PlayOnLinux

PlayOnLinux is a graphical frontend for the Wine software compatibility layer which allows Linux users to install Windows-based video games, Microsoft Office, as well as many other applications such as Apple iTunes and Safari.

While initially developed for Linux based systems, it is also used on macOS and FreeBSD under the names PlayOnMac and PlayOnBSD. It can also be used on other operating systems supported by Wine.

https://www.playonlinux.com

Alpha version: https://github.com/PhoenicisOrg/phoenicis

Wiki: http://wiki.playonlinux.com

Supported sw: https://www.playonlinux.com/en/supported_apps.html

Forums: https://www.playonlinux.com/en/forums.html

Sources: https://github.com/PlayOnLinux/POL-POM-4


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#pol #playonlinux #gaming #linux

Gaming on linux telegram community

Group: t.me/linux_gaming

News channel: t.me/linuxgaming


#gaming #group #tg #telegram

Cloud services

Syncthing
https://syncthing.net

Nextcloud
https://nextcloud.com

Seafile
https://www.seafile.com

Freedombox
https://www.freedombox.org

OpenMediaVault
https://www.openmediavault.org

FreeNAS
https://www.freenas.org

Sia
https://sia.tech

Rsync
https://rsync.samba.org
There are GUI apps like GRsync for PC or Syncopoli for android https://f-droid.org/app/org.amoradi.syncopoli

Cryptomator
https://cryptomator.org

Duplicati
https://www.duplicati.com

Duplicity
http://duplicity.nongnu.org

Rclone
https://rclone.org

rclone on Android with Termux
https://github.com/ncw/rclone/wiki/rclone-on-Android-with-Termux

Android Rclone explorer
https://github.com/kaczmarkiewiczp/rcloneExplorer

IPFS
https://ipfs.io

Mega
https://mega.nz

Crypt.ee
https://crypt.ee

Transfer files between cloud services:
https://www.multcloud.com


Transfer files between devices
https://news.1rj.ru/str/NoGoolag/2139


Notes:
gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html#Cloud

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_synchronization_software


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#cloud #alternatives

Best Android Browsers:

🌎 Tor Browser (Firefox based)

- F-Droid repo: https://guardianproject.info/fdroid/repo
- Playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.torbrowser
✅ Fingerprinting mitigations
💭 Discussion group: See Tor browser chat in @qd_invitations
Unofficial Channel: @tor_browser_channel

Source code: https://github.com/guardianproject/tor-android


🌎 Bromite (Chromium based)

- F-droid repo: https://www.bromite.org/fdroid
✅ Ads and trackers blocking
✅ Privacy enhacement patches from Iridium, Inox, Brave, ungoogled chromium and Security enhacement patches from GrapheneOS
💭 Discussion group: See Bromite chat in @qd_invitations
Unofficial Channel: @bromite_channel

Source: https://github.com/bromite/bromite
Project website: Bromite.org

Bromite is highly recommended

🌎 Brave (Chromium based)

- Playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brave.browser

✅ Ads and trackers blocking
✅ Privacy enhancements

Source:
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser


🌎 Mull (Firefox based)

F-Droid repo:
https://divestos.org/fdroid/official/?fingerprint=E4BE8D6ABFA4D9D4FEEF03CDDA7FF62A73FD64B75566F6DD4E5E577550BE8467

✅ Features from Tor uplift project
✅ hardened with arkenfox-user.js project
✅ Proprietary components are removed.

Source code : https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix


🌎 Fennec F-Droid (Firefox based)

Fdroid:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
✅ Extension support
✅ proprietary components and trackers removed


🌎 Mozilla Firefox
- Playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox
❌ Trackers (Mozilla telemetry, adjust, firebase analytics)
✅ Extension support

Source code: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix


🌎 Firefox Nightly
- Playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix
✅ Extension support
❌ Trackers (Mozilla telemetry, adjust, firebase analytics)


🌎 Kiwi (Chromium based)

Playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowser.browser
⛔️ Outdated chromium base
✅ Extension support
✅ Ads and trackers blocking

Source code: https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src

Not at all recommended for its outdated chromium base



P.S. You may want to consider this when choosing your browser
— Chromium is way more secure than Firefox
https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#browser #android #androidbrowsers

Nitter

A free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy.
Inspired by the invidio.us project.

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/master/README.md

💻 Browser Extensions
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Extensions

🌍 Instances
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

📱 NitterizeMe app for android
Once set by default to open Twitter and YouTube links will transform them into Nitter and Invidious links and delegate the action to another app.
https://f-droid.org/app/app.fedilab.nitterizeme


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#nitter #twitter

Bibliogram is a website that takes data from #Instagram's public profile views and puts it into a friendlier page that loads faster, gives downloadable images, eliminates ads, generates RSS feeds, and doesn't urge you to sign up.

https://bibliogram.snopyta.org

https://bibliogram.art

https://github.com/cloudrac3r/bibliogram/blob/master/README.md

Bibliogram does not allow you to anonymously post, like, comment, follow, or view private profiles. It does not preserve deleted posts.


