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> This is because app stores do a lot of heavy lifting to provide security for the app ecosystem. Specifically, they provide integrity, ensuring that apps being delivered are not t…

This sounds great! Does anyone know what this means for Google Pay and Apple Pay? In this country there's not a single bank anymore that offers contactless payments without going t…

Very fair. Doing anything with online advertising, either as an advertiser or as a publisher, without it involving any of Google's platforms is nearly impossible.

GrapheneOS found a way to provide eSIM support, but it depends on installing a patched version of Google's proprietary LPA app. I don't know how future-proof that is..

The lack of a physical SIM tray is just one more way to lock users in Google's walled garden. eSIM support is not implemented in Android itself (AOSP), but part of the proprietary …

My Garmin (Vivosmart 4) band tracks "stress" and "body battery" metrics, which are based on your Heart Rate Variability. For the first couple of days after my first mRNA shot there…

They do: https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=HfJ4xPchdD3cmZ2qtDpOR8... But it currently only imports coarse data, e.g. your average heartrate on a given day. Not the granular min…

I bought a Garmin the day Fitbit sold out and haven't touched the Fitbit since. I'm very happy with the switch, the Garmin (Vivosmart 4) app and device are actually better than Fit…

This is terrible news. As if Google didn't know enough about you already - they will now be supplied with a 24/7 live feed of your most sensitive health statistics. I'll be switchi…

Congrats! Perhaps start here: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/windfall

I tried to register for an account with N26 early this year. After uploading all my personal information and passport scans, I received a generic rejection notice almost immediatel…

In many countries it's not (legally) possible to buy a SIM card without providing your ID. Sure, you go ahead and buy an illegal burner number, then download Signal/Whatsapp from t…

I didn't say that Conversations from the Play Store is significantly more trustworthy in this regard than WhatsApp from the Play Store. I said that an app - such as Conversations -…

The difference of course being that WhatsApp is closed source, and they can push any kind of change without anyone noticing. If the client is open source, you can verify exactly wh…

Pidgin is barely maintained for the last couple of years and doesn't support most modern XMPP extensions. I'd definitely recommend Gajim on both Windows and Linux, which supports e…

Fair enough, but this is kind of inherent for anything based on open standards. Was your email encrypted? It depends on whether the sending and receiving mailserver support TLS. Is…

F-Droid supports reproducible builds and all APK's they serve are built from source.

Yes, Conversations (Android) and ConverseJS (web) are on par with - or better than - the commercial apps like Whatsapp. On ios, Chatsecure is pretty close.

From yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18054574 :)

Isn't windows mobile the only platform where PWA's can be submitted to the app store?

Ah, that's perfect. A hardware token as the /only/ factor sounds like a bridge too far anyhow.

The difference between WebAuthn and U2F isn't really clear to me, but I hope the older generations will continue to work with common browser's FIDO2 implementations for a long time…

Looking great, thank you! I was previously using Candy, but it hasn't been maintained in a while. With a modern web client like this, XMPP can truly replace the likes of Slack.

I've been using Vultr for years and they've never charged me more than my monthly usage. A n=1 report from two years ago doesn't seem like a great reason to leave them out; I'm sur…

Insert between 5 and 6: CEO "fires" CTO (while simultaneously asking him to sign an employment agreement in the first place) strncat seems to have conceded that despite the 50/50 o…