It isn’t just deployed by nerds but sometimes also by cafes, libraries and municipalities. So you can expect them to be in every town but they don’t have such a dense coverage that they have a full mesh network over a city.
And the thing that is missing is that there are no inter network services like an copy of Wikipedia, LLMs or fileshares.
They have their own antennas. If the internet connection of one router dies, but it has a connection to another Freifunk node, it gets routed over the other one.
There is freifunk in Germany they use Mesh Network -> Router > VPN to another Country so they dont get Problems by People pirating.
No, but don’t use SMS either. Meta Apps have the permission to access SMS.
There is a big difference tho.
It also allows to communicate with non-delta chat users via email through the same chat interface
That’s a disadvantage. Messengers should only allow secure encrypted chats!
Teleguard defenitly not they are closed source.
MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) is not available anymore in Germany. Why would anyone sane use that shit if there are free options?
Depends currently I use a free one where they are included. Before that I used another one where they were extra and before that I used a prepaid plan where they were extra just data was cheaper.
See my post above: WhatsApp backups are unencrypted by default to Google/Apple servers. But at least you have options to make it more secure.
If you Chat via WhatsApp the Chat is probably in cleartext on the servers of
But at least You can be sure if you are really chatting to the right person
You can send self destructive messages with a very short livespan that probably won’t land in cleartext on somebody else’s devices.
If you call you are Safe, its encrypted and not stored unencrypted in backups.
So its possible to use it encrypted
If you Chat via SMS the Chat is probably in cleartext on the servers of
You can’t be sure if you are really chatting to the right person
Calls are interceptable.
impossible to use securely
Would rather use WhatsApp then SMS. Its much more secure and private and doesn’t cost money. Although if RCS is an option it could be used instead of SMS or WhatsApp.
But having a reverse proxy would enable someone getting access to it to read traffic, while having a VPN Tunnel won’t.
Alibaba also provides an OpenSource App, it even has support for their multimodal voice chat Model qwen2.5 omni: https://github.com/alibaba/MNN
“From 20 June 2025, consumers will be able to benefit from smartphones and tablets that are both longer-lasting and more easily repairable thanks to new rules. It will also be much easier to choose more durable phones, thanks to a new energy label with repairability and reliability scores.” https://blog.beuc.eu/heres-how-your-next-smartphone-will-be-longer-lasting-and-easier-to-repair/
Hopefully #Googles tries to profit from this by having their Flagship be one of the firsts that have these official labels with good Stats.
At first I thought they would try to rush it to bring it into market before the new EU rules apply.
I have been waiting for this to get a more easily repairable #Pixel with #GrapheneOS.
Looks kinda sus
Last time I looked it had way less features then yunohost and its closed source.
We don’t want more trash up there that can’t be repaired
Maybe similar to the one in the third Reich.