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Megathread: Many are now migrating to Signal as a result of WhatsApp updating their terms and privacy policy
Hello everyone! We've recently started to receive lots of similar posts as a result of recent news regarding WhatsApp updating their terms and privacy policy, which will take effect on February 8thMay 15th, 2021. Any WhatsApp users who do not accept these changes will be blocked from using the service. As a result, many are now migrating to Signal. We’ve decided to make this the designated thread for all things related to this topic. Here is a direct link to Signal's terms and privacy policy (last updated May 25, 2018). Don't worry, it's not very long. For those wondering where Signal's revenue comes from: "We are a 501c3 nonprofit. We're not tied to any major tech companies, and we can never be acquired by one either. Development is supported by grants and donations from Signal users. https://signal.org/donate/" Some related media coverage:
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We will be updating this post as events unfold. Be safe, and always remember the human. Edits 1–38: A brief summary of events, by day: Wednesday, January 6:
WhatsApp informs its users that they are updating their terms and privacy policy.
Thursday, January 7:
Elon Musk tweeted "Use Signal". Five hours later, the Signal team tweeted that verification codes were being delayed due to the surge in new people wanting to join Signal.
Some people mistakenly invested in some random stock called 'SIGL', to which Signal tweeted: "Is this what stock analysts mean when they say that the market is giving mixed Signals? It's understandable that people want to invest in Signal's record growth, but this isn't us. We're an independent 501c3 and our only investment is in your privacy."
Someone asked Signal whether usernames would be coming this year, to which they replied: "According to the office Magic 8-Ball, 'SIGNS POINT TO YES.'" They also shared a tip for how to easily migrate group chats from other apps to Signal: "Drop a group link into your former chat app of choice like you're dropping the mic on the way out."
The team is currently taking a break from answering questions in the AMA, but will be back in that thread on Monday (Jan. 18?), so there is still time if you have any questions for them!
There were still some registration delays. Signal said that carriers were "making adjustments on their side to keep delivering verification codes as quickly as possible."
Facebook bought ads in order to promote Facebook Messenger when people searched for 'Signal' in the App Store. Signal's developers tweeted: "Facebook is probably more comfortable selling ads than buying them, but they'll do what they have to do in order to be the top result when some people search for 'Signal' in the App Store. P.S. There will never be ads in Signal, because your data belongs in your hands not ours."
Sunday, January 10:
The Signal team tweeted: "Even though we're still breaking records, verification codes are back in the groove. Delivery delays have been eliminated across multiple cellular providers, so things should be more ASAP when you join the app."
They then tweeted: "We continue to shatter traffic records and add capacity as more and more people come to terms with how much they dislike Facebook's new terms. If you weren't able to create a new group recently, please try again. New servers are ready to serve you."
Elon Musk tweeted that he donated to Signal a year ago and "will donate more."
Monday, January 11:
Signal raised the group call limit from 5 to 8! Reuters also reported: "The number of new users installing messaging app Signal every day is on track to cross 1 million, putting it closer to levels seen by larger rival WhatsApp [...] About 810,000 users globally installed Signal on Sunday, nearly 18-fold compared with the download numbers on Jan. 6, the day WhatsApp updated its privacy terms, according to data from research firm Apptopia." 🚀
Some people were still mistakenly investing in some random stock. Signal's developers tweeted: "Update: Although the growth rates may look similar, this stock symbol still has absolutely nothing to do with us. We're an independent 501c3 nonprofit, but you can donate here to invest in your privacy: https://signal.org/donate/" 📈
Signal announced that they are going to be rolling out chat wallpapers, an about field for your Signal profile, and animated stickers in a few days, as well as media auto-download settings and full-screen profile photos for iOS users (to match Android).
Moses Tsali released a music video titled "Hit Me on Signal", filmed at the SpaceX Headquarters! 🎵
Tuesday, January 12:
Our tiny unofficial community (signal) is now rocketing up Reddit's Top Growing Communities leaderboard. Last week, we were somewhere around #21.1k. Earlier today, we were at #135, right below AnimalsBeingBros. As of this writing, we're at #90 and have already passed ThatsInsane, which is insane! 🤯
Signal's Brian Acton is now doing interview after interview with Indian mass media companies. Here is one with NDTV, where he talked about "Signal's India plans, its donation-only business model, and what makes it different from WhatsApp." 🇮🇳
By now, many of our community members had submitted their own badges and profile pictures that they had placed in WhatsApp to show that they were moving to Signal. Inspired by this, Signal decided to tweet some of their own in multiple different languages. 🌍 Here is a blank template!
Our community has now climbed all the way up to #61 on Reddit's Top Growing Communities leaderboard!
Signal's Android app started with 10M+ installs on the Play Store on January 5, and it has now passed 50M+!
u/Crazy-Lizard submitted an amazing collection of images (both in English and German) that you can set as your WhatsApp Status to convince your family & friends to switch to Signal, using an educational approach! This quickly became our top voted post of all time!
Thursday, January 14:
Our community is now placed at #48 on Reddit's leaderboard! We've now made it into the top 50, with big names like sports, Jokes and reactiongifs. We have zoomed right past all other software-related communities in terms of popularity. Only apple and leagueoflegends remain above us!
Acton has now said that they are aiming to add 100-200 million more Signal users in India alone over the next two years.
Signal's founder, Moxie Marlinspike, has now tweeted: "If you've ever considered applying to work with us at Signal, now is a great time to get involved! We're just over here working on a plan to power the western hemisphere with the heat from our servers: https://signal.org/workworkwork/"
Our wonderful community has now helped translate u/Crazy-Lizard's educational WhatsApp Status images into Slovak, Czech, Portuguese (PT), Finnish, Turkish, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese (BR), Italian, French, and Dutch! Get them here!
Friday, January 15:
Our Reddit leaderboard saga continues! We've now reached spot #40, right between HolUp and PersonalFinanceCanada. 🇨🇦 We also made a list of posts in which our members can discuss Signal reaching the #1 spot on the App Store/Play Store in their own country. 🏆
Signal tweeted: "We are so grateful for the outpouring of support from everyone who is contributing to Signal's ongoing operation and development. We're a 501c3 nonprofit and we couldn't do this without you. If you are on the fence about donating, you can give in here: https://signal.org/donate/"
WhatsApp announced that they are going to delay the updating of their terms and privacy policy by three months due to the backlash. They were originally going to take effect on February 8th, but will now take effect on May 15th.
Someone asked Edward Snowden (u/SuddenlySnowden) if he knew whether "Telegram is more secure and less influenced by corporate money than Signal". In reply, Snowden tweeted: "1) The consensus of the infosec community is that Telegram is significantly less secure than @SignalApp. 2) Signal is an independent non-profit with a $50m endowment—they can't be meaningfully influenced by money for a very long time. Telegram is a standard private company."
The Signal service went down for about a day as the Signal team needed to add more capacity. They tweeted: "We have been adding new servers and extra capacity at a record pace every single day this week nonstop, but today exceeded even our most optimistic projections. Millions upon millions of new users are sending a message that privacy matters. We appreciate your patience."
Signal's Moxie Marlinspike tweeted that they are now working on a group chat feature that will allow only admins to send messages in the group!
Saturday, January 16:
signal is now at #26 on the Top Growing Communities leaderboard! If we had been included the curated "Top Growing Communities in Tech" leaderboard, we would be placed at #4, right between technews and TechNewsToday. We are flaming hot right now! 🔥
At last: "Signal is back! Like an underdog going through a training montage, we’ve learned a lot since yesterday — and we did it together. Thanks to the millions of new Signal users around the world for your patience. Your capacity for understanding inspired us while we expanded capacity." 🙌
In response, Snowden tweeted: "Everybody can get back to uninstalling #Whatsapp now." 😄
Sunday, January 17:
Our community's climb on Reddit's leaderboard appears to be leveling off. We're now at #22 overall and "#3" in Tech, right after apple and technology, which isn't half bad actually! 🤔 Let's see if things begin to pick up again after Signal starts rolling out those new features they promised on Monday.
Wednesday, January 20:
The initial hype is now clearly dying down, but our community's daily growth rate is still much larger than it was before WhatsApp made their announcement. Today we crossed 40k members! 🎉
Friday, January 22:
Signal has now started rolling out chat wallpapers, an optional "about" field for Signal profiles, and the first official animated sticker pack to all beta testers! As always, the developers are now gathering feedback on the Signal Community forum. If you're a beta tester, check out our right-hand sidebar to get your own flair!
Saturday, January 23:
Chamath Palihapitiya promised Signal a $10M donation if they could keep all of their own messaging infrastructure and copy WhatsApp's entire UI in order to get the whole world on board as easily as possible. Signal replied: "Hopefully there are a lot of people out there who don't need us to look exactly like their ex in order to fall in love, but you could help us make it possible for Signal to support 10M themes — one of which might look familiar enough for anyone who has a "type"..."
Signal also launched their first ever "global marketing campaign," using the cheapest billboard they could find somewhere in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It says: "No personal data was bought or sold in the creation of this video." #WeKnowNothing 🤣
This campaign is starting to get serious! Signal just tweeted a more polished video ad, featuring Taraji Henson and ending with a shot of the same billboard. 👏 They are now here on signal as well, requesting photos of the billboard! 📸
Welcome to all newcomers, but also THANK YOU to all of our regular contributors who have shown up to sort by new, answer questions, and provide help! ⭐ As a reminder, this is an unofficial Reddit community (or "subreddit") that is run by the user community. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Signal Technology Foundation or Signal Messenger LLC.
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FAQs:
1) Why is Blackberry stock price going down? A: A few possible reasons. One, as of today the whole market is down. BB is connected to overall market swings as most companies are. Two, there may be some market manipulation by bearish financial institutions as there are a lot of calls expiring on 2/19. I would expect that BB SP to be volatile between $11 and $14 between now and then, and to move upwards after 2/19 and especially after 2/23 (Amazon + BB webinar). Three, there are bearish investors who still think BB is a phone company and don't understand the underworkings of BB's business strategy, their software, their patents, or their partners. Their revenue has been affected by coronavirus and has not been particularly phenomenal so far this year. 2) Should I invest now or later? A: First off, I'm not a financial advisor, these are just my opinions. Invest at your own risk. In my opinion, BB will see a large SP growth by EOY, anywhere from 50% to 150% growth by EOY. While revenue will likely not increase much this year, the partnership with Amazon and news regarding IVY will likely create new floors for their SP much higher than the current SP right now, at around the $12 SP 3) What's stopping competitors from building a similar product and hurting BB's business? A: There's a lot of reasons why BB has a huge moat right now. One, notice the partners that BB has with QNX. They've got all the big boys working them, aside from Apple and Tesla. Seeing as SpaceX runs on QNX, and seeing that Apple was trying to make a deal with Hyundai that did not go through, I think it is still possible that either Tesla or Apple or both companies could also make a deal with BB to use QNX as their OS system. BB worked to develop their QNX embedded microkernel OS for the last eight years or so. Anyone trying to step into the game now is far too late. Apple has the best chance of all companies, as it has its own OS and Apple knows security very well, but this still requires an entirely new system in order to work in the EV sector. Also, Apple announced recently that they would be developing their own EV, although they did not give much details beyond that statement. The likelihood that they are both working on the hardware and software side of this thing is slim given the large number of difficulties that come with certification as it relates to the cybersecurity software space. Regardless, I would suspect that either Apple or Tesla is the most likely to be competitors in this space, but neither company has successfully completed a certified OS system, particularly for the emerging sector of autonomous EVs. Tesla is currently building a Linux-based system that is having a lot of difficulty in passing certifications such as ISO26262, a struggle that has been ongoing for years now. They may achieve a product that passes these safety regulations and certifications, but the question remains whether this will be in time as the EV and autonomous market picks up speed, and whether competing companies would even be interested in using their product. In fact, any car company is unlikely to develop their own OS software because none of their competitors would be likely to use it. BB is the perfect business to license since it is not competing in the hardware sector for the EV market. This argument can also be used for Apple if they are also building an EV. 4) Why is BB's revenue so low if they have so many customers and partners? A: QNX has been licensed so far as a one-time purchase, per vehicle or IoT using their software. IVY will be a subscription-based software that also includes a one-time purchase. Thus, BB's revenue streams are somewhat unimpressive currently, but they are playing the long game. If my hypothesis is correct, it is John Chen's goal to lay low as software is developed and customer relationships are built. It's the same with the book market. It's the sequel that makes all the money, not the first book. QNX is just the first book of a series looking to hook in its customers with low costs before hitting 'em with the strong follow up in IVY. Additionally, in order to build a competitive business moat, it was to their advantage to not forewarn any competitors of their involvement and plans. Consider John Chen's work as a CEO in his last business Sybase. Chen worked as the CEO of Sybase for 10 years. For the first 7 years, the SP remained at around $10 a share. Three years later, the SP was at $100 a share. I suspect he is implementing a similar model with Blackberry. Chen joined Blackberry in 2013. BB stock actually dropped for most of the last 7 years, resting at a stock price of around $5. Now BB is at $12 a share. I would not be surprised if BB reaches $50 two years from now.
