PlantNet

Identify flowers and trees with this open source mobile app

Combines open source technology with crowdsourced knowledge to help you become an amateur botanist.

https://opensource.com/article/21/7/open-source-plantnet

https://plantnet.org

Android app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.plantnet

Web version https://identify.plantnet.org

https://github.com/plantnet


📡 @libreware 📡 @nogoolag
#plantnet #plants #fruit #trees

Fruit Radar

Find plants and share them online!
You have your phone with you all the time. When you find an edible plant, you like to share with others, you can record location, type and a photo. Later, when you have Internet, you can upload it to the map of free plants to eat: Mundraub.org

Features:
-Collect all plant data offline
-Integrated map to find plants
-Notifications when plants are nearby
-Plants and map in offline mode
-Plant sources: FruitMap.org, Mundraub.org, Na-Ovoce.cz
-Publish plants to Mundraub.org and Na-Ovoce.cz

https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.quelltext.mundraub/

https://github.com/niccokunzmann/mundraub-android


📡 @libreware 📡 @nogoolag
#fruitradar #plants #fruit #trees

iNaturalist

https://inaturalist.org

iNaturalist helps you identify the plants and animals around you. Get connected with a community of over a million scientists and naturalists who can help you learn more about nature! What’s more, by recording and sharing your observations, you’ll create research quality data for scientists working to better understand and protect nature

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.inaturalist.android

https://github.com/inaturalist/iNaturalistAndroid


📡 @libreware 📡 @nogoolag
#inaturalist #plants #fruit #trees

The best free Audacity Alternatives

https://www.ghacks.net/2021/07/04/the-best-free-audacity-alternatives/


All alternatives listed below lack at least one of the main characteristics of Audacity. They are either only available for one operating system, e.g. Windows, not open source, don't offer the same set of core features, or lack in other departments.

Audacity Forks

Audacity is an open source project, and developers started to fork the application as soon as the announcement hit the Internet that the project team changed.

Forks match all main characteristics of Audacity, but there is no "main" fork yet that all disgruntled developers and users switched to.

Here is a link to a promising forks (because it is updated regularly)

https://github.com/cookiengineer/audacity

Another
https://github.com/SartoxOnlyGNU/audacium

📡 @nogoolag 📡 @libreware
#alternatives #audacity #audio #editor

SplinterNet

Android app designed to create an unblockable Twitter like network that uses no cellular or Internet communications. All messages are transmitted over Bluetooth between users, creating a true peer-to-peer messaging system. All messages are anonymous to prevent retaliation by government authorities.

SplinterNet is a true peer-to-peer network in that it requires physical proximity to other people to transmit messages. In the current version this happens over a close range Bluetooth connection. To illustrate how SplinterNet works, here is an example scenario:

You take a picture of a protest happening near your home.
Fearing a spread of the protest the government shuts down cellular and Internet access to most citizens.
You write a short message about the protest in SplinterNet and attach the picture.
When you next meet with your friends, you sync SplinterNet with them. They now have your photo and will spread it to their friends.
You also now have all their messages, which includes photos taken of protests happening in other parts of the country.
Any person who can reach a working Internet connection can post all of these photos to any sharing service or send directly to journalists to publicize.
If you fear capture, you can press a single button and all the messages in your copy of SplinterNet are deleted.

Features
Create a post with text and an optional single image.
Mark posts as important to increase their spread within the network. These posts will be sent first during syncing and will be highlighted for the people you sync with.
Delete posts to stop their spread. The contents of the network reflect what users of the network think is important and appropriate. You don't have to spread anything you don't want to.

Project Status
This is an experimental project still in development. All of the features listed here should work, they just haven't been tested in large networks. Please let us know how it works!

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/megamattron/SplinterNet/master/other/splinterNet-infosheet.png

https://github.com/megamattron/SplinterNet


📡 @nogoolag 📡 @libreware
#SplinterNet #im #messaging #p2p #bt #bluetooth

They did a cease & desist on us. We're done. Thank you for your continued support. See the letter.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity

💡 TLDR: This is an open-source non-profit detailed and maintained guide on online anonymity (in addition to Privacy/Security). I've been writing/updating it for the past months. It covers Windows/Linux/MacOS/Whonix/TAILS/Qubes OS and more. It's written with hope for activists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, whistle-blowers, and good people being oppressed/censored anywhere!

The whole guide is backed up by many external references (over 500 external references, many of them academic) and is not sponsored by any commercial entity.

The guide is presented in a "book format" (Online ,or PDF with Light and Dark themes) and is quite a long read with over 180 pages of information (not counting the many 500+ external references). But there are ways you can read some parts and not others depending on your interest (and this is also explained in the introduction).

