Pierre-Yves Lapersonne
Software crafter and digital punker keen on open source, iOS and Android apps. Interested in software ecodesign, privacy and accessibility too. pylapersonne.info
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That’s vibe coding.
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Programming@programming.dev•Programming.dev instance: Sponsors neededEnglish
2·7 个月前We should support our fediverse admins and instances 💪 Support by sending money (for people who can), moderating content, submitting issues or helping the team and project ✌️
It is complicated. He says true. And maybe your need to use GrapheneOS is relevant. If you have a smartphone without cellular connection, for a daily usage, FMPOV it is a non-sense in case of emergency. It is a risk you will have to take, I can’t disagree your dad. And what about your solution but with a SIM card with very few data and SMS available, through a SIM card you can keep aside your phone and insert when needed?
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Android@lemmy.world•What is the best way to create an android app in 2025?English
5·9 个月前Anticipate technical debt and follow what Google recommends. In few words, use Kotlin and Compose.
However you should really have a look on Google guidelines. In more worlds:
- by default Kotlin and Compose
- if some logic to share between other projects in other environments: Kotlin Multi Platform (KMP)
- if shared UI: Flutter (but Google reduced Flutter teams and KMP is being better and better, so we can suppose Flutter will join the Google Graveyard
Did you have a look on Cake Wallet app? Open source under MIT license and available on F-Droid.
If you are worried about your privacy, yes, you must get rid of Google Play Services. However a majors part of your apps may be broken as too much rely on this services and only in those services.
If you want apps to based on this layer of Google mess, have a look on some open spruce alternatives of your favorite apps. Maybe some of them won’t embed Google Play Services. But keep in mind you may lose some features like notifications from Google devices or fine tunes location.
You can have a look on microG or Open GApps for alternatives. However you may need to hack your device to flash them.
What you can do, for example:
- check if you can flash alternatives (possible to root and before unlock the boot loader)
- maybe check if you can flash another ROM ; projects list the compatible devices. Have a look on LineageOS, GrapheneOS or also /e/OS
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Android@lemmy.world•What Keepass client do you use?English
1·10 个月前Yep, it seems it is, but it can manage KDBX files. Just wanted to share 😄
Edit: sorry, didn’t see this thread is in Android community, my comment is not relevant for this platform.
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Android@lemmy.world•What Keepass client do you use?English
11·10 个月前You can use also for example Strongbox (https://github.com/strongbox-password-safe)
Edit: sorry, didn’t see this thread is in Android community, my comment is not relevant for this platform. For Android I am used to Keepass2Android (https://github.com/PhilippC/keepass2android). Simple, still maintained, under libre licence GPL 3.0.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Is Signal safe and still private on an IPhone?
31·10 个月前It is always the same issues in fact. You should consider your threat model before all. Then, consider the Signal app, then your iPhone supposed to be updated, trusted, with ADP enabled, biometric lock with erasure after 10 failures, etc. Then consider your ISP, then your country. Etc, etc. You should also compare the contexts. Is an iPhone “better” than a low or middle ranges Android-powered smartphones? For sure, yes. Is it better than high-range expansive smartphones with Android ? Or Pixel ones? Not that sure. And compared to GrapheneOS or /e/? Pretty sure not that much. You can also compare messaging solutions. Is Signal better than WhatApp? Of course yes. But what about XMPP and Matrix for example?
And what are your use cases? Remember your threat model. If you are an activist, a journalist or a whistleblower your needs may be different than a “commons citizen worried about its privacy.
In few words, the only pain point I see is the fact than iOS is proprietary and runs non libre source code and Apple devices than APN. But Android devices are not so much different. It does not mean the solution is not private or efficient, if we succeed in defining a definition of “private or efficient”.
In a nutshell, it could be considered as good. But not perfect.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Apple Removes iCloud E2EE in UK: What You Need to Know
6·1 年前Any ideas for E2E encrypted storage alternatives?
Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.devto
Programming@programming.dev•How do i ask for contributors to my open source projects?
7·1 年前Be sure also the issues you have in your project have the suitable labels to help future contributors to pick easily some of them, i.e. labels like “help wanted” or “good first issue”.
You can also refer to best practices listed and explained for example in Advent of Open Source so as to have a nice and user-friendly repo: https://adventofopensource.com/
Have a look on Organic Maps (https://organicmaps.app) or OSMAnd for example (https://osmand.net/).
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Programming@programming.dev•Is there a way to hide dependabot commits in the history of a repo?
2·1 年前BTW I hope any project won’t increase the Z version only by including Dependabot commits, it would be insane. Release must be documented, tested, with CHANGELOG updated. If some maintainers just accept Dependabot commits without checking, move away. That’s just simple crappy auto-merge.
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DeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.ml•(Cat) Smartphone OS Replacement options
4·2 年前Yes you should definitely check before whether or not the device is supported. You can find it for LineageOS here: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
You may also have a look on /e/OS: https://doc.e.foundation/devices
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Blogger Alternative for the FediverseEnglish
3·2 年前Interesting. Thank you for sharing, didn’t know openhub!
Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.devto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Blogger Alternative for the FediverseEnglish
11·2 年前Why did you say Write Freely seems to be dead? According to their GitHub organisation repositories, the backend has a release tagged 4 months ago and the iOS app 3 months ago.
Interesting! Do you remember where you got this chart?
















WebRTC is a protocol, you can use it in both web apps and mobile apps.
If I remember well it was used as a trick from Facebook to leak personal data using the SDP.