Meanwhile:

western owners of shiny new wigs and false eyelashes could owe their look to North Korean slave labour.

In recent years, a booming trade in human hair has helped to sustain North Korea’s isolated economy, softening the impact of international sanctions and providing Pyongyang with vital revenue to pursue its nuclear ambitions

In many ways Richard Lubbock is your typical north London Jewish granddad.

Five years ago, his son James bravely wrote a book about his father’s story. Now it has been turned into a two-part series for Prime Video called, inevitably, Breaking Dad. It is jaw-dropping from the off as it delves into Richard’s relationship with his own father, his secret gay life and how he slowly became entranced by drugs.

https://www.thejc.com/life-and-culture/a-few-months-after-my-release-from-prison-i-was-back-on-the-crystal-meth-meet-britains-unlikeliest-drug-dealer-qxvy8153

The unreal, real, story of Richard Lubbock

north London grandfather caught with the Metropolitan Police’s largest-ever crystal meth haul - His story is just as insane as that of Breaking Bad’s Walter White; a chemistry teacher who turns crystal meth manufacturer and gun-toting dealer when he discovers he has cancer and cannot pay for the treatment

#CoSoTV #PrimeVideo

Britain's unlikeliest drug dealer: breaking dad

https://youtu.be/mrMCi6IBHb4

ISIS Created Fake CNN and Al Jazeera Broadcasts

One video focused on giving ISIS credit for a terror attack that Russian disinformation blamed on Ukraine. “It was essentially fake news to debunk fake news,” says an expert

https://www.wired.com/story/isis-created-fake-cnn-and-al-jazeera-broadcasts/

ICYMI

Islamic State supporters have been eager to use AI for propaganda - These ISIS news anchors are AI fakes. Their propaganda is real.

https://archive.ph/31k2H

@janallmac 👍

open source keyboard i use

OpenBoard

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/111023686445554746

loadsa open source apps available most will be on play store or F-Droid if not with small amount not on any app store - really handy tool that url check can be

you can also long press any URL from any social media site, i use PWAs for SM sites not individual apps from play store which don't allow this method of long presses of URLs, and tap "share" pick the URL check from the choices to get a view

loadsa modules available in that app also just a some

via the modules the Url Scanner: Allows you to scan the url using VirusTotal, and check the report. A free personal VirusTotal API key is needed for it to work

You set this app as your default browser then once you tap a URL from other apps it'll open the window from their you can open url in your preferred browser 🤓 simples (example screenshot)

F-Droid & play store downloads available also

/nosanitize

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trianguloy.urlchecker

oh forgot this one

#TipsAndTricks #OpenSource #Android #CoSoSec

This application acts as an intermediary when opening url links. When you do so, a window containing information about the url is displayed, allowing you to make changes to it as well.
Specially useful when you need to open an external link either from an email, a social network app or others.

https://github.com/TrianguloY/UrlChecker

Obtainium will now search for the right version of App for your phone and also looks up the current version installed. If the project serves more options and/or release tags, it will also ask you now, which version you want to choose.

From now on you have your app added and its ready to get monitored for updates through Obtainium.

I get notifications, if an update is ready to install and Obtanium downloads the apk

I never was a big Fan of F-Droid.

"Obtainium allows you to install and update Open-Source Apps directly from their releases pages, and receive notifications when new releases are made available."

How to set up:

The only thing you really need, is the URL of the project you want to follow. So for example, the Github link to the K-9 Mail Project.

After you copied your link, you tap on the + (Add App) button.

Insert the URL, select some options and hit the Add button.

last one for now #AppyGeek #OpenSource #Android

Megalodon

download

https://github.com/sk22/megalodon/releases/

Megalodon is a Mastodon client and a fork of the official Mastodon client, but adds in some nice features and visuals

project

https://github.com/sk22/megalodon

#OpenSource email #Android client has to be K9

favorite E-Mail client since donkeys of years.

News: Since 2022 Thunderbird hired the lead-developer Thunderbird wants to merge K-9 Mail into the Thunderbird family

download

https://k9mail.app/download

The client also supports PGP in combination with OpenKeyChain another awesome app you need(keychain works with a few apps like K9 & conversations msg app for jabber/XMPP are two i use it with)

https://www.openkeychain.org/

#AppyGeek

#TipsAndTricks

With Syncthing I sync different folders to different devices and they sync them back, if changes happening.

download

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/releases

project

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android

#OpenSource #Android #CoSoSec #AppyGeek

An offline password manager - peace of mind that your data won't ever be involved in a data breach - KeepassDX which stores the vault in the keepass format just on my device (offline). I'm just using Syncthing to sync the vault to my other devices and also backup :)

download

https://github.com/Kunzisoft/KeePassDX/releases

website

https://www.keepassdx.com/

#Android #OpenSource #Browsers #AppyGeek

Cromite is a fork of the deprecated Bromite project. The browser is based on chromium and offers advanced features for ad-/tracking blocking and device fingerprinting.

project

https://github.com/uazo/cromite

download

https://github.com/uazo/cromite/releases

To start the open-source journey on Android people mostly install F-Droid but have you tried Obtainium?

#OpenSource #Android #AppyGeek

it works a bit different. With this app you are able to directly add github projects, to download the apps right after the developer has made a new release build. It also has a search function for different ressources, like github and the default F-Droid repository.

project

https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

download

https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/releases/

#OpenSource #Android #AppyGeek

Molly

Molly is a fork of the original Signal app. It adds a few security features, like database encryption. Otherwise it's pretty similar to the original Signal app. You can install Molly in different flavors, like Molly-FOSS or Molly-UP. It's definetely worth to check'em out.

download:

https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android/releases

project:

https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android

@SaltyVeruca yeah for sure there was a kinda backlash from EU about it and meta kinda won by hiding it away from settings people would normally goto

I'd just copy everything that guy wrote on his request form and paste it - he had luck and should work for all users

Good luck 👍

@SaltyVeruca for IG "More info and support” section, and click “About.” Then click on “Privacy policy.” At the very top of the page, you should see a box that says “Learn more about your right to object.”

Person tells you exactly what to say in the request form thingy its a guide on where to click and what to say - sure that person is in US

Its same method for UK users also you need to tell meta why you want to opt-out which that person managed and got a reply within 1min saying successful 👍

Switzerland — Kyiv managed to get the majority of participants at this weekend's Ukraine peace summit on board with its 10-point peace formula as the main framework for further negotiations.

#Ukraine #Russia

https://www.fdfa.admin.ch/eda/en/fdfa/fdfa/aktuell/dossiers/konferenz-zum-frieden-ukraine/Summit-on-Peace-in-ukraine-joint-communique-on-a-peace-framework.html

But the outcome was marred by key Russia-leaning countries such as Saudi Arabia, India and South Africa not supporting the final declaration