I will distrust CIA sponsored fact checkers. A lot of mainstream bullshit is cut down here.

If they really care about security, they should ban and dissolve all social media companies entirely. Otherwise this is just xenophobic targeting of non-Anglosphere and/or Chinese companies, like Huawei and ZTE in the past.

See, this is precisely why people like you deserve to be called wordsmith weasels.

Oh yes, sailing with missiles within 12 nautical miles of a country is international waters. Got it. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/asia/us-navy-south-china-sea-freedom-of-navigation-intl-hnk/index.html

When will Czech and Denmark (puppets of USA) declare such warnings against Google, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, Amazon and Microsoft? Spoiler: they will never dare to, because national security is basically excuse for curbing democratic freedoms of citizens they so love to honk and scream about.

Heard of “freedom of navigation” terrorism that USA Navy loves?

Got any shred of evidence that Huawei ever spied on people?

USA is undefeated since 1970s when CIA global surveillance programs started ramping up. And the global Skynet is 5/9/14 Eyes plus Israel and Japan.

I guess westerners eternally rely on a circular logic loop of projection-based trolling on international level, since that is their only talent. They and their countries are rotten useless mess destined to be like this forever, like hopeless daydreaming romantic hippies smoking weed on streets.

yt-dlp (command line, for all OSes)

Also, on Windows you can use IDM’s video grabber (get IDM from LRepacks.net, safe site) which works very conveniently with websites that require sign-in/cookies, and on Linux that would be XDM + VideoDownload Helper addon in browser.

Since Ubuntu 18.04 (now 22.04) I have kept trying and forcing myself to try and use Wayland. Nope. Wayland is not ready yet. Still on X.

I like the featureset of AnySoftKeyboard way too much. It even managed to replace swipe typing for me. Stock GrapheneOS keyboard is just rebranded stock AOSP keyboard, pretty basic and lacking.

Was the target not March 2022?

Go back to reddit.

Read the article.

I want to share my snippet of thought on this AI chat assistant phenomenon. We should stay away from empowering any of these corporation models with our data and input, and exclusively choose to empower open community models. OpenAI CEO recently making a statement about how he is dismantling capitalism, as a corporation, smelled too foul to me.

https://github.com/ligurio/awesome-ci

There is a whole list here depending on the needs you have.

4pda? Great, however it is Russian only.

FileCR, Apk4all, Apk4fun, onhax

Go to Telegram APK channels and try to notice the names of crackers/scene groups/creators on APK, and use that to find good scene cracker sources.

Well… seriously, go and read those archived r/linux and HN comments. This fellow here is pretty well known in privacy community to be basically someone who shits on Linux and praises Windows and MacOS security. This person and Brad Spengler were the ones to begin this trend of Big Tech “security” apologia in privacy community, which has become a disease with GrapheneOS on the mobile side of things now.

These specimens/entities coincidentally praise the security of Windows, MacOS, Google Pixel, Apple Secure Enclave, while calling Linux and FOSS projects horrible nightmare all the time, consistently. Moreover, they also coincidentally happen to call PRISM Snowden and Assange revelations irrelevant jokes (see https://web.archive.org/web/20220418214232/https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/iox6rq/should_i_get_an_iphone_if_i_value_privacy/ or https://i.imgur.com/xcryYvM.jpg).

There is a lot to it, and its hard to form a gist of it other than these entities being extremely dangerous to and being the equivalent of termites to privacy community, everywhere one exists.

Tor has completely broken application on Brave, and leaks a lot of information.

Be grateful for the transparency I portray, and for presenting what people otherwise would never have known. Even I see it as a bit cringey, but I was neck deep into privacy community back then, and you have to use certain lingo to mesh with that crowd.

If I told you madaidan used to (probably still moderates) NSFW subreddits years ago, you would be shell shocked.

GrapheneOS is a custom Android fork with largely no security enhancements, besides UX rework and copypasting other security projects. They sell snake oil in the name of prestigious glory that FLOSS label carries.

https://np.reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/v4wkon/i_guess_people_still_havent_forgotten/iba4og2/

Its lead developer (who became irrelevant in society) and his acolytes believe in purposely creating insane amounts of toxicity and drama to remain relevant in the privacy community. They baselessly label everyone with political epithets to defame everyone, and then scream “defamation” when a counter argument is presented to their manufactured position.

The long comment by official GrapheneOS account should be here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220502064114/https://old.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/uged1y/is_grapheneos_actually_good_or_just_hype/

Recently someone informed me of them creating drama with Bromite (on which their Vanadium browser is based) and FlorisBoard projects. They labelled those project maintainers with very bad, false epithets.

https://github.com/bromite/bromite/pull/2102#issuecomment-1155760155

https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues/2141

http://web.archive.org/web/20220803142758/https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/issues/1921

I had the opportunity to elaborate on the entire feature list of GrapheneOS, as per their website, last year. Look here. https://i.imgur.com/pQHoq84.jpg

There are only 3 things they ever did on their own as extras, and even they have basically no value in the grand scheme of things, them being offering:

• instead of 16 character, 64 character password limit on lockscreen
• PIN scrambling
• Morula method of exec spawning instead of Zygote method used in most AOSP projects

Now, I will elaborate on these 3.