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#bibliogram #instagram

MiXplorer

mix of explorers (SD, FTP, Lan, Cloud and other storage explorers) is a fast, smooth, beautiful, reliable and fully-featured file manager with a simple and intuitive user interface.
This app is closed source but it has no ads, is and will always remain completely free.

Note:
XDA version has all features.
In Google's Playstore there's a paid version and a free version with less features called Silver.
Better donate directly to its devs to avoid Google's 30% cut.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1523691

APK UPDATES (from XDA) & CHANGELOG
https://news.1rj.ru/str/MiXplorer_updates

ADD-ONs:

MiX Archive (MiXplorer Addon)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixplorer.addon.archive

MiX Metadata (MiXplorer Addon)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixplorer.addon.metadata

MiX Codecs (MiXplorer Addon)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixplorer.addon.codecs

MiX PDF (MiXplorer Addon)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixplorer.addon.pdf

MiX Image (MiXplorer Addon)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixplorer.addon.image

MiX SMB 2.0/2.1 (MiXplorer Addon)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixplorer.addon.smb

MiX Tagger - Tag Editor (MiXplorer Addon)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixplorer.addon.tagger


📡 @Libreware
#mixplorer #mxp #filemanager

Nekogram

An unofficial telegram app

https://github.com/Nekogram/Nekogram

Google play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tw.nekomimi.nekogram

Update news (English): https://news.1rj.ru/str/nekoupdates

Update news (Chinese): https://news.1rj.ru/str/zuragram

APKs: https://github.com/Nekogram/Nekogram/releases

Feedback: https://news.1rj.ru/str/nekosupportbot

Feedback: https://github.com/Nekogram/Nekogram/issues

Chat group (Chinese & English): Join our channel (https://news.1rj.ru/str/Zuragram) and click "Chat"

⚠️ Warning: App has trackers


Nekogram adds some extra features to official Telegram app:

• Repeat others' message in one click.
• Save to saved messages in one click.
• Ignore messages from blocked users.
• Forward messages without quoting.
• Create a mention by user's ID.
• Allow non-admin users to view group chat permissions and administrators.
• Select a map preview provider for normal dialogs.
• Promote/restrict user directly from contextual menu clicking on user's message.
• Show user chat history in groups from contextual menu clicking on user's message.
• Delete single downloaded file.
• Customize stickers display size.
• Show and export message details.
• Unlimited favorite stickers.
• Filter chats list: users, groups, channels, bots, admin, unmuted.
• Multi-accounts (up to 32).
• Log in with bot accounts.
• Decide whether to sync contacts on first login.
• Show ID and data center.
• Transparent status bar.
• Change displaying name order.
• Hide mobile number from navigation menu drawer and settings menu.
• Built-in Chinese and Japanese language.
• Use system font and emojis.
• Store cache into app's private directory.
• Hide proxy sponsor channels.
• Toogle to show sensitive media contents in public channels.


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#nekogram #tg #telegram #client

Warning about Smali Patcher issued in public interest

Smali patcher was released a while ago, and it seemed to be a very useful tool (despite it being windows only) as it would automagically pull, deodex, patch and push sigspoof to your connected phone. Even more so since no other sigspoof patcher seems to support Q yet.

But a little research before I went to ask the "developer" to open source it revealed these posts in the thread:

- https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=78958124
-> f0mey (OP of thread) admitting that they don't know anything of the source code and probably don't even have access to it

- https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=80287799
- https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=80287989
- https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=80292041
-> A user complaining that the executable recieves incoming connections from arbitrary IPs, and f0mey nonchalantly saying that they have no idea what that is and it's probably nothing. Further down the thread, f0mey notes the IP seems to be from Russia, still confident that nothing is wrong.

Conclusion:
Still no proof that Smali Patcher does anything malicious, but a pretty big concern.
Also, its origin is still unknown. Perhaps 4pda?

@NoGoolag

#smalipatcher #sigspoof #smali

Xiaomi Geeks Bot

@XiaomiGeeksBot

The bot has been re-written from scratch with tons of improvements and cleanups, you'll note the dramatic increase of responding speed!

I have kept everything in commands as you've used to, with some touches here and there.

This update of the bot introduces some new feature that gives you the best of @XiaomiFirmwareUpdater, @MIUIUpdatesTracker, and @MIUIVendorUpdater.

