K-9 Mail joins the Thunderbird family

A few weeks ago you might have read that the Thunderbird project is working on a mobile email client. Some of you have mentioned that it might have been a better strategy to support one of the existing open source mail clients on Android instead of creating one. As you may have guessed with the title of this post, the Thunderbird project came to the same conclusion. Once a certain level of functionality is reached, K-9 Mail will morph into Thunderbird on Android, and will be renamed accordingly.

https://k9mail.app/2022/06/13/K-9-Mail-and-Thunderbird.html

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/06/revealed-thunderbird-on-android-plans-k9/

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/06/faq-thunderbird-mobile-and-k-9-mail/

Andriller

https://github.com/den4uk/andriller

Software utility with a collection of forensic tools for smartphones. It performs read-only, forensically sound, non-destructive acquisition from Android devices. It has features, such as powerful Lockscreen cracking for Pattern, PIN code, or Password; custom decoders for Apps data from Android (some Apple iOS & Windows) databases for decoding communications. Extraction and decoders produce reports in HTML and Excel formats.

Features

Automated data extraction and decoding

Data extraction of non-rooted without devices by Android Backup (Android versions 4.x, varied/limited support)

Data extraction with root permissions: root ADB daemon, CWM recovery mode, or SU binary (Superuser/SuperSU)

Data parsing and decoding for Folder structure, Tarball files (from nanddroid backups), and Android Backup (backup.ab files)

Selection of individual database decoders for Android apps

Decryption of encrypted WhatsApp archived databases (.crypt to .crypt12, must have the right key file)

Lockscreen cracking for Pattern, PIN, Password (not gatekeeper)

Unpacking the Android backup files

Screen capture of a device's display screen

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#andriller #android #forensics #backup

NEW Knowledge Base Articles: Adventures Off The Grid, Using Alternative Maps
@abovephone | https://abovephone.com

The Above Knowledge Base is dedicated to education on the use of privacy-first tools with detailed articles and real solutions. We recently published 3 Knowledge Base articles for the maps that come packaged with the Above Phone. Check out these tools for road navigation, maps and trails to learn more.

With Magic Earth, you carry the world in your pocket. Explore today with navigation and download maps for offline journeys.

Learn how to use Magic Earth.

The OsmAnd+ project gets you there with a more customized experience. From personal edits to parking tools, download your maps and the plugins to transform them. Adventure awaits!

Learn how to use OsmAnd+

Organic Maps will take your travels completely off the grid. Explore nature entirely offline using trail/hiking maps complete with navigation. Anyone can get off the grid.

Learn how to use OrganicMaps

Have you tried these diamonds in the rough? Where did they take you? Share your adventures here!

Let us know in the #TBOT chat.
Follow the #TBOT channel.
Follow the Above Phone channel for more announcements, updates, and knowledge.

Umbrel

An interesting #Linux #distro to self-host open-source software:

https://itsfoss.com/umbrel-review/

@itsfoss_official
#umbrel #selfhost #cloud

Self Hosted Planet-Scale Navigation Is In Sight with Maps.Earth
@takebackourtech

Happy to have discovered maps.earth project recently which allows you to self-host your own maps server with place/address search and routing!

The Headway Project was born out of a frustration with the need to send current and future location data to a corporation in order to figure out how we’re getting from A to B. Offline-only maps apps can be frustrating to use, and sometimes suffer from performance problems, poor data coverage, or other technical limitations.

Headway aims to remedy these issues by bundling industry-standard software into a web app that’s easy to set up for yourself or your friends. No need to send your location data to anyone you don’t trust, not even maps.earth.

Try out their demo here: https://maps.earth/

Expect to see this one day in Above Privacy Suite.

How do you stay in shape? Try OpenTracks, a privacy respecting sports tracking app.
@takebackourtech

https://opentracksapp.com/

I recently picked up running again and have been impressed with the OpenTracks app, its usability, and how in depth you can get with the statistics. Now to actually get back to running a 9 minute mile 😮‍💨

Sharing: you decide if, when, with whom, and how to share your data.

Elevation gain: estimate your traveled elevation gain

Bluetooth LE sensor: collect your data like heart rate

Photos and Markers: mark interesting places while tracking

Online & offline maps: take what you need with you

Theming: style the maps how you like it

Compass: shows your direction

Pure offline version: for high privacy requirements there is a pure offline version available which doesn’t have the permission to access the internet. Download via F-Droid

Buku, powerful bookmark manager & personal textual mini-web
@takebackourtech | CODE

Ever find something cool on the internet and forget to save it?

In my case I found an alternative repository for Chrome extensions so you wouldn't have to Download it through the Chrome Web Store. Now I'm having a hard time finding it (i have no idea why Google would want to hide it as a result ;)

Thanks to some awesome peeps in the #TBOT XMPP group ([email protected]) I am going to give buku a try, and start saving more information that crosses my screen.

Buku allows you to save links, tag & organize them. You can do cool things like tag a related group of links, and then open all of them at one time.

There's no tracking, hidden history, obsolete records, usage analytics or homing.