Blackberry Clients and Partners Automakers: Honda, Audi, Jeep, Mitsubishi, Ford, Hyundai, Volkswagen, Bentley, Lamboghini, Byton, Mini (cooper), Toyota, Subaru, Fiat Chrysler, Mazda, Nio, BMW, Porsche, Lexus, Kia, Land-Rover, Mercedes-Benz, Buick, Jaguar, Visteon, Skoda, Chevrolet, Nissan, Acura, Continental, General Motors, Baidu, Motional Other: Denso, Aptiv, Bosch, Panasonic, Harman, Bugatti, LG, Vodafone, Bell, Carahsoft, CACI, Telus, iSec, KPMG, Tableau, Qlik Major: Amazon, Google, Sony, XPENG, XPEV, Li Auto, NVIDIA, Canoo, Microsoft, Intel, Verizon, Qualcomm, IBM, LG, Samsung Major Investors: PRIMECAP, Hamblin Watsa, Ontario Teachers’ Pension, Vanguard, Harris Associates, ETF Managers Group, Wells Capital, Arrowstreet Capital, Kahn Brothers Advisors, Norges Bank Investment Governments: Albania, Andorra, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, Congo, Croatia, Czech Republic, DR Congo, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Guadeloupe, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Marthinique, Mauritania, Mauritus, Mayotte, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Réunion, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Turkey, USA, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Vatican City, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Blackberry Current Revenues:
BlackBerry Revenues: How Does BlackBerry Make Money? -- Trefis This display the biggest bearish argument to BB. Until IVY begins producing new revenue streams, BB is likely to not exponentially increase revenue streams, but only sustain moderate YoY growth
Blackberry Analysis Regarding Infotainment and Google and Ford Deal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIrjrNYR3Lw The media recently picked out a story that left out a lot of pertinent information, making it seems that BB lost Ford as a client. This is not true. QNX is designed to be a SoC. This means that other operating systems, such as Linux or Android, can be easily added to QNX. It is in fact encouraged. The Ford and Google deal was simply announcing the Ford would be using Android as their infotainment system. I believe that BB was never intended to try and be the predominant entity for all software systems in EVs or IoTs, but the backbone that connects all together, and to protect all components in a secure system. Autonomous EVs and even regular EVs in general would not be possible without a secure system protecting the product, as is true with IoTs. This is also why things like US Fighter Jets run on... you guess it, QNX. Ford is still using QNX. It is simply also now using Android that is running on top of QNX more commentary on this: Analyzing Blackberry Bear Argument - Case No. 1: Ford Deal
Image This is an interesting one to be sure. Facebook was being evil, like the do, and were caught using a number of BB patents. They settled in February, and the day that the settlement was finalized, John Chen (BB CEO) tweeted reminding everyone that BB is used on the ISS https://twitter.com/JohnChen/status/1358853064153784321?s=20 Well, the connection and speculation here is that Blackberry is going to the moon, and that the settlement is rather significant. Someone else also dug out some information in Facebook's most recent 10-K, specifically a portion for a 'non-cancelable contractual commitment' of an amount of $7500 million dollars. That's 7.5 billion btw. We don't know how big the settlement is, but it is worth noting that BB's entire market cap is 7.5B. I highly doubt that a settlement would reach such lofty numbers, but it could be possible that FB settled for some initial amount of $1B or so, as well as $1B in reoccurring payments over several years. We won't know until March 15th actually, so stay tuned.
Blackberry New Partnerships
Within the last few weeks, Blackberry has announced a stronger partnership with Baidu (China's Google), as well as their involvement with Baidu choosing to use QNX for their autonomous vehicles that will be hitting the road, as early as this year and next. BB has also announced their involvement with Motional, a joint venture between Hyundai and Aptiv, which will use QNX for their autonomous vehicles. Motional will be partnering with Lyft to use autonomous vehicles to begin serving customers and will be deploying their vehicles in 2023. It was also announced that QNX will be working with AOSP (Android Open Source Project), as well as announcing yesterday that QNX Hypervisor 2.2 is now released, which is what allows Android and Linux to run on top of QNX. A sum-up of all the recent news on $BB
Rumor: Blackberry Buyout? Here's why that's not happening:
Just read this post. It's quite revealing: Great Day for BB despite stick dipping. TL;DR: Amazon could have easily bought BB. Why didn't they? Well, all the big players are interested in this EV and IoT emerging sector. This is the new wave of technology that will dominate the market. First we had the dot.com boom, then the cell-phone and smart-phone market, and now we have the autonomous EV and IoT market. If Amazon were to buy BB, they would have to submit a tender offer. This would be a red flag to all the big players that Amazon were trying to buy up the best security out there. It would be a bidding war that could result in a double-digit multi-billion dollar buyout. It was much more to their advantage to create a secret alliance with BB and establish a 50/50 partnership, whose contract includes exclusivity for their use of IVY. Ouch! That's gotta hurt. This is where the importance of QNX lies. BB will be able to pull the rug out from any company that chooses to use something other than IVY. No IVY, no QNX, no EV. It will be a package deal where IVY is the big money maker. All other companies will have to build from the ground up or be forced to license QNX and make their money off of other sectors, such as the infotainment sector, as Google has already begun to do with the Ford deal. When this deal happened, the other big boys wet their pants realizing they needed to get into this space, and fast. Microsoft partnered with Cruise/GM. Apple tried to partner with Hyundai, who was so flattered, they may have initially said yes or indicated so, before realizing that they were already partnered with BB, so it was a no-go. Not sure if that is fact or fiction, but it is an interesting proposal.
Blackberry IVY + AWS Partnership:
Alright, so what's the deal with IVY? Why is it going to be so profitable? Why is IVY the real money-maker, while QNX has been used as the customer-acquisition software tool? Check out this picture: Image For one, IVY is designed for real-time communication between EVs or other IoTs. Autonomous driving level 5 requires vehicles to communicate with one another. This is where IVY comes in. IVY connects the different software components of an EV (which presumably are running on QNX), as well as harvesting data on those systems. The data used can be distributed for a wide-variety of uses, including, but not limited to, automakers and suppliers, app developers, consumer services, smart cities, EV charging providers, insurance companies, and vehicle maintenance providers. All of these different sectors will be willing to pay subscriptions for these data services, as well as the automakers and IoT makers who will also be willing to pay subscriptions for IVY. For instance, IVY can help share information between vehicles that will allow for a car detecting ice roads in one area so that other cars using IVY can take a different route. This results in less crashes, which helps the automakers. Insurance companies can use data from all these different data points as well, allowing them an inside-view of their clients. The list of what is possible here is inexhaustible. As for price points, the subscription models for multiple outside companies wanting to use the data will be create huge revenue streams for BB. With Amazon as a 50/50 partner, and with their resources and strategic management, BB will be poised to be the foundation in security and data sharing for the entire EV, and somewhat of the IoT market (the IoT market has more competitors for sure) Analysis on IVY Analysis on PTs
Revenue, revenue, revenue...
Blackberry is poised to be an industry leader in EV, government, and IoT security and data sharing with products such as QNX, IVY, Spark, and their other software products. Stock price will likely stay somewhat stunted until IVY revenue begins picking up. It is possible that more announcements and marketing related to IVY will make this growth more rapid. In my opinion, either way BB over the next 5 years will 10x. The question is whether you want to get in now at $12 / share or two years from now at $40 a share or something similar, assuming that either way this stock is going to push for that 100B market cap (it's currently at 7B). There will be bearish analysts that will continue to say that Blackberry is a worthless company until those IVY revenue streams begin to come in. It is also possible that a realistic competitor may emerge within the next three years, such as Tesla or Apple. But if Apple is seeking to create its own EV product, then both companies will have a hard time finding any way to license their software to any other company. It remains possible that Apple and/or Tesla may strikes deals with BB as well in order to be able to produce autonomous vehicles and get a bite of that market share
Really, no competitors?
Well it's called a business moat for a reason. As we have recently seen, QNX is working with AOSP, and so clearly, they are not to be worried about. Tesla is not a true competitor as their OS product is not certified yet, and has demonstrated difficulty in doing so, and additionally, other automakers will not want to benefit their competitors by using their product. A third-party non-auto-maker will be much more desirable. Other companies such as VxWorks, have a lot of to prove both in security and certifications, as well as producing an OS product that is compatible with an emerging autonomous level 5 EV market. QNX's embedded microkernel RTOS is very much unique in this regard. This type of system allows for real-time processing and power distribution, while protecting the system from attacks. In an embedded microkernel system, if one part of the system is attacked, the whole system will not shut down, in layman's terms. This is essential for the security of any high-risk product that is built upon an underlying software that controls that different components of the system.
Conclusion:
All eyes are turned towards Blackberry right now. People want to know what this deal with Amazon will look like, how it will work, what they will focus on, (will Amazon also use this system for a fleet of delivery drones? hmmm), what the revenue streams will look like, what are their projections, what markets and sectors are they targeting, what are their future goals, what will Amazon be doing on their end, etc, etc. The Amazon + BB webinar may answer some of those questions, or maybe they won't. Time will tell (Feb. 23rd, specifically -- here's a link to sign up and watch: Next-Gen Vehicle Architectures Unlock Unprecedented Opportunities for Automakers). Also look out for that FB settlement numbers on March 15th, and Q4 earnings March 31st. I don't expect Q4 earnings to be particularly interesting unless they include the FB settlement numbers. Could those numbers instead be put into Q1 earnings for 2021? Possibly. Initially IVY beta is expected to begin being released late this year. I will also be looking forward to see how Apple and Tesla respond in the coming months. Ultimately, BB is a long-term play, but is poised to dominate this emerging industry with the partnerships and security focused software they have secretly been building. Now if only the could do something about their logo, some rebranding would be nice... This is not financial advice, just my own opinions. I am not a financial advisor nor a professional. I own 14k shares in Blackberry, as well as options (10x 8/17/21 20c BB). Do your own DD and fact check me as well
Alternative a Google e compagnia, ovvero: come ho imparato a non preoccuparmi e ad amare la decentralizzazione.
