eleitl @ eleitl @lemm.ee

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In the early days, we early adopters tried to bring it into circulation. I bought a few beers with it at the bar once. Sadly, it never kindled.

Thanks, useful information.

1. Do not have a mobile device
2. Do not install anything proprietary or governmental on that device you don't have
3. Use borderline secure (GrapheneOS) OS on that device you don't have and don't unlock it if demanded unless your health and/or life is in danger

The EU is cosplaying a democracy.

Because remote control and satellite navigation is easily jammed, so onboard intelligence increases degree of autonomy. As to little mistakes, nothing you couldn't bury.

Nothing a little retraining can't fix. IIRC there are jailbroken open source models out there.

Does XMPP have feature parity with Matrix? I presume that bridges exist?

So is there anything useful outside of Firefox and Chromium derivates? I can't imagine a Firefox fork lasting too long.

That seems like a safe bet.

Thanks. It's slightly worse than I thought. I'm kinda limited to communication with my small peer group, so I don't notice that other user classes exist.

I'm mostly an open source/libre software user (this LineageOS tablet I'm using right now is entirely Google-free) so as long as AOSP upstream is available I should be fine.

I still pay for and use some Google services for the sake of convenience but I could self-host them in principle. Or cease consuming them altogether. Same applies for some proprietary apps.

Many people run Tor nodes. I also used to run exits until dealing with complaints became onerous, then I ran middlemen for many years. In general one should only pipe encrypted traffic through Tor, and be it just for malicious exits which sniff and tamper with your traffic. There are use cases for using Tor together with a VPN tunnel, but these need careful consideration.

Or you could just use Tor.

Thanks, interesting. I have used boot attestation but not yet Auditor. Hope to have some quality time reading up on the documentation in the coming three weeks.

I carry them in the side pockets of military-style fatigues. The problem with small screens is legibility and being able to precisely hit a glass tty key with my thumb. I can comfortably use a 6.7" device in one hand. The Nexus 7 had considerable bezels if I recall correctly and was relatvely bulky. A thin bezelless 7" phablet should be manageable, I think.

They are quite simply corrupt. It doesn't matter what they privately think. Corruption includes personal immunity, as long as you toe the line.

I haven't checked, does GrapheneOS do reproducible/deterministic builds so that you could verify that the published release matches your image? The boot attestation should not be able to be circumvented, if you trust Google hardware to do what it says on the tin.

Well, yes, but privacy in the current world is not free, even if it involves some own thought and planning. Being wary of defaults and being aware of implications one's choices bring is of course too inconvenient for many. But these do not get to complain.

The 7 a is 6.3" while I came from a 6.7" device which I found still too small. 7" sounds about right for a pocket device, 13" good for a tablet. Haven't tried a 15", that one will be probably a bit on the heavy side.

Poor people (who still can afford the end devices and an Internet plan) can of course share the costs in a community, or use one of the many free servers, as long as they are aware of the tradeoffs. Beigers not being choosers, and all that.