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Universal Android Debloater Next Generation Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted #Android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device. https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation This is a detached fork of the UAD project, which aims to improve privacy and battery performance by removing unnecessary and obscure system apps. This can also contribute to improving security by reducing the attack surface. Wiki https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation/wiki Download https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation/releases #debloater#uadng

Mozilla will be retiring the #Mozilla#Location Service https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065 https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/2237 Comments #microg

MicroG Installers: Just installing the microg components as user apps will partially function but you will not get full functionality without the main components installed as system apps, like the location components. There are a few 3rd-party installers that handle that and set all the required permissions etc. These are the ones generally recommended *Note: currently all installers use the official microg version, so you can update it from its F-Droid repository. ♦️MicroGPlus by TheHitman https://bitgapps.io/extra.html https://t.me/MicroGPlusChat ♦️Microg installers by Ale5000 https://github.com/micro5k/microg-unofficial-installer More stuff https://github.com/micro5k/ ♦️MicroG Installer Revived.... again by spacebarred for magisk or ksu https://github.com/spacealtctrl/microg_installer_revived_again/ https://github.com/spacealtctrl/microg_installer_revived_again/releases https://t.me/microGRevivedAgainResults ♦️MinMicroG by Shane the Awesome You need to clean flash a rom that has signature spoofing support and flash this zip in recovery, choose the standard zip if unsure README: https://github.com/FriendlyNeighborhoodShane/MinMicroG/blob/master/README.md Get the latest release from here: https://github.com/FriendlyNeighborhoodShane/MinMicroG-abuse-CI/releases Or stable release from here (outdated): https://github.com/FriendlyNeighborhoodShane/MinMicroG_releases/releases ♦️microG Installer Revived by nift4 (currently outdated) README: https://github.com/nift4/microg_installer_revived#readme Download: https://github.com/nift4/microg_installer_revived/releases ♦️LineageOS for microG (Rom): https://lineage.microg.org ♦️MicroG Official links: https://microg.org https://github.com/microg https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-microg-gmscore-floss-play-services-t3217616 📲MicroG official F-Droid repository (Recommended to add if you use MicroG and enable unstable updates in fdroid) https://microg.org/fdroid.html Link to add: https://microg.org/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=9BD06727E62796C0130EB6DAB39B73157451582CBD138E86C468ACC395D14165 📡@NoGoolag@Libreware #microg#install#installers#pack#links

Here’s a discussion on the change: The patch that has been merged implements signature spoofing in a safer way compared to the ones proposed in the past (MicroG apks exclusively are allowed to spoof only and solely the Google signature they want to spoof). Many of the microG services have to spoof themselves as Google Mobile Services in order to replace some of their functionality with a more privacy-respecting, resource-conserving alternative. To facilitate that, the OS has to allow the microG apps to pretend to be the regular Google GMS/Gplay framework apps without actually having the same signing signature. The feature is referred-to as "application signature spoofing". LOS was bitterly opposed to including that in their ROM for years because of it "breaking the android security model". Which is understandable on some level but if it's properly implemented (eg in this case locking down this functionality so it can only be used by known trustworthy code and not malware) then it shouldn't be an issue. And given how Google has been doubling-down on their sneaky data-collection efforts year after year, and moving all sorts of essential services out of the open-source AOSP code into various proprietary closed-source Google apps and frameworks instead (increasingly forcing full FOSS ROMs to be severely crippled from a core functionality standpoint), I think it's overdue to start mainstreaming some countermeasures against that. Google with android has been cloaking themselves in the FOSS mantle to gain credibility in some circles from the beginning, but then they turn around and year after year, increasingly cripple actual FOSS android implementations. https://libreddit.miaoute.net/r/LineageOS/comments/1b11zex/los_has_added_internal_microg_support/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/1b11zex/los_has_added_internal_microg_support/

