Rikj000

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[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes that is the actual site.

LuckyPatcher has been around forever,
and has a good reputation + community.

Never seen anyone mention anything that it might contain malicious code.

The developer receives revenue through donations and showing ads on the site.

Sadly the project is not open source though.
My guess would be to prevent the hacks / patches it uses,
from being patched / made un-usable.

To be 100% sure though,
you'd have to de-compile the app,
and reverse engineer the source code,
which is a very tedious and time consuming task.

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 8 months ago (4 children)

To improve readability on mobile

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

It's still WIP,
but ForgeFed, an addon for ActivityPub,
will do exactly that
once it will be in a releasable state +
integrated into Forgejo
https://codeberg.org/ForgeFed/ForgeFed

FYI, Suyu (the active fork of Yuzu)
already moved to Forgejo:
https://git.suyu.dev/explore/repos

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

2 issues I have with this:

  1. Google is one of the biggest spy-ware companies out there
  2. Due to 1. I would not be suprised if they participate in Harvest now, decrpyt later
    (regarding users who think they will be safe under a VPN)

I'd consider taking another ISP,
you know, just one who is not known for using you as a product and shoving spyware into every nook and cranny they can find..

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I like Terminator,
for it's ability to split one terminal window into as much as you want:
https://gnome-terminator.org/

In combination with Fish shell,
for it's auto completion + syntax highlighting:
https://fishshell.com/

And lastly, BobTheFish,
a nice git-aware powerline theme to go along with it:
https://github.com/oh-my-fish/theme-bobthefish

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 8 months ago

Remember,
if you participate in the subscription nonsense,
then you're supporting such a future.

If you refuse to buy subscriptions,
then you're standing up against it :)

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 10 months ago

Hurt the spy-ware giant,
by using Invidious.

Free leeches their bandwidth,
without the spy-ware and ads!

https://invidious.io/

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

I don't expect that average users will become android/privacy experts.

I don't even think of my own privacy being all that important.

However systematic privacy,
through laws that protect us all,
that's what the average joe should be made aware off and stand up for.

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Yes,

But the software on it has been completely re-done to enhance it's privacy and functionality.

I'm running LineageOSforMicroG,
with Magisk/LSPosed,
to run things like AdAway/XPrivacyLua/Blocker.

Additionally I replace everything I can with FOSS from F-Droid,
and scan all apps from Aurora (Play Store) with ClassyShark3xodus, against well known trackers, to either look for better alternatives, or to block the spy-ware in them with Blocker.

Further, a premium no-log VPN, which has been vetted (servers confiscated in the past, though 0 logs retrieved), configured as always-on + block connections without.

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Paying for spy-ware,
how dense do they think we are?!

Let Google rot :)

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Take a look for yourself with a rooted phone.

Blocker will show you all the recievers/services/activities/providers the app uses,
and will allow you to block them.

https://github.com/lihenggui/blocker

Apps often still work correctly with about 80-90% of their recievers/services/providers blocked, since they're spyware, which doesn't add functionality to the app.

XPrivacyLua will allow you to lie to apps when they request sensitive data.

Aditionally it will show you timestamps of what it lied about, to which apps, reveiling what they try to collect on you.

https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua

ClassyShark3xodus allows you to decompile and scan apps on the fly,
to check which well known trackers are embedded into it.

https://bitbucket.org/oF2pks/fdroid-classyshark3xodus

Idk if these apps still do it,
since I have not used them for years,
but that's how I learned about many things like:

  • 9GAG contained a face detector service at some point.
  • Facebook Messenger requests access to your microphone, even when you are not calling with it.
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