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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • A privacy preserving location sharing system that shows you a map can only work with offline maps. If the maps arent offline, then that means the server delivering the map data knows where you are.

    I dont know of an offline maps based live location app. There are plenty of non google apps that do this in a non private way as a primary or secondary function. Matrix/Element can do it and there are apps on fdroid (ToLoShare for example), that do it. But all of those have to somehow depend on a server that delivers the map “tiles” (chunks of map data near you) to show you a map. So they are all technically capable of tracking you.

    The only really private way to do this is to share the coordinates through a secure channel in an automated way and then whenever you need it you open those coordinates in you offline maps app (CoMaps for example)







  • I use mine as an always on syncthing node. After people on here told me last time that i was inviting death, i put it into a ceramic plant pot with a lid and set it on the balcony with a long charging cable. Its still in reach of my wifi so it works perfectly fine. If it burns, it burns outside with nothing flammable near it :)

    If you instead connect it to a portable solar charger + powerbank, you could even remove the grid connection and just put it in a sealed plastic box outside.