Exploring DeepSeek AI: What ChatGPT and Google Gemini Think
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/01/29/exploring-deepseek-ai-what-chatgpt-and-google-gemini-think/

What to Watch

WhatToWatch is the simplest and fastest way to discover movies, series, and where to watch them. With React Native, Expo and themoviedb.

🔗 Links:
- Download
- Screenshots
- Source code
Developer: Théo Mesnil

🏷️ Tags: #Android #Media #Utilities

Pixelix
Android Client for Pixelfed

Pixelix is an Android client for Pixelfed, the federated image-sharing social network. It's designed to provide a seamless and high-performance user experience. With Pixelix, you can easily browse, post, and interact with your Pixelfed network on the go.

Download: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.daniebeler.pfpixelix/

Source code: https://github.com/daniebeler/pixelix

#opensource #socialnetwork

@foss_Android

⚡️Alternative Encrypted Messaging Platforms
@takebackourtech

Charlie Robinson from the Macroaggressions Podcast asked me if Telegram is private. The answer is nuanced, as only a select few members of the Telegram team have the ability to access encrypted messages.

As always I will champion XMPP, a 20 year old decentralized communications protocol.

Listen to the full interview here.

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The Theme of Day 4 of The People's Reset: Mexico is Empowering Technology!

Technology is a tool which has the potential to spy and control, as well as empower and liberate. For day 4 of the Activation we will focus on technology that can free humanity, including encrypted communication technologies, alternative power/energy sources, and new tech for growing food.

Today's sesions include:

A Cleaner Future, Powered by Waste
with Jonathan Appel with EDEN Energy

A Web3 Introduction with David Perez Negron

Dodecahedron & The Power of Sacred Technology with Katherine Armitage

Renaissance of the Tribal Network: Embracing the Parallel Society Movement and Applying Wisdom to Governance
with Sterlin Lujan

Defeating CBDC Tyranny with Privacy Coins/Tokens with Aaron Day

Protecting Our Minds & Health from Abusive Tech with Hakeem Anwar

Taking Back Our Tech Panel with Hakeem Anwar, Aaron Day, Sterlin Lujan, David Perez Negron

Empowering Technology Networking + Crypto Meetup/Exchange

⚡️What is Linux?
@takebackourtech

In The Matrix, Linux is the red pill. In this clip from the Macroaggressions podcast with Charlie Robinson, I talk about why Windows and Apple are compromised spying platforms and the reasons you should onboard to a Linux based OS right away.

Listen to the full interview here.

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⚡️Cognitive Effects of Smart Phone Abuse
@takebackourtech

In this clip from Above's 'Breaking Out of Tech Addiction' webinar, I reveal that people who addicted to smart phones can’t get into flow states. Phone notifications have proven to damage performance on attention-demanding tasks.

It turns out that leaving a phone in the room even while it's off is sufficiently distracting from demanding cognitive tasks.

Watch the full webinar here.

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⚡️How Technological Addiction Impacts Memory
@takebackourtech

In this clip from Above's 'Breaking Out of Tech Addiction' webinar, I detail how heavy media multitasking can lead to diminished long term memory function.

For example, did you know that 91% of people depend on their devices to remember basic facts? This is known as the "Digital Amnesia" effect.

Watch the full webinar here.

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Run DeepSeek R1 #AI locally on #Linux with our guide.

https://itsfoss.com/install-deepseek-r1-locally-linux/


the 1.5b model is not that useful, check the other variants here: https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1/tags

Up to 14b is recommended for most home computers: https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1

@itsfoss_official

Cherry Studio

Cherry Studio is a desktop client for Windows, Mac and Linux, which supports many LLM providers, including large cloud services and local models.

Among its main functions is the ability to work with more than 300 pre -designed #AI assistants, the creation of custom assistants, as well as support for various formats of documents, including text, images and office files.

