Your data is YOUR data! We build desirable, open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems. We are /e/ Download and TRY! Buy an /e/ Smartphone! Your smartphone is harvesting your data all day long, capturing with great detail where you e.foundation‘s aims are surely worthy and good. Their deeds are noble too. But for Heaven’s sake why…
Category: Android
Android, Android, GNU/Linux, Smartphones, Software Libero, Videogames
SuperTuxKart
SuperTuxKart SuperTuxKart is a 3D open-source arcade racer with a variety characters, tracks, and modes to play. It’s a beautiful game, with a little glitch: to join a multiplayer you have to push the “Select” button which usually is the “Fire” or space on a keyboard. Well, on Android… where is the “Select” button? Of…
Android, Android, Software, Software Libero
Bliss OS
Bliss OS Open Source OS for PC’s, based on AOSP
Android, Android, Proprietary software, Smartphones, Software, Software Libero
Use Briar instead of Bridgefy!!!
Hong Kong Protesters Using Mesh Messaging App China Can’t Block: Usage Up 3685% – Slashdot: An anonymous reader quotes Forbes: How do you communicate when the government censors the internet? With a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network that doesn’t use the internet. That’s exactly what Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters are doing now, thanks to San Francisco…
Android, Ethics, Privacy, Proprietary software, Smartphones, Software Libero, Web
Eh che stufita!
Dear Facebook, I’ve been accessing your social service using Frost an free-as-in-freedom Android app. Why? Because I don’t trust you. You already far too much about me. And knowing your ways of handling and selling the data you collect I’ve decided to confine you as much as possible and this means that I will never…
Android, Javascript, Smartphones, Web
Google Play Store Now Open For Progressive Web Apps – Slashdot
Google Play Store Now Open For Progressive Web Apps – Slashdot Chrome 72 for Android shipped the long-awaited Trusted Web Activity feature, which means we can now distribute PWAs in the Google Play Store! I played with the feature for a while, digging into the APIs and here you have a summary of what’s going…
Android, Ethics, Proprietary software, Smartphones, Software Libero
Like a drug
I naïvely thought that I wasn’t so reliant on the “we have shun our don’t be evil motto” organization (hint G00gle). How fool I was. I didn’t even have the phone number of my wife saved into my own CardDav address book. She phoned me to ask about my sprained ankle and my phone didn’t…
Android, Ethics, Proprietary software, Smartphones, Software Libero
Not only WhatsApp is proprietary software but it doesn’t even like to run on a pure Android release which I have to remind you is Free Software. Sadly its freedom is not persistent so it can be turned and it is too often turned into proprietary. Telegram happily runs on many terminals at the same…
Android, Android, Smartphones, Software Libero
Now it’s the time
As my FairPhone2 returned from repairing it’s time to keep its software as free as possible, installing Fairphone Open 18.04.1
Android, Mood, Proprietary software, Smartphones
How they know where I am?
I've always wondered how Google can locate us so easily when using an Android phone. Here's the answer of Stack Exchange How does Google know where I am? and from Znet How Google–and everyone else–gets Wi-Fi location data.