I can neither parse the headline nor the subheading?!
yeah, had no idea what that word jumble was meant to convey..
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jrexilius commented on Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/madars
> So nice to shut off the network permission for any apps that only require an internet connection to serve ads.
For those of us who aren't ready to cut the umbilical cord to the mothership, you can also root/firewall on normal android to stop this. In fact I choose to not be able to use banking apps in order to cut out the crappy ads.
The Netguard app worked well for me for that on vanilla burners and such. No root, "VPN" that I had block pretty much everything but the browser and Signal.
jrexilius commented on Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/madars
I just installed Graphene on a new pixel. I've only used it for two days, but I got that same feeling of "finding buried treasure in your backyard" I got when I first installed Linux in 1999. I can't believe this amazing software is free in all senses of the word. It is a TON of work and they got so much right. The security and usability settings give all the grainular control I've known was possible and wanted for a long time.
I see some core team on this thread, so just wanted to say THANK YOU! Awesome job! Keep fighting for the users!
I'm totally the wrong person to offer recommendations on mobile, but so far it works very well for me, but then, I use almost no third party apps, and none of them are Play store only. My only complaint is the hardware (outside of their control).
jrexilius commented on Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/madars
GrapheneOS community manager here. The problem with something like this is that it cannot be reasonably hidden when it would be exposed by someone using basic tools. Our Duress PIN/Password feature doesn't make any attempts to mask itself, precisely because we think doing that only gives people a false sense of security.
We think there's a good chance a motivated adversary is going to be familiar with GrapheneOS and its features, and the more mainstream it becomes, the more this can mean "your abusive significant other" rather than someone at the border.
The moment people know this feature exists, it can become dangerous even if you don't use it. You can be threatened to unlock, and even if you do, the adversary can choose to not believe you since they can think you're just hiding it. That puts you in a dangerous situation where they think you can provide something that's literally not there.
It's a very difficult problem to solve, and we don't think that proposal can solve it.
There are certain threat/risk models where having multiple profiles might be helpful (non-forensic examination by an offical at a securtiy screening kinda scenario). But you're right, it's nuanced, requires know-how by the user, and possibly a foot-gun for some caught unawares. NOT an easy problem to solve. Personally, as a user, I'd like the ability to be able to choose that option in the instances where I needed it, but it's likey a TON of work for a very small actual user community who needs it.
jrexilius commented on Tiny Code Reader: a $7 QR code sensor excamera.substack.com/p/t... · Posted by u/jamesbowman
I love these. Kinda insane they got it packaged so cheaply.
jrexilius commented on AI is killing the web – can anything save it? economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/edward
I just read Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis which has an interesting perspective that "cloud capitalism" is replacing traditional capitalism and competition. A few players are assembling their own fiefdoms inside dominant web/mobile platforms.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/751443/technofeudal...
The internet doesn't have a clear, simple, micro-payment system that would allow people to reward value, so instead we have an attention based system where the number of likes and followers grants social status and financial opportunity.
When cryptocurrency first started getting attention (2010,2011-ish?) I was so excited that a potential micropayments system would come out of it and solve this problem. Sadly it did not go that way..
This is obviously AI generated, if that matters.
And I have an AI workflow that generates much better posts than this.
The thing that sucks about it is maybe his english is bad (not his native language) so he relies on LLM output for his posts. Im inclined to cut people slack for this. But the rub is that it is indistinguishable from spam/slop generated for marketing/ads/whatever.
Or it's possible that he is one of those people that _realy_ adopted LLMs into _all_ their workflow, I guess, and he thinks the output is good enough as is, because it captured his general points?
LLMs have certainly damaged trust in general internet reading now, that's for sure.
We need to build an encrypted internet to keep people secure.
* Secure version of Linux that keeps the end OS secure
* VPN companies tend to be owned by country intel services. Create a TOR equivalent for internet traffic
The main flaw is the enforced duopoly of iOS/Android for everyones favorite personal surveillance assistant. The secondary flaw is centralized control over transport layer access (internet really isn't decentralized anymore). And the last flaw is proprietary hadrware that controls the OS and transport layer access.
jrexilius commented on Returning to My Roots in Hardware dancrimp.nz/2025/03/31/ha... · Posted by u/dcrimp
Perfect summary ".. there is still value to be found in creating things that serve humanity in the real world; our humblest three dimensions."
Great read and echoes my conversion from web software to wholistic-product (which includes hardware).
jrexilius commented on CrowdStrike CEO cuts his voting power by 92% with unexplained gifts bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/wslh
Rather bizarre move, can it be squared somehow with another weird move from CrowdStrike last week, the slashing their workforce with the bullshit justification it will be replaced by AI?[0]
Too much of a coincidence in a short amount of time.
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/09/crowdstri...
Pump the stock up a bit after the "accounting errors"?.. Seems like the CEO is trying ot slip out the door before things crash?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crowdstrike-probed-over-32m-i...