The application offers tools for global search, top management and translating, which significantly improves interaction with the user thanks to the cross -platform and many settings options.

https://github.com/cherryhq/cherry-studio

DisableGoogleAnalytics

https://gitlab.com/adrian.m.miller/disablegoogleanalytics

Attempts To Disable Common Google Analytics And Ads Receivers In All Affected Packages

What it does/How it works:
On 1st run after rebooting after install the module is assuming you want it to disable the listed analytics and ad receivers, so it will:
Wait till boot is completed
Then sleep for 2 minutes
Then test that cpu usage is under 30% before running
It will then disable the analytics and ad receivers as listed below, and log its progress to /sdcard/fixgoogleanalytics.log

Common Analytics And Ad Recievers:
com.google.android.gms.analytics.AnalyticsJobService com.google.android.gms.analytics.CampaignTrackingService com.google.android.gms.measurement.AppMeasurementService com.google.android.gms.measurement.AppMeasurementJobService com.google.android.gms.analytics.AnalyticsReceiver com.google.android.gms.analytics.CampaignTrackingReceiver com.google.android.gms.measurement.AppMeasurementInstallReferrerReceiver com.google.android.gms.measurement.AppMeasurementReceiver com.google.android.gms.measurement.AppMeasurementContentProvider com.crashlytics.android.CrashlyticsInitProvider com.google.android.gms.ads.AdActivity com.google.firebase.iid.FirebaseInstanceIdService

Once complete the service.sh script will delete itself
Once that happens any further interaction is purely via the included dga script as a binary in /system/(x)bin

dga takes 2 arguments, disable or enable, though i doubt too many will be looking to enable analytics and ad receivers, unless the disabling has unwanted effects on their system, which is high time to include the usual disclaimer that you run this at your own risk and not even dga enable is garaunteed to undo the changes

Module Installation:
Download from Releases
Install the module via #Magisk app/Fox Magisk Module Manager/MRepo
Reboot

Usage:

After first run optmization has completed, any further interaction is purely via the included dga script as a binary
in /system/(x)bin:

dga takes 2 arguments, disable or enable, though i doubt too many will be looking to enable
analytics and ad receivers, unless the disabling has unwanted effects on their system, which
is high time to include the usual disclaimer that you run this at your own risk and not even
dga enable is garaunteed to undo the changes
Uninstall Note: Uninstalling the module will not reverse the changes, if your intention is to uninstall the module and re-enable the
analytics and ad receivers, please run dga enable first

Tiling Shell
Advanced Window Management for #Linux #gnome desktops

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/7065/tiling-shell

A GNOME extension for advanced window management. It's highly configurable and offers different ways of tiling and managing your windows. The focus is on delivering the best user experience, highest stability, and full customization.

It also works with multiple monitors (even if they use different scaling), comes with a number of tiling layouts built-in but there is a layout editor to allow you to create and save customs layouts.

Tiling Shell also features the Snap Assistant, borrowed from Windows 11: just move a window to the top with your mouse and the Snap Assistant slides in and you can place the window where you want and how you want.

* Automatic tiling
* Fully customizable keyboard shortcuts to tile, move windows, change focus and more
* You can also move the window to the edge of the screen to tile it
* Right click on the window title to place the window where you want and how you want it
* Coming soon this week, Windows Suggestions: after tiling a window you get suggestions for other windows to fill the remaining tiles
...
There are other features https://github.com/domferr/tilingshell

Tiling Shell supports GNOME Shell 40 to 47 on X11 and Wayland.

IronFox Privacy and security-oriented Firefox-based web browser for Android. https://ironfoxoss.org/ releases new update.

Updated to Firefox 135.0
Updated to Phoenix 2025.02.01.1 - (See changes from the last release of IronFox)
uBlock Origin is now installed by default!
Added a toggle that allow users to spoof their locale to en-US (located under Settings -> Language) for additional fingerprinting protection (using patches from Tor Browser). Users fluent in English are highly recommended to enable this setting.
JavaScript & XFA are now disabled in Firefox's PDF Viewer (PDF.js)
Enabled support for Firefox's tab strip feature on compatible devices - #27
Other minor tweaks & fixes.

https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/releases

Net Switch: Isolate Apps from Internet Access

Net Switch is a Magisk module to isolate apps from accessing the internet on your Android device. This tool gives you complete control over which apps can send or receive data, improving security, privacy, and saving bandwidth.
Fully standalone, Operates fully on iptables.

More info :https://github.com/Rem01Gaming/net-switch

#magisk #firewall #privacy #afwallalterernative