Prima di cominciare: NIENTE PANICO. La vostra privacy è già bella che andata e le big tech sanno tutto di voi, quindi fate un bel respiro, rassegnatevi, ed accettate di essere diventati prodotti di consumo in un mondo all'ultimo stadio del capitalismo. Fatto? No? Allora forse potreste voler sapere come riottenere il controllo dei vostri dati e, con essa, probabilmente anche un po' della vostra persona. Per la cronaca: nulla di ciò che sarà scritto è obbligatorio, saltare un'alternativa o scegliere di rimanere legati ad un servizio/applicazione non porterà alla distruzione dell'universo. Quanto scritto in seguito non è un vangelo da seguire passo passo per la salvezza dell'anima, né un manuale di pronto soccorso da leggere il più velocemente possibile prima che il veleno faccia effetto: sono consigli che possono essere seguiti tutti, nessuno, in blocco, a pezzi, oggi, domani o l'anno prossimo. Lo scopo finale non è diventare invisibili ed anonimi, ma è quello di diminuire la quantità di dati raccolti (anche se preferirei scrivere trafugati) dalle grosse aziende, e per farlo è importante seguire innanzitutto un paradigma: decentralizzare. Con "decentralizzare", in questo caso, intendo non lasciare che tutte le nostre interazioni online siano gestite e filtrate da una singola entità. Ad esempio: se utilizziamo Chrome come browser, Gmail come provider per le e-mail, la tastiera di Google per scrivere sul cellulare, Google Maps per ogni nostro movimento, l'account Google per accedere a qualsiasi servizio, il motore di ricerca Google per tutte le nostre ricerche e YouTube come fonte principale d'intrattenimento, possiamo star certi che Google conoscerà di noi praticamente ogni cosa e potrà seguirci ovunque. I motivi per cui non dovremmo volere che Google o chiunque altro possa fare ciò sono dozzine, ed elencarli richiederebbe più di un libro, dato che riguardano l'etica, la sicurezza, la libertà individuale, l'interesse pubblico, la democrazia, l'essenza dell'individuo, la disinformazione, eccetera, eccetera, eccetera. Per leggere qualcosa di più o meno rapido in merito posso rimandarvi all'introduzione di PrivaSì (che è una guida caldamente consigliata a cui potete facilmente contribuire), a questo articolo de Il Riformista (abbastanza esaustivo e comprensibile), al Ted Talks di Glenn Greenwald (è possibile selezionare anche la traduzione in italiano), alla homepage di PrivacyTools o alla sezione privacy dell'Electronic Frontier Foundation (queste ultime in lingua inglese, ma entrambe fonti indispensabili), oppure come extra a questo vecchio intervento di Stefano Rodotà sempre molto interessante. Dunque, fatta questa enorme premessa possiamo cominciare parlando delle prime cose che, a mio parere, è più utile cambiare. Cercherò di essere contemporaneamente quanto più esaustivo e coinciso possibile, ma se volete immediatamente qualche nome o, al contrario, desiderate approfondire, potete andare sul sito de Le Alternative, che è il mio spacciatore di... beh, alternative, di fiducia. Browser So che a molti sembrerà sorprendente (/s) ma no, Chrome non è il browser più rispettoso della privacy. Al momento il progetto probabilmente più interessante si chiama Brave ed è disponibile per Linux, Windows, Android ed iOS. Ve lo consiglio prima ancora di Firefox perché Brave è uno di quei programmi “installa e dimentica” adatto a qualsiasi utente, ed è il browser che con le impostazioni di base protegge di più da pubblicità e traccianti (oltre ad avere una miriade di funzioni interessanti ed uniche). Firefox è sicuramente un buon browser, è quello che utilizzo personalmente ed in generale lo consiglio; purtroppo però negli ultimi anni naviga un po’ a vista, ha molte telemetrie attive di base e richiede una configurazione un po’ avanzata per proteggere adeguatamente dal tracciamento, dalle pubblicità e dal fingerprinting (che è la bestia nera della navigazione odierna). Avrete probabilmente anche sentito parlare di Tor Project, browser che garantisce (per quanto possibile) l’anonimato online: lo consiglio per una navigazione saltuaria, ma utilizzarlo con account personali non è solitamente una buona idea. Dovreste evitare come la peste Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera ed il browser Miui/Xiaomi, che raccolgono la maggior quantità di dati (alcuni anche illegalmente) o sono gestiti in maniera sospetta. Vi consiglio inoltre, solo per Android, Bromite, browser fantastico e super sicuro ma non pubblicato sul PlayStore, dunque dovrete scaricare il file APK ed installarlo manualmente. E-Mail E no, neanche rimanere su Gmail è un’ottima idea, considerato che più volte Google ha dimostrato di analizzare sia i metadati (come il destinatario/mittente, l’orario, l’oggetto, ecc.) ma anche il contenuto delle mail medesime. Lì fuori ci sono decine di alternative anche migliori che offrono piani gratuiti, come Protonmail e Tutanota, o servizi solo a pagamento ma estremamente economici (1€ al mese) come Posteo. Personalmente li ho utilizzati tutti e tre, e per il mio utilizzo Posteo è quello che preferisco, Tutanota è la combinazione perfetta tra caratteristiche e prezzo (il premium di Tutanota costa sempre 1€ al mese), mentre Protonmail è quello con più funzioni in assoluto (benchè costi decisamente di più, ma puó valerne la pena in base al vostro utilizzo). Protonmail e Tutanota hanno le loro specifiche applicazioni per Android, mentre Posteo può essere utilizzato configurando ad esempio K9Mail (applicazione che apprezzo molto) o FairMail. Mappe Qui arriviamo ad un punto dolente: no, purtroppo non esiste un database fornito e preciso come quello di Google Maps. Però possiamo trovare un modo di aggirare il problema. OpenStreetMaps con la sua applicazione OsmAnd è un progetto opensource, etico e comunitario che si prefigge l’obiettivo di mappare il mondo intero. E funziona! L’app fornisce anche una buona esperienza di navigazione e va benissimo per muoversi a piedi, in bici od in macchina (benchè sia un po’ confusionaria nelle impostazioni, che però vi consiglio caldamente di esplorare). Potete scaricarla dal PlayStore a pagamento (ne vale la pena) o scaricarla gratuitamente tramite F-Droid, store alternativo ed etico di cui vi parlerò meglio in seguito. Vi consiglio di dare una mano al progetto, è molto semplice (trovate facilmente alcuni gruppi di supporto su Telegram) e per i contributori più attivi c’è anche la possibilità di essere pagati (benchè non mi sia mai informato in merito). Il problema del database incompleto, quando si tratta di negozi o locali, su Android lo risolviamo installando EasyNavigation che permette di cercare un luogo su GoogleMaps per poi passare automaticamente ad OsmAnd per la navigazione; abbastanza comodo, ma sarebbe bello un giorno poterne fare a meno. Gestore di password Non salvate le vostre password sui browser, per tutta una serie di ragioni non è una buona idea. E non riutilizzate sempre la stessa password, per tutta un’altra serie di ragioni è una pessima idea. Piuttosto utilizzate un gestore di password come BitWarden, di cui è possibile utilizzare la versione completa gratuitamente registrandovi alla “istanza” dei Devol, scaricando l’app di BitWarden e configurandola (su Android basta cliccare in alto a sinistra ed inserire https://bitwarden.devol.it come URL del Server, dopodiché si può fare il login). In alternativa c’è KeePassXC per PC e KeePassDX per Android, che è la soluzione che uso io. Queste applicazioni funzionano solo in locale (ossia non sono connesse a nessun server) e dunque puó risultare complesso sincronizzare le nostre password tra i vari dispositivi. Fortunatamente è possibile utilizzare applicazioni come Nextcloud per sincronizzare il file del database. A proposito… Calendario, rubrica, attività, file, note... Uno dei gioielli dell’opensource: Nextcloud. Questo è l’alternativa principale al calendario, alla rubrica, alle attività (o tasks), a Google Drive, a Keep, ed ancora altro in base alle “app” interne a Nextcloud che installerete. Utilizzando DavX5 (anche questo scaricabile gratuitamente da F-Droid, di cui parlerò più in basso) è possibile sincronizzare calendario, rubrica e attività con lo smartphone, mentre per i file potete utilizzare l’applicazione propria di Nextcloud. Nextcloud in realtà è una piattaforma per lavorare in gruppo, in cui si possono condividere dati, appuntamenti e strumenti tra più persone, ma va benissimo anche per essere utilizzato da utenti singoli. Esistono molti provider che danno la possibilità di usufruire di qualche giga gratuitamente (2-5GB, saranno visualizzati dopo aver cliccato su “registrati a un fornitore” dall’applicazione per Windows), ma potete scegliere anche servizi a pagamento che offrono molto più spazio e prestazioni più elevate. Fra i tanti a pagamento posso consigliarvi Hetzner che a poco più di 3 euro al mese vi propone 100GB di spazio, dati criptati e la sicurezza di un provider estremamente affidabile, ma potete scegliere qualsiasi altra azienda vi aggrada (è questo il bello della decentralizzazione). Oppure potete costruirvi il vostro piccolo server casalingo! Se vi andasse di avventurarvi nell’impresa potete iniziare informandovi sul RaspberryPi4 e su NextcloudPi, esistono molte guide online. Ci tengo a segnalare anche Etebase, progetto più recente per la sincronizzazione di calendario, rubrica e note, che fa della sicurezza il suo principale obiettivo. Motore di ricerca Anche qui la questione si fa abbastanza complessa, stavolta per due motivi: Google ha il monopolio dei motori di ricerca e ci ha abituati ad una “bolla” di risultati super personalizzati. Dunque qualsiasi alternativa rischia di non sembrarci adeguata. La prima e forse l’unica reale “alternativa” al momento è DuckDuckGo, che ha funzioni molto interessanti come ad esempio i bangs. Purtroppo le ricerche “locali” (come cercare una pizzeria di paese) rischiano di essere più tediose se non infruttuose, ma nulla vi vieta di tornare temporaneamente a Google quando non trovate qualcosa. Se invece volete provare qualcosa di più particolare e molto personalizzabile vi consiglio di utilizzare qualche “istanza” di SearX tra quelle elencate qui. SearX è un meta motore di ricerca, ossia aggrega i risultati a partire da più fonti (tutte selezionabili e personalizzabili nelle preferenze) tra cui anche Google. Il problema di queste istanze è che alle volte “muoiono” o vengono bloccate per un po’, quindi ogni tanto potreste essere costretti ad utilizzarne una diversa. Potete provare anche ad utilizzare questo sito che cerca in una istanza a caso ogni volta. Altri motori validi possono essere trovati in questo articolo de Le Alternative App e store alternativi Avrei da consigliarvi una tonnellata di roba, dalla tastiera super personalizzabile per Android AnySoftKeyboard a gestori di podcast come AntennaPod, passando per l’app di lettura e modifica documenti della suite Collabora. In generale, su Android, vi consiglio di scaricare F-Droid che, come vi dicevo, è uno store alternativo al Google PlayStore. F-Droid è uno store etico che contiene perlopiù app FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software), ossia app di cui è possibile analizzare e modificare il codice sorgente, ed eventualmente ridistribuire; inoltre vi informa se le app contengono telemetrie, pubblicità o utilizzano servizi di terze parti “non liberi”. Non trovandosi sul PlayStore dovrete scaricare il file apk dal sito ed aprirlo da smartphone e, se tutto va bene, vi verrà immediatamente chiesto se volete abilitare l’installazione di app da terze parti (o qualcosa del genere), altrimenti l’Eterno Salvatore Aranzulla vi spiegherà cosa fare. Su F-Droid sono presenti tutte le app della suite Simple Mobile Tools che vi consiglio di provare. Vi sparo giusto altri 3 nomi di app presenti anche su F-Droid: NewPipe (l’ultimo aggiornamento al momento non è su F-Droid per problemi tecnici, ma potete scaricarla a parte), Barinsta e Frost for Facebook, per chi non può fare a meno di Youtube, Instagram e Facebook ma vuole limitare i dati raccolti da queste piattaforme. Tutto il resto Pensate sia finita? Assolutamente no, c’è un mondo là fuori. Però avrò pietà, e per adesso mi fermo quì. Se avete domande chiedete pure, altrimenti (e ve lo straconsiglio) potete rivolgervi alle piattaforme italiane LeAlternative e LibreAdvice, o a quelle inglesi PrivacyTools e AlternativeTo (vi consiglio in quest’ultimo di applicare il filtro “opensource”). LeAlternative, in particolare, ha un ottimo gruppo di supporto su Telegram in cui sono certo troverete sempre qualcuno disponibile ad aiutarvi. Postilla finale: la maggior parte dei progetti citati vive spesso di passione... e donazioni, se vi trovate bene con un servizio o con un app e ne avete la possibilità, donate. Questo aiuta non solo a mantenere attivo il servizio ed a motivare lo sviluppatore, ma anche a supportare un modello di guadagno non di larga scala.
jidoujisho - A mobile video player tailored for Japanese language learners
Hey all, I was looking for a video player on Android with built-in tools that I wanted for language learning, but I couldn't seem to find one and was frustrated so I set my mind into a pet project for the last couple days and made my own. I'm really looking forward to share my work with the community, here is the brief: jidoujisho is an Android video player with features specifically helpful for language learners.
