the rizzler

works for me, thanks!

that makes sense, thanks. is it still difficult to get tap-to-pay to work on graphene? i try to use cash and i assume most grapheneos users do too so there’s not a whole lot of information on it

go back to reddit

actually i’m thinking of switching to graphene eventually myself. is there anything you can tell me about that?

mostly the answer is no. it has the same permission controls for apple’s own apps as third-party apps, but ofc graphene has a couple more options there too. filesystem access is limited to the file picker and the app’s own data directory, which i assume is a tiny bit more restrictive to the user than storage scopes. the scope concept also exists for contacts, pictures, health, and maybe a few other things. user profiles don’t exist on iphones; i think they might on ipads but i don’t have one. sandboxes are pretty locked down but not controllable by the user. then there’s “lockdown mode” which disables a whole bunch of shit and is supposed to harden your phone to highly-motivated/funded attackers

2027 will be the year of the linux phone for sure!

it was pretty clear when israel kept killing people the day the ceasefire was called

the most unbelievable part of this is the guy didn’t already have a guest vlan throttled to 56k

tbf there’s been more versions of windows that are unsafe to connect to the internet than safe

just ignore that cloudflare was founded to collect data for the department of homeland security

EDITOR=/bin/rm sudo visudo

this happens unsurprisingly often. the NSA calls it LOVEINT

as a sidenote i just noticed i posted the dessalines essay twice in this thread so i’ll say just for the record i still like signal. the security of the messaging protocol is, according to every cryptographer i’ve read on the topic, the gold standard in the field. it just makes me uncomfortable that a service, especially one centralized around amazon aws, is demanding my phone number. means they can tie my government name to my social graph

i don’t agree with everything in that essay but the OTF-CIA connection gives me good reason not to read anything they say. not that everything they fund is bad but everything they say is untrustworthy.

maybe more importantly though, is briar android-only? no desktop app?

i don’t want to make you do my googling for me but if you have anything else just on-hand i’d love to read it. i can’t trust the open tech fund because of its ties to the cia (see this paragraph by dessalines) but i’ll definitely look into briar

do you know of any good in-depth analyses of its security? every time i decide on a new chat app someone has to point out something that totally ruins it lol

unfortunately not. matrix is probably a no because of this thread. i hear a lot of people saying briar is good but idk anything about it

crazy that no one’s posted the dessalines article yet https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/why_not_signal.md

EDIT: just to have it here in case anyone even cares, i put my thoughts on the essay later on in the thread

nvm, just found this and this

well there’s about a thousand reasons not to use synapse anyway