the problem here is not the banks or apps, the problem is Google Play Integrity API, which is supposed to enforce to run apps in secured phones and it is used to ban secured ROMs such as GrapheneOS and it allows to run apps on outdated phones without security patches.

In this case, thanks to regulation, it seems GrapheneOS team is talking with European Commission about this problem with Play Integrity API https://fosstodon.org/@[email protected]/113623767380032309 and the only hope is a movement of the regulator against this policy of Google.

I would say it is Government Parental Control, the government is your parent 😆

I also am waiting for news on this. I think many users lack of an european view. In Europe Whatsapp is a monopoly for Instant Messaging, look at https://www.statista.com/statistics/1005178/share-population-using-whatsapp-europe/. And you do not break a Monopoly with "remove whatsapp and use only signal". I only have 1 contact in Signal, two years ago I had 5 contacts. If I remove Whatsapp, I lack of IM. Period.

Signal has E2EE encryption, Signal collects very few metadata. If they collect very few metadata, they have very few metadata to expose to Whatsapp. If Whatsapp forces them to provide more metadata, they could argue and even ask for arbitration with the European Comission.

But the lack of interest to ever consider the interoperalibity seems to me they are not interested in the european market. They do not want to grow in Europe to become the best privacy-respectful IM solution (with users).

If you want to track all your wealth with one single tool (bank accounts, stocks, bonds, funds, properties...) I would recommend plain text accounting tools suchs as ledger-cli, hledger or beancount. I began with ledger-cli and move later to hledger.

You will learn a lot of double entry accounting and you will keep accounts with plain text files with version control.

It is a rabbit hole...

If you install GrapheneOS, you do not need root, so GrapheneOS is in control of the phone not the user. The key here is if GrapheneOS is secure enough to be certified by Google Play Integrity API. is it security or other issue? perhaps Google is not supporter of FOSS ROMs, perhaps it is not fun of how GrapheneOS removes permissions to Google Apps, ...

If it is not security, this is a kind of monopoly to control which ROMs are allowed to run apps.

this is more or less my current workflow but i feel that is quite difficult to use/find photos in my android phone due to the lack of one android app.

Well, PTA basics are quite simple, you can track quite easy your income and expenses. It depends how much things you want to track (cash, banks, mortage, stocks, ...) and the detail you want to achieve (reports, queries, depreciations, budgets, forecasts...).

The limit is not the tool but your needs or as you said your time.

There are only problems with a bunch of applications that recently decided to use Play Integrity API not with every banking app nor Netflix.

This is the list: https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide#apps-banning-grapheneos

In fact those applications should not work with Lineage unless Play Integrity API is patched/cracked someway in Lineage.

It runs in Lineage? Lineage is certified by Google Play Integrity API (I doubt it)? or Lineage tricks Google Play Integrity API?

So, Matrix (federated) and XMPP (federated) would also have "metadata leaks". I imagine there would be metadata exchanged between federated servers and in addition the E2EE of XMPP and Matrix is not so good/modern as Signal's. When Signal-Whatsapp interoperability is mentioned, all people is worried about metadata leaks but it seems that concern dissapears when federation of Matrix or XMPP is mentioned.

Apart from that and one very personal opinion, I always connected Matrix to IRC, I mean, it is used more for the groups functionality than for the person-to-person functionality. And IRC was never considered an Instant Messaging alternative. But this is a very personal feel.

rm -rf /var

I don't know what I was thinking on to type it 😅

After 8 months, the lemmy PTA community is quite quiet. Perhaps Discourse is a better solution to move people from Reddit, Email lists...

I would like to hear more specific details about the loss of privacy that would require the integration with whatsapp for signal users.

• E2EE would be broken?
• which specific metadata of signal users would be exposed (metadata that is not now required by signal)? less metadata of current whatsapp users would be required?
• integration could be a user option?

Because I see a lot of fear but few details that justify it.

I have a domain... but I think DynDNS is not always available for every domain or by every domain seller?

AFAIK immich organize photos with albums not in folders. So, If i move from immich to another software (librephotos, photoprism...), the new software is aware of albums? I am worried on organizing my photos every time I change of photo management application.

I track the investments with the "@ notation" since I came to hledger from ledger-cli and I don't see any clear improvement to convert it to "standard postings with equity:conversion accounts". Any improvement? only to get to balance the book?

I totally agree with you that PTA is a-must to control finances but it not easy to analyze or understand in depth the financial situation (something that goes beyond the monthly or anual expenses, revenues, p/l... ). But information is there in the journals.

I also migrated to just and it was a big change. I can think about the most useful-complex reports and make them available with a simple command to never forget them. And even when the report is displayed, the hledger command is displayed so I can remember/verify the meaning of the report. I have a bunch of reports I use often:

• just common-expenses: all the discretional expenses (excluding taxes...) with my partner
• just my-expenses: my personal discretional expenses (excluding taxes...)
• just is: my overall inconmestatement
• just is-job: my incomestatement of all the expenses (including taxes) against the revenues of my job. This report gives me my savings and I like this report because I prefer to assign the revenues of my investments to the ROI of my investments.
• just roi: hledger roi ROI report of my investments
• ....

I tried hledger-vega but it was a bit complex to maintain and to modify, but savings graph was really clarifying. It help me to understand what was really a saving in my journal.

I will check https://hledger.org/scripts.html#hledger-combine-balances and https://hledger.org/scripts.html#hledger-bar. hledger-combine-balances is the first report I was interested in :).

(I am the author of the comment in Reddit) AFAIK there is no instance of lemmy in fosstodon.org and there is no FOSS-only-purpose server in Lemmy.

I agree perhaps lemmy.world server is one of the best options to locate the community due the size (size is important in the fediverse because higher servers are supposed less tending to disappear or to have funding problems) (https://lemmy.world/post/579472) and as @[email protected] said it includes the lemmy word. However, so far, there is no way to migrate one community from one lemmy server to another one and the only solution would be to create a new community in a new server and remove this one to avoid confusion (there are few posts so I think is a good time to do it).

So, we had people who loved to send unencrypted SMS messages with Signal. And now we have people who opposes to send encrypted E2EE messages because they could leak supposedly a lot of metadata such as "when the message was delivered, who it was sent to and more" and it would be the end of privacy in Signal.

We should not forget that this only happens if you send messages out of Signal. This would be optional for every user of Signal.

Interoperatibility is the CORE of Internet. Silos are contrary to the idea of Internet. This is an opportunity to interconnect systems, to boost innovation and to give the opportunity to signal and others to gain users, which is now almost impossible with the current monopoly of whatsapp in Europe.

I imagine all the extremist of privacy in Signal with a Proton email account. And I imagine them only sending/receiving emails from other Proton email accounts. Sending to SPAM or to the delete folder every other email because other emails do not achieve the privacy requirements of Proton. In fact, the only real good solution for privacy with Email is to delete the Email account.