📔 Text selection of subtitles allows for quick dictionary lookups within the application
🔍 Search current clipboard and open browser to Jisho.org, DeepL or Google Translate
📲 Export cards to AnkiDroid, complete with a snapshot and audio of the current context
🔤 Selecting a word allows export to AnkiDroid with the sentence, answer, meaning and reading
↩️ Repeat the current subtitle from the beginning by flicking horizontally
📜 Swipe vertically to open the transcript to jump to time and review subtitles
🎥 (Experimental) YouTube support for videos with Japanese user-generated subtitles
Here are some preview images of the app in action:
There are still features I still want to implement, and I want to make this app easy to extend for other languages and more useful features particular to language learning, you can download the first beta release on GitHub and the app will be free to use and download on the Google Play Store in the future. If you need help, you can find a guide to use the application here. I will continue working on the app. At present, I am refactoring the source code to be ready for anyone to tinker around (i.e. if someone wants to extend the software to more languages, add a feature they like or customize the way they like their cards to be exported). If you like what I've done so far, you can help me out by testing the application on various devices so that I can gauge the compatibility of the application with different versions of Android, bug reports can be made here. If you end up using my application, thank you and I wish everyone good luck on their Japanese studies! EDIT: I want to thank everyone for their kind words, I worked quite hard on this project, I ended up staying up late to read everyone's messages and it seems to be that there is much demand for an app like this in the language learning community. I want to deliver the tools that you need and deserve to learn Japanese, so if you can I would really appreciate any feedback you can give me -- and even better if you can contribute to the project. If you can, please file bug reports via the GitHub link above and I will have a look. This is my first time maintaining something like this and I might have to learn to pick my battles. My first priority is to refactor the code to be readily usable for contributors. I can't promise that everyone's wants can be granted in a snap, but I will try my best. For any updates on this project, please star the GitHub page and if you think you can lend me a hand, please contact me, I would very much appreciate it. Thank you all and happy learning!
You've probably been hearing a lot about Bitcoin recently and are wondering what's the big deal? Most of your questions should be answered by the resources below but if you have additional questions feel free to ask them in the comments. It all started with the release of Satoshi Nakamoto's whitepaper however that will probably go over the head of most readers so we recommend the following articles/books/videos as a good starting point for understanding how bitcoin works and a little about its long term potential:
Limited Supply - There will only ever be 21,000,000 bitcoin created and they are issued in a predictable fashion per the inflation schedule. Once they are all issued Bitcoin will be truly deflationary. The halving countdown tells you how much time until the next drop in block rewards.
Open source - Bitcoin code is fully auditable. You can read and contribute to the source code yourself.
Accountable - The public ledger is transparent, all transactions are seen by everyone.
Decentralized - Bitcoin is globally distributed across thousands of nodes with no single point of failure and as such can't be shut down similar to how Bittorrent works. You can even run a node on a Raspberry Pi.
Censorship resistant - No one can prevent you from interacting with the bitcoin network and no one can censor, alter or block transactions that they disagree with, see Operation Chokepoint.
Push system - There are no chargebacks in bitcoin because only the person who owns the address where the bitcoin resides has the authority to move them.
Low fee scaling - Most wallets calculate on chain fees automatically but you can view fee estimates and mempool activity if you want to set your fee manually. On chain fees may rise occasionally due to network demand, however instant micropayments that do not require confirmations are happening via the Lightning Network, a second layer scaling solution currently rolling out on the Bitcoin mainnet.
Borderless - No country can stop it from going in/out, even in areas currently unserved by traditional banking as the ledger is globally distributed.
Trustless - Bitcoin solved the Byzantine's Generals Problem which means nobody needs to trust anybody for it to work.
Secure - Blocks and transactions are cryptographically secured (using hashes and signatures) and can’t be brute forced or confiscated with proper key management such as hardware wallets.
Programmable - Individual units of bitcoin can be programmed to transfer based on certain criteria being met
Nearly instant - From a few seconds on the lightning network to a few minutes on-chain depending on need for confirmations. Transactions are irreversible by normal users after one confirmation and irreversible by anyone (including miners) after 6 confirmations.
Portable - Bitcoin are digital so they are easier to move than cash or gold. They can be transported by simply carrying a seed (a string of 12 to 24 words) on a device or by memorizing it for wallet recovery (while cool, memorizing is generally not recommended due to potential for forgetting the seed and the potential for insecure key generation by inexperienced users. Hardware wallets are the preferred method for most users for their ease of use and additional security).
Scalable - While the protocol is still being optimized for increased transaction capacity, blockchains do not scale very well, so most transaction volume is expected to occur on Layer 2 networks built on top of Bitcoin.
Divisible - Each bitcoin can be divided down to 8 decimals, which means you don't have to worry about buying an entire bitcoin.
Bitcoin.org and BuyBitcoinWorldwide.com are helpful sites for beginners. You can buy or sell any amount of bitcoin (even just a few dollars worth) and there are several easy methods to purchase bitcoin with cash, credit card or bank transfer. Some of the more popular resources are below, also check out the bitcoinity exchange resources for a larger list of options for purchases.
You can also purchase in cash with local ATMs. If you would like your paycheck automatically converted to bitcoin use Bitwage. Note: Bitcoin are valued at whatever market price people are willing to pay for them in balancing act of supply vs demand. Unlike traditional markets, bitcoin markets operate 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
Securing your bitcoin
With bitcoin you can "Be your own bank" and personally secure your bitcoin OR you can use third party companies aka "Bitcoin banks" which will hold the bitcoin for you.
If you prefer to "Be your own bank" and have direct control over your coins without having to use a trusted third party, then you will need to create your own wallet and keep it secure. If you want easy and secure storage without having to learn computer security best practices, then a hardware wallet such as the Trezor, Ledger or ColdCard is recommended.
If you cannot afford a hardware wallet there are many software wallet options to choose from depending on your use case. Mobile wallets like BlueWallet are generally more secure than desktop wallets. Beware of fake mobile wallets and check reviews from reputable Bitcoin websites. Avoid paper wallets or brain wallets.
If you prefer to let third party "Bitcoin banks" manage your coins, try Gemini or Unchained Capital but be aware you may not be in control of your private keys in which case you would have to ask permission to access your funds and be exposed to third party risk. There is a saying in the community, "Not your keys, not your coins" meaning if you don't store your coins in a wallet that you control the keys to then you do not really own your bitcoin as you have to ask permission from the third party in order to move them.
Note: For increased security, use Two Factor Authentication (2FA) everywhere it is offered, including email! 2FA requires a second confirmation code or a physical security key to access your account making it much harder for thieves to gain access. Google Authenticator and Authy are the two most popular 2FA services, download links are below. Make sure you create backups of your 2FA codes. Avoid using your cell number for 2FA. Hackers have been using a technique called "SIM swapping" to impersonate users and steal bitcoin off exchanges.
Physical security keys (FIDO U2F) offer stronger security than Google Auth / Authy and other TOTP-based apps, because the secret code never leaves the device and it uses bi-directional authentication so it prevents phishing. If you lose the device though, you could lose access to your account, so always use 2 or more security keys with a given account so you have backups. See Yubikey or Titan to purchase security keys. Both Coinbase and Gemini support physical security keys.
Watch out for scams
As mentioned above, Bitcoin is decentralized, which by definition means there is no official website or Twitter handle or spokesperson or CEO. However, all money attracts thieves. This combination unfortunately results in scammers running official sounding names or pretending to be an authority on YouTube or social media. Many scammers throughout the years have claimed to be the inventor of Bitcoin. Websites like bitcoin(dot)com and the r / btc subreddit are active scams. Almost all altcoins (shitcoins) are marketed heavily with big promises but are really just designed to separate you from your bitcoin. So be careful: any resource, including all linked in this document, may in the future turn evil. As they say in our community, "Don't trust, verify".
Avoid using ad-based search engines like Google or Yahoo: ads are shown based on how much the advertiser bids, and scammers can easily outbid legitimate providers for ad space, since immoral ways of earning money are far more lucrative than moral ways. Use DuckDuckGo instead, which has no ads, and never tracks you as well.
Ignore private messages offering services.
Never enter your seed words in a website of any kind. Hardware wallets will recover by displaying possible seed words on their own interface, never on a website.
Always check addresses on your hardware wallet before sending or receiving. Some malware has been known to replace addresses in your web browser or that you copy-and-paste.
Avoid clicking on links like that look like links, such as https://www.google.com/, without first hovering over it and actually checking where they go to. Just because a link is labelled with an HTTPS address does not mean it actually sends you to that address. It is trivial for someone to comment a link on Reddit that looks like it will send you to one website when it actually sends you to another, and you might not notice the difference until a scammer has gotten all your money, or you have downloaded and installed software that steals your money.
Common Bitcoin Myths
Often the same concerns arise about Bitcoin from newcomers. Questions such as:
Is Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme?
Will governments ban Bitcoin?
Will quantum computers break Bitcoin?
All of these questions have been answered many times by a variety of people. Here are some resources where you can see if your concern has been answered:
Check out spendabit or bitcoin directory for millions of merchant options. Also you can spend bitcoin anywhere visa is accepted with bitcoin debit cards such as the CashApp card or Fold card. Some other useful site are listed below.
Gift cards for thousands of retailers worldwide including Amazon, Target, Walmart, Starbucks, Whole Foods, CVS, Lowes, Home Depot, iTunes, Best Buy, Sears, Kohls, eBay, GameStop, etc.
There are several benefits to accepting bitcoin as a payment option if you are a merchant;
1-3% savings over credit cards or PayPal.
No chargebacks (final settlement in 10 minutes as opposed to 3+ months).
Accept business from a global customer base.
Increased privacy.
Convert 100% of the sale to the currency of your choice for deposit to your account, or choose to keep a percentage of the sale in bitcoin if you wish to begin accumulating it.
If you are interested in accepting bitcoin as a payment method, there are several options available;
Mining bitcoin can be a fun learning experience, but be aware that you will most likely operate at a loss. Newcomers are often advised to stay away from mining unless they are only interested in it as a hobby similar to folding at home. If you want to learn more about mining you can read the mining FAQ. Still have mining questions? The crew at /BitcoinMining would be happy to help you out. If you want to contribute to the bitcoin network by hosting the blockchain and propagating transactions you can run a full node. You can view the global node distribution for a visual representation of the node network.
Earning bitcoin
Just like any other form of money, you can also earn bitcoin by being paid to do a job.
You can also earn bitcoin by participating as a market maker on JoinMarket by allowing users to perform CoinJoin transactions with your bitcoin for a small fee (requires you to already have some bitcoin).
Bitcoin-Related Projects
The following is a short list of ongoing projects that might be worth taking a look at if you are interested in current development in the bitcoin space.
One Bitcoin is quite large (hundreds of £/$/€) so people often deal in smaller units. The most common subunits are listed below:
Unit
Symbol
Value
Info
bitcoin
BTC
1 bitcoin
one bitcoin is equal to 100 million satoshis
millibitcoin
mBTC
1,000 per bitcoin
used as default unit in recent Electrum wallet releases
bit
bit
1,000,000 per bitcoin
colloquial "slang" term for microbitcoin (μBTC)
satoshi
sat
100,000,000 per bitcoin
smallest unit in bitcoin, named after the inventor
For example, assuming an arbitrary exchange rate of $10000 for one Bitcoin, a $10 meal would equal:
0.001 BTC
1 mBTC
1,000 bits
100k sats
For more information check out the Bitcoin units wiki. Still have questions? Feel free to ask in the comments below or stick around for our weekly Mentor Monday thread. If you decide to post a question in /Bitcoin, please use the search bar to see if it has been answered before, and remember to follow the community rules outlined on the sidebar to receive a better response. The mods are busy helping manage our community so please do not message them unless you notice problems with the functionality of the subreddit. Note: This is a community created FAQ. If you notice anything missing from the FAQ or that requires clarification you can edit it here and it will be included in the next revision pending approval. Welcome to the Bitcoin community and the new decentralized economy!
