#termux

When I don't have a laptop with me, I sometimes do server admin stuff using my smartphone. It's a reasonably secure phone because it runs a hardened Android distribution called #GrapheneOS. Or so I thought. Shoddy apps can of course violate your security and privacy on any operating system. As a matter of fact, I once set up a Mastodon server via SSH using my smartphone as a terminal. My terminal app of choice is @termux@fosstodon.org – it almost feels like Debian Gnu/Linux. Today I found out that the #Termux developers do not care about their users' privacy: They put Google's DNS resolvers as defaults into their app and do tell their users about it. Which means that until today, Google learnt about each hostname I resolved in Termux, although I had configured my smartphone to use a different DNS resolver. The Termux developers were alerted to this bug ten years ago by @rugk@chaos.social but chose not to do anything about it. Someone wrote a shell script to correct this. But it requires special permissions you can only grant via ADB. So I just used a text editor to replace Google's DNS resolvers with privacy-respecting ones gleaned from @kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de's recommendations in my first link: editor /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/etc/resolv.conf #TIL #dnsleak #terminal #android #app #privacy

my server is a phone now rooting a CMF Phone 1 to run my personal infrastructure at home.

• https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/

#android #linux #server #termux #tailscale #ansible #caddy #cmf #cmfphone #cmf_phone

My Termux install on Android three has just been updated. Up to do the others #Termux #apt #upgrade #programming #Android #OpenSource

Today, May the 4th, we are releasing the terminal music player kew 4.0 "Love is gonna save us edition" for Linux, macOS, Android (Termux) and FreeBSD.

New in this version:

• New playback pipeline with improved performance and latency (built on miniaudio)

• Real-time ASCII visualizations (via Chroma)

Free, open source, no tracking, no ads, completely offline

Demo Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql5ZKeaX2MQ

More info:
https://codeberg.org/ravachol/kew https://github.com/ravachol/kew

#music #savemusic #opensource #linux #macos #freeBSD #android #termux

I was unsatisfed with all the music players for Android, as none of them had the flexability of the mpc, mpd, and ncmpcpp workflow.

So I started using that on Termux, then I was bored, and found out about the termux-notification command. Setting that script was pretty stright forward. Do keep in mind that this does require the termux-api app.

There are two notifications types "default" and "media". Default gives you 3 button which you could customize the text and function of. Media givesbyou those 4 media buttons, and i think it interacts with Android's media shenanigans.

Anyway, I needed more than 4 buttons, so I thought of the following features: if you press pasue/play while the mpd is already paused/playing you'll get another notification with an alt menu. Sadly I couldn't implement it correctly, as switching between the notifications kept spawning instances of "mpc current --wait" that I didn't know how to get rid of. So that remains a project for later.

Other cool shit you can do with termux-api:

• Turn the phone's torch on and off.
• Get data from phone sensors (i think there's a sensor for when headphones are plugged in/off which would be useful for me).

Todo:

• Implement the alt menu, to give me options such as adding artists, albums, playists and stuff. I thunk i'll just go with shell command execution. If you use the "$REPLY" variable in your notification actions, you can enter arbitraty text and process it in termux.
• Upload this thing to codeberg lol.

#tech, #termux, #music, #musicmanagement, #musicdatabase, #mpd, #musicplayerdaemon, #android