Buku gets around the problem of having multiple incompatible bookmark formats across browsers and provides a standard way to sync bookmarks from any computer. You can even integrate it to save a URL in your clipboard with a keyboard shortcut.

I'll let you know my experiences! And hopefully I find that alternative chrome extension repository I was looking for.

Join @takebackourtech to level up ⤴️

NextCloud Collectives: Collaborative Knowledge Base for Communities & Activists
@takebackourtech | SOURCE

Sharing knowledge across a team can be challenging, typically within our organizations we have used one-off documents. Using a knowledgebase app like NextCloud collectives can be super useful as each document links directly to other documents in the knowledgebase. It allows for different groups to manage their own documents, perfect for organizational methodologies like sociocracy.

Do you think your Freedom Cell or community group would benefit from a shared knowledgebase?

https://nextcloud.com/blog/all-about-collectives-its-founders-mission-and-use-cases-create-a-collective-today/

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Rhasspy: Open-Source Offline Voice Assistant
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If there was such a thing as a 'Wise Home' that you could control by voice, it would be powered by a fully offline voice recognition solution. Rhasspy could be that solution, it works well with the leading open source home assistant platforms and supports over 15 languages. It offers a simple template language and produces simple JSON events that software can pick up easily.

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⁣OwlGram is an unofficial messaging app that uses Telegram's API.

Customizable
You can quickly and easily change several aspects of the interface and the app icon by choosing one from the available ones.

Simple
We take great care to keep the interface clean and consistent with the official version of Telegram.

Open
OwlGram is open source and the builds are verifiable to prove the app you download is built from the exact same source code that is published.

Always up to date
We always keep the app updated to the latest available version of Telegram. You can also sign up for the beta program to test new updates before their official release.

About OwlGram
Our mission is to add new features to give users who use Telegram everyday for stay in touch with friends and family, for work and/or other purposes a better experience.

For support and questions contact us at [email protected] or join @OwlGramForum/ @OwlGramForumIT.

New Productivity Tools
@takebackourtech | SOFTWARE

Ever feel like you waste a lot of time? Me too. Time trackers can help you get a realistic view of how much time you're spending on different activities. I decided to try a new one out today doing my preparation for the webinar tomorrow! Rather then asking what I'm doing at specific increments, Super Productivity lets you choose the tasks you're working on and time them out.

Its got break timers and even a cool 'procrastination help' page which I could see being helpful for stressful tasks.

Plus there's no accounts, no registration required, and FOSS. Love it.

https://super-productivity.com/

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NopeCHA Chrome Extension & Firefox Add-on

Automatically solve reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, FunCAPTCHA, AWS WAF, and text CAPTCHA using AI.
Works on all websites.

Supported CAPTCHA types:
reCAPTCHA v2
reCAPTCHA v3
reCAPTCHA Enterprise
hCaptcha
hCaptcha Enterprise
FunCAPTCHA
AWS WAF CAPTCHA
Text-based CAPTCHA

https://github.com/nopecha-ai/nopecha-extension

https://github.com/nopecha-ai/nopecha-python

https://github.com/nopecha-ai/nopecha-scripts

#captcha

Nagram

Third-party Telegram client for Android based on NekoX with some modifications

Official Site: https://nextalone.xyz
Telegram Update Channel: https://t.iss.one/nagram_channel
Releases: https://github.com/NextAlone/Nagram/releases
Issues here: https://github.com/NextAlone/Nagram/issues

#nagram #tg #telegram

LinkWarden

Self-hosted, open-source #bookmark + archive manager to collect, and save websites for offline use.

The objective is to have a self-hosted place to keep useful links in one place, and since useful links can go away (see the inevitability of Link Rot), LinkWarden also saves a copy of the link as screenshot and PDF.

https://github.com/Daniel31x13/link-warden

The Deepfake Offensive Toolkit
https://github.com/sensity-ai/dot

dot (aka #Deepfake Offensive Toolkit) makes real-time, controllable deepfakes ready for virtual cameras injection. dot is created for performing penetration testing against e.g. identity verification and video conferencing systems, for the use by security analysts, Red Team members, and biometrics researchers.

OpenAndroidInstaller

https://openandroidinstaller.org

The graphical installer that makes installing alternative #Android distributions nice and easy from your computer.

F-Droid Gets Faster Repo Updates with New Repository Format
@takebackourtech | SOURCE

Ever wait forever for F-Droid to 'load' its apps? That's because F-Droid is loading its repository index, which includes a list of all 4056 apps and their metadata (including where to connect to download them).

Good news, F-Droid has just released (March 1st) version 1.16 of the F-Droid client that uses a new repository format. The new app will determine what has changed and download the 'difference' files which contain only the changes. This means you are downloading a file 1/100th of the size.

I just tested the speed differences, the download went from 3 minutes to a few seconds.

Technical details and more info here: https://f-droid.org/en/2023/03/01/new-repo-format-faster-smaller-updates.html

Its also interesting to see that these latest updates were supported by a grant from the Filecoin Foundation - the same organization behind IPFS.

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