I’d refer you to one of the latest episodes of the privacy, security and osint show, but I don’t remember the number. So, basically, Michaels solution to that is to get an SD card, place it into a hollow coin and hide it in one of his friend’s house, so that he can later ask 'em to retrieve it 🤣

Why even buy 'em, tho? They’re basically shitty monitors with spyware for brains.

Imo, arduino is also mostly a software project nowadays. While they did make a bunch of avr boards that were quite novel and interesting at the time, now they are not as good in terms of both price and performance compared to various arm-based boards.

What keeped arduino alive is a bunch of libs and arduino ide cores for various boards ppl have written over time.

Tnx. A shame, tho

Proprietary json? Of is it some weird binary thingy?

TA just didn’t fit my use case when I tested it, tbh: I mainly wanted to expose a dozen or so YouTube channels as podcasts to antennapod while saving the audio and stripping integrations with sponsorblock.

Surely, you meant https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat

WDYM “the 1st time”?

I’d rather push for js-free internet as opposed to the one with free js (:

Mostly because compilers do this kind of stuff if you optimize for space, iirc. Not that you should never do it or something, but it kinda looks like premature optimization to me.

Signal is the most user-friendly option so far, which is also expected, given it’s also one of the oldest one of those.

Simplex is also a good-ish option, but somewhat rough around the edges; the biggest benefit is, one doesn’t need a phone number or e-mail to start chatting.

Matrix is questionable: it’s quite feature-rich, but lacks solid android clients (IMO, fluffychat is among the best so far, yet when I last used it, it didn’t handle stickers/custom emojis all that well, for example); as for the desktop/web clients cinny is a godsend due to allowing importing/exporting encryption keys manually, which just works all the time.

Please tell me they’re not writing it in php.

It’s kinda the same as it was before, as far as I can see, for the personal plan. Looks like they’ve just added more the ability to add more than 3 users for a fee.

Or – hear me out – restore shit yourself via edl

Tnx!

Except working without play services, that is, and some of us aren’t fans of having those around.

Fair, although AFAIK we’d also need native hls support (outside safari) since it’s quite commonly used as well. Although, that info might be outdated

Most sites use some custom js-based players instead of the native video tag anyways, so I don’t exactly think it’s an issue.

Not sure if it was a joke 😅 Nextpush uses your nextcloud (~a self-hosted google drive alternative) instance in case you happen to have one, so that would depend on where you’re hosting it. Although, assuming push notifications aren’t exactly resource-intensive (otherwise those would require at least making an account), the difference would be pretty negligible from a performance standpoint

A small addition to already mentioned stuff. There are multiple ways to deliver the notifications without google services. 1st and older one is by simply letting the app hang in the background indefinitely and ping the necessary servers from time to time, that one almost always works, since app developers can’t really rely on gapps being installed; 2nd is UnifiedPush (that’s already mentioned sunup [mozilla], but also ntfy [ntfy], nextpush [nextcloud], gCompat-UP [google firebase], NoProvider2Push [fully local]). AFAIK, it works similarly to the way gapps send notifications and uses less battery, but not all apps support it, so you may need to search for forks. For example, the official and, iirc, Foss telegram clients don’t, but mercury, nagram{,x} and momo do.