1.Obtainium, because without it life would be an inferno.
2. Simplex-Chat for ultimate private messenger.
3. KeepassDX, because who can memorize fifty 20+ character passwords?
4. NewPipe/PipePipe, because YT ads are annoying as hell.
Any clue or document on how to make them?
Well, you are just watcing the begining of the end of freedom in the net. Have been some happy years but now thats changing. Every government will pursue the goal of controling the web as they control almost everything in real life. There is no other possible outcome
Funny that you ask, because I wanted to post about it already, anyway.
Many years ago, I was a happy owner of a smartphone with an actual physical keyboard. Was the best thing ever. Not a #Blackberry, btw.
Since then, it was apparently "cool" to not ever offer physical keyboards again, but do everything via touch, even if touch was still unreliable back then.
Nowadays, touch has become pretty sophisticated & reliable, but I still don't like how imprecise it is.
I tried a lot of #FLOSS keyboards from #F-Droid, but they are all pretty extremely shitty & I still cannot understand how people are using them. It's too hard to type on them & their predictions are laughable at best.
For example, their touch detection, especially when long pressing keys for symbols, is so off & difficult to tweak.
The worst thing about those keyboards is that they all SUCK ASS when it comes to the usage of different languages. I type in 3 to 5 different languages & if those #Keyboard's even understand the concept of a non-English language, you always have to explicitly switch to that language, rather than being able to type most languages on the same layout & have simultaneous predictions for several languages, all in one.
These are some of the reasons I got used to using a specific proprietary keyboard over too many years, which I block with my #Firewall, so it cannot call home, at all.
Its predictions are amazing & even allows writing some words you are not sure of, because the predictions will lead the way to the correct spelling etc. Unlike your usual #FOSS keyboard, where you are using some stone age thing.
However, even this keyboard isn't ideal, because it's still not great to type on & easy to mistype.
Predictions & #AutoCorrect actually make things worse when you use custom words, because it wants to correct a word that is already fine, but just unknown.
Obviously, it being extremely proprietary, made by a #TooBigToFail #BigTech corporation is also a huuge no-no.
Now, the best part & the moral of the story.
Recently, I found a #FLOSS keyboard app on #F-Droid which finally gives hope. Is it finally an #OpenSource keyboard on #Android, which does not suck ass?
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.dessalines.thumbkey/
It is explicitly designed to be super fast & easy to type on & so far, I can only confirm that claim.
The only downside for many users is the learning curve. This post was partially written with this & partially with the old one, because I'm still pretty slow with this one & need to practice more.
The other problem is language support. It is designed & optimised for English, nothing more, nothing less.
However, so far it seems to be very great & once you type often enough, all this will get into your muscle memory & you will be able to type without any mistouches whatsoever & you will forget something like predictions exist, because it's so simple & easy to just manually type out all words.
It also may remind you of good old #CellPhone's, which you could wash in your washing machine & they would still work afterwards.
#FreeSoftware #Freedom #GPL #GitHub #TechSupport #Technology #FreeAlternative #Amethyst #ThumbKey #Smartphone #Phone #FuckGoogle #FuckMicrosoft #Degoogle #Privacy #Security #Spyware #Infringement #FuckUSA
The #BigTech keyboard is awesome but it spyes as hell, not sure if any password written there is not actually transmited to the parent #BigTech. But yes the damn tool work really fine, many $$$ have been invested in it.
#Blackberrys keyboard was awesome, you coud talk to somebody and write with zero errors.
#FlorisBoard is exceptional but as said its develpoment pace is of a snail. At some point I thought it was abandoned. I am using it right now but no prediction and correction makes for a thousand human corrections per hour... hope somebody takes it seriously because it can beat the #BigTech keyboard if there is the will.
The rest of the openboards I tested are suboptimal. I am going to give a try on both mentioned in this thread.
#Aegis by Beemdevelopment - 2FA
#Amaze by TeamAmaze - file explorer
#BraveNewPipe by bravenewpipe - YT
#Cromite by Uazo - chromium browser
#GPSTest by barbeau - GPS Test tool
#KriptEY by amnesica - basic crypto keyboard
#K-9 by thundernest - email manager
#FairMail by M66b - email manager
#OpenKeyChain @ fdroid - PGP to #K-9
#OrganicMaps by organicmaps - navigation
#RethinkDNS by celzero - firewall, no root
Supper annoying I would say... Floris is an awesome open source keyboard, very customizable but the rate of improvement is exasperating. 11 months since las beta. There are new features coming but unfortunately its slow and the lack of spelling/autocorrect is a major drawback. Still holding in it though
#Bromite was and still is my favorite regardless being outdated. Will be substituted by #Cromite but not instantly. Maybe its me but the only downside I have met with it is its unable to erase history on exit. I have to do it manually, #Brave has the edge here. I cant stand #Brave being super private but constantly talking to a miriad of own servers. Something seems wrong to me with this super hyped browser.
I am struggling with this decision.
Are we sure we can't "capture" Blink and make it thrive with a completely open source, privacy-oriented, corporate-free community?
I have an eye on Cromite lately: https://github.com/uazo/cromite
I would like to listen to nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 opinion on this regard.
#Bromite was a one time great de-googled browser which lacks all the crypto-💩#Brave comes with. Its great it was revived through the #Cromite fork and hope it continues to be developed.
From #Firefox based browsers apparently #Mull is a good one. For desktop #LibreWolf is a nice privacy oriented fork. #TorBrowser is also a hardened Firefox browser.
I have no experience with #Mullvad which is unrelated to #Mull browser.
Which one is the newest Pixel?
Thanks, I think its the second time I see her, but the first was not nude
Name?
Our timeline moves always into the future, so its effects will only going to increase with time
Self hosting NextCloud is great, what gear are you using for it?
I use #Joplin, its #FOSS and really nice and useful! The desktop has a bunch of plugins includin a browser plugin which convert webs to notes. You can link notes, URL, pictures, etc. Available on all platforms so its easy to migrate all notes and has integrates Cloud sinchronization, although I usualy do it with #Syncthing, another must #FOSS.
That is very true! Clients can do it its not a big deal
That is a really interesting first touch. Hope it materializes into something
That is a good idea, I have it added but its kinda ugly and takes a lot of space!
How might SimpleX integrate with nostr, and vice versa?
nostr:npub1exv22uulqnmlluszc4yk92jhs2e5ajcs6mu3t00a6avzjcalj9csm7d828 founder Evgeny expressed interest in conversation with the nostriches.
Some avenues that could be explored:
1) Explore SimpleX to improve nostr DMs privacy
2) Add nostr identity (i.e. npub) layer in SimpleX
3) LN and Zaps in SimpleX
#asknostr
#devstr
#foss
cc nostr:npub1z4m7gkva6yxgvdyclc7zp0vz4ta0s2d9jh8g83w03tp5vdf3kzdsxana6p nostr:npub1a7n2h5y3gt90y00mwrknhx74fyzzjqw25ehkscje58x9tfyhqd5snyvfnu nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft
Server integration only