• Elaborating on first one, it is kind of useless as you can see for obvious reasons.
• For second one, you already understand why fingerprint avoids the issue of someone peeping at your PIN/password entered across your shoulder. Fingerprint is infinitely superior. Even more so with Android and iOS both offering biometric Lockdown features.
• This one is somewhat half credible, but the goal is to destroy the memory blocks used by an app after it is exited, so that memory blocks do not retain essential text strings of data to exploit. For this, you can just go to Developer Options and enable “Don’t keep activities” and it will achieve the same effect as Morula method of exec spawning implemented by GrapheneOS.

So out of the 20-30 features GrapheneOS claims they developed, everything is either a modification of app permissions or firewalling or AOSP feature rebranding.

Also, as you may have famously heard about “Sandboxed Play Services”, it is not developed by GrapheneOS, but a project called ProtonAOSP, whose developer is kdrag0n. GrapheneOS copied that off and rebranded it as their own developed thing.

Recently someone informed me of them creating drama with Bromite (on which their Vanadium browser is based) and FlorisBoard projects. They labelled those project maintainers with very bad, false epithets.

https://github.com/bromite/bromite/pull/2102#issuecomment-1155760155

https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues/2141

http://web.archive.org/web/20220803142758/https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/issues/1921

Brave is basically just for people too dumb to install uBlock Origin on Firefox, and who desire a worse experience with the fickle greed of BAT garbage.

Let me provide you a little more on the subject.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220418212845/https://old.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/i80uki/theymozilla_killed_entire_threat_management_team/g1703is/

https://web.archive.org/web/20220418213345/https://old.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/i80uki/theymozilla_killed_entire_threat_management_team/g162g4r/?context=10000

Tweet linked in above hysteric post https://web.archive.org/web/20200812145114/https://nitter.net/MichalPurzynski/status/1293220570885062657

The job of madaidan/Spengler/GrapheneOS church is to hate and destroy FLOSS projects that condemn their actions or do not fall in line with them, and even attempt witch hunts on people that criticise them. I was a victim of it last year, as they hijacked the Matrix room of this very community (which I was unable to save since admins did not listen to me) and attempted to create fabricate projection lies against me because I moderate this place. https://archive.ph/acy2h

No, he is just another victim of madaidan/Spengler/GrapheneOS church propaganda.

One of the best… you mean toilet papers of the internet, repeatedly trashed by r/linux and HN users?

https://web.archive.org/web/20210929053611/https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/pwi1l9/thoughts_about_an_article_talking_about_the/

https://web.archive.org/web/20220111035527/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25590079

https://archive.is/zxS72

madaidan is an admin of GrapheneOS, NoGoolag, SpiteChat communities/chatrooms across various platforms. The “insecurities” blog chap, notorious for a lot of misinformation in FOSS and Linux communities but opposite in a big chunk of mainstream privacy community. A staple of the “redditor hackerman” starterpack, for people who know nothing better.

He knows literally nothing and has proven his credentials https://i.imgur.com/UHhQRIU.jpg and https://i.imgur.com/FiYhbkk.jpg, among many other places.

BAT is Brave Attention Token, a form of crypto exclusive and locked into Brave. Its like a little crypto mining scam.

Brave Browser is funded by DoD: https://np.reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/fe34ls/exclusive_brave_browser_funded_by_dod_contractor/

Brave traffic detected with Cryptocompare despite BAT rewards disabled: https://unddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/gr8nue/ (removeddit no longer works, use unddit)

Brave also has a known history of whitelisting Facebook and Twitter trackers, and has a crippled adblocker that does not work on Brave’s “acceptable” advertisements.

Brave Browser hardcoded their crypto partner Binance referral links (https://twitter.com/cryptonator1337/status/1269201480105578496) alongwith Ledger and soon-to-be-compromised Coinbase (https://decrypt.co/31461/coinbase-wants-to-identify-bitcoin-users-for-dea-irs)

Also some new stuff you might want to check.

https://sick.codes/sick-2021-109/

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/13527

Well, Braxman is not really about the useless services he offers. His commentary on privacy is fine, and there are a lot more scams like GrapheneOS that people need to worry about.

Because I wanted to democratise privacy for masses by giving them 97-100% benefit of “elitist” setups.

Also I must destroy the elitists, pretend experts and privacy circus that goes on in the community. They exist to harm FLOSS movement, use the prestigious label to masquerade as sheeps and harass and datamine privacy users by gaining trust.

It was always a lie to fool everyone thinking GrapheneOS is in the same race as XDA, Braxman and individual reflashed Pixel sellers, trying to capitalise on privacy market by selling a phone.

It was always a lie to fool everyone thinking GrapheneOS is in the same race as XDA, Braxman and individual reflashed Pixel sellers, trying to capitalise on privacy market by selling a phone.

The Z in czf stands for ze

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I wholly support this and would have done the same in their place, before AI art gets out of control.

That moment when even Taiwan sees USA as a threat to its future…

I stick to ProtonMail. It is the most mainstream one that also does things that Gmail and Outlook do not do, and has well polished service.

Thread is locked due to unnecessary back and forth comments.

If you believe DMCAs ever got successfully enforced on wild west internet, I have a little whisper secret to share with you about digital piracy.

All that I do these days is get the 160kbps OPUS files from YouTube. I am getting old and tired, but must look into this matter ASAP.

loathsome and moist, is it time for me to finally look into Soulseek?

2/3 is just ads and the rest is manipulated and bad feed content

Xiaomi lacks the patents and uses Qualcomm Snapdragon hardware. This is the same reason Honor will remain unaffected similar to Xiaomi. The goal was to destroy 5G patent pool of Huawei and prevent people from buying mainstream phones devoid of NSA backdoors.