.
You can log and track the phone locations of your family and friends in complete privacy, using your Nextcloud server.

To do this you need to install the Nextcloud PhoneTrack App on your Nextcloud server, and the Android PhoneTrack App on every DeGoogled phone you want to track.

The F-Droid version is old and buggy.

To get the newer Dev Android version, you:

1. Go to the PhoneTrack Dev GitLab page, scroll down and click the "APK Direct Download" link

2. At top "Pipeline" option, click the Download arrow and select "AssembleDevDebug:archive"

3. This downloads a zip file. Extract the zip and install the APK.

CONNECT ALL PHONES AND TRACK

4. On Nextcloud create a dedicated account for PhoneTracking.

5. Create a PhoneTrack "Session" in the Nextcloud PhoneTrack app.

6. Sign each phone into the Nextcloud PhoneTrack account, and on the phone, add a "PhoneTrack log job" to the Session on Nextcloud.

⚡️@LinuxTechIndex

#PhoneTrack #Tracker #Nextcloud

11 Best Note-Taking Apps for #Linux in 2024

https://www.tecmint.com/note-taking-apps-linux/

@BonesTechGarage
#notes

Ouisync

Store, sync, and share files across devices anywhere.
Secure, open source, peer-to-peer file-sharing.

https://ouisync.net

https://github.com/equalitie/ouisync-app/releases

- Easily share content with your audiences
Need to share news, event documents, videos or educational material to your audiences without relying on centralized platforms that are easily blocked? With Ouisync, you can quickly upload media and share Read-only access to content via QR codes, shortlinks, or other messaging platforms. Ouisync is 100% free and open source, and will never share or sell your data to third parties.

- Quickly share files with a friend
Share a Ouisync repository using Write permissions to allow multiple users to add or edit files within a repository, even in conditions of limited connectivity. Keep data in sync between your personal devices, collaborate on team projects, and create group photo albums. All data in Ouisync is end-to-end encrypted for your peace of mind.

- Securely store sensitive documents
Want to securely back up your data on other devices and make it inaccessible to anyone else? Share your Ouisync repositories in Blind mode. Your friend offers you their spare computer for storage of your data? Let your friends be your cloud! It takes just a couple of taps in Ouisync to securely store your data in Blind mode and you never again have to worry about losing your phone - your data is safely stored for whenever you need it.

- Secure
Data (including metadata such as file name, size or location) is encrypted both in transit and at rest, and can be shared as read/write, read-only, or blind.

- Resilient
Ouisync users are able to share files despite conditions of limited or no internet connectivity, when the centralised servers most apps rely upon may not be reachable.

- You're in control
Easily create encrypted repositories for your data and then distribute the link to friends, audiences, or between devices for effective, decentralized publication and/or backup storage.

@dcntr

#cloud #file #transfer #share #sync #bittorrent #p2p

Quiet

Encrypted p2p team chat with no servers, just Tor.

https://tryquiet.org/index.html

https://github.com/TryQuiet/quiet

Currently in developpement stage so be cautious of your data

Quiet is an alternative to team chat apps like Slack, Discord, and Element that does not require trusting a central server or running one's own. In Quiet, all data syncs directly between a team's devices over Tor with no server required.

No email or phone number required, Unlike #Slack, #Discord, #WhatsApp, #Telegram, and #Signal, no email or phone number is required to create or join a #community.

End-to-end encryption, All data is #encrypted end-to-end between member devices, using Tor.

Channels, Organize chats in Slack-like channels, so conversations don't get messy.

Images, Send and receive images, with copy/paste, drag & drop, and image previews.

Files, Send and receive files of unlimited size!

Notifications, Invite links, Keyboard controls, Desktop apps

Android, Quiet works on Android, and F-Droid support is on the way.

#E2E #Chat #Quiet #Tor

HeliBoard

#HeliBoard is a privacy-conscious and customizable open-source #android #keyboard, based on AOSP / OpenBoard. Does not use internet permission, and thus is 100% offline.

https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard

https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/releases

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/helium314.keyboard

Features
Add dictionaries for suggestions and spell check
build your own, or get them here, or in the experimental section (quality may vary)
additional dictionaries for emojis or scientific symbols can be used to provide suggestions ("emoji search")
note that for Korean layouts, suggestions only work using this dictionary, the tools in the dictionary repository are not able to create working dictionaries
Customize keyboard themes (style, colors and background image)
can follow the system's day/night setting on Android 10+ (and on some versions of Android 9)
can follow dynamic colors for Android 12+
Customize keyboard layouts (only when disabling use system languages)
Multilingual typing
Glide typing (only with closed source library)
library not included in the app, as there is no compatible open source library available
can be extracted from GApps packages ("swypelibs"), or downloaded here
if you are concerned about security implications of loading user-provides libraries, please use the nouserlib build variant, which removes this option. If HeliBoard is installed as system app, and swypelibs are available for the system, they will be used.
If the app is installed as a system app and swypelibs are available, glide typing will be available independent of the version.
Clipboard history
One-handed mode
Split keyboard (if the screen is large enough)
Number pad
Backup and restore your learned word / history data

How to Anonymize Your Linux System with Whoami

#Whoami is a comprehensive toolkit that can anonymize a running #Linux session. It comes with scripts that can hide your machine’s real IP address, change its default DNS resolvers, and secure your browser. This article will show you how to install Whoami and run some of its modules to anonymize your Ubuntu system.

Note: Don’t confuse this with the whoami command that displays the username of the current user. Also, Whoami works for any Debian and Arch based distro.

https://www.maketecheasier.com/anonymize-linux-with-whoami/

@BonesTechGarage

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…

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

⚡️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

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