* Project Website: https://anonymousplanet.org
* Mirror: https://mirror.anonymousplanet.org
* Mirror: https://anonymousplanet.github.io/thgtoa/guide.html
* Tor Mirror: http://thgtoa7imksbg7rit4grgijl2ef6kc7b56bp56pmtta4g354lydlzkqd.onion


💡 Online Guide:

* Online Version (Dark Theme): https://anonymousplanet.org/guide.html
* Online Version Mirror (Dark Theme): https://mirror.anonymousplanet.org/guide.html
* Online Version Tor Mirror (Dark Theme): http://thgtoa7imksbg7rit4grgijl2ef6kc7b56bp56pmtta4g354lydlzkqd.onion/guide.html

💡 PDFs:

* PDF (Light Theme): https://anonymousplanet.org/guide.pdf
* PDF (Light Theme Mirror): https://mirror.anonymousplanet.org/guide.pdf
* PDF (Light Theme Tor Mirror): http://thgtoa7imksbg7rit4grgijl2ef6kc7b56bp56pmtta4g354lydlzkqd.onion/guide.pdf
* PDF (Dark Theme): https://anonymousplanet.org/guide-dark.pdf
* PDF (Dark Theme Mirror): https://mirror.anonymousplanet.org/guide-dark.pdf
* PDF (Dark Theme Tor Mirror): http://thgtoa7imksbg7rit4grgijl2ef6kc7b56bp56pmtta4g354lydlzkqd.onion/guide-dark.pdf

💡 Changelog:

* https://anonymousplanet.org/CHANGELOG.html
* https://mirror.anonymousplanet.org/CHANGELOG.html
* http://thgtoa7imksbg7rit4grgijl2ef6kc7b56bp56pmtta4g354lydlzkqd.onion/CHANGELOG.html

💡 Archives:

* Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/https://anonymousplanet.org/guide.html
* Archive.today: https://archive.fo/anonymousplanet.org/guide.html
* Archive.today over Tor: http://archivecaslytosk.onion/anonymousplanet.org/guide.html
* Cryptpad.fr: https://cryptpad.fr/drive/#/2/drive/view/Ughm9CjQJCwB8BIppdtvj5zy4PyE-8Gxn11x9zaqJLI/

Feel free to share and contribute through the repository at https://github.com/AnonymousPlanet/thgtoa

👉🏼 Follow me on:
* Mastodon: https://mastodon.online/@anonypla

Any constructive opinion/idea/criticism is welcome if you spot any issue. Many changes have been done based based on suggestions from redditors. Don't be too harsh tho. Remember it's still a "work in progress" draft.


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#guide #anonymity #privacy #anonymousplanet

Rclone Remount

Remount cloud storage locally during boot via rclone & fusermount directly on your Android powered smart device.

Virtually limitless storage expansion with support for dozens of cloud providers including Dropbox, GDrive, OneDrive, SFTP & many more. Extremely useful for devices without physical storage expansion capabilities. Also great for streaming large media files without need for full caching. Binaries compiled using Termux.

Features:
Support for arm, arm64, & x86
Huge list of supported cloud storage providers
Apps with ability to specify paths can access /mnt/cloud/
Most file explorers work just fine (issue #9)
Mount points use names of remote(s) in rclone.conf
Specify custom rclone params for each remote via /sdcard/.rclone/.REMOTE.param
Access remotes via http://127.0.0.1:38762
Access remotes via ftp://127.0.0.1:38763
Mount bind to /sdcard/ (see issue #5)
Support for Work Profiles


https://github.com/Magisk-Modules-Repo/com.piyushgarg.rclone


#rclone #remount #cloud #alternatives

Best Open Source Slack Alternatives for Team Communication
https://itsfoss.com/open-source-slack-alternative/

Zulip: An Interesting Open-Source Alternative to Slack
https://itsfoss.com/zulip/


@itsfoss_official
#slack #collaboration #teams #sw #alternatives

Did I just stumble onto a Spotify replacement?
Official Community | Telegram Channel |Telegram Chat Odysee | Hive | Minds

Today in my research for the open-source survival library, I found Nuclear - a music streaming program which pulls from multiple free sources. Check it out.

https://nuclear.js.org/

I'm quite enjoying the experience, I was able to add my favorite albums to a playlist in less than a few minutes.

The open-source survival library releases with 40+ incredibly useful open-source applications for users on all platforms. Don't miss it, sign up to our email list on takebackourtech.org

Join our official groups:
@takebackourtech
@takebackourtech_chat

Spotfy.one – Privacy-aware and login-free Spotify clone

https://spotfy.one

This directly plays embedded YouTube videos by searching videos from metadata without even a proxy

Not privacy aware, but an alternative way to play songs from YouTube

You can rather play videos from newpipe with background playback


#SpotfyOne #spotify

Android Tool

Program to manage control Android devices with Fastboot and ADB

Main Features:
Batch and single app installation (.apk files)
Disable, enable or uninstall system apps
Open, force stop or clear data of your apps
Receive and save logs from your device
Install or boot custom recovery or wipe partitions
Save apps list
Always relevant links to firmware and everything you need
And more

https://github.com/fast-geek/Android-Tool

Download - https://github.com/fast-geek/Android-Tool/releases

Telegram channel - @android_tooI

Telegram chat - @android_tooI_chat

4PDA thread - https://4pda.to/forum/index.php?showtopic=1000362


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#adb #fastboot

The EFF launched an apk downloader that scans for malware.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/introducing-apkeep-eff-threat-labs-new-apk-downloader

https://github.com/EFForg/apkeep


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#apkeep #apk

With the Beechat Clip in late stages of development, we would like to invite everyone to share their questions and comments in our Telegram chat. See you there! https://news.1rj.ru/str/joinchat/BqWmuLmQ9LcxOTk8

