I’m pretty sure I’ve been using the Simple Gallery app they mention for years.

It looks like it is still open source. However I do see on the Play Store page that their contact details are in Israel.

The Pro version, the one I use, claims to collect no data at all. Not sure how much I trust that.

Maybe it’s time to look for a new gallery app…

EDIT:

The open source code has not been updated since 2023, and neither has the Pro app. However the non-pro app has been updated in 2024.

Therefore, it might be safe to use the open source code version on GitHub, but I wouldn’t touch the free one on the play store.

I wouldn’t use the Pro version on the play store as you would be funding these companies and they could push an update in the future.

EDIT 2:

As mentioned here, a popular fork of many of these now abandoned Simple apps is the Fossify project. If you liked the app I’d recommend looking at that if you want to keep getting security updates at the very least.

I think it’s if you want to have user management. There’s some sort of admin console you have to pay for, but I don’t use it.

To be honest I had kind of forgotten it was a thing. If you’re using this for a business then you might want to link it to your OIDC (Microsoft account etc.) and therefore pay for those extra features.

However if you use it to connect to your own devices or those of your friends like you would with TeamViewer (via device IDs and per-device passwords) as I do, you won’t have to pay for it.

Give it a go and see how you get on!

Been using them for years.

It’s completely free, open source and has:

• Unsupervised (for headless servers) or supervised (helping out relatives) access
• Easily file transfers
• Cross-copy paste
• Identification server (what gives out connection IDs) can be self-hosted or you can use theirs for free
• Can control PCs from mobile app (though not vice versa apparently they support this now!)
• Experimental web browser client.

EDIT: I forgot, but it’s also much better at compressing video effectively than realVNC, which is what I used to use. Performance and latency remains fairly good even at low bitrate.

For a little while, I even used to play point and click games remotely with my brother over it. Probably too much latency for an action game though.

If your kid has half a brain he’ll do what we did as kids when porn sites were blocked on the home WiFi: He’ll just get a VPN.

And when VPN websites were blocked on the home WiFi, we’d just download their apps on mobile data.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

Better to educate your kids on their natural urges and letting them use the more moderated sites than have them go down the more dodgy rabbitholes. No kink shaming but some of the things people do are nasty.

I think they are bundling this into their regular app, so they’d have to put every guardian read on the list😅

Ok, so it’s an encrypted, open source whistle-blowing feature in their app / system.

The article is light on technical details but if it makes whistleblowing easier and safer than for example emailing their editors that’s probably a good thing.

I was with them helping them out. For reasons I won’t discuss here I won’t be able to visit them anymore, so that avenue is gone 😞.

The exit plan from WhatsApp is quite simple. Start by installing Signal and setting it up – it takes only a couple of minutes. Then, resume any WhatsApp conversations on Signal if that person is already a Signal user. If they are not, then switch to regular text messaging and gently suggest to that person to switch over to Signal.

Sadly for me, this doesn’t really work for some relatives as

• They live abroad and the cost of sending text messages abroad is not insignificant
• Some are so tech un-savvy that even installing a new app by themselves is too much.

All I can do for those relatives is to leave WhatsApp installed but take away basically every permission I can, including running in the background.

I’m glad they are really putting the screws to unfortunate, harmless people instead of dealing with rampant corruption and hate crimes.

Gets “AI”

looks inside

Badly paid employees

Thank you for clarifying! I didn’t fully understand, all I understood was it wasn’t final.

What I do understand is that even if every democrat votes against, they won’t have a majority. We saw that with another thing that sadly went through.

According to the article, it has not been ratified yet, but will be voted on this coming week.

The livestream in question:

https://www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5RVh7U

Meanwhile, in my country an inch of snow shuts down the country

I think recent events are giving a lot of motivation for these kinds of initiatives that weren’t a huge concern in the past.

There’s likely going to be a bit of a scramble as we realise we can’t rely on America and their companies anymore.

Yeah, the EU has been building out alternatives to American cloud companies like Microsoft for a while now, and it’s coming in handy for some of them. I think France in particular are working on this and launched their own alternatives to Google Docs etc.

https://www.techspot.com/news/107225-france-germany-unveil-docs-collaborative-tool-rival-us.html

Context for people who don’t get the joke, the logo on the right is for Tailwind, a library that offers an alternative to using normal CSS for styling Web UIs and websites.

It provides you with microclasses that add flexbox, margins, shadows etc. and discourages you from using the “Cascading” part of CSS (which was likely a mistake imo)

Ultimately, it’s still CSS under the hood which is the joke.

TL;DR:

This bill’s proposed amendment NC21 would out trans people. It was rejected by the MPs, but the House of Lords have effectively appealed this.

However, the article claims that even if this amendment isn’t in there, the bill itself is dangerous, allowing the government to reintroduce these effects even without the amendments, by allowing itself to define how and what data needs to be shared by verification providers.

It would do so at its own discretion, without further legislative scrutiny.

Just kiss already!

Yeah, but that’s because I choose the second highest plan available to me. Entry cost is lower, and I’d expect most poor families would go for that or the next tier above.