOhost advertises both
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by hex-m 8y ago
FreedomBox has unattended-upgrades enabled by default.
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by hex-m 8y ago
I agree that the killer feature is still missing. That could maybe be storage-management (NAS) or HTPC (Kodi). People seem to buy such devices. On the other hand there are nice features already: VPN Server, Seedbox, Ad-blocking-proxy
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by hex-m 9y ago
To mitigate the single-point-of-failure steganography (hidden containers) would help. That would offer compartmentization and deniability. One tool that implements this: https://github.com/bwesterb/pol
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by hex-m 9y ago
EU GDPR: "Valid consent must be explicit for data collected and the purposes data is used for."
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by hex-m 10y ago
Another concept would be to slice your task it into small enough junks so that one would need many of them to extract meaningful information. That's not strictly secure, but nothing is. ;)
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by hex-m 10y ago
Julias talk on the topic at 33C3: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8229-copywrongs_2_0
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by hex-m 10y ago
The same could be said about the www. There is a technical solution and it's called a recommender system. It tries it's best to rate the more interesting stuff higher. That's what search engines do for the www and it kinda wo