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Jeroen Ubbink
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Software developer, bitcoin enthusiast

Must be tough. I guess lacking the discipline to even start such a venture might be a blessing in this case. The projects he embarks on feel impossible to a person like me.

The suggested feature is nice but i'm sure they optimize for view time and whatever serves the most valuable ads. This may coincide with what you actually like but this is just another example of google making you the product.

I went from an addon to remove everything but the video I wanted to watch (to remove distractions) to years of going through various proxies, to now (mostly because of invidious crackdown) using yt-dlp to just download what i came for and stop trying to steal my attention.

I can't believe that in freaking 2024 they can still be this big and basically the only useful video site around.

Certainly if you do it through regular social media. Making a column with similar critique in a newspaper should still ne fine.

Replying to Avatar Bert

Itโ€™s 5 degrees Celsius outside and Iโ€™m heating our living room with bitcoin. Itโ€™s hashing to our nostr:npub1qvwdl9rp7a5ghrxv57wnml5ehg2whjh708vys6kaxpkgu0z3aclsuy2h4p DATUM nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze pool. Weโ€™re reducing natural gas consumption radically. Weโ€™ve just ordered a new 30KWh battery pack to start smart steering with our 44 solar panels positioned on East (12 x 480) West (12 x 480) and south (20 x 320). We will monitor the upcoming year with fluctuations and looking forward reducing grid reliance as much as possible. Weโ€™ll even have an emergency switch for when the power on the grid is gone.

All our systems are backed with multiple internet connections. Both 5G and Glassfiber (1.2GBit/s). We have starlink as a backup. We recently had to change our glassfiber ISP as we got serious issues with our TOR connections. We now paid off the 2 year contract and switched to Freedom internet as ISP. Best choice ever, we havenโ€™t had any problems since. Weโ€™re on our way to sovereignty.

I have none of the above except some very old solar panels and Freedom fiber from which i self host most of the services that i run.

10 year old me: "I'm sure when i'm 18 it will all start making sense."

18 year old me: "I should understand all this when i'm 35."

35 year old me: "I still feel the same. Better start searching for meaning."

40 year old me: "I feel so dumb for thinking half my life that understanding and meaning will reveal themselves."

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Looking for an open-source privacy oriented fitness tracker?

I have really been enjoying FitoTrack.

FitoTrack is a mobile app for logging and viewing your workouts. Whether youโ€™re running, cycling or hiking, FitoTrack will show you the most important information, with detailed charts and statistics. It is open-source and completely ad-free.

Features:

โ€ข Track workouts. Choose the type of sport you would like to track and just start running, cycling or hiking, for example. You can see the general information right below the map on the tracking screen.

โ€ข View your workouts. View general information such as date, time, duration, distance, speed and pace. See your route on a map. Work out your level of performance from the speed diagram.

โ€ข Open-Source. There is neither advertisement nor tracking, and the source code is open and licensed under the GPLv3.

Check it out!

The repo is on Codeberg and the official release is on Google Play and F-Droid only, so...

I recommend getting it from F-Droid Basic and not a third party like Obtanium.

Get it here:

https://codeberg.org/jannis/FitoTrack

For those who wonder why not Obtanium?

My views align with PrivacyGuides and modern security standards regarding obtaining apps from F-Droid. I don't recommend getting apps from F-Droid unless it's the only option.

If F-Droid must be used, F-Droid Basic is the preferred choice. F-Droid Basic supports automatic background updates without privileged extension or root and has a reduced feature set, limiting the attack surface.

Third-party F-Droid clients can have numerous issues, such as lacking proper mirroring support. For this reason, I recommend avoiding Neo Store and no longer suggest using any third-party clients for F-Droid repositories.

#Ikitao #Fitness #OpenSource #Privacy

Not only will i have to look at the tracker but also at the f-droid store app i'm using. I switched to o-droid a while back because i don't want to manually update everytime. Also i'll have to look at the mentioned privacyguides why i should not use obtainium.

The endless struggles of trying to be aware of privacy... Sometimes i wonder if i should just stop using digital stuff and go 3 decades back in terms of technology.

A little, it's very thin fabric.

GM! Well this is quite unexpected..

I'm on 1.1.7 right now. Thanks for getting back to me. I'll keep an eye out on the update and let you know.