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1y ago

Ladybird seems to be the next big topic but where's the discussion around Servo?
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kixik @lemmy.ml 1y ago
Have you heard of verso, it's web browser being built on top of servo, which also aims to help servo to be more "embedable".

1y ago

LibreWolf team has joined Mastodon

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kixik @lemmy.ml 1y ago

https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#can-i-use-firefox-sync-with-librewolf-is-it-safe-to-do-so

(things change quickly though, given Mozilla Corp decisions)

1y ago

LibreWolf is to Firefox what BetterBird is to Thunderbird?

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kixik @lemmy.ml 1y ago

Librewolf is a privacy oriented fork of Firefox, it grabs some setting from arkenfox. Betterbird is not a privacy oriented fork of Thunderbird as far as I remember. When I tried it the only thing I was attracted to was its tray support, but as I use non DE compositors, so far wayfire, labwc and sway (tabbed layout), and as there's currently a Firefox bug, I didn't see any reason to keep trying it, and now on sway with tabbed layout I see no reason for a tray any ways...

1y ago

Firefox now has Terms of Use! This'll go over like a lead balloon

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kixik @lemmy.ml 1y ago

Well there's already a browser on the works, verso

1y ago

Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic | Mozilla says it deleted promise because "sale of data" is defined broadly

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kixik @lemmy.ml 1y ago

Corps are for profit, and Mozilla is a Corp... Really sad times indeed.

1y ago

Firefox now has Terms of Use! This'll go over like a lead balloon

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kixik @lemmy.ml 1y ago

see this other post: https://lemmy.ml/post/26518180/16957376

Hint, look at the date this gets pushed, :)

1y ago

Firefox now has Terms of Use! This'll go over like a lead balloon

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kixik @lemmy.ml 1y ago

do you mean you use a more privacy oriented fork like Librewolf, or instead some chrome/chromium derivative or fork?

1y ago

Best Dearrow and SponsorBlock integration in alternative YouTube clients

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kixik @lemmy.ml 1y ago

I don't agree with what is written in that blog BTW, 1st I like that there's a repo that at least tries as best as it can to protect the free software aspect of the apps, which many disregard but are pretty important to me, that's one of the main values from f-droid for me. Proprietary binary components can include many invasive "features" one is not aware of. As requirement the source code and building from it is required. If you build from source, removing proprietary dependencies for example you'll get a different binary, and that requires a new signature on the final package. F-droid has improved a lot on reproducible builds. And I've read in several places magnifying the issue of apks from official f-droid being moths later compared to original developer release, my own experience is different, and when I've written, I immediately get a reaction from someone which doesn't agree with me (I never reply back). I've read about the single entity signature, but that alone should not be an issue, otherwise we would be distrusting packages from debian, arch, and so on, which use a set of signatures to sign all of their packages, particularly when the build and signing process is automated, in some distros most packages come signed by the same bot. The issue about using a VM with a LTS distro about to expire or already expired is a valid one, but can you blame them when migrating breaks their flows and they don't have enough hands, and that got overcome any ways. Now a days things are working fine AFAIK. That the clients support multiple repos violate an android policy, oh well, I don't care much about android policies, and google for that matter, which collects a ton of data from users and people forgets about what that means, but what a bad practice not to follow those policies.

I believe some people really dislike free software, which is not the same as open source, one really need to value the four basic freedoms it procures, and if one doesn't give a dumb for whatever reason then one doesn't really appreciate free software, perhaps all one wants is not paid software, which is not the same. Free has two meanings and people often gets confused, and f-droid is about free software. It's true they can't guarantee every single bit of their content, but they trying through their policies and a few scripts has value to me, and taking a look at what free software meaning and the basic freedoms it looks to preserve is important to be understood before complaining about an organization trying to offer free software. It would be more appropriate if the terminology changes to use the spanish "libre" word instead, but it is what it is, that why sometimes FOSS is instead referred as FLOS (free/libre or free and libre). And true, as a result developers who want to provide apks through f-droid and also through non free software app stores or repos (whatever makes more sense) need to have in place something to account for the differences, and that's not optimal, but there's a good reason for it, but some developers just don't want to do it and even less not depending on android proprietary stuff or other proprietary stuff for that matter, which is their prerogative any ways.

A little rant of mine, not we all have to agree over the same arguments I guess.

1y ago

Best Dearrow and SponsorBlock integration in alternative YouTube clients

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kixik @lemmy.ml 1y ago

Well, it is available on the IzzyOnDroid separate f-droid repo, so if using the f-droid client, you can still grab freetubeAndroid with it.

Never tried it though, and not sure how bloated for a phone, but it's easy to install/update with any f-droid client.

1y ago

Best Dearrow and SponsorBlock integration in alternative YouTube clients

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kixik @lemmy.ml 1y ago

ohh, as I set sponsorblock for it some time back, I thought it also did it, but it does not.

