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Cake day: February 5th, 2021

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  • Interesting, but how? The only way I see is implement new standards, spread them and make them easy accessible. DoH, DoT and DoQ for example are some nice standards to encrypt DNS. But it isn’t easy for everybody to use them, easiest one I can think about is DoT on Android, but how many Android users use it?

    How about jmap? There is a new mail standard but near nobody supports it, and did they really miss to give this standard an encryption on it’s side by default?





  • I could follow it a bit. CalDAV is mostly nerd stuff. And proprietary apps use to disallow CalDav to sell their own stuff. Best example: M$ Outlook doesn’t support CalDAV natively. You can only add them as only read, or use third party addons. And why? Because they want you to buy 365.

    Look at it as the average Bob: wow you can sync all your contacts and Calenders and Tasks to every device? That must be expensive!









  • Samsy@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlGrapheneOS Whatsapp
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    Hmm not exactly. WhatsApp is closed source, we don’t know exactly how it works, but since it is based on XMPP, chances are high it uses xmpps own push service. Either there would be a notification about missing GCM or firebase.

    Btw. Websockets on signal and telegram needs the apps running in background which eats up the battery. That’s why a lot of degoogled-users install unifiedpush via ntfy-app. Some third party alternatives support unifiedpush, signal = molly + unifiedpush and telegram = mercurygram or nagram.




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    Briar is not for the average Bob. Think about journalist trading information/documents, which could be captured if any online transferring is involved.

    The internet isn’t free around the world (not free as in free beer, free as in I could do what I want without consequences)



  • I tried out Image Toolbox for editing images. It’s very feature rich, but very unintuitive to use.

    I used this app too, but decided it has too many options and I just want cropping images.

    In the grapheneOS Store is this little tool “Markup” which is the original pixel image editor. It doesn’t use any network access and is pretty solid.