If you’re privacy conscious, then UnifiedPush is a good alternative to Google’s solution for push notifications.

The sanctions aren’t sufficient. They want to show to the world that they can have their own economy crumble by consequence of their own actions.

According to the EU Digital markets act, the gatekeepers (major networks) must propose means to interoperate with the smaller networks.

Install it. You’ll lose support in either way.

I also prefer xmpp, which I find more stable and easier to set up and maintain.

I don’t understand what you are saying. I use the app on GrapheneOS with no problem. It is just an usual banking app. Not better not worse.

What strikes me is not the news. Palantir partners with many governments. What strikes me is the absence of this article in the French edition.

Buy a bike 😅

You have a very restrictive definition of a smartphone. Sideloading is a natural way for installing apps. In fact it has for a very long time been the only way to install apps on a Windows computer.

Immich, Vaultwarden, Radicale, Cozy, FindMyDevice, Ejabberd, Hauk, Memos, Beszel, Docker-Mailserver, Crowdsec,…

Self-hosting for a bit less than 10 years. My main pain is that my setup is now stable and I have nothing left to tinker with.

Your own xmpp server

They should support GrapheneOS rather than try and make something “more free” from LineageOS.

You’re not tech savvy… Don’t self-host a password manager!

This

Many devs of FOSS Android apps won’t be willing to disclose their identity, and there will be no market left for them. Which means abandoning the maintenance of their apps.

And so, where is the problem?.. Your message is scanned. If it is illegitimate you can’t send it. What is the problem?

Let’s not bury GrapheneOS too fast!

There’s no such thing as total privacy. When you walk in the streets, people can see you and that is no problem. Same goes online. You have to reach YOUR balance between privacy and convenience. I have reached mine with two excellent tools that are GrapheneOS and AdGuardHome. Of course I have also excluded privacy-invading apps such as WhatsApp or Google search. I suppose I evade 80% Big Tech usual tracking and I’m happy that way.

Vanadium