Browsers are bigger than operating systems now. One of the points of gemini is to use a very restricted language and abilities, so that developers can create their own gemini browsers easily.
As it stands now, google exerts enormous control on the web because of how complicated it is to make a browser. Currently mozilla is google’s only competitor in browser engines.
While gemini is a great project, I personally think a better route would be to create a local or server service that converts and saves existing webpages to markdown, and local apps acting as markdown browsers utilizing it.
With that people could write simple browsers, as well as reduce spying and have static content viewable on all form factors.
Everything that’s not static content (like the fediverse) already can have dedicated apps.
Use audiobookshelf for audiobooks.
I believe there are a few proposals of integrations of different open source review systems into OSM, but they haven’t been finalized yet.
Totally agree this is the number one thing missing from open source maps rn, and it should be top priority years ago.
You can’t simply say “we must assume” as evidence.
Okay yeah you definitely didn’t read it. Large sections in that doc just before that are on phone number identifiers, NSLs, and 5-eyes countries, the US goverment pushing signal in privacy spaces… literally the reasons why signal isn’t trustworthy. Unless you can tell me what an NSL is, then I’ll assume you didn’t read it.
While there may be other US government requests they are not alllwed to disclose, they were legally required to provide the same information to the courts, and we can see what they provided.
Did you ignore the large section on NSLs? These come with a gag order, meaning its illegal for signal to notify their users about them being spied on.
In fact, they implemented “Sealed sender” in 2018 where they are not able to see who the message is being sent to.
This is a “just trust me” from signal, since neither of us have access to their centralized DB, but you also ignored two paragraphs down, where it showed that with message timestamps and recipient information, this would be trivial to find the real sender of a message, regardless of sealed sender. Again, actually open source software can’t say “just trust me” like signal can, we actually have to show code to prove it, and let people run that code in a private manner.
And sure, while the US government funds Signal, you know who else endorses it? Edward fucking Snowden. If anyone knows about secure messaging, it’s the man that physically removes the microphone and camera from his phones before using them.
Elon musk and jack dorsey also endorse signal. An endorsement means nothing, especially for centralized software based in a 5-eyes country.
Read the linked doc, because it’s clear you didn’t.
Signal is a centralized, US-based service which requires your phone number (thus your real identity, IE name and address), has social networking graphs of everyone you talk to, and must forward that information to the US government when asked, as well as (by law) not tell you that they’ve been asked to do so. During the Obama era, 60 NSLs were issued for this private information every single day.
People overlook its privacy concerns for the same reason they do with apple: it has a shiny interface and is easy to use, and makes people very attached to it. Behind all that, is a surveillance network that its creators have explicitly said they do not want it to be able to run in a decentralized, private manner.
It has a long history of privacy offenses below (such as refusing to publish its server’s source code for years, its reliance on other US tech services (amazon, google), US-government funding, and a US-defense-tank friendly administration) which get ignored or shouted down by many of those above. See the article below.
Pretty much any alternative is better, as long as its not hosted in a five-eyes country, and especially if it doesn’t require phone numbers or real identities like signal does.
I personally have been using SimpleX for friends and real life contacts, and Matrix for larger more anonymous group chats.
Its also especially rich considering the US state has access to even disabled nest door cameras, which amazon is happy to give them.
Even someone who is completely sinophobic, would have to concede that the PRC, even if it wanted to, could not send police to your door.
Send cops to your door, imprison you, kill you, etc. The US has many political prisoners, and even jailed a mother for discussing abortion with her teenage daughter over facebook.
You can use rust and still use the GPL.
Minimo launcher is my new fave. Its simple, decreases addiction, and surpasses Olauncher in features.
I wrote up a preliminary thing cause I got bored today, lmk if you have any suggestions:
Looks legit, especially for cold brews.
Like you said, it’s hash based, so the first time someone posts a video, you just download that from YouTube official and check the hash, no?
Yep, that’d be the case. But also for that service at least, it only stores currently active / well-seeded torrents. And the main issue is that people aren’t creating and seeding youtube videos as torrents. That would require some effort and a push from the datahoarder-type communities to start doing that.
When a user submits a new association between a Magnet Link and a YouTube tag, what verifies that that’s actually the appropriate file?
In one sense, its not really a problem, since torrents are static data. Incorrect files would not only look wrong (and not be seeded as a result), but have different hashes than the youtube ones. But the service which hosts / shares these magnet links would need to source the uploaders, so that their torrents could be removed if it turns out they’re spam.
I run a csv-based torrent service, but after many years, I’ve been the only one to really contribute to the data. There the process of adding data is tracked via pull requests. Any other service though which allows ppl to upload magnet links / torrent files would need to have a login system / tracking to prevent spammers.
I like this idea, but I wish someone would create a torrent-based project based on yt-dlp, and in particular a browser plugin that checks a torrent search site or index to see if that youtube video torrent exists.
Internet archive isn’t as fault-tolerant as torrents, and also wouldn’t be able to handle so many massive files.
Yep it does. The Obama admin issued ~60 NSLs every single day, and I’m sure the number hasn’t decreased since then.
Reviews in OpenStreetMap, so that google maps can have a real competitor.
Its not FOSS, but I use to use foursquare for years because of how good it was at finding good restaurants / things to do in a new city. Now that its shut down, there’s no real alternative that comes close.