Supabase

Open source Firebase alternative
https://github.com/supabase/supabase

#supabase #Firebase #alternatives

RCX

Android GUI for rclone. Manage files across many cloud services in a simple way under one interface.

https://x0b.github.io

https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.x0b.rcx

https://github.com/x0b/rcx


@nogoolag
#rcx #rclone #cloud #alternatives

NewPipe Releases (unofficial) - NewPipe's GitHub releases

The APK sent here cannot be installed over F-Droid's one because they use different signing keys (details)

This pull request adds an experimental SponsorBlock integration, the fork's apk is linked there

👉🏼 https://t.me/newpipe_releases 👈🏼

💡 read this as well: YouTube video hosting alternatives
https://t.me/NoGoolag/2284

#newpipe #youtube #alternatives
📡 @nogoolag 📡 @blackbox_archiv

Appwrite : An Open Source Firebase Alternative

We're happy to share that we've just released Appwrite 0.8 with a lot of improvements on privacy and security. This brings us one step closer to achieving our goal of becoming a complete open-source alternative to Firebase. Our latest version adds support for JWT auth, ARM devices, Anonymous login, and advanced image manipulations.

We are already working on support for a Realtime database, GraphQL APIs, MongoDB support, and other pretty cool features. We have reached this stage with continued support from the community and we would love to hear your thoughts on how we can make it better. Please feel free to comment below.

You can learn more about Appwrite over at https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite


#firebase #alternatives

Off the Grid Messenger

Off The Grid (OTG) Messenger is an easy way for people to communicate through text messages when in remote areas. With a theoretical transmission range of 10 miles (16kms), OTG messenger can be used by groups of people to stay connected when they are in areas not serviced by mobile connectivity.

For portability and low power purposes, the device was created by re-purposing an old Nokia e63 phone I had laying around. The enclosure, LCD, keypad, backlighting and speaker have been re-used however the motherboard was re-designed from the ground up with low power components, a modern STM32 H7 microcontroller, an ISM LoRA radio and expanded flash memory.

https://github.com/TrevorAttema/OTGMessenger

Comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27659105

https://hackaday.com/2021/06/26/lora-messenger-in-nokias-shell/

#otg #offthegrid #grid #im #messenger #alternatives #cellphone #mobile #nokia

The best free Audacity Alternatives

https://www.ghacks.net/2021/07/04/the-best-free-audacity-alternatives/


All alternatives listed below lack at least one of the main characteristics of Audacity. They are either only available for one operating system, e.g. Windows, not open source, don't offer the same set of core features, or lack in other departments.

Audacity Forks

Audacity is an open source project, and developers started to fork the application as soon as the announcement hit the Internet that the project team changed.

Forks match all main characteristics of Audacity, but there is no "main" fork yet that all disgruntled developers and users switched to.

Here is a link to a promising forks (because it is updated regularly)

https://github.com/cookiengineer/audacity


#alternatives #audacity #audio #editor

Rclone Remount

Remount cloud storage locally during boot via rclone & fusermount directly on your Android powered smart device.

Virtually limitless storage expansion with support for dozens of cloud providers including Dropbox, GDrive, OneDrive, SFTP & many more. Extremely useful for devices without physical storage expansion capabilities. Also great for streaming large media files without need for full caching. Binaries compiled using Termux.

Features:
Support for arm, arm64, & x86
Huge list of supported cloud storage providers
Apps with ability to specify paths can access /mnt/cloud/
Most file explorers work just fine (issue #9)
Mount points use names of remote(s) in rclone.conf
Specify custom rclone params for each remote via /sdcard/.rclone/.REMOTE.param
Access remotes via http://127.0.0.1:38762
Access remotes via ftp://127.0.0.1:38763
Mount bind to /sdcard/ (see issue #5)
Support for Work Profiles


https://github.com/Magisk-Modules-Repo/com.piyushgarg.rclone


#rclone #remount #cloud #alternatives

Best Open Source Slack Alternatives for Team Communication
https://itsfoss.com/open-source-slack-alternative/

Zulip: An Interesting Open-Source Alternative to Slack
https://itsfoss.com/zulip/


@itsfoss_official
#slack #collaboration #teams #sw #alternatives

DISCONTINUATION OF THE VANCED PROJECT

Vanced has been discontinued. In the coming days, the download links will be taken down. The Discord server, Telegram chat and subreddit will stay for the time being. We know this is not something you wanted to hear, but it's something we had to do. We want to thank you all for the support over the years.

Edit (1): The existing version will continue to work.

Edit (2): It was done due to legal reasons..

https://t.me/Vanced/197
https://t.me/NoGoolag/2284

#vanced #youtube #alternatives

We already have a list of open-source alternatives to mainstream social media platforms like Twitter.