Alternative a Google e compagnia, ovvero: come ho imparato a non preoccuparmi e ad amare la decentralizzazione.
Prima di cominciare: NIENTE PANICO. La vostra privacy è già bella che andata e le big tech sanno tutto di voi, quindi fate un bel respiro, rassegnatevi, ed accettate di essere diventati prodotti di consumo in un mondo all'ultimo stadio del capitalismo. Fatto? No? Allora forse potreste voler sapere come riottenere il controllo dei vostri dati e, con essa, probabilmente anche un po' della vostra persona. Per la cronaca: nulla di ciò che sarà scritto è obbligatorio, saltare un'alternativa o scegliere di rimanere legati ad un servizio/applicazione non porterà alla distruzione dell'universo. Quanto scritto in seguito non è un vangelo da seguire passo passo per la salvezza dell'anima, né un manuale di pronto soccorso da leggere il più velocemente possibile prima che il veleno faccia effetto: sono consigli che possono essere seguiti tutti, nessuno, in blocco, a pezzi, oggi, domani o l'anno prossimo. Lo scopo finale non è diventare invisibili ed anonimi, ma è quello di diminuire la quantità di dati raccolti (anche se preferirei scrivere trafugati) dalle grosse aziende, e per farlo è importante seguire innanzitutto un paradigma: decentralizzare. Con "decentralizzare", in questo caso, intendo non lasciare che tutte le nostre interazioni online siano gestite e filtrate da una singola entità. Ad esempio: se utilizziamo Chrome come browser, Gmail come provider per le e-mail, la tastiera di Google per scrivere sul cellulare, Google Maps per ogni nostro movimento, l'account Google per accedere a qualsiasi servizio, il motore di ricerca Google per tutte le nostre ricerche e YouTube come fonte principale d'intrattenimento, possiamo star certi che Google conoscerà di noi praticamente ogni cosa e potrà seguirci ovunque. I motivi per cui non dovremmo volere che Google o chiunque altro possa fare ciò sono dozzine, ed elencarli richiederebbe più di un libro, dato che riguardano l'etica, la sicurezza, la libertà individuale, l'interesse pubblico, la democrazia, l'essenza dell'individuo, la disinformazione, eccetera, eccetera, eccetera. Per leggere qualcosa di più o meno rapido in merito posso rimandarvi all'introduzione di PrivaSì (che è una guida caldamente consigliata a cui potete facilmente contribuire), a questo articolo de Il Riformista (abbastanza esaustivo e comprensibile), al Ted Talks di Glenn Greenwald (è possibile selezionare anche la traduzione in italiano), alla homepage di PrivacyTools o alla sezione privacy dell'Electronic Frontier Foundation (queste ultime in lingua inglese, ma entrambe fonti indispensabili), oppure come extra a questo vecchio intervento di Stefano Rodotà sempre molto interessante. Dunque, fatta questa enorme premessa possiamo cominciare parlando delle prime cose che, a mio parere, è più utile cambiare. Cercherò di essere contemporaneamente quanto più esaustivo e coinciso possibile, ma se volete immediatamente qualche nome o, al contrario, desiderate approfondire, potete andare sul sito de Le Alternative, che è il mio spacciatore di... beh, alternative, di fiducia. Browser So che a molti sembrerà sorprendente (/s) ma no, Chrome non è il browser più rispettoso della privacy. Al momento il progetto probabilmente più interessante si chiama Brave ed è disponibile per Linux, Windows, Android ed iOS. Ve lo consiglio prima ancora di Firefox perché Brave è uno di quei programmi “installa e dimentica” adatto a qualsiasi utente, ed è il browser che con le impostazioni di base protegge di più da pubblicità e traccianti (oltre ad avere una miriade di funzioni interessanti ed uniche). Firefox è sicuramente un buon browser, è quello che utilizzo personalmente ed in generale lo consiglio; purtroppo però negli ultimi anni naviga un po’ a vista, ha molte telemetrie attive di base e richiede una configurazione un po’ avanzata per proteggere adeguatamente dal tracciamento, dalle pubblicità e dal fingerprinting (che è la bestia nera della navigazione odierna). Avrete probabilmente anche sentito parlare di Tor Project, browser che garantisce (per quanto possibile) l’anonimato online: lo consiglio per una navigazione saltuaria, ma utilizzarlo con account personali non è solitamente una buona idea. Dovreste evitare come la peste Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera ed il browser Miui/Xiaomi, che raccolgono la maggior quantità di dati (alcuni anche illegalmente) o sono gestiti in maniera sospetta. Vi consiglio inoltre, solo per Android, Bromite, browser fantastico e super sicuro ma non pubblicato sul PlayStore, dunque dovrete scaricare il file APK ed installarlo manualmente. E-Mail E no, neanche rimanere su Gmail è un’ottima idea, considerato che più volte Google ha dimostrato di analizzare sia i metadati (come il destinatario/mittente, l’orario, l’oggetto, ecc.) ma anche il contenuto delle mail medesime. Lì fuori ci sono decine di alternative anche migliori che offrono piani gratuiti, come Protonmail e Tutanota, o servizi solo a pagamento ma estremamente economici (1€ al mese) come Posteo. Personalmente li ho utilizzati tutti e tre, e per il mio utilizzo Posteo è quello che preferisco, Tutanota è la combinazione perfetta tra caratteristiche e prezzo (il premium di Tutanota costa sempre 1€ al mese), mentre Protonmail è quello con più funzioni in assoluto (benchè costi decisamente di più, ma puó valerne la pena in base al vostro utilizzo). Protonmail e Tutanota hanno le loro specifiche applicazioni per Android, mentre Posteo può essere utilizzato configurando ad esempio K9Mail (applicazione che apprezzo molto) o FairMail. Mappe Qui arriviamo ad un punto dolente: no, purtroppo non esiste un database fornito e preciso come quello di Google Maps. Però possiamo trovare un modo di aggirare il problema. OpenStreetMaps con la sua applicazione OsmAnd è un progetto opensource, etico e comunitario che si prefigge l’obiettivo di mappare il mondo intero. E funziona! L’app fornisce anche una buona esperienza di navigazione e va benissimo per muoversi a piedi, in bici od in macchina (benchè sia un po’ confusionaria nelle impostazioni, che però vi consiglio caldamente di esplorare). Potete scaricarla dal PlayStore a pagamento (ne vale la pena) o scaricarla gratuitamente tramite F-Droid, store alternativo ed etico di cui vi parlerò meglio in seguito. Vi consiglio di dare una mano al progetto, è molto semplice (trovate facilmente alcuni gruppi di supporto su Telegram) e per i contributori più attivi c’è anche la possibilità di essere pagati (benchè non mi sia mai informato in merito). Il problema del database incompleto, quando si tratta di negozi o locali, su Android lo risolviamo installando EasyNavigation che permette di cercare un luogo su GoogleMaps per poi passare automaticamente ad OsmAnd per la navigazione; abbastanza comodo, ma sarebbe bello un giorno poterne fare a meno. Gestore di password Non salvate le vostre password sui browser, per tutta una serie di ragioni non è una buona idea. E non riutilizzate sempre la stessa password, per tutta un’altra serie di ragioni è una pessima idea. Piuttosto utilizzate un gestore di password come BitWarden, di cui è possibile utilizzare la versione completa gratuitamente registrandovi alla “istanza” dei Devol, scaricando l’app di BitWarden e configurandola (su Android basta cliccare in alto a sinistra ed inserire https://bitwarden.devol.it come URL del Server, dopodiché si può fare il login). In alternativa c’è KeePassXC per PC e KeePassDX per Android, che è la soluzione che uso io. Queste applicazioni funzionano solo in locale (ossia non sono connesse a nessun server) e dunque puó risultare complesso sincronizzare le nostre password tra i vari dispositivi. Fortunatamente è possibile utilizzare applicazioni come Nextcloud per sincronizzare il file del database. A proposito… Calendario, rubrica, attività, file, note... Uno dei gioielli dell’opensource: Nextcloud. Questo è l’alternativa principale al calendario, alla rubrica, alle attività (o tasks), a Google Drive, a Keep, ed ancora altro in base alle “app” interne a Nextcloud che installerete. Utilizzando DavX5 (anche questo scaricabile gratuitamente da F-Droid, di cui parlerò più in basso) è possibile sincronizzare calendario, rubrica e attività con lo smartphone, mentre per i file potete utilizzare l’applicazione propria di Nextcloud. Nextcloud in realtà è una piattaforma per lavorare in gruppo, in cui si possono condividere dati, appuntamenti e strumenti tra più persone, ma va benissimo anche per essere utilizzato da utenti singoli. Esistono molti provider che danno la possibilità di usufruire di qualche giga gratuitamente (2-5GB, saranno visualizzati dopo aver cliccato su “registrati a un fornitore” dall’applicazione per Windows), ma potete scegliere anche servizi a pagamento che offrono molto più spazio e prestazioni più elevate. Fra i tanti a pagamento posso consigliarvi Hetzner che a poco più di 3 euro al mese vi propone 100GB di spazio, dati criptati e la sicurezza di un provider estremamente affidabile, ma potete scegliere qualsiasi altra azienda vi aggrada (è questo il bello della decentralizzazione). Oppure potete costruirvi il vostro piccolo server casalingo! Se vi andasse di avventurarvi nell’impresa potete iniziare informandovi sul RaspberryPi4 e su NextcloudPi, esistono molte guide online. Ci tengo a segnalare anche Etebase, progetto più recente per la sincronizzazione di calendario, rubrica e note, che fa della sicurezza il suo principale obiettivo. Motore di ricerca Anche qui la questione si fa abbastanza complessa, stavolta per due motivi: Google ha il monopolio dei motori di ricerca e ci ha abituati ad una “bolla” di risultati super personalizzati. Dunque qualsiasi alternativa rischia di non sembrarci adeguata. La prima e forse l’unica reale “alternativa” al momento è DuckDuckGo, che ha funzioni molto interessanti come ad esempio i bangs. Purtroppo le ricerche “locali” (come cercare una pizzeria di paese) rischiano di essere più tediose se non infruttuose, ma nulla vi vieta di tornare temporaneamente a Google quando non trovate qualcosa. Se invece volete provare qualcosa di più particolare e molto personalizzabile vi consiglio di utilizzare qualche “istanza” di SearX tra quelle elencate qui. SearX è un meta motore di ricerca, ossia aggrega i risultati a partire da più fonti (tutte selezionabili e personalizzabili nelle preferenze) tra cui anche Google. Il problema di queste istanze è che alle volte “muoiono” o vengono bloccate per un po’, quindi ogni tanto potreste essere costretti ad utilizzarne una diversa. Potete provare anche ad utilizzare questo sito che cerca in una istanza a caso ogni volta. Altri motori validi possono essere trovati in questo articolo de Le Alternative App e store alternativi Avrei da consigliarvi una tonnellata di roba, dalla tastiera super personalizzabile per Android AnySoftKeyboard a gestori di podcast come AntennaPod, passando per l’app di lettura e modifica documenti della suite Collabora. In generale, su Android, vi consiglio di scaricare F-Droid che, come vi dicevo, è uno store alternativo al Google PlayStore. F-Droid è uno store etico che contiene perlopiù app FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software), ossia app di cui è possibile analizzare e modificare il codice sorgente, ed eventualmente ridistribuire; inoltre vi informa se le app contengono telemetrie, pubblicità o utilizzano servizi di terze parti “non liberi”. Non trovandosi sul PlayStore dovrete scaricare il file apk dal sito ed aprirlo da smartphone e, se tutto va bene, vi verrà immediatamente chiesto se volete abilitare l’installazione di app da terze parti (o qualcosa del genere), altrimenti l’Eterno Salvatore Aranzulla vi spiegherà cosa fare. Su F-Droid sono presenti tutte le app della suite Simple Mobile Tools che vi consiglio di provare. Vi sparo giusto altri 3 nomi di app presenti anche su F-Droid: NewPipe (l’ultimo aggiornamento al momento non è su F-Droid per problemi tecnici, ma potete scaricarla a parte), Barinsta e Frost for Facebook, per chi non può fare a meno di Youtube, Instagram e Facebook ma vuole limitare i dati raccolti da queste piattaforme. Tutto il resto Pensate sia finita? Assolutamente no, c’è un mondo là fuori. Però avrò pietà, e per adesso mi fermo quì. Se avete domande chiedete pure, altrimenti (e ve lo straconsiglio) potete rivolgervi alle piattaforme italiane LeAlternative e LibreAdvice, o a quelle inglesi PrivacyTools e AlternativeTo (vi consiglio in quest’ultimo di applicare il filtro “opensource”). LeAlternative, in particolare, ha un ottimo gruppo di supporto su Telegram in cui sono certo troverete sempre qualcuno disponibile ad aiutarvi. Postilla finale: la maggior parte dei progetti citati vive spesso di passione... e donazioni, se vi trovate bene con un servizio o con un app e ne avete la possibilità, donate. Questo aiuta non solo a mantenere attivo il servizio ed a motivare lo sviluppatore, ma anche a supportare un modello di guadagno non di larga scala.
