pylapp

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When man says overlays are bullshit…

[–] pylapp 13 points 5 days ago

It seems the “radical” organisations like the FSF or the OES were right and more legitimate in the end.

[–] pylapp 4 points 1 week ago

If you are worried about your privacy, yes, you must get rid of Google Play Services. However a majors part of your apps may be broken as too much rely on this services and only in those services.

If you want apps to based on this layer of Google mess, have a look on some open spruce alternatives of your favorite apps. Maybe some of them won’t embed Google Play Services. But keep in mind you may lose some features like notifications from Google devices or fine tunes location.

You can have a look on microG or Open GApps for alternatives. However you may need to hack your device to flash them.

What you can do, for example:

  • check if you can flash alternatives (possible to root and before unlock the boot loader)
  • maybe check if you can flash another ROM ; projects list the compatible devices. Have a look on LineageOS, GrapheneOS or also /e/OS
[–] pylapp 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yep, it seems it is, but it can manage KDBX files. Just wanted to share 😄

Edit: sorry, didn’t see this thread is in Android community, my comment is not relevant for this platform.

[–] pylapp 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

You can use also for example Strongbox (https://github.com/strongbox-password-safe)

Edit: sorry, didn’t see this thread is in Android community, my comment is not relevant for this platform. For Android I am used to Keepass2Android (https://github.com/PhilippC/keepass2android). Simple, still maintained, under libre licence GPL 3.0.

 

It replicates Protanopia, Deuteranopia, and Tritanopia filters over the game screen, helping users flag accessibility concerns in real-time.

[–] pylapp 3 points 2 weeks ago

It is always the same issues in fact. You should consider your threat model before all. Then, consider the Signal app, then your iPhone supposed to be updated, trusted, with ADP enabled, biometric lock with erasure after 10 failures, etc. Then consider your ISP, then your country. Etc, etc. You should also compare the contexts. Is an iPhone “better” than a low or middle ranges Android-powered smartphones? For sure, yes. Is it better than high-range expansive smartphones with Android ? Or Pixel ones? Not that sure. And compared to GrapheneOS or /e/? Pretty sure not that much. You can also compare messaging solutions. Is Signal better than WhatApp? Of course yes. But what about XMPP and Matrix for example?

And what are your use cases? Remember your threat model. If you are an activist, a journalist or a whistleblower your needs may be different than a “commons citizen worried about its privacy.

In few words, the only pain point I see is the fact than iOS is proprietary and runs non libre source code and Apple devices than APN. But Android devices are not so much different. It does not mean the solution is not private or efficient, if we succeed in defining a definition of “private or efficient”.

In a nutshell, it could be considered as good. But not perfect.

 

Just found this interesting tool so let contributors sign some CLA when submitting a pull request

[–] pylapp 6 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Any ideas for E2E encrypted storage alternatives?

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submitted 2 months ago by pylapp to c/a11y
 

Breaking change in Android!

"Starting with Android 16, [Google] will phase out manifest attributes and runtime APIs used to restrict an app's orientation and resizability, enabling better user experiences for many apps across devices."

Changes will come with API 36 and will be mandatory with API 37.

 

Just implemented in a tool box a Python script which can request GitHub API to get figures and details from an organisation and compute results.

The logs can then be used for example to make KPI and ranking.

See for example: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/floss-toolbox/discussions/187

[–] pylapp 3 points 3 months ago

Not sure of that, maybe we need some case law or update on existing copyleft licenses. Source code generated with GenAI tool, even if their model have been trained with corpora of copyleft sources, are not (yet) considered as derivative works. What a pitty.

[–] pylapp 3 points 3 months ago

Could be interesting. Non-free and current GenAI tools violate copyright, we may consider some evolutions of copyfarleft licenses to forbid such use of source code in these types of tools.

[–] pylapp 2 points 3 months ago
[–] pylapp 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Just wanted to share for the common knowledge and the debate as I already saw here some “post open source” and content about rubbish licenses like SSPL or BSL 😉

 

Even if these licenses cannot be considered as open source and libre (according to OSI and FSF definitions, the only ones which matter), several licenses prohibiting use of source code to train AI are listed in this repository. Nice initiative.

[–] pylapp 2 points 3 months ago

Enshitification made third-party apps disappeared. Prefer true open source project instead like Pixelfed for example.

[–] pylapp 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Be sure also the issues you have in your project have the suitable labels to help future contributors to pick easily some of them, i.e. labels like “help wanted” or “good first issue”.

You can also refer to best practices listed and explained for example in Advent of Open Source so as to have a nice and user-friendly repo: https://adventofopensource.com/

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