Take a look 🕵️‍♀️

https://itsfoss.com/mainstream-social-media-alternaives/

@itsfoss_official
#alternatives #social

Awesome-totally-open-ChatGPT

A list of open alternatives to ChatGPT

ChatGPT is GPT-3.5 with RLHF (Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback) for chat system.

By alternative, I mean projects feature different language model for chat system. Projects are not counted if they are:
• alternative frontend projects because they just call the API from OpenAI.
• alternative transformer decoder • models to GPT 3.5 either because the training data of them are (mostly) not for chat system.

https://github.com/nichtdax/awesome-totally-open-chatgpt

#ai #chatgpt #assistant #alternatives

Decentralized Communication - #SolutionsWatch

As the internet clampdown begins, people are finally waking up to the need to find alternative communication platforms. But if the masses are just herded from one centralized platform to another, has anything really changed at all? Join James for today's important edition of #SolutionsWatch, where he examines some of the many decentralized communication networks, platforms and protocols that are being developed to address the root of the censorship problem.

https://www.corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-communication

#alternatives

🔴 App download / install / manage

Google PlayStore™ can be installed with #minmicrog and other microg installers. Some apps you bought with a Google account may require it to check for licenses.
If it doesn't work check possible solutions here: https://t.me/NoGoolag/19314 ( #issues )

You can buy apps with your Google account from a web browser and then download it with Google playstore / Aurora Store / Yalp Store

Don't buy apps to Google, you're financing that evil corporation with the 30% cut they take from every app sold

Here are some better alternatives to get and manage Android apps:

🎁 F-Droid
apks from f-droid.org repository or extra repositories
https://t.me/NoGoolag/1034

🎁 Aurora Droid (F-Droid foss client)
apks from f-droid.org repository or extra repositories
https://t.me/NoGoolag/1242

🎁 Aurora Store (Google Playstore foss client)
apks from Google Playstore
https://t.me/NoGoolag/1123
@AuroraSupport
https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore

🎁 Neo Store (F-Droid foss client)
https://t.me/NoGoolag/14666

🎁 Droidify (F-Droid foss client)
https://github.com/Iamlooker/Droid-ify/releases

🎁 App Lounge by eOS (Foss/commercial/pwa)
https://doc.e.foundation/support-topics/app_lounge

🎁 Obtainium (Foss apps from multiple sources)
https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

🎁 Accrescent
https://accrescent.app

🎁 Izzyondroid
https://gitlab.com/sunilpaulmathew/izzyondroid
just izzyondroid repo standalone app (for those who don't wanna use fdroid due to signature vulnerability)

🎁 Ffupdater to download and update web browser apps
https://f-droid.org/packages/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/

🎁 Skydroid
https://github.com/redsolver/skydroid
https://get.skydroid.app

🎁 Foxy Droid (F-Droid foss client)
apks from f-droid.org repository or extra repositories
https://f-droid.org/app/nya.kitsunyan.foxydroid/
https://github.com/kitsunyan/foxy-droid

🎁 apkeep
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/introducing-apkeep-eff-threat-labs-new-apk-downloader
https://github.com/EFForg/apkeep

🎁 APKGrabber
apks from Google Play, APKPure, APKMirror or Uptodown (enable Izzy repo)
https://f-droid.org/app/de.apkgrabber

🎁 APKMirror
apks from APKMirror
https://f-droid.org/app/taco.apkmirror

🎁 ApkTrack
Updates on PlayStore and other sources
https://f-droid.org/app/fr.kwiatkowski.ApkTrack

🎁 Kali Nethunter Store
Pentesting apps
https://store.nethunter.com

🎁 Evozi apk downloader (website)
https://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader

🎁 Raccoon
APK Downloader for Linux, Windows and MacOS
https://raccoon.onyxbits.de


🔴 App management

🛠 AppManager
@AppManagerChannel
https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager
https://f-droid.org/repo/io.github.muntashirakon.AppManager

🛠 AppWarden
https://t.me/AuroraOfficial/59
Izzy repo https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo/com.aurora.warden

🛠 /d/gapps
Delete/disable GApps and other bloatwares
https://t.me/NoGoolag/1247

🛠 Batch Uninstaller
Uninstall multiple applications at once
https://f-droid.org/app/com.saha.batchuninstaller

🛠 Apk Extractor
Extract APKs from your device, even if installed from the Playstore. Root access
https://f-droid.org/app/axp.tool.apkextractor

🛠 OpenAPK
App manager uninstall, hide, disable, extract, share
https://f-droid.org/app/com.dkanada.openapk

🛠 NeoBackup
https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Backup


🔴 App info

🔬 ClassyShark3xodus
Scan apps for trackers
https://f-droid.org/app/com.oF2pks.classyshark3xodus

🔬 Exodus Privacy
Analyzes privacy concerns in apps from Google Play store
https://f-droid.org/app/org.eu.exodus_privacy.exodusprivacy

🔬 App Watcher
Follow updates and changelogs of apps in Play Store not currently installed on your device (enable Izzy repo)
https://f-droid.org/app/com.anod.appwatcher

🔬 Stanley
Explore app info for developers
https://f-droid.org/app/fr.xgouchet.packageexplorer


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#apk #install #app #playstore #store #alternatives #fdroid #aurora #yalp #huawei

Why You Need NextCloud - And How to Easily Install It

#nextcloud #cloud #alternatives #selfhost

Adobe just announced new terms that say they will do whatever they want with your content, so here are some alternatives to consider.

