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Why The Left Should Care About Privacy in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Source? And fyi, if you use Signal you are generating your own encryption keys. Your private keys are generated on your phone and stay on it. So what gives you the idea that

the US government has all the keys

?? Sounds a lot like a conspiracy theory

Telegram without ads? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Ah nice, I didn't know that was possible

Telegram without ads? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

True! But then Simplex / Signal are no real alternatives to Telegram, are they?

Telegram without ads? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'll give it a try, thanks! Sadly it doesn't seem to be well maintained though :/

Telegram without ads? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I already use an ad blocking DNS, but that's not how they distribute ads, sadly

Telegram without ads? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Which one? There's three in my post. And I do use an ad blocking DNS, but this can't block message-like ads from Telegram. Otherwise it would have to somehow read the encrypted message content...

Telegram without ads? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I know! But I don't really have a choice currently; which app would you suggest for tickers / info channels? Mastodon would be an option, but it's not quite the same. Abd I'd first have to convince everyone to use it :/

Telegram without ads? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I use telegram mainly for info channels and tickers. To my knowledge that's not possible in Signal, because you can't restrict participants to be read-only (right?)

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Telegram without ads? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
 

So, Telegram has launched horrible ads that look a lot like spam to me. At least in my channels it's typically some crypto bullshit. So, I wonder if people know about alternatives to the subscription service for blocking them? Sadly, Forkgram won't offer that option and it doesn't seem to be allowed. However, I wonder if there are still forks out there which block the ads? Or do people know of alternative options?

The Cloudflare Poison in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can you give a source on the Hetzner claim? I'm curious and didn't find anything online

what u actually signed up for in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

This is quite centered around hetero dudes, which I find sad.

What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

FlorisBoard (at least the beta) is getting there (swiped on FlorisBoard), though it's not quite there yet

What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for? in c/[email protected]
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StromAmpel: An application using an AZ-Delivery ESP8266MOD 12-F to display the current electricity mix for Germany in a traffic light kind of way (codeberg.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
10 comments fedilink
 

Inspired by this Mastodon account, I programmed an ESP8266 microcontroller to act as a traffic light, indicating the current electricity mix. Check it out on Codeberg! It uses an API from the Fraunhofer Institute and the parts cost around 5€. In my shared flat we use it as an indicator on when to run demanding devices, like the washing machine.

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FOSS equation plotter? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
 

So currently I use Grapher for plotting equations. I've used it for years and it works great, but it doesn't seem to be open source. So I looked for a FOSS alternative, but didn't find one on F-Droid or the rest of the internet. Do you know of a FOSS alternative? What do you use? Do you prefer web applications (like Wolfram Alpha)?

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