AnEilifintChorcra

@AnEilifintChorcra@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨David McBride: Australian army whistleblower jailed for leaking documents⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt4CxFfQUU a 20 minute interview with him

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sense of Urgency About Climate Change Is Declining Among Youth, Poll Finds⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh I’m just so tired of it, my whole life I’ve been warned about this constantly, non stop, and nobody with any power does anything effective ever.

  I do all my little environmentally friendly things and they’re all just routine now. I rarely even bother to read about it anymore because its so depressing and I’ve been told lie after lie after lie that this policy will help and that regulation will be great and and these new laws will counteract it and then… Nothing, just right back to destroying this pale blue dot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Governments spying on Apple and Google users through phone notifications, U.S. senator says⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure Element stays active in the background, it may have asked you to turn off battery optimisation and have a silent notification always active. This decreases battery life which is why most apps don’t do this but it allows the app to constantly ping the server to check for new messages and is one way around using FCM.

  Fair email uses en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAP_IDLE instead of FCM, I’m no expert and this is just my guess but it seems to also need the app to run in the background for this to work.

  Silence is SMS and MMS only and so doesn’t use internet and so has no need for FCM or any alternative anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Governments spying on Apple and Google users through phone notifications, U.S. senator says⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For android, Google uses Firebase Cloud Messaging, basically a server that pings the phone when a notification for an app is available, which wakes the app up to receive the notification. There are alternatives but they need to be adopted by app devs for them to work.

  For people running a degoogled android, they’ll notice most apps won’t receive any notifications until they open the apps since most apps rely on Google Play Services to receive a ping from FCM.

  I don’t have any google play services so most of my apps don’t give me push notifications but I do have WhatsApp installed and that still receives notifications, they’re sometimes delayed by a few minutes which makes me think Meta have their own implementation/alternative to FCM but I’m not sure.

  For Signal, their servers tell Googles FCM servers that you have notifications waiting on Signals servers and to wake up your Signal app so it can communicate with Signals servers to receive your messages.

  WhatsApp and Signal claim/have end-end encryption on their messages but that shouldn’t matter when specifically looking at Googles FCM servers so, at most it would be meta data that could be obtained from the FCM servers.

  jami.net/unifiedpush/ has a pretty basic explanation of push notifications on android and also showcases an alternative to FCM unifiedpush.org which has a nice little diagram about push notifications on android. Unfortunately, Unifiedpush is not widely adopted by many applications.

  So there are ways to avoid Googles FCM servers on android using Unifiedpush or always having the application on in the background but for the most part FCM is used.