1y ago

Best Dearrow and SponsorBlock integration in alternative YouTube clients

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kixik @lemmy.ml 1y ago

Tubular and Libretube (both available on f-droid btw)

1y ago

How can I discourage my dad to install Telegram?

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kixik @lemmy.ml 1y ago

Well, to me xmpp is the way to go, but I guess it's not a matter of opinion, but rather understanding the motivation.

Why is your dad looking for telegram? What caused your dad to look into it? Perhaps digging into those, one can make a case with alternative more private options. For sure one can always argue in general the already mentioned alternatives, and the ones to come are better privacy wide, but it boils down to why is him looking to use telegram. If it's about having friends or co-workers, or a high school set of friends there, I would think there's no way to change his mind, :( But more technology arguments like stickers, better voice/video conferences, whatever, then that's more something that can be argued I would think, the same way if he's just looking for something more private of course.

1y ago

Does LibreWolf have add-on signing?

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kixik @lemmy.ml 1y ago

Maybe @fishonthenet@lemmy.ml or @mickie@jeremmy.ml. BTW I remember about !librewolf@jeremmy.ml but I think it didn't survive, and on lemmy instances this is the only Librewolf community.

1y ago

Does LibreWolf have add-on signing?

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kixik @lemmy.ml 1y ago

It's been a while since extensions need to be signed for FF to enable them. Not sure if Librewolf build scripts do something about it, but the config is not configured by default:

    
% grep xpinstall.signatures.required /usr/lib/librewolf/librewolf.cfg
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and if you look for it on about:config, it's enabled. So far it's functionality is mainly to sort of not allowing dangerous extensions, though that promise can't really be fulfilled, and besides, and it's true the feature can be abused, but it's not something new for FF, not sure why that petition is showing up just now, hmm. For the apps I use, this hadn't posed a problem on Librewolf so far.

But it's been a while I don't see Librewolf devs around this community and the other lemmy one I know !librewolf@jeremmy.ml seems abandoned. Perhaps someone is familiar with Librewolf build scripts...

1y ago

Top 3 best SMS replacement apps?

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kixik @lemmy.ml 1y ago

As mentione SMS is by no means secure, and although silence hadn't gotten any update, still works as a champ on Android 15.

1y ago

Are there any working instances of Invidious left?

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kixik @lemmy.ml 1y ago

What works for me is freetube on desktop, and tubular/newpipe on AOSP.

1y ago

Reminder to anyone using Mull browser: it is no longer supported and will be missing updates for these android specific CVEs

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kixik @lemmy.ml 1y ago

https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/issues/7

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/3457

1y ago

Is Midori worth recommending?

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kixik @lemmy.ml 1y ago

Ohh, so it changed for being webkit, to be a FF based browser. At any rate Librewolf keep being like the closest, FF but with better defaults, and without the need to configure the arkenfox stuff.

1y ago

Is Midori worth recommending?

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kixik @lemmy.ml 1y ago

It's a webkit engine based browser, actually it uses webkitgtk. Now webkit is the engine on which safari (apple) is based as well, and it's been there for some time. blink, which is what chromium based browsers use, is a fork from webkit with its own extras.

So it all depends, chromium based browsers are all blink engine based browsers, which are pretty related to webkit engine based browsers (midori is not the only one BTW). As well as there are a ton of blink based utilities such the electron ones (chromium in disguise), there are still quite a bit based on webkit, specially gtk applications.

gecko as opposed to the other major web engines never had some sort of toolkit that would make it easier for other applications than the mozilla ones to be based on it, and it seems there will never be such toolkit, even less with the dominance of blink based browsers and applications, and in a lesser way but still high use webkit applications and browsers.

If looking for actual alternatives to what dominates the market, I believe gecko is the option at the moment, and if the FF defaults are unsane, I'd strongly suggest using Librewolf, which is essence is FF with much better defaults, it partially uses arkenfox configs, but it's independent and has its own decisions, and also removes very few blobs like pocket at build time.

Eventually servo might become the web engine to look for, and perhaps verso the web browser based on servo. But they are still in early stages as to be considered for day to day regular use. I'm not sure if servo is both a web engine and also offers itself as a toolkit so other applications besides a web browser can be based on it, similar to webkit or blink, but I believe that's not the case, at least not yet, though I wouldn't put my hands on fire for this, :).

Bottom line, you might want to take a look at Librewolf.

Unfortunately divestOS is retiring, and Mull, something like Librewolf but for AOSP based devices, has ceased development. I'm really hoping someone capable of forking it does it...

1y ago

DivestOS ends development

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kixik @lemmy.ml 1y ago

Totally unrelated, mull is pretty cool in the sense that it brings arkenfox configs for the user, and it strips some binary blobs. To me the AOSP privacy browser with no actual alternative. Some say it's like librewolf for AOSP.

Bottom line, no, totally different things.

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