TazmanianThe most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China.
Didn’t swiftpad or whatever its called send every key pressed to Microsoft?
cunnilingsusI agree with the “Use FOSS” part, but I can’t help but notice a double standard thats often taken when these kinds of stories pop up. How come whenever a Chinese compant does something like this, China is always at fault? Why is it never America’s fault when something like this happens with an American company or product?
Just for one thing, Chinese companies are required to have CCP members in their leadership.
So in China the CPC forces companies to have CPC members in their leadership, but in the USA companies bribe and coerce our leaders to do whatever they want. The US government allows companies in the US surveil everyone and everything with great intensity, and in return all of them will turn over that information to the government anyway… So companies in both countries partake in surveillance on people, but the CPC imposes oversight onto the company while US companies impose oversight onto the government. (or more accurately, businesses and the government work together to the benefit of business)
idk, if we had a state run by a communist party, it would be pretty cool if they forced workers on to the board of Exon, Norfolk Southern, or Raytheon etc
Have you ever heard about NSA?
I mean like the FBI buys all that data without a warrant anyways… So st least we pretend its not happening but like were practically looking in a mirror
I think China’s worse. In many cases much worse, in some cases only a bit worse. But I do not excuse America.
Look at Xinjang. The Uyghurs are facing cultural eradication. Look at African Americans. Their situation is still bad and not ok! But it is the lesser evil when you compare what the US does to their minorities compared to what China does to theirs
TheLowestStoneCareful, there are some Americans that might take that as a challenge.
Realistically its hard to say, america had the benefit of worldwide influence so doesn’t even need to do their dirty work on their land. They’ve also been at war for quite a lot longer than China, solely for personal gain.
Realistically they’re both shit, let’s just scrap the whole thing and start again
ghost_of_faso2China releases theres after 1-2 years, america holds them for life for slave labour
both the same though
lets not forget who invented the gas chambers
My man or woman, you are a communist idiot.
Up through the mid 20th century, all kids of toxic insecticides were used for all sorts of irresponsible purposes, as their full their effects were not known. The world spewed lead-based gas into the atmosphere through the 1960s. Asbestos was considered a miracle chemical. DDT was just sprayed into the air in rich and poor neighborhoods.
Using Zyklon B in a gas chamber and using it to disinfect clothes are very different things.
In fact, not but two years ago the US was requiring vaccination with a still experimental vaccine, the long-term effects of which are still unknown, to enter into the country.
did you read the source where the germans while constructing concentration camps refrenced and studied the gas chambers on the mexican border or not, because they did.
Using Zyklon B in a gas chamber and using it to disinfect clothes are very different things.
Shoving people into gas chambers against there will because they are foriegn (not just there clothes, people) was invented by America, the Nazis just turned up the concentration.
This shouldnt be suprising to you, america is worse than Nazi germany; the Nazis where stopped and defeated, Americas genocide succeeded against the native american population and is ongoing againt the african american population.
There was indeed genocide against the Native Americans. It, however, is no longer ongoing. In fact, they receive a lot of federal money. Native Americans can live and work anywhere in the United States. They can use their native languages, they can form part of the government. The current US Secretary of the Interior is a native of Laguna Indian Pueblo, from my own home state of New Mexico!
There is no genocide against African American people. There is indeed perhaps over-policing and discrimination. That is not genocide!! That doesn’t make it moral or right, but genocide it is not.
You know what, when NASA and the USSR were inventing rockets they studied the German V2 rockets. When the US made a the first nuclear bomb they studied the work of quantum physicists. When the US bulid the interstate system they studied the Nazi Autobahn. This doesn’t mean anything. Knowledge is neutral no matter its origin. It’s up to people to use it for good or bad.
You are an absolute idiot. Goodbye.
There is no genocide against African American people. There is indeed perhaps over-policing and discrimination. That is not genocide!! That doesn’t make it moral or right, but genocide it is not.
The american prison population is larger than every country in the world combined and larger than any historic prison population in the history of mankind, you are an idiot if you think this.
Like with most communists your only response to disagreements is to spew out-of-context word salad.
‘gas chambers are up to the induvidual to use for good or bad’ is your level of discourse
Catradora-Stalinism☭that honestly should be the norm for every company
I wanted to ask if you were born yesterday but I’ll try to be more educative than sassy.