3DS Max
Blender

Acrobat
Evince (read)
Inkscape (edit multi page)
LibreOffice_Draw (create, edit, sign)
LibreOffice_Writer (create)
Nextcloud LibreSign (sign)
Okular (read, annotate, sign)
OnlyOffice (read, edit)
PDF-Shuffler (merge, arrange, delete)
XReader (read)

AdobeXD
Akira
Figma
Lunacy
Pencil
Penpot

After Effects
Astrofox (audio responsive animations)
BlackMagicDesign Fusion (proprietary)
HitFilm (proprietary)
Natron

Animate
Blender (3D)
Friction
Glaxnimate (2D)
Synfig (2D)

Audition
Tenacity
Audor
LMMS

Cinema 4D
Blender

Fresco
Krita

Illustrator
Inkscape
Krita
sK1

InDesign
Lyx
Scribus

Lightroom
Darktable
Raw Therapee

Paint
Krita
MyPaint

Photoshop
GIMP
Krita

PremierePro
DavinciResolve (proprietary)
Kdenlive
Olive Video
OpenShot
Pitivi
Shotcut

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#graphic #editor #Adobe #Alternatives

Self-hosted Open Source #Alternatives to #Google #Photos

https://itsfoss.com/google-photos-alternatives

#cloud

This is the best search engine for current events and history

Clip Genie - Grand Theft World

https://grandtheftworld.com/clip-genie

https://gtw.clipgenie.com

#Google #search #engines #alternatives

Here are some links about #systemd #alternatives for#Linux in no particular order.
Which are your favorites?

https://suckless.org/sucks/systemd/

https://unixsheikh.com/articles/the-real-motivation-behind-systemd.html

https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/

https://nosystemd.org/

https://skarnet.org/software/systemd.html

https://the-world-after-systemd.ungleich.ch/

https://ewontfix.com/14/

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=120652

https://www.devuan.org/os/announce/

https://www.devuan.org/os/init-freedom

https://thehackernews.com/2019/01/linux-systemd-exploit.html

https://judecnelson.blogspot.com/2014/09/systemd-biggest-fallacies.html

https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2016/05/18/systemd-it-keeps-getting-worse/

https://systemd-free.artixlinux.org/why.php

Some more added here too: https://start.me/p/Kg8keE/priv-sec

#systemd #Linux

@NoGoolag #browser #alternatives with mitigations, patches etc.
Alpha version release March 6, 2025

FireFox browser options
- Tor Browser (all)
- Mullvad Browser (Desktop)
- IronFox (Android) Read the Known Issues section on the gitlab.
- LibreWolf (mentally ill devs)

Make your own #Firefox with mitigations etc...
- Phoenix / wiki
- Arkenfox user.js / wiki / gui / user-tool / mobile
- Narsil / Narsil Mobile
- Betterfox / Betterfox Mobile
- pyllyukko
- Compare some of the user.js files

Chromium based browser Options
- Ungoogled Chromium (all)
- Cromite (Android, Linux, Windows)

Browser extensions
- uBlacklist
- uBlock Origin or uMatrix (never both)
- LibRedirect (setup your instances for each service in the settings)

Links to block lists...
- Yokoffing
- Celenity/Phoenix
- FilterLists

Set your default search engine to a search proxy
- 4get instances
- Searx instances

Why your favorite browser is not recommended
- Celenity Firefox browser comparisons
- How to choose a browser for everyday use?
- is your browser spyware?
- Choose your browser carefully
- Browsers and the connections they make compared
- Fake Privacy and security

Additional reading...
- Wiki about extensions
- Multiple Extension Conflicts
- uMatrix for beginners
- Firefox user.js install guide
- Arch Linux Firefox Privacy wiki
- Bromite (for knowledge purposes)

Testing your browser
- Fingerprint.com
- How to test browsers for spyware
- Privacytests browser comparison
- Mullvad check
- Bromite fingerprint testing
- IP Leak
- List of test sites A
- List of test sites B


* Thunderbird users should consider taking a look at Dove - Phoenix's sister project.

#web #browsers

What are your favorite hardware and open source software for #security #cams, #video #surveillance, #ring #doorbells, #motion detection, #homeassistant...?
What #alternatives do we have?