OpenWrt (OPEN Wireless RouTer)

Open source project for embedded operating systems based on Linux, primarily used on embedded devices to route network traffic. All components have been optimized to be small enough to fit into the limited storage and memory available in home routers.

Supported devices
https://openwrt.org/supported_devices

Documentation
https://openwrt.org/docs/start

FAQ
https://openwrt.org/tag/faq

Forum
https://forum.openwrt.org


OpenWrt 19.07
The OpenWrt Community is proud to present the OpenWrt 19.07 stable version series. It is the successor of the previous 18.06 stable major release.

The OpenWrt 19.07 series focuses on bringing all supported targets to Linux kernel version 4.14 and introducing initial device tree based ath79 support.

All firmware images
https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.0/targets

Release Notes
https://openwrt.org/releases/19.07/notes-19.07.0

Detailed Changelog
https://openwrt.org/releases/19.07/changelog-19.07.0

Browse Source
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/tags/v19.07.0


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Using WhatsApp with an Open Source Client

* Whatsapp to Telegram Bridge:
https://ibcomputing.com/whatsapp-telegram-bridge

* WhatsApp to Matrix Bridge:
https://www.matrix.org/blog/2019/02/26/bridging-matrix-with-whatsapp-running-on-a-vm

* WhatsApp CLI:
https://pypi.org/project/whatsapp-cli


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Search engine alternatives

♦ DuckDuckGo
-> https://duckduckgo.com
-> http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion
- US based (EU servers for EU, though).
- Mostly Bing, Yahoo and own crawler results
- Issues: Proprietary, some components are free
- ToS;DR: https://tosdr.org/#duckduckgo
- Criticism here
-- https://gitlab.com/prism-break/prism-break/issues/2143
-- https://redd.it/aqz3q8

♦ SearX
-> https://searx.xyz
-> https://searx.xyz/tor.html
-> searx.space for other instances
- Instance of the open source metasearch engine
- You can choose which search engine to use for the results.
- Issues: No privacy policy, some public instances use Cloudflare, ads or may log IP addresses/searches.

♦ Qwant
-> https://www.qwant.com
- French based
- Own crawlers and Bing results.
- Issues: "French law makes it mandatory to keep some connection data for one year"
- Privacy Policy: https://about.qwant.com/legal/privacy
- ToS;DR: https://tosdr.org/#qwant
- Criticism:
-- https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/bstxms/qwants_future_regarding_ethics
-- https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/35097/ethics-a-heavy-suspicion-towards-the-qwant-search-engine

♦ MetaGer
-> https://metager.org
- Open-source metasearch engine
- Based in Germany
- Stores some information temporarily: https://metager.org/datenschutz

♦ YaCy
-> https://yacy.net
- Distributed self hosted search engine, built on P2P networks

♦ Mojeek
-> https://www.mojeek.com
- Uses its own crawlers

Others:

♦ List of search engines:
-> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

♦ Startpage
-> startpage.com
- Bought by an ad company
- uses Goolag search
- https://restoreprivacy.com/startpage-system1-privacy-one-group

♦ Ecosia
-> https://www.ecosia.org
- A bing frontend
- Criticism:
-- https://info.ecosia.org/privacy#privacy-faq-item-6

♦Gigablast
-> https://gigablast.com
- Fails SSL at Mozilla observatory
-- https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze/www.gigablast.com

♦ Yippy
-> yippy.com
- Uses Goolag ads

♦ SwissCows
-> swisscows.ch

♦ Disconnect
-> search.disconnect.me
- Connects to Amazon

♦ Wolfram Alpha
-> www.wolframalpha.com
- Doesn't even work without JavaScript

♦ Oscobk
-> oscobo.co.ukk

♦ Lukol
-> www.lukol.com
- Shares data with Goolag
- Privacy policy: https://lukol.com/privacy.php


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Session

A Signal protocol fork with decentralized servers and no need for a phone number

Session is a cross-platform, anonymous and decentralized messaging application. You don't need a phone number or email address to make an account.

Session uses the Loki Service Node network to route the data, for which the nodes are rewarded with $LOKI. The Loki Network itself is made up of some ~1000 community operated Service Nodes where 44% of the supply is held in the SNs - about US$7.5 million at the moment.

I love Signal, but I don't love the attached phone numbers or central servers, but I know there's a challenge in allowing an altruistic intention over a financial incentive for the node operators - Sybil resistance. By using Loki's Service Node network, the crypto-economics is designed in a way that a bad actor would drive the price exponentially up while trying to accumulate enough Loki to be able to perform any traffic analysis on the routed data.

Think of it as a Signal fork meets a Monero fork meets an incentivized TOR network.

Web: getsession.org

FAQ: getsession.org/faq

Whitepaper:
https://getsession.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Session-Whitepaper.pdf

Sources: github.com/Loki-project

Comments:
http://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/f4yt7z/session_a_signal_protocol_fork_with_decentralized/


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Front-ends for evil sites/platforms:

Youtube
- Source: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
- Instances: https://api.invidious.io

Twitter
- Source: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
- Instances: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

Twitter+YouTube
-Source: https://github.com/ytorg/Yotter
-Instances: https://github.com/ytorg/Yotter#public-instances

Why do I have to register to use Yotter?

Instagram
- Source: https://sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram/
- Instances: https://git.sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram-docs/tree/master/docs/Instances.md

Reddit
- Sources:
https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit (1)
https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit (2)

- Instances:
https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit#instances (1)
https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit#instances (2)

Google Translate
- Sources:
https://sr.ht/~yerinalexey/gtranslate/ (1)
https://git.sr.ht/~metalune/simplytranslate_web (2)

- Instances:
https://gtranslate.metalune.xyz/ (1)
https://translate.metalune.xyz/ (2)

Google Search Engine
- Source: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search
- Instances: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#public-instances

P.S. JavaScript isn't required for any core functionality with these front-ends


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#frontends #yt #alternatives