LineageOS adds internal support for microG https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_frameworks_base/+/383574 https://review.lineageos.org/q/topic:microg-eval And the application signature spoofing is locked-down to apps signed by microg.org. As of February 25th 2024, LineageOS has added internal support for application signature spoofing, a critical pre-requisite for full microG functionality. LineageOS ROM images built after that date will include this new feature. This means that many people will no longer have to root their device and install tools like Xposed/LSposed to make their ROMs compatible with microG. This is a win for both security/stability as well as user friendliness, as there is no longer any need for any settings/permissions in this implementation. The ROM will “just work” with core modules released by the microG project. Other than application signature spoofing hacks, microG installation tasks remain as before. Please see #microg#installers note for a general overview and links to recommended installation tools. ~ This is huge news for the microG project, as LineageOS is the largest and most famous custom Android ROM project in the world. LOS is also used as the foundation for a large percentage of other custom android ROMs as well. Which means that almost every one of those ROMs will also now include microG support by default, without any extra effort on their part. The impact of this on the custom ROM community cannot be overstated: it is a “watershed moment”. Many in the FOSS community have gotten increasingly frustrated with Google’s progressive crippling of the base FOSS version of android “AOSP”, and the migration of many important core functions which used to be included with AOSP into proprietary, closed-source Google apps and frameworks instead. This issue was one of the founding objectives of the microG project: give control back to the user and let them take advantage of the open-source foundation of android without forcing them to use a proprietary and snoopery vendor-locked version of the OS instead, just to get basic functionality like push messaging and Play Store app compatibility. At this point we believe that the existing “LineageOS for microG” project will continue with their project as it is a “works out of the box” solution that also bundles some FOSS app store tools.

Podcini Open source #podcast manager/player project. This is based on a fork from the popular project AntennaPod as of Feb 5 2024. Differing from the forked project, this project is purely Kotlin based, relies on the most recent dependencies, and most importantly has migrated the media player to androidx.media3, and added mechanism of AudioOffloadMode which is supposed to be kind to device battery. Efficiencies are also sought on running the app. App build is also upgraded to target Android 14. https://github.com/XilinJia/Podcini https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/ac.mdiq.podcini

Stract is an open source search engine where the user has the ability to see exactly what is going on and customize almost everything about their search results. It's a search engine made for hackers and tinkerers just like ourselves. No more searches where some of the terms in the query arent used, and the engine tries to guess what you really meant. You get what you search for. https://stract.com https://github.com/StractOrg/stract #Web#Search#SearchEngine #FLOSS

⚡️You-Get: Download video, audio, images from the web easily! Ever wanted to pull a bunch of content down so you can watch later? You-Get is a CLI (command line interface) utility that makes it easy to download videos, audio, and images from the web. https://you-get.org you-get 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw' You Get supports an impressive array of sites: Youtube, Twitter, VK, Tumblr, Soundcloud, Instagram, Facebook, and countless others! It supports downloading YouTube playlists as well, it'll go through each video in the playlist. Downloads can be very slow though, I recommend you use the —info flag before downloading to see what formats are available. Then you can run the command again with the —i-tag flag at whichever quality level is right for you. You can download videos off of big tech platforms / paywalls by using the '—cookies' flag and pointing to a Firefox cookies database (cookies.sqlite). Alternative: https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/ 🫶@takebackourtech #yt

What To Do When The Cell Phones Go Down (AT&T) | Ham Radio Crash Course On the heels of the great AT&T outage. Here are my thoughts on how to offset your dependence on phones with different radio services and technologies. #MobileNetwork#Network #HRCC#hamradio#amateurradio#LoRa#Meshstatic#MeshNetwork

ArchiveBox Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more… https://archivebox.io https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox ArchiveBox is a powerful, self-hosted internet archiving solution to collect, save, and view websites offline. Without active preservation effort, everything on the internet eventually dissapears or degrades. Archive.org does a great job as a centralized service, but saved URLs have to be public, and they can’t save every type of content. ArchiveBox is an open source tool that lets organizations & individuals archive both public & private web content while retaining control over their data. It can be used to save copies of bookmarks, preserve evidence for legal cases, backup photos from FB/Insta/Flickr or media from YT/Soundcloud/etc., save research papers, and more… Once installed, it can be used as a CLI tool, self-hosted Web App, Python library, or one-off command. It saves snapshots of the URLs you feed it in several redundant formats. It also detects any content featured inside pages & extracts it out into a folder: 🌐HTML/Any websites➡️ original HTML+CSS+JS, singlefile HTML, screenshot PNG, PDF, WARC, title, article text, favicon, headers, … 🎥Social Media/News➡️ post content TXT, comments, title, author, images, … 🎬YouTube/SoundCloud/etc. ➡️ MP3/MP4s, subtitles, metadata, thumbnail, … 💾Github/Gitlab/etc. links ➡️ clone of GIT source code, README, images, … ✨and more, see Output Formats below…