Android

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25723462

I would have used https://farside.link/ to point to a privacy frontend instead of Youtube directly.
But current tests show that doing so almost never results in a playable video.
So for now you get to visit the nasty spyware-filled Youtube interface. I hope that you all use browser addons that help you mitigate that.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25250143

In June, the GSMA responsible for RCS finalized the latest standard with the ability to delete a sent message, and Google Messages...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25156749

I woke up this morning to find a new little friend on my phone! Android Safety Core.

So what is this great new application that was non-consentually installed on my device with no indicator that it ever was except an alert from Tracker Control.

There isn't a of information on it, but essentially its an app that "protects" you from obscene images on your phone.

"One of the new features the company announced is called Sensitive Content Warnings. This is designed to give you more control over seeing and sending nude images. When enabled, it blurs images that might contain nudity before you view them and then prompts you with what Google calls a “speed bump” containing “help-finding resources and options, including to view the content.” The feature also kicks in and shows a so-called “speed bump” when you try to send or forward an image that might contain nudity." - Android Authority

As for the Google play description, it's very detailed about what your new friend entails.

Very descriptive.

So essentially it blurs any images of nudity that is sent to you or that is seen.

Obviously the app has to see all the images that are sent to you in order to do this. I'm sure this won't be abused!

The Google reviews on this one sure aren't happy.

You may want to remove this. It can be uninstalled. However to find it on the store you need to look up the link in your browser. I also provided it here.

Dont we all love google and what it does behind our backs for us?

TL;DR

Google recently non-consentually installed a new "safety" feature on our devices that blur any nude images that are sent to you or seen on your phone. They didn't include any sort of update alert or anything and simply slipped it onto devices quietly. Here's a link to the app where you can uninstall if you wish. Of course in order for an app to do this, it needs to see every photo that is ever sent to you. A clear privacy invasion if I say so myself.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/54632389

We are excited to announce that F-Droid has been awarded $396,044 from the Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Fund. This grant is specifically designed to support free and open-source software (FOSS) projects in addressing long-term sustainability challenges, and we are honored to be among the recipients.

I've been using Etar for years now. But the Samsung calendar app on my wife's phone looks way better, while I'm missing things like the titles in the appointments once it gets crowded. And the all day events and birthdays aren't that prominent either. Plus I don't have some features on Etar like adding notes/emojis to days.

Is there a better calendar app out there? It has to be open source and somehow connect to my Nextcloud. That'd be my requirements. But I believe all calendar apps can connect to webdav.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25104367

Warning, incredibly entitled sounding post following:

Have any of you seen any exciting app releases of late. Everything seems to have lulled and it's probably just the time of the year, but I thought I'd ask.

I've been looking forward to a number of things.

Bitwarden just don't really give a shit about their apps. Hence just ignoring issues with host matching and ignoring issues posted on their tracker.

Firefox hasn't had anything since the menu redesign and since then, it feels like there's nothing happening. Which is crazy because they should be all in on tab groups, which is obviously a flagship feature. That's probably down to them moving back to Bugzilla and so it's harder to follow.

Niagara Launcher is all in on their health thing and so things like updating their icon packs isn't happening, so it feels like nothing is happening there moreso than actually being the case.

Sync for Lemmy. The less said about this the better. Star_Wars_You_Were_The_Chosen_One.gif we've had some major API changes and no updates to Sync.

Thunderbird is doing a whole lot of nothing since rebranding from K9email and even the rebranding feels kinda half assed with them not updating brandable assets. And where is Thunderbird Sync?

I get that it's so soon after Christmas and so teams have to come back and then coordinate, so we shouldn't expect much from Q1, but at the same time, I can't speak for everyone, but I'm personally like Christmas is outta the way, now let me get excited about something and there's not much happening.

So anything that you're waiting on? Or anything that's been released that's been exciting and has gone under my radar?