- Now you can subscribe to your device updates of firmware, MIUI, or vendor so easily using subscribe command. Read subnoscriptions help section for more details.
- Are you using the bot in a device specific group? With this update you can set the preferred device of a chat with /set_codename codename in order to be used as default for commands that needs the codename of the device.
- Multi-languages are here! Thanks to the awesome community, bot has been translated into Arabic, Chinese Simplified, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, and Turkish! You can change the language using /set_lang command in your pm, and your group if you're an admin.
- Bot help has been more simplified into groups, and I've added usage example of every single command.
- You can manage your bot options using /settings command.

https://github.com/XiaomiFirmwareUpdater/xiaomi_uranus_tgbot

Note: You can contribute to bot translation on crowdin if you'd like to use the bot in your own language.

I'll wait your feedback and bugs reports :D
Thank you for the support and hopes you'll like this new update!


📡 @yshalsager_projects
#bot #xiaomi #firmware #vendor #miui

Open Note Scanner + PDF Converter

A full FLOSS alternative to document scanner apps like CamScanner

♦ https://f-droid.org/app/com.todobom.opennotescanner
♦ https://f-droid.org/app/swati4star.createpdf

(Open Note Scanner requires you to download OpenCV manager from GitHub or Play)


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#apps #opennotesscanner #pdf #converter #notes #scanner #pdf #camscanner

Session

A Signal protocol fork with decentralized servers and no need for a phone number

Session is a cross-platform, anonymous and decentralized messaging application. You don't need a phone number or email address to make an account.

Session uses the Loki Service Node network to route the data, for which the nodes are rewarded with $LOKI. The Loki Network itself is made up of some ~1000 community operated Service Nodes where 44% of the supply is held in the SNs - about US$7.5 million at the moment.

I love Signal, but I don't love the attached phone numbers or central servers, but I know there's a challenge in allowing an altruistic intention over a financial incentive for the node operators - Sybil resistance. By using Loki's Service Node network, the crypto-economics is designed in a way that a bad actor would drive the price exponentially up while trying to accumulate enough Loki to be able to perform any traffic analysis on the routed data.

Think of it as a Signal fork meets a Monero fork meets an incentivized TOR network.

Web: getsession.org

FAQ: getsession.org/faq

Whitepaper:
https://getsession.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Session-Whitepaper.pdf

Sources: github.com/Loki-project

Comments:
http://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/f4yt7z/session_a_signal_protocol_fork_with_decentralized/


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#session #signal #decentralized #im #instant #messaging #alternatives

Search engine alternatives

♦ DuckDuckGo
-> https://duckduckgo.com
-> http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion
- US based (EU servers for EU, though).
- Mostly Bing, Yahoo and own crawler results
- Issues: Proprietary, some components are free
- ToS;DR: https://tosdr.org/#duckduckgo
- Criticism here
-- https://gitlab.com/prism-break/prism-break/issues/2143
-- https://redd.it/aqz3q8

♦ SearX
-> https://searx.xyz
-> https://searx.xyz/tor.html
-> searx.space for other instances
- Instance of the open source metasearch engine
- You can choose which search engine to use for the results.
- Issues: No privacy policy, some public instances use Cloudflare, ads or may log IP addresses/searches.

♦ Qwant
-> https://www.qwant.com
- French based
- Own crawlers and Bing results.
- Issues: "French law makes it mandatory to keep some connection data for one year"
- Privacy Policy: https://about.qwant.com/legal/privacy
- ToS;DR: https://tosdr.org/#qwant
- Criticism:
-- https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/bstxms/qwants_future_regarding_ethics
-- https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/35097/ethics-a-heavy-suspicion-towards-the-qwant-search-engine

♦ MetaGer
-> https://metager.org
- Open-source metasearch engine
- Based in Germany
- Stores some information temporarily: https://metager.org/datenschutz

♦ YaCy
-> https://yacy.net
- Distributed self hosted search engine, built on P2P networks

♦ Mojeek
-> https://www.mojeek.com
- Uses its own crawlers

Others:

♦ List of search engines:
-> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

♦ Startpage
-> startpage.com
- Bought by an ad company
- uses Goolag search
- https://restoreprivacy.com/startpage-system1-privacy-one-group

♦ Ecosia
-> https://www.ecosia.org
- A bing frontend
- Criticism:
-- https://info.ecosia.org/privacy#privacy-faq-item-6

♦Gigablast
-> https://gigablast.com
- Fails SSL at Mozilla observatory
-- https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze/www.gigablast.com

♦ Yippy
-> yippy.com
- Uses Goolag ads

♦ SwissCows
-> swisscows.ch

♦ Disconnect
-> search.disconnect.me
- Connects to Amazon

♦ Wolfram Alpha
-> www.wolframalpha.com
- Doesn't even work without JavaScript

♦ Oscobk
-> oscobo.co.ukk

♦ Lukol
-> www.lukol.com
- Shares data with Goolag
- Privacy policy: https://lukol.com/privacy.php


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#searchengines #search #alternatives