All companies in China exist purely with the blessing of the political party. No approval, no company. Everything is done by their books.
And in US is other way around, every political party has blessing of companies.
All companies in China exist purely with the blessing of the political party. No approval, no company. Everything is done by their books.
Damn I wish that was me fr
I’ve never seen a more stupid reply. Are you a bot?
Yes, Im being paid personally by Xi and Putin to post and my posts are generated by ChatGPT, you can blame me for not having healthcare champ.
What are the best FOSS options for Android keyboard apps? I’ve been struggling with this lately.
Seconded. I use Gboard because it has the same functionality but I have to sandbox it and restrict all internet access via firewall. I still don’t trust it and would prefer a FOSS alternative with the same functionality.
How to you do that?
Not OP, but this can be managed with Datura firewall on CalyxOs
You can sandbox an app using Shelter. You can block the internet access of that app using NetGuard. Both apps are available on F-Droid and easy to setup. No special OS needed but I strongly recommend GrapheneOS to avoid backdoors.
Thank you vm! NetGuard is awesome. I will test Shelter.
Glad to help. Consider dropping the NetGuard dev some coin, he’s doing incredible work. He also develops FairEmail which imho is the best IMAP email app in existence.
FlorishBoard
F-Droid says the app hasn’t been updated in the last 14 months. Is the project still worked on? It says beta on the website.
makingrain
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Please see the up-to-date state of the project here: #2314 TL;DR at the bottom Hey everyone, quite a long time has passed since the last update to FlorisBoard was made and I must admit it kinda see...
Thanks for the recommendation. This comment is typed using a freshly installed florisboard keyboard :)
I use OpenBoard (it’s available on fDroid. Maybe the play store too).
I don’t know if it’s the best but I like it. If you type in multiple languages you do need to hit a “language switcher” key on the keyboard to switch to the autocorrect for that language. A very minor complaint. Otherwise it’s great.
And it will learn swear words. No more ducking ducks.
OpenBoard - every other keyboard app is ducking shirt
If you type in multiple languages you do need to hit a “language switcher” key on the keyboard to switch to the autocorrect for that language. A very minor complaint. Otherwise it’s great.
That’s a huge dealbreaker for me. Switching keyboards is a pain and the different keyboards will have different layouts that I would have to learn to touch-type.
I only dislike it for German. My other languages are Spanish and English, which have the same layout minus one extra key not even used in English. But in German Z and Y change places, so that always trips me up.
Having to remember to switch to the different language when writing a bilingual email is also annoying and does happen somewhat more often than you’d imagine.
For me the keyboard is almost the same except the sizing changes slightly because of the three extra keys on the right side. So I would have to switch between a semi-ortholinear and a staggered keyboard which is pretty annoying. And yeah remembering to switch is also pretty hard for me.
I’m partial to thumbkey. It even has a Lemmy community: [email protected]
Thumb-Key - Lemmy
## About Thumb-Key [https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key] is a privacy-conscious smart keyboard, made specifically for your thumbs. It features a 3x3 grid layout, as many older phones had, and uses swipes for the less common letters. Initial testing shows that you can reach ~25 words per minute after a day of use. Instead of relying on profit-driven, privacy-offending word and sentence prediction for accuracy, as do most popular phone keyboards like Gboard and Swiftkey, Thumb-Key uses large keys with predictable positions, to prevent your eyes from hunting and pecking [https://www.keyboardingonline.com/hunting-and-pecking/] for letters. As the key positions get ingrained into your muscle memory, eventually you’ll be able to appromixate the fast speeds of touch-typing [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_typing], your eyes never having to leave the text edit area. This project is a follow-up to the now unmaintained (and closed-source) MessageEase Keyboard [https://www.exideas.com/ME/], which is its main inspiration.
Thanks for the heads up. It’s really similar to the keyboard I use.
OpenBoard with Gesture
KSP AtlasUsing FlorisBoard right now, no auto correct but you’ll adapt
Think you mean SwiftKey which Microsoft just introduced bing AI into that you can’t turn off. I 100 percent assume they now use all your typing data to train their ai too. They won’t even let you use themes without logging in to an account so I again assume they also tie data to accounts.
China is glorious
Yes that’s why I’ve disabled Internet access for my keyboard since I haven’t found an FOSS one with all the features I want. Not that I need them but they’re nice and blocking network access is built in GrapheneOS anyway.