I am a software engineer living and working in Belgrade, Serbia. My hobbies contain a lot of things including cycling, bikepacking, photography and quantum computations.

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  • Sem@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.worldWhat the hell Proton!
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    27 days ago

    I have Pixel with GrapheneOS and I tried most of FOSS camera apps, but all of them are still far behind the GCam. I hope one day there will be a good replacement, but not today.

    I’m using Organic / OsmAnd for most of use cases and daily navigation. But if you need to find a specific office, shop, food or ATM nearby you still need GMap from time to time…


  • Sem@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.worldWhat the hell Proton!
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    27 days ago

    And for the latter problem, don’t use such apps except in closed environments or without internet access.

    While that is a right answer, I do not want to avoid such apps because I need them. I need my mobile bank app, I need google camera, sometimes I need Google maps, etc. For me using VPN to hide my real IP from greedy apps and to hide DNS requests from the cracked public WiFi is still a good tradeoff between security, privacy and my own user experience.


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    28 days ago

    But most spots don’t have the resources or expertise to analyze and sell or otherwise misuse your logs.

    Most spots don’t have also the resources or expertise to secure their own spot. As I remember, cheap routers used in public places may contain a lot of vulnerabilities.

    encrypted DNS

    Will it help me if I’m using LbreTorrent do download piracy content on my phone? Or how it would help me to hide my location from mobile apps that extract location from IP?





  • I heard that in USA Telegram is used mostly by conservatives, trans-haters and drug dealers. But in Russia where I was born and where I have been living until the war, Telegram was a single source of alternative news and the main tool for opposition to putin. I had a talk with an Iranian guy recently and he told me the same: in Iran Telegram is the only source of non-state-propaganda news.

    I do not care that Durov is just a billionaire who makes money on the trend of privacy. But I remember how Telegram successfully fought against attempt of blocking in Russia in 2018 by providing regular updates and using different techniques to avoid blocking. An attack on Telegram for me is an attack on the latest opposition to putin, khamenei, lukashenko and others.







  • It is an interesting question… It seems to me I compared it and I chose Island. But I cannot remember why :D

    UPD. I chose Island/Insular only because it is updated more frequently:

    • The latest release of Insular was at May 20, 2024 and frequency is ~ a release per two months
    • The latest release of Shelter (on F-Droid) was at Dec 12, 2023 and frequency is ~ a release per year