I’m slightly disappointed that this isn’t about open source amphetamine.

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You know, in fairness I’m onboard with your line of thinking ultimately.

But ask yourself: what’s running on your computer? Do you know all the people who supplied each and every bit of code on your computer?

I run Linux myself: EVERYTHING I run is made by randos who decided to code something and give it away for free. And 99.99% of them ultimately have no motive other than selflessly give back to the community. This has been solidly proven for many decades and it continues to be proven.

If you run Windows however, you KNOW you run an OS made by a for-profit with no principles and no regards for your rights and your privacy for the sole purpose of extracting as much money out of you as they can, directly or indirectly.

Which one would you trust ultimately? Randos you don’t know but have an unbroken record of doing the right thing, or companies you know have a proven track record of trying to shaft you at every opportunity if they can get away with it?

Ultimately, it’s a question of trust. You seem to trust no-one. I submit that you should look at the actions of whoever supplies the software you use and decide whom to trust based on what they do, not what they say or what your guts tell you.

In the specific case of GrapheneOS, Micay is an abrasive and toxic SOB (I know, not his fault, he’s on the spectrum, but that’s just an objective fact) and the community he created around him continues to be toxic to this day after he’s stepped down. And I disagree with some of the technical choices he made for GrapheneOS with respect to security vs privacy. But I would trust the software he writes any day of the week because he’s never done anything to prove me I shouldn’t trust his code. If he ever sneaks in analytics, ads, or some automatic updater that doesn’t ask permission in his code however, I’ll blacklist his ass forever in a New York minute. But he hasn’t, and neither have any of the GrapheneOS contributors.

So if you think GrapheneOS works for you, you should use it because I believe it is trustworthy.

Calyx, for instance, isn’t as good as GrapheneOS, they do a lot of snitching on you (including to Google and Mozilla) and they overlook critical details such as this one

Okay, let’s unpack the pack of BS shall we…

• Your first link points to a page where all the connections made by CalyxOS are explicitely listed and explained in detail. Pray tell: how do you interpret that as snitching?
• Your second link points to a 3-year old