Be careful for #MicroG users: Current version is NOT secure for login with your Google Account. It will show your email/password in cleartext in logcat.
It doesn't matter if you have root or not, you only need logcat access to exploit it.
Check the issue here

https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/1567

Briar 1.3.8 release today

https://briarproject.org/news/2021-briar-1.3-released/

Official Briar fdroid repository:
https://briarproject.org/fdroid/repo/?fingerprint=1FB874BEE7276D28ECB2C9B06E8A122EC4BCB4008161436CE474C257CBF49BD6


#briar #im #p2p

Netdata

Distributed, real-time monitoring Agent collects thousands of metrics from systems, hardware, containers, and applications with zero configuration. It runs permanently on all your physical/virtual servers, containers, cloud deployments, and edge/IoT devices, and is perfectly safe to install on your systems mid-incident without any preparation.

You can install Netdata on most Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, and more), container platforms (Kubernetes clusters, Docker), and many other operating systems (FreeBSD, macOS). No sudo required.

Netdata is designed by system administrators, DevOps engineers, and developers to collect everything, help you visualize metrics, troubleshoot complex performance problems, and make data interoperable with the rest of your monitoring stack.

https://www.netdata.cloud

https://github.com/netdata/netdata


#netdata #monitoring

As we continue to live under increasingly dystopian regimes, the need for secure communications is more vital than ever. Telegram has been a great resource and platform for disseminating information and content, but it certainly isn't perfect either.

Some research was done into which digital communication protocols are most ideal for our purposes:
https://telegra.ph/WEbHqRllMIfQa5YzpTSJBrNxfo6tu9-Digital-Communication-Protocols-09-08

The top picks are as follows and are in no particular order:

XMPP
NextCloud
Jami
Briar
Tox
Kontalk
Delta Chat
Bitmessage
Ricochet
Status
Scuttlebot
Session has not had an E2E audit completed yet, but not a bad choice
ȱ
Protocol for SYnchronous Conferencing (PSYC)

Matrix is not recommended: https://www.hackea.org/notas/matrix.html

CAUTION: peer-to-peer communications reveal one's IP address to each other, so using a reliable VPN, proxy, or TOR is advised. Briar is an exception to this rule, as it uses either Bluetooth range or the local network it's connected to; else all traffic goes through TOR. Ones without servers are ideal, such as: Jami, Tox, Ricochet, Status, Scuttlebot, ȱ, and PSYC-2. Some are still in development and may be prone to bugs.

Keep these options in mind when communicating with your clique. Many of us belong to private groups on Telegram which are presumably free from moderator surveillance (or at least interference), but ultimately we should transition to a more durable platform that will be unable to censor our messages. Try a few out and see what works for you and your crew.

#im

Instant messaging apps review

I tested a lot & mulled on this for a while.

Our goal was something less centralized, more private & harder to take down or block.

BRIAR is good & with p2p modes to be censorship resistant if internet is cut, but you have to invite each user separately to a group which is a pain

XMPP is archaic & behaves like a traditional one to one messenger. Yes, groups are there but are more like texting groups & you can't tag or reply to anyone directly.

MATRIX is better but ends up being 3rd party centralized because hosting yourself is a hog, which means you're bound by that hosted server & all those rules, giving up your email credentials, getting possibly kicked off, etc. Matrix.org server started requiring email verification for instance.
Matrix doesn't encrypt metadata, your IP is visible to others in chats.

The last 2 require a hosted server somewhere for large groups to function properly, and so does SESSION since it too has no servers of it's own. But its way lighter than Matrix & can be hosted on a mediocre VPS (which I've done, I can pay, its cheap its fine). The added benefit of Session is everything is onion routed automatically, and there's zero identifying factors when creating an ID. No phone numbers, no emails, nothing. Restore that ID on a new device using a cryptic passphrase, or start a new one if you want.

Check out @Nogoolag room with SESSION:
http://chat.nogoolag.com/nogoolag?public_key=53b45de08520eb3af97933e9a4991e74e26972ee91cc94e6a05da03d956d4313

#im #session

Texting with Zero Cell Service? What a Meshtastic Idea! LoRa and GPS For Off-Grid Communication

https://meshtastic.org

https://youtu.be/gqAsWtIjHUY

In this video I discuss the Meshtastic project and what kinds of features it has. It is an off-grid texting mesh network using inexpensive LoRa boards. for 10-20 dollars each you can buy a few radios and setup a way to communicate if you don't have cell phone service in a remote area. With GPS, you can even see where everyone in your group is at on a map

#meshtatic #im #p2p #lora