Thank you for the links, I had found a few of these but some are new. The basic idea is there, I'll see if any of these can work for us. I'm growing more convinced though that hosting a whole app for this super simple use case might not be worth it, I think we might pivot to just hosting a really basic static page for it.
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This is way too overkill for what we need. I'm sorry, I've been intentionally vague about the context for this but I guess it's too unclear. We're an activist group planning a protest. We might have to get this set up literally tomorrow and every penny comes out of (mostly my) pocket. We're also all paranoid about opsec and anonymity, which is why the requirement about avoiding corporate services is there. Perhaps I should have posted this in a privacy focused comm instead, I apologize.
It's pretty overkill for what we need, and it would still fall under "corporate" for us. At that point I could just go for the static Notion page which I can get live in 5m for free.
We can set up all of those but again, that's kinda expensive for us rn. What's the benefit of using a CMS like Joomla versus wishthis, or even a basic Caddy/Nginx webserver with a static page?
I believe you need root to access those, plus a file manager that supports it (I use Mixplorer which does). Otherwise, as someone else suggested, you can access them from a computer over ADB or MTP.
Nice! Kudos to Proton for not abandoning their promise to publish their sources... Hoping to see Calendar on there soon too.
This is such an amazing article, The Verge's staff is still capable of some excellent journalism.
I had high hopes when I tried it out but frankly it's been almost unusable for me. Terrible performance, laggy UI, plenty of bugs, long loading times for songs...
I don't know if something in my mobile environment was messing with it but I use quite a few indie FOSS apps still in beta and none of them worked as badly as Spotube did. I'd love to go back to it if it improves, but for now it's just not worth the UX pain.
Edit: forgot to mention. The idea of sourcing tracks from YouTube is cool but causes loads od trouble in practice. I've found remixed versions streamed as the original, tracks with the intro from the music video, tracks with sound effects from the music video, and tracks that just cannot be streamed cause they aren't on YouTube. I know there's a feature to pick which version to stream, but it's quite a bit of UX friction and it didn't work often enough to be a showstopper.
Even if its configured correctly to totally obfuscate the data and the final endpoint of the traffic it's still blatantly obvious that a VPN is in use.
Which is why Chinese users don't use standard VPNs, they use obfuscated proxies with protocols like Shadowsocks and V2Ray, which mask the tunneled traffic as innocuous HTTPS traffic.
Support for this in core Lemmy has been discussed many times. There's an open issue for it that's been gathering dust for a while. Some apps already implement this on the client side I think, not jerboa though.
Other people in that thread have pointed out that it isn't showing posts being delivered to Threads despite the block. That should be testable with other instances, but not Threads since it's not receiving any content from Mastodon at the moment. The concerning thing there is the user still being able to view content from people they've blocked, but that seems to be a bug if it's reproducible.
This is old drama at this point. I'll repeat what's been said the previous times this was posted.
Proton did what they were legally required to do in the jurisdiction where they operate as a legitimate business. As an encrypted email provider they offer privacy but not necessarily anonymity, and they're open about that. They even have multiple blogposts about how to use their service more anonymously. If you thought that by using ProtonMail you were getting full anonymity that's your mistake.
In both the cases mentioned the users made OpSec mistakes: not using a VPN in one and linking their personal Apple email as a recovery email in the other. In the first case Proton wasn't even logging the user's IP until the police forced them to.