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  • I have been using Mullvad Extended for a long time. It is great, but does have many false positives. They sometimes block some Indian government domains.

    I would say DoT is more than fine. Here are their official instructions.

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  • I would recommend using a native app, rather than a web app. If on Android, you can get Element or Element X from f-droid. Or you can also get third party apps like Fluffy Chat.

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  • TeleGuard is not FOSS. We cannot be sure what they do. Plus, the control of their servers is centralised.

    When using Element, you can decide which server to use. Also, all the appa are open source, the servers are too. You can host your own server too. I think vector (to identify people using email and phone number) is not libre.

    I use Element with chat.tchncs.de as my server.

  • There's a lot of reasons why I think Signal on an iPhone may not be as private as on a FOSS Android ROM.

    First thing is that you are probably getting your notifications from an Apple server. While Apple cannot see the message content, it os possible that they are still collecting some metadata, as when is the user receiving messages, etc.

    Second, the usage of keyboard. I cannot prove that Apple is keylogging your every keyboard stroke, but I don't think anyone can disprove it either. On Android, we always ask users to use a FOSS keyboard, as some keyboard apps look at the screen and read messages to "provide better text prediction".

    Last is app usage metadata. Apple is still storing all the information about how many times you unlock the phone and how much you use Signal, how many times you open the app in a day, when and (maybe even) why you open the app. Which photos you are sharing through your photos app with Signal, such information is also valuable.

    I would say most of your conversations are private, as Signal's developers are very knowledgeable and they know what they are doing.

    But if you have a skeptical mind like I do, or even like most people here do, I would not trust them a bit because of their proprietary code. You cannot be completely sure what they are doing. You just have to trust Apple, which most of here don't.

  • My app is nothing compared to the features Open WebUI. I just wanted to make a simple native app. Honestly, I made this just because I wanted to see if I can make something like that.

    Also, Open WebUI is slightly complex for someone who is not into self-hosting. My app is for someone who just installs Ollama on their laptop or any computer and has exposed it to on the local network.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Cost-cutting tips?

    Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

    Help me decide a font for my website

    Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. @lemmy.ml

    Friendship ended with Debian and Docker. Now Fedora and Podman are my best friends.

    Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Forward IP headers in HAProxy to get the real IP of the client

    Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    NGINX config for TLS passthrough with multiple services?

    Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

    Ethical alternatives to advertisements for promoting a product or a service?

    Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Questions about TLS Passthrough.

    Open Source @lemmy.ml

    If you had $5,000 to donate to your favourite open-source projects, which one would they be?

    Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

    If people using Reddit are called Redditors, then what do we call people who use Lemmy?

    Privacy @lemmy.ml

    Do I really need a VPN or does DNS over HTTPS does the trick?