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Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I know about WayDroid, but never heard of ATL.

So yeah, while we have the fundamentals, we still don't have an OS that's stable enough as a daily driver on phones.

And this isn't a Linux issue. It's mostly because of proprietary drivers. GrapheneOS already has the issue that it only works on Pixel phones.

I can imagine, bringing a Linux only mobile OS to life is even harder. I wish android phones were designed in a way, that there is a driver layer and an OS layer, with standerdized APIs to simply swap the OS layer for any unix-like system.

Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos in c/technology@lemmy.world
Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

not necessarily... I mean If they run under the same VM, I'd be fine with that as well...but having a sandboxed wrapper would for sure be nice.

Need a replacement for Apple/Google Maps on your phone? Organic Maps is FOSS and the company behind it is Estonian in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

All good ... and people should definitely be aware of alternatives.

Except for maps, I don't use any Google services anymore. Ditched search for a selfhosted searxng, photos for selfhosted immich, and email is replaced by fastmail.

Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 39 points 5 months ago (11 children)

if there was something that could run android apps virtualized, I'd switch in a heartbeat

Need a replacement for Apple/Google Maps on your phone? Organic Maps is FOSS and the company behind it is Estonian in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

It's a pitty they don't have public transport routes for my location.

IMHO, Google Maps, even though I really want to ditch it, simply has a better overall experience

TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx" in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 44 points 5 months ago (10 children)

And GIF is pronounced GIF

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Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos (www.forbes.com)
 

Per one tech forum this week: “Google has quietly installed an app on all Android devices called ‘Android System SafetyCore’. It claims to be a ‘security’ application, but whilst running in the background, it collects call logs, contacts, location, your microphone, and much more making this application ‘spyware’ and a HUGE privacy concern. It is strongly advised to uninstall this program if you can. To do this, navigate to 'Settings’ > 'Apps’, then delete the application.”

First two results when you search for lemmy on reddit. in c/reddit@lemmy.world
[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lucky you.. I managed to get banned once, for not being "left" enough. So I just don't engage in specific kind of topics anymore.

Canadians cancelling their American-owned Netflix subscriptions like in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Canadians cancelling their American-owned Netflix subscriptions like in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Hey Canada, just so you know: I'm an European, and I watch "Son of a Critch" and "Shoresy"

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[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes! I as well started my Lemmy journey on kbin first.

Back when the API changes were introduced in Reddit, everyone on Reddit kept about lemmy.

Then, in the comments you read stuff like "Lemmy are a bunch of tankies, kbin is better, yada yada"...

Great, now you're already torn between two sides, without even knowing about the basic concepts of how they both work.

You then go to one Lemmy server, and see how bad the UI is, then you check out kbin, and it feels nice.

Well, and the rest is history...

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[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I think, you didn't get my point.

Everything you mentioned, is nice and all, but who cares where the server is located? if they federate with each other, it doesn't matter. Again, I'm just talking from a novices POV and things thst might confuse them. They surely confused me at the very beginning

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Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says (arstechnica.com)
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Odin - a self-hosted FOSS streaming service. (lemm.ee)
 

Hey, I just published a self-hosted streaming service, it's called Odin. Odin comes in two parts, a server and an Android app. Both can be found on GitHub, with their install instructions.

Odin Server https://github.com/ad-on-is/odin-server

Odin TV App https://github.com/ad-on-is/odin-tv

Motivation:

I've used many of the readily available apps in the past, and they all came with their pros and cons. I was mostly annoyed by the fact, that most of them use their own server-backend, somewhere. So each time, the app stops working, I didn't know whether their server just crashed, or the developer abandoned the app and I had to look for something else. I also started becoming paranoid, whether someone was collecting my data and offering them to "the highest bidder". Oh, and I also disliked the UI of these apps.

That's why I started working on Odin. In fact, I've been using it for almost 4 years now, and did a LOT of iterations during these years. Now, I'm more than happy with the end result, and wanted to share it with the world.

The main features of Odin are:

  • Discovering movies and TV shows
  • A nice and beautiful UI
  • Customizable Trakt lists
  • Multi-User support

I hope you like it!

Oh, and feel free to submit any feature requests or issues on GitHub. If you want, you can star the repo, so I know there's actual interest in the project.

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Odin - a self-hosted FOSS streaming service. (lemm.ee)
 

Hey, I just published a self-hosted streaming service, it's called Odin. Odin comes in two parts, a server and an Android app. Both can be found on GitHub, with their install instructions.

Odin Server https://github.com/ad-on-is/odin-server

Odin TV App https://github.com/ad-on-is/odin-tv

Motivation:

I've used many of the readily available apps in the past, and they all came with their pros and cons. I was mostly annoyed by the fact, that most of them use their own server-backend, somewhere. So each time, the app stops working, I didn't know whether their server just crashed, or the developer abandoned the app and I had to look for something else. I also started becoming paranoid, whether someone was collecting my data and offering them to "the highest bidder". Oh, and I also disliked the UI of these apps.

That's why I started working on Odin. In fact, I've been using it for almost 4 years now, and did a LOT of iterations during these years. Now, I'm more than happy with the end result, and wanted to share it with the world.

The main features of Odin are:

  • Discovering movies and TV shows
  • A nice and beautiful UI
  • Customizable Trakt lists
  • Multi-User support

I hope you like it!

Oh, and feel free to submit any feature requests or issues on GitHub. If you want, you can star the repo, so I know there's actual interest in the project.

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GitHub - ad-on-is/stowman: stowman.sh lets you easily manage your dotfiles using git and GNU stow. (github.com)
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Bruh! (imgur.com)
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Israeli army advises soldiers to avoid foreign travel for fear of arrest: Report (www.aljazeera.com)
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Just switched to Neovim and it's amazing (lemm.ee)
 

Honestly... everybody should try out neovim for at least a week. I mean like... fully commit to it.

It's just amazing how fast and light on resource usage it is, compared to vscode.

For reference: I just opened qmk_firmware which has a shit load of clang code and files. Guess what, neovim doesn't even break a sweat, while vscode almost burns my CPU.

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How could we convince Reddit subs to move over to Lemmy? (lemm.ee)
 

I'm just sick of Reddit.

The communities there seem much more active than the once on lemmy, which is not a surprise.

However, I oftentimes find myself doom scrolling through reddit, just because of some nonsense BS propaganda, ads, etc .., snuck inbetween of the community posts I'm actually interested in.

How can we convince the people over there to move away?

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Austria’s far-right Freedom Party projected to win election (www.aljazeera.com)
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Israeli soldiers raid, order closure of Al Jazeera office in Ramallah (www.aljazeera.com)
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What's a good option for a secobdary phone number with suffixes? (lemm.ee)
 

I'm looking for a service, that replicates the functionality of email aliases, but with phone numbers.

I'd imagine having one number (99999) which I then could use with suffixes like 99999-1, 99999-2, ... etc for services like WhatsApp, telegram, 2FA, etc... if such thing even exists.

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