Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS
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Unofficial, FOSS-friendly fork of the original Telegram client for Android
25 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 0 stories, 25 comments · first 2015-06-24 · latest 2024-05-09
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…source code for extended periods of time, which caused Telegram-FOSS to be significantly behind: https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/issues/1... I'm not up to date on the current state of affairs, but I hope this has…
comment by thomas34298 · 2024-05-09 · in Telegram founder claims Signal has a US government backdoor -
…use firebase for notifications, so I forever have a message in my drawer that leads to this link: https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/mas... I doubt it solves much but I like to think of it as a little poke in the eye.
comment by troyvit · 2023-12-06 · in Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications -
…a single path was done for that reason. Btw, here's the telegram team complaining about the change: https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/mas... Facebook abused this a bunch. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/fe…
comment by kyrra · 2023-12-06 · in Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications -
…There is nothing ready right now. [1] https://github.com/UnifiedPush/wishlist/issues/18 [2] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/issues/5...
comment by karmanyaahm · 2022-12-22 · in UnifiedPush: A decentralized, open-source push notification protocol -
There is an unofficial FOSS version. I'm not sure if it is feature complete, secure, etc. https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS
comment by _-david-_ · 2022-10-12 · in Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon) -
... and Telegram FOSS [1] fixes all of the mentioned points? [1] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS
comment by cookiengineer · 2021-04-14 · in WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal -
…trackers. [1] https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AppWarden [2] https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/ [3] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS
comment by cookiengineer · 2021-02-02 · in Investigation Xoth: Smartphone location tracking -
…previously keeping background connection to exclusively use its Firebase push messaging service." https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/mas...
comment by colllectorof · 2021-01-30 · in Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store -
…LineageOS without any burden of push services. You can verify this yourself with AppWarden [2]. [1] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS [2] https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AppWarden
comment by cookiengineer · 2021-01-07 · in Poll: Switching from WhatsApp -
…behind the releases they upload to the Google Play Store. [1] https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram [2] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS [3] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS#changes
comment by circularfoyers · 2021-01-05 · in Telegram publishes users' locations online -
…the location, which I have disabled. So I guess I'm safe? It's mentioned in this changelog item: https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/847... It usually takes some time for Telegram to be published on F-Droid, so the…
comment by est31 · 2021-01-05 · in Telegram publishes users' locations online -
> Commits are useless (one commit per release) FTR Telegram is released in a similar fashion: https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS They do have releases more often than Threema though which means the commits are smaller.
comment by est31 · 2020-12-21 · in Threema apps are Open Source -
…respecting" featureset) [2] https://github.com/Leanplum/Leanplum-Android-SDK/blob/master... [3] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/mas... [4] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/blob/5ad714db864bce7... [5]…
comment by cookiengineer · 2020-12-16 · in Our Year in Review: How We’ve Made Firefox Faster in 2020 -
…notifications that never go away: "Telegram" / "Push service: tap to learn more" (tapping opens https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/mas... ) "Signal" / "Background connection enabled" Both are serving the same purpose,…
comment by LukeShu · 2020-12-08 · in Expanding Fuchsia's open source model -
…with Orbot being used as a Proxy. (You can verify this via AppWarden if you don't trust me) [1] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS [2] https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd [3] https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AppWarden/ [4]…
comment by cookiengineer · 2020-11-30 · in E Foundation – deGoogled unGoogled smartphone OS and online services -
…fork also is g-services and telemetry/firebase free (you can verify this with AppWarden). [1] [1] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS
comment by cookiengineer · 2020-11-30 · in A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space -
You can find the releases here, and if there is a delay it is only a few days at most: https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/releases Only the clients are open source, but anyone could use the source code to create their own…
comment by chromedev · 2020-08-21 · in Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests -
…an almost feature parity between the desktop https://desktop.telegram.org/changelog and the mobile https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/HEA... which lead me to think that whoever wrote this article didn't make the right…
comment by RMPR · 2020-04-21 · in Telegram vs. Signal vs. Status – The Secure Messaging App of the Future -
…the changelogs for the desktop app https://desktop.telegram.org/changelog and the mobile one https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/HEA... such a lie make me throw away the entire article, not to mention the author of the…
comment by RMPR · 2020-04-21 · in Telegram vs. Signal vs. Status – The Secure Messaging App of the Future -
…not build the packages for f-droid. [1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.telegram.messenger/ [2] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS [3] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.schueller.peertube/
comment by sschueller · 2019-08-11 · in Telegram introduces feature to prevent users from texting too often in a group -
…against FCM. They are just comparing two different methods of running in the background. See: https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/mas...
comment by shawnz · 2019-06-10 · in Android now forces apps to include proprietary code for push notifications -
…is applied since Oreo, which is released two years ago. Why this problem arises today? [1]: https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/mas...
comment by kbumsik · 2019-06-10 · in Android now forces apps to include proprietary code for push notifications -
There is a popular fork of the telegram android app (used e.g. by f-droid) https://github.com/slp/Telegram-FOSS Maybe this repo compiles.
comment by Findus23 · 2017-02-28 · in Telegram for Android is no longer open source -
There is a FOSS Version: https://github.com/slp/Telegram-FOSS But yeah Telegram isn't as free as it should be (Server etc.).
comment by carlos22 · 2015-10-11 · in Islamic State has shifted to Telegram from Twitter -
…People do have complained about this [1][2], but he obviously doesn't (want to) understand git. 0: https://github.com/slp/Telegram-FOSS/issues 1: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/pull/76 2: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/issues/1007
comment by _jomo · 2015-06-24 · in Telegram Bot Platform