I disagree, there are many resources for making and distributing android reproducible builds, including third-party F-Droid repos like IzzyOnDroid mentioned in my previous link.

And to my knowledge there is no technical requirement that F-Droid actually needs to build OR sign packages on behalf of anyone… I haven’t seen any actual official rationale listed for it, but I assume one of the main reasons is convenience for the developers so they don’t have to provide their own builds and deal with signing/losing keys.

I understand that the risk of problems can be somewhat mitigated in F-Droid by using reproducible builds, but I don’t consider that sufficient for the most privacy-conscious users because:

• reproducible builds are not required by F-Droid

• it is not made clear to the user that a particular package even supports reproducible builds

• the verification of reproducible builds is not made plainly visible somewhere publicly if at all

• a user can still easily be misled by a one-off rogue package that is NOT reproducible, due to the previous point

• independent verifications of those builds reliably made by others are not common

Conversely I stay clear of F-Droid as they build and sign packages on behalf of the original developers, adding yet another point of injection for malicious code or supply chain attacks.

how do we know those aren’t just bots/propaganda?

you can’t know that

except gaia is one of the largest forums on earth.

they have more subscribers than Apple TV+

For good privacy (from fingerprinting) it is undoubtedly a bad choice.

I’m really surprised servers have not started by default limiting and/or vetting who can federate with them. I know many Lemmy instances block many other instances from federating with them, but only after learning about what a lot of their content is. To me this practice kinda creates a very fragmented “which wind would you like to piss into” problem.

People don’t know about what they don’t hear about

Some people take the initiative to learn things on their own though. I suppose we’re not their target audience however.

Batteries do not explode, they burn.

not sure but I heard they recently caught the FGC-9 designer

EDIT found the story: https://news.sky.com/story/jacob-duygu-incel-who-mysteriously-died-unmasked-as-creator-of-worlds-most-popular-3d-printed-gun-12997178

MacOS9 and BeOS/Haiku

Unfortunately neither GSM nor UMTS works in the US anymore. Only LTE/VoLTE and above is supported.

Indeed… for example OTF (who is funded by US Congress) has provided funding for several large open source projects like Signal, Tor, F-Droid etc. and some have taken this to mean they might be compromised… but of course there’s no actual proof of that to my knowledge. And even in the linked article the author appears to use a bunch of half-truths and just straight up makes things up that don’t actually exist in the sources they say contain what he writes (example: OTF/Congress is not the CIA).

Personally I don’t have any suspicion or reason to believe they might be compromised, but if such proof ever did come around… I wouldn’t be surprised.

Friendly reminder that Signal on Android contains proprietary code (google play services), and the server software is rumored to be closed now and/or not what they are actually using due to a lack of updates for a prolonged period. Of course it’s just a rumor and I have no way to verify that, but thought it was worth mentioning (hope this doesn’t count as FUD).

Molly-FOSS seems to be the preferred mobile alternative client.

Yep. Though not sure about Russia but I know China can and does block the majority of usual Tor access methods including the obfuscating pluggable transports like obfs4/snowflake/etc.

There are already many signal proxies available, plus an unlimited number of VPNs to choose from (or self-host yourself on a VPS)

need boot capabilities in order to “exploit” this

only with broken Secure Boot implementations

already patched in EPYC microcode

a nothingburger released suspiciously a day after Intel breaks news of being sued by their own shareholders (https://www.techpowerup.com/325414/intel-faces-shareholder-lawsuit-amid-financial-turmoil-and-layoffs-company-misled-investors)

How many companies does it take to not become an -opoly anymore?

I thought the money was to protect their monopoly status.

default what?

ah yes the all-important tebibytes.

I meant besides crunchyroll… but are you trying to imply that they shouldn’t have done this or that their harmful content is not a problem that should be dealt with?

have you seen literally any comments section lately?

A new recall every two months is probably a world record.

nobody

I think you might be in for a rude awakening.

attack the argument, not the person

they shouldn’t have the data in the first place. constant data leaks have shown us that is the only way to have some privacy.

most people are stupid. you and I don’t click on ads, sure, but how do you think google got all their money? you have to cater to the idiots.

a browser with 2% market share isn’t getting anywhere without lots of money. I fail to see the issue?

PSA: Vivaldi is proprietary software

I wouldn’t consider any of those to be trivial to build though.

I wouldn’t exactly call a cotton gin “trivial” to build…

no one had thought to do it

Could you please give some examples of this? I’d love to know more.

devil’s advocate would be calling this a hollow publicity stunt

plot twist: joke’s on you, it’s just viral marketing

The only time I have ever heard of anyone complaining about the name were literally the Glimpse devs themselves.

I don’t think the name is why it isn’t used so much. I think it’s because it’s un-intuitive and almost incomparable to non-destructive/parametric professional programs. You can’t even change text after applying a style… for many, things like this makes it practically useless for real work.

Someone already tried to fork GIMP in order to change the name (Glimpse)… it didn’t work and they gave up.

China leads the world in academic fraud.

A common scam is to attribute medical miracles to stem cells - Similar to the cloning scandal from Korea - Because they know other countries legally CAN’T test the findings to either prove or discredit. They do this to fleece foreign institutions out of money and prestige.

yea those anti-AI clauses are completely unenforceable, it’s just elitist virtue signaling.

How does this compare to the Daylight device?

https://0x0.st/XZMX.webm

https://daylightcomputer.com/

https://x.com/daylightco/status/1793677359490752836