SUCCESS: iPhone 7 booting Ubuntu 20.04 to full gnome-shell desktop GUI
WE DID IT!! BOOTS TO THE FULL DEFAULT GNOME DESKTOP! VIDEO!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO8vt34kTh0 ORIGINAL THREAD: https://www.reddit.com/linux/comments/kux9xx/success_iphone_7_with_dead_nand_netbooting/ https://preview.redd.it/p66gxsdm1va61.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=e550de0459f92c3889fa88e8bd0ae13e049f9a92 BIG NOTE 0: lol i literally wrote this entire post from Firefox running on the iphone 7 XD big brain time + arm64 rocks BIG NOTE 1: Holy shit! This blew up! Thank you everyone, I had no idea this was gonna be that big. I'm truly humbled by how much interest it's garnered. I hope I've been able to effectively deliver the inspiration that Linux provides not just to me, not to just to the people reading about this, but to millions of developers, employees, and children alike. It's a tool to change the world, and I've never been prouder to support a worldwide revolutionary example of software which saves devices from the trash, revives old laptops to help children in need, or simply makes a convenient server out of an otherwise useless iPhone. BIG NOTE 2: It's reached 9to5mac and iDownloadBlog and more! It's been reported that I am running on a "jailbroken" iPhone and that to be able to do this one has to have already jailbroken the phone. That's not correct; in fact there's no possible way for me to jailbreak this iPhone, as its NVMe NAND is downright inaccessible. That is to say, iOS will never be able to boot on this phone. If there weren't a Linux kernel port for A10, one might be able to affectionately call this phone not a Linux phone but a brick. One can pull all of this off without ever jailbreaking the phone. The only reason I'm using checkra1n is for the bootrom exploit and unsigned code execution. In fact, this iPhone had never been jailbroken before flash failure. I got it from my grandma who had the NAND die on her suddenly. -------------- Background: I actually was going to stop at just booting nogui. Believe it or not, I am going to be using this in production; I will actually be deploying this iPhone as a server to relieve capacity issues at my home servers. I'm 16 and run several school/club websites and game servers for my friends and myself, and I'll be distributing some load to the iPhone to relieve the main server! With A10 IPC on par with Skylake, the performance per watt of this device is downright astonishing. The entire "server" is powered off a USB port on the main server. TO-DO: Run benchmarks
I would love to use the phoronix test suite, but I have no idea what benchmark suite I'd be running. Let me know what you're interested in seeing!
From memory in news articles and geekbench scores, A10 nearly matched Skylake IPC, and I'd love to see whether that still holds true in a Linux environment
Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see tested/run on the Ubuntu iPhone!
Fixes since last time
sudo apt install linux-firmware ubuntu-desktop
Working on getting brcmfmac firmware (not my main focus though, as I don't need it)
No compromises ubuntu-desktop, since its just an nfsroot folder that I can easily make a copy of for my actual production setup, why not go grand for a test
This is the daemon that uploads the firmware and config for the touchscreen; it won't work for me because it depends on certain data on NAND (/dev/nvme0n3) from iOS, which is corrupt by the dead NAND cells.
I've finally managed to switch my digital life away from willingly handing over data to big tech. I've written this partly as a celebration & partly to inspire others who may on the same journey. EDIT: fixed formatting ---- PERSONAL Email - previously Gmail, now ProtonMail. I downloaded all my Gmails but didn't bother importing them to ProtonMail as I rarely use personal email anyway & have little reason to go back through them Browser - Firefox with all recommended extensions from privacytools.io. Also learning about & getting more comfortable with using Tor for general usage Phone - I purchased an e.foundation phone (https://e.foundation/) which is essentially a degoogled android. I bought it pre-flashed but you are able to flash a lot of Android phones with their software completely free if you choose. I'm extremely happy with it. I have an old iPhone that I use for things like Zoom calls or other apps like food delivery on Gojek where needed. Messaging - Signal - this directly replaces Whatsapp. I still have Whatsapp currently but have convinced all my family to switch to Signal & many of my friends too. I currently run Whatsapp in Shelter, which sandboxes it from the rest of the apps on my phone. Also keeping an eye on services like https://element.io/. Plan to delete whatsapp soon & will ask friends to just SMS me if they are not on Signal. 2FA - previously Authy, now Aegis which is open-source and you can backup an ecnrypted file that will let you install all your codes on another device. I read that as Authy is linked to your phone number, it's potentially weak in the event of a sim swap attack? Cloud storage - I've been using Sync.com for a long time but have recently moved to Tresorit for zero-knowledge cloud storage for two reasons - the Sync.com interface is difficult to use if you want to roll-back deleted files & they have no Linux app. Tresorit UX much better & Linux app is nice. Note taking & syncing - from Google Keep to Standard Notes. Still getting a feel for it but syncs across devices and so far so good. Maps - I use OpenStreetMaps which is nowhere close to Google Maps in functionality, but if I'm lost it does the job of helping me orientate, and if I really need Google Maps for something I will load up in a private browsing session with Location disabled Photos - previously Google Photos - now I just took the time to organise my media a bit better and use the file browser in Tresorit to look at & access my photos. Is not the same as a beautiful gallery but will keep an eye on things like. I've deleted social media aside from Instagram, and I use this as a progressive web app from my browser, functions fine. OS - LINUX! I finally made the switch from Windows to Pop!OS (https://pop.system76.com/ which is based on Ubuntu) & boy do I love it. Keyboard shortcuts, quick launchers, dynamic workspaces makes a really beautiful, snappy experience that reminds me of my Mac days. Slight learning curve in terms of how Linux works, but really I'm ecstatic to have gotten away from Windows telemetry & incessant updates which you just know are adding more useless shit & tracking to your system rather than making your experience better. Every program I use now either runs on Linx or has a Linux alternative. popOS WORK Email - previously Gmail GSuite, now Infomaniak mail. I was able to transfer all of my work Gmails easily across to Infomaniak using their simple online interface, their storage costs are tiny compared to other providers, & their web experience is almost identical to Gmail. Only gripe is their search function is slow & often fails. Cloud storage - previously GDrive Gsuite, now self-hosted Nextcloud. I admittedly had to get a developer friend to set this up for me but am happy with it. Website analytics - from Google Analytics to Matomo - free open source website analytics tool. Functioning great Video hosting - for promotional content went from Youtube to Rumble which is very similar and for hosting private video moved from Vimeo to Cloudflare streaming OTHER THINGS OF INTEREST Instead of Amazon for books, am using Bookshop.org which sources books from local bookshops. Hope it can be of help to someone & appreciate the support of this community & privacytools.io. **EDIT: Also people have pointed out things missing: Contacts - I just exported these from google contacts & imported them to my phone & Protonmail. I do not have a slick solution for them, just plan to back them up every so often & store them. Calendar - I use the calendar that came with Infomaniak. I haven't figured out a way to sync this with my phone yet VPN - I use a privacy tools .io recommended VPN Password Manager - use a privacy tools .io recommended manager for just passwords of simple non-critical services. The rest I manage manually. EDIT: FUTURE THINGS TO TACKLE
Looking into Pi-Holes which seem to offer some defence at the router level
Following blockchain technology projects - everything from currency coins to cloud storage services
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Never use with eshops when you buy hardware wallet your official telephone number use second number only for crypto and never let them deliver crypto currency related stuff to your home address let them deliver it to your post office. If you use social networks to communicate about cryptocurrencies use throwaway emails, second number only for usage with crypto and view your social network account as throwaway. Never share thru it your personal information age/location/crypto holdings etc. Your data may be abused. Read carefully articles how may your data be abused: wrench attack article nr.1wrench attack article nr.2
Never disclose to your family, friends, colleagues or anyone on the internet that you own hardware wallet, your seed, private key or your amount of cryptocurrency. Even if you think you own small amount attacker can view it as enough to attack you.
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Full Diligence Post on DIGITAL TURBINE ($APPS) +650% in 1 year and a Hidden Monopoly
Wanted to share some of my research on Digital Turbine, which in my view isn’t getting enough attention. The company owns a monopoly in the pre-load app space, has a lot of exciting growth opportunities, and is a great long-term buy. The stock is up over 650% over the past 12 months, so the valuation does seem stretched, but I could see the stock going to $100 within the next 6-12 months if the next few earnings calls don’t disappoint. Super long post, TLDR on the bottom. What Does Digital Turbine Do?
Digital Turbine has created digital software called Ignite and its flagship product Dynamic Installs (70% of revenue) automatically pre-loads apps onto the phone for the Android market ONLY. Basically, if you buy a new Android device and you see Uber or Starbucks installed when you first boot up the phone, Digital Turbine is likely the company behind that.
Digital Turbine has additional products (30% of revenue) including:
Wizard - a pop-up menu that shows up and asks users if they want to add apps onto their phone when booting up a new phone
SingleTap - a patented digital ad technology that allows users to frictionlessly download apps with one-click instead of having to go through multiple steps on the App Store
Notifications that pop on the user’s home screen recommending apps or content
Business Model
The power of Digital Turbine’s business model comes from its extensive partnerships. The company has multi-year EXCLUSIVE contracts with many of the major phone carriers like Verizon and AT&T, OEMs like Samsung and LG, and advertisers which consist of 70% of the top apps on Google Play.
To give you an example of how Digital Turbine makes money, let’s imagine Lyft wants to gain users on Android devices. Lyft could spend $100 marketing on Facebook or Snapchat to get new users but then they’re competing with the hundreds of thousands of other apps spending on ads, OR they could approach Digital Turbine and get a guaranteed number of pre-loaded apps onto phones for that same $100. Digital Turbine touts this to give companies a much better ROI.
Roughly a third of the revenue paid by an advertiser goes to the carrier, a third to the OEM, and a third to Digital Turbine
Carriers and OEMs earn money from advertisers without much work on their end, while app developers are able to access millions of Android devices as long as their app is a good fit for the phone buyer
To give you a sense of scale for the business, Digital Turbine to date has delivered 4.2 billion apps, has its software on more than 500 million phones, and is adding more than 20 million new devices each month
Growth Prospects
Macroeconomic / secular trends
Though most US users love their iPhones the Android market actually dominates with an 80%+ market share worldwide, and this is not likely to change any time soon
Due to COVID-19, a lot of retail stores had to shut down, which resulted in less new phone sales, which means less revenue for Digital Turbine. With the return of the economy and with the next wave of 5G phones which will push customers to upgrade phones, the next few years look favorable for the company
Mobile Posse
The company acquired Mobile Posse, which provides carriers like Verizon and OEMs like Samsung the ability to show phone users third party content through two products:
firstAPP which aggregates different media content and is shown right when a user unlocks the phone
firstPAGE which shows media content when a user opens the browser
The transaction closed in February 2020 and is a great complementary add to Digital Turbine for 3 reasons:
The deal was extremely fair in price. Mobile Posse was acquired for $66 million but $24.5 million of that is an estimated earn-out. With the company having generated $59 million in 2019 revenue, the company was purchased just over 1x revenue which in my opinion is a steal considering the company has a 5-year CAGR of 48% and is profitable
This acquisition makes Digital Turbine’s entire ecosystem more attractive to its partners by extending its product offerings throughout the life of the phone by being able to constantly show users content and ads. Mobile Posse’s content products will now consist of around a third of Digital Turbine’s revenue which is great because it decreases the company’s dependence on app pre-loads.
One of Mobile Posse’s primary carrier partners is T-Mobile which recently merged with Sprint, and this is the last major US carrier that Digital Turbine doesn’t have major business with. According to the latest earnings call, the CEO remains upbeat about signing T-Mobile and Sprint as partners, and the acquisition of Mobile Posse helps makes Digital Turbine more likely to sign on the carrier, which means more devices and an even stronger partnership network.
International expansion
The third and most powerful opportunity for growth is international expansion. Currently, North America revenue accounts for roughly 65% of the company’s sales, but the real golden opportunity lies beyond in developing countries where Android is the dominant player.
In December 2018, Digital Turbine signed on Samsung as a partner, which paved the way for the company to sign on Telefonica, Telecom Italia, America Movil, Millicom, and AT&T Mexico in the past 1-2 years. Basically, this means Digital Turbine now partners with 2/3 of the OEMs in Latin America and an estimated 80% of mobile subscribers through carriers
The company also has a partnership with Reliance Jio, which covers 25% of the 1 billion mobile subscribers in India and has a partnership with Xiaomi which could lead to partnerships in China
All of this is to say that Digital Turbine is truly in the beginning stages of its international expansion, and I believe as investors are starting to see the company successfully execute, it’s beginning to draw more attention and hence why it’s stock has shot up over the past year
Financials
In the latest quarterly earnings report, the company reported quarter over quarter revenue that is up 116% which is inflated due to the Mobile Posse acquisition but on a combined company basis, sales grew by 53%.
The company also grew recurring revenue from 10% in the previous year to 40% which is a really good sign because it means revenue will be more reliable moving forward
The company also reported 43% gross margin in the quarter as compared to 39% in the previous year, another great sign
Company has just about as much debt as cash (~$17mm) and is profitable and cash-flow positive
Risks & mitigations
First, is the valuation. Digital Turbine has experienced some explosive growth over the past year and in order to justify its share price, the company needs to execute well especially with its international expansion which is always tricky
However, I do think the management team has shown that it has been making all the right moves and I think the path to future growth as I laid out earlier in the video will lead to some nice surprise developments in the next few years
Second, in its 10K, one of the biggest risks is that carriers or OEMs may start building their own services to work with advertisers, and if a big customer like Verizon or AT&T were to pull out their contracts, that would really hurt the company like when TikTok pulled from Fastly.
I think Digital Turbine is aware of this risk and that’s why it’s working hard to diversify its revenue stream by strengthening its product offerings through the acquisition of Mobile Posse and expanding internationally
Lastly, there’s some criticism that Digital Turbine products are bloatware, and this would only be a problem if customers actually were turning away from devices because of the pre-loaded apps and home screen products Digital Turbine provides
Customers can always turn off any of Digital Turbine’s products and delete pre-loaded apps but more often than not, customers end up utilizing the company’s products in one form or another
What I’m Doing
I’ve started a small position in the company a few weeks ago and plan to hold for the next few years
Valuation looks a bit overstretched so I wouldn’t bet the farm on it at these prices but if the stock does have any major dips, I am going to treat them as major buying opportunities
Company’s earnings report is on February 3rd, which will be really interesting to see what happens. Last quarter, the company reported strong earnings but the stock dropped 16% and rebounded quickly
If the stock dips to the $30s or $40s, that would be an ideal great time to buy
TLDR: Company owns a monopoly in the Android pre-load app space with partnerships with the largest carriers and OEMs in the world not named Apple; lots of good growth prospects including its recent acquisition + international expansion. Expensive stock fundamentally right now but good one to keep an eye on if there are any major dips. Strong buy in the $30s-40s. Medium buy in the $50s. Earnings call on February 3rd should materially move the stock either up or down so will be important to pay attention to that.
Why switching to a custom ROM on a Xiaomi phone is totally worth it.
Most of you will be well aware that MIUI is really, really buggy. It's also really bloated with unnecessary ads and apps. I bought my POCO X3 a few months ago and using MIUI was a living hell. I see loads of posts complaining about bugs that MIUI has and my experience was no different. Standby battery drain was really bad. Background apps kept getting killed to 'save battery' (when it reality, the app just kept restarting drain even more battery). Because of this, I kept missing app notifications and couldn't use my VPN as it kept getting killed by MIUI. And every Xiaomi system app and service came with ads (although these can be disabled). The overall user experience was nothing short of unpleasant. The phone came with a 5160 mAh battery and it felt like my old Samsung with a 4000 mAh one. And it was because of MIUI. The phone was being underutilized and its full potential was being wasted. After a month, I had had enough. I simply could not live with MIUI. At this point, I was ready to buy a new phone just to use something that's not MIUI. I was really close to buying a new phone when I came across custom ROMs. A custom OS built from stock Android that always gets updates as soon as a new Android version comes out. ROM developers can fix bugs as soon as they come out through Telegram channels and XDA forum discussions. This means my phone will be supported with the latest version of Android for as long as the devs support it. Custom ROMs also better optimised for battery, manage background activities better (depending on the kernel you flash) and I just generally really like the look, feel and experience of stock Android. I, like many people, was very hesitant. Will I brick my phone? Will it's hardware work (WiFi, bluetooth, network)? I really disliked MIUI at this point so I said f*** it and flashed it. And oh boy did I notice a difference. First of all, the smoothness. MIUI adapts the refresh rate according to what apps you use and adjusts it accordingly. This can save battery but can also lead to delays and ghosting while scrolling. But on Arrow OS (my ROM), I didn't even need that. The battery life increased dramatically so adapting the refresh rate was not even needed. My phone now no longer drains battery while in standby. Secondly, there was absolutely no bloatware. I could download whatever apps I wanted and choose what system apps that I wanted to disable. Stock Android is also much better looking than MIUI (in my opinion). I can confirm that all parts of my phone work (WiFi, mobile data, Bluetooth, NFC, flashlight, camera). An app has never been killed in the background till date and there have been almost NO bugs. any bugs can be reported via GitLab and the developers promptly fix it. I was also surprised to get a software update within the first week. Banking apps should work if the ROM does not root your device. The only catch is that for other software to recognise my phone as a POCO X3 NFC and not a Pixel 4a (I'm talking about the device fingerprint here), I had to root. Otherwise, so far, the experience is fantastic. There are so many ROMs out there and you can choose one you like. For example, I chose Arrow OS because it's minimalistic and focuses more on stability than customization. However, there are tons of ROMs available and you can choose one that best suits your needs. Just look up your phone model on XDA Developers. A few things to note:
You might want to download Gcam for your phone as the stock camera (Gcam Go) isn't great.
Your device's fingerprint is set to the Pixel 4a. (or any other Pixel device). You must root to change it to your device model.
The lockscreen info is incorrect, it says that I'm charging slowly when using a fast charger. This can be disabled in settings
NOTE: Before selling your phone or if you need to repair it and it needs a valid warranty, flash stock MIUI using the Mi Flash Tool and make sure you select the option for a locked bootloader. If a technician notices that you have an unlocked bootloader, you warranty will not be honoured. A person looking to buy a phone will also want a locked bootloader. Max Lee explains it in his video really well
The POCO X3 is not a bad phone. I'm calling MIUI (the software on the phone) bad, not the phone itself. This is actually one of the best phones for the price. If you own this phone, please consider getting a custom ROM, it is worth the time, effort and risk (really, really low if you follow the steps correctly). If you plan on buying this phone, I highly recommend flashing a ROM.
First time apple buyer. Iphone SE 2020 vs Iphone 11
Hello all. After almost 10 years in android and my current phone is broken by a drop I thought to try an iphone here afterwards. Since I am not much familiar with iphone echo system any practical advice to choose between iphone SE 2020 and iphone 11 would be much appreciated. Below are my requirements.
I dont play games on phone ever. Like never ever. So gaming performance is not a factor for me
Mostly I use apps like twitter, reddit, browsing internet, youtube, 9gag and etc almost 90% of the time i use the phone.
I download movies, tv and watch here and there
If i go out i dont use my phone much except to hail uber, maps, internet browsing and all those sort of stuffs. Also in this pandemic i am not going much out.
I take pics much and videos not that much. I sometimes dont tranfer my pic/vid to backup for very long time. Last time I backed up media was 1.5 hears ago.
My phone should be working for AT LEAST 3.5years without struggle and software updates should be relevent and updated. Sadly i dont get this in android. At tops it's 2 years for me. So this is one of the major deciding factors for me to change to iphone. Longevity MUST be present(given i dont break it physically)
Tons and tons of customization from android and I barely changed anything at all. Heck my ring tone is same since 2014. I want stability. The less options available the better i choose.
Privacy is also one of the TOP MOST requirements
I am totally done with google play services and google and it's crap in general. Youtube yet to be replaced.
Phone has to give me juice as long as it can. Battery life is also a concern for me. it's okay for me to change the batter after 3years. But util then it has to have good average screen on time. I know SE 2020 has smaller battery but maybe it will fit for my requirements. That's why i included in the choice.
*Last but not least, price vs value I narrowed it down to two models specifically which are SE 2020 and 11 (both 128gb variant). The price difference is huge and i couldn't choose properly which one best suits my need. Any advice will be appreciated. Should I go with SE 2 or spend much more money and buy iphone 11. Thank you all.
Does anyone know this trick? If so, why I didn't find any tutorial? BTW, I'm using Sprint refurbish LG G7 with firmware G710ULM Android 9. Waiting for official ULM Android 10 who knows when will it arrive. After searching for a while and I found a trick to make ULM "official" Android 10 update. I haven't test it yet.
Download 'Patched' LGUP v1.14 (you can follow the youtube tutorial on how to patch) link https://youtu.be/HoXyasW6hWw.
Download G710AWM30b Android 10 firmware.
Open patched LGUP.
Connect phone and make sure it appear in LGUP.
Under 'Process', check box 'Refurbish' (This will maintain software name ULM eventhough we are using AWM firmware) (This also do not crossflash the LG G7)
Select KDZ file. START.
After install firmware, turn on the phone and it will received OTA update that will include Velvet UI. I recommend to not insert SIM and just OTA update via WIFI. You will continue to received any OTA update due to the phone is not detected as a crossflashed phone.
Done, Android 10 LG G710ULM30b will appear on software version.
So far, this is the tutorial that I know. No bugs AFAIK. Feel free to test AT YOUR OWN RISK! Any problem is your responsible. You can still unbrick via LGUP. I'm here just to share because somehow people keep for themselves when they found a way to update.
Fire TV Stick 4K Prerooted and Debloated Android TV Rom (6.2.7.6)
After so many trial and error, I've finally saved the latest version of my system with TWRP backup. I want to share this personal setup with you guys since it required a lot of work to debloat, install add-ons, apps, kernels and tweaks. This is a single package that contains many modifications from other threads made for simple, one-time installation. I tried to keep it close to Android TV (Nougat) exprience. However, I kept some of the Amazon software that I use like Alexa and Amazon Appstore. Guides I found and used for this rom:
Some Info: Android Version: 7.1.2 Fire OS Version: 6.2.7.6 Working TWRP Version: 3.3.1-0 Installed Magisk Version: 20.4 Installed launcher: Google Leanback Launcher Available Internal Storage after installition: 3.15 GB
Disable "Stay Awake" option in developer settings if you want the screensaver to start.
Long-press to back button kills the foreground app. It makes quitting activities easier.
Long-press to menu button opens fast keyboard switching window. It helps to switch to amazon keyboard when I use voice input.
You can change the launcher to whatever you want. I'm happy with Leanback Launcher. I didn't try but there's this.
Important: Never install magisk updates from magisk. Use TWRP.
If you want to create TWRP backup, select "System Image" and "Vendor Image" insted of system and vendor.
Suggestion: FX Web Access makes it easier to tranfer files.
Suggestion: I think keyboard from FireTV remote app and alexa's speech to text input are the most efficient input methods if you don't have physical keyboard.
tsynik said: Play Store downloads not fully compatible with Amazon download manager. In case apps won't install from Play Store - uninstall Play Sore updates from ATV Settings.NOTE:You need to remove and readd Google account after module update.
Installed Netflix and Spotify apps are compatible with alexa.
I couldn't make my dualshock 4 controller work with this device. Even with the stock system. Help would be appreciated.
Onyx Boox Poke 3 - review (including battery life) and tips for settings/third-party apps
All your posts and comments have helped me a lot! :) So I wanted to contribute what I hope is a useful post about the Onyx Boox Poke 3. At the bottom is some info on my set up/third-party apps/some tips (which I guess could apply to Boox devices in general) for people stumbling upon this post looking for more info like I was. My use case I already have an e-reader which still works great (Kindle PW2, 6th gen) but I wanted an e-ink device that could also go online, play podcasts, etc. so I can avoid looking at LED screens especially in the evening. Battery life Starting off here because the battery life reviews for the Poke 2/Poke 3 have been all over the place, with some people saying 10 hours max or even just a few hours if you're reading on the Kindle app...?? Usual disclaimer, your battery usage will depend a lot on what you're doing. (Ex. I'm kind of a fast reader, so if you’re a normal or slow one you'll flip pages/refresh less often and probably expend battery at a lower rate.) So far, with the frontlight on (but low), I seem to use up:
~3-4% per hour reading ebooks and manga on third-party apps (Kindle, Moon+ Reader, Tachiyomi), with the wifi and BT off
~6-7% per hour playing podcasts (Pocket Casts), with the wifi off and BT off (on wired headphones)
~8-9% per hour on Reddit (RedReader), with the wifi on and BT off
This is all estimated with AccuBattery. These numbers will probably get better once I settle down into “normal” use and stop fiddling around with app settings etc. so much. But I wanted to post my current usage to show that I personally get more than the 8-10h screen-on time I’ve seen quoted here more than once. Update 1: as an example, since drafting this post I tried tracking my actual time reading ebooks against my real battery drain, and now I'm getting more like 2.5%-3% per hour (or less!) for reading on Kindle and Moon+ reader. (Estimated 33 hours straight of reading, on the low end, and 40++ hours on the high end.) Update 1.5: Listening to podcasts via Bluetooth earbuds, with the device asleep, is actually not bad either, about 6ish% an hour. Note the device does discharge a bit while asleep (not shut down), but I think that might be unavoidable since it's basically a tablet. Hardware The upgrade of the port to USB-C is completely underrated, imo! I bought a $4 dongle (USB-C to 3.5 jack, without a chip) and it lets me listen to audio with regular wired headphones, avoiding the need for Bluetooth which would use up a lot of battery; haven't seen that perk mentioned here. Edit: A USB-C thumb drive worked perfectly, a nice easy way to transfer files/keep them on hand if the onboard memory isn't enough for you. Connecting a keyboard by Bluetooth worked great as well, but mentioning here I got an error trying to plug a keyboard in (USB-C to USB-C, so maybe it works if to USB-A). Screen size is standard 6" e-reader size--exactly the same as my PW2, though the device itself is significantly smaller. I'm fine with reading manga at this size, since the resolution is good (300ppi) and it's crisp enough. But I think it would be definitely too small for PDFs. Also too small for Western comics, unless you view them landscape and scroll down, or use a viewer that can go by panel. Love that you can use a warm front light instead of just blue/white light, because even the newest Kindle PW doesn't have this option. You can even blend the two colors together to your preference, or use one or the other. I just wish the lowest light setting was a little lower (hoping Boox addresses this in their next firmware update); my Kindle has at least 3 levels even dimmer than that available. To mitigate this I sometimes switch to sepia mode/night mode of the apps I'm using, which works pretty well for reading especially, but I would still prefer the "perfect" solution of dimming the light itself. About the build, the device is slim and light, very sleek looking. Very easy to hold with one hand. Screen is flush and not bezeled. The finish of the back is a fingerprint magnet, so I would recommend putting a case or wrap on it if that bothers you. The official Boox cover for this device is adhesive, which I am not a fan of... But it does put the device to sleep which is really nifty, and the case itself is very sleek! (Edit: ended up attaching it using some nanotape, other people use microsuction tape. But if you need more substantial protection, like if you’re traveling and/or chucking it in a bag with other stuff, you can check in my post history for a third party case which basically fits it too.) Stock software First of all, there is definitely a learning curve to setting this device up. Once it's set up it's fine, but it's a bit fiddly to get there and the manual doesn't cover everything--a lot of the info I used was from Reddit/YouTube/the Boox fans FB group. Personally, I don't find this a significant downside but it really depends on the end user. It's definitely not the streamlined out-of-the-box experience you get from regular e-readers like Kindles. I think this is understandable (those e-readers can do way fewer things, so have a simpler set-up process) but something to be aware of and prepared for. This device runs the latest 3.0 firmware, on Android 10, as of January 2021: Poke 2/3 reviews on YouTube demonstrate the different screen refresh modes so I won't talk about them here; they're pretty handy and I love having that many options, and do make a difference depending on your purpose. I wish there was a more explicit explanation about what they do though. (What is Regal supposed to mean...?) I don't use the stock reader because the font size doesn't go down small enough for me. (Edit: Thanks to a helpful comment below from u/tuanhttp2414 found out that you can make the font size smaller than the slider, if you turn on pinch-to-zoom!) It does offer a lot of layout options, and it's easy to install your own fonts, if you want to use it. No night mode. Edit: The custom page touch zones are really nifty; you can bring up the frontlight settings, or switch refresh mode to Speed mode, just by touching a certain part of the page. The navigation ball is very cool and worth exploring to see if you find it useful, even though I find I don't use it so much now that I've mostly set up the apps how I prefer. The gesture controls (swipe up from the bottom left/middle/right of the screen) or tapping/swiping down to the pull down menu are great, and usually enough for me without the nav ball. I don't love the stock launcher... mainly, I wish I could get rid of the bar on the bottom since I only use Settings, and rarely! But you can just dump the apps you don't use into one group, so it doesn't take up too much space on your home screen, and it's clean enough. You don't even need to see it if you switch apps using the Multitask window (which you can access with a gesture). No widgets. If you install a custom launcher, be aware it might not run your app optimizations properly. Browser seems to be Chromium-based. It works okay, I don't use it much so no strong opinions either way. ---- My set up and tips
I didn't enable Google Play. For installing third-party apps, I either sideload .apk files or install through Aurora Store (which I also sideloaded).
I froze every app that I don't use regularly (the snowflake icon in the app view). I also turned on Freeze third party Apps in the background by default (under Settings > Applications). I turned off automatic updates and notifications everywhere I could, and just check once in a while manually.
My front light is always on, but either low (about a fifth of the bar?) or the lowest possible setting at night. Global contrast right down the middle at 50.
I only turn on the wifi when needed, as much as possible I download books/manga/podcasts while the device is charging and read/listen offline.
Edit: I've tried Bluetooth headphones and they didn't work until I went into the Bluetooth settings for the device and turned the options off (HD quality, calls, contacts) except for media which should be on. Then they worked perfecly after! Noting this here in case anyone else runs into the same issue.
I just use an image as a screensaver, no clock. I copped some beautiful ones from other Reddit users here and here!
Edit: speaking of screensavers, don’t forget there’s “transparent” screensaver mode, which takes advantage of e-ink features by keeping the last thing you were looking at on screen while the device is totally asleep! Pretty genius for keeping things on screen, like reference files, while using barely any battery.
On refresh modes, it seems unless the global refresh setting is Normal it overrides app-specific refresh settings?? (Be aware if you have it globally at Normal, and change the refresh setting of a specific app under app optimization, it will apply that properly within the app but will still say Normal in the top bar.)
It's super useful to set one of your gestures to do a full refresh, for if ghosting ever gets too much.
Edit: On the navigation button, on this device/firmware at least, you can set up "resident buttons" which stay on screen even after you collapse the nav button to the side. In the navigation settings you can just click on the pin icon to make a button "permanent". This is great for keeping a button on screen to tap to refresh, or switch to A2 mode, for example.
For reading in the daytime, I keep mine globally at Normal and have specific apps set to Regal. (I prefer Normal for reading in the dark, since I mainly use a grey background and it seems Normal just changes what needs to be changed; with Regal the page "flashes" white and it seems to refresh the whole page.)
For web browsing/Reddit (stuff with scrolling) I have the apps set to Speed. (I was using A2 more for this purpose, but I realized like Speed's balance between nice quality rendering and snappiness better.)
Highly rate the app AccuBattery! I think it provides a lot of insight (battery usage/discharge rates per app) and might help if you're trying to figure out if anything you're running is a battery hog. You can always just uninstall it after benchmarking or diagnosing (as I have); no problems with it, but remember running the app itself uses a tiny bit of battery too. :)
Apps
General tip, don't forget to optimize your third-party apps! Otherwise they straight up look like they don't work. The easiest way to do this is add optimization to the nav ball, then pull it up when you're in the app itself; you'll be able to see the effect of the changes as you make them. You can also long press the app icon in the Apps view. The biggest thing for me is to change the resolution to 300 (from 350) and deselect the Whiten apps background setting.
For other optimization settings, Animation filter at 50 is what I use for reading apps which let me turn page animation off; this keeps the reading experience/page turning itself super snappy, but app navigation animations will be usable but kinda choppy. Adjust this number upward if that bothers you, or just switch to A2 while navigating around the app). Animation filter at 0 is what I use for most other apps, which I use on A2 mode so a filter isn't needed. Full page refresh depends on your tolerance for ghosting, like if you feel you go too long between full page refreshes while reading you can reduce the number. (For reference my Kindle does a full refresh every 15 or so pages by default)
Kindle, for reading ebooks: works fine, including the send to device options. I also read books borrowed through Libby in this app. I hate the slide page flip animation the Kindle app has, which you can't turn off, but it doesn’t happen if you tap to go to the next page instead of slide. (Animation filter seems to work for me at 200; for me this is the lowest comfortable number to get rid of the slide consistently but keep page turning as fast as possible.)
Moon+ reader, for reading ebooks: also works normally, very snappy reader. Lots of layout options (though the indent at the start of a paragraph option is a bit hidden, trust me it's there somewhere); night mode/gray backgrounds which the stock reader doesn’t have. Easy to install your own fonts.
TachiyomiJ2K, for downloading/reading manga: Easy to use, supports downloading chapters for offline viewing but also opens local files I think if that's what you have. Regal mode works best for me. Full page refresh depends on your tolerance for ghosting, to minimize it try something low like 5 or 1. I don't find the very minimal ghosting bothersome for manga like I've seen mentioned by others, just sometimes on pages with a lot of black/gray areas. But I might just be tolerant? I've been using Mangasee as my source.
Pocket Casts, for podcasts: I highly doubt this is the most lightweight/battery-saving player there is, or the one with the best layout for e-ink, but I find it convenient because I have an account so it should update my place between devices. Update: This app can play while doing other tasks, but can also play while the device is asleep--if you set the Delay disconnection... settings to Never under Settings > Power.
RedReader, for Reddit: A bit fiddly on the home feed, but I like that individual posts have scroll buttons so you can click to go to the next main comment (without scrolling animation). I turned off inline images to make it lighter to run/load. You don't get spammed with ads like the official app. I edited this post and added this sentence using my Poke.
Edit: Some other apps I've installed since this initial review: * Dropbox, for file transfemanagement: Works with files you can find in your storage; works without needing an Onyx account/to sign into Onyx. I use this to transfer files when I'm too lazy to use wires/drives. * Comic trim, for comics: Tachiyomi can also open cbr and cbz, but while this app is a bit clunky the main reason to use it is support for viewing sideloaded comics by pane! Really useful since the Poke screen is quite small compared to standard Western comic size. Overall, viewing colored etc. comics is far from the fairly comfortable experience of reading manga (since manga is already black and white and a lot of lineart) but you can definitely do it in a pinch with some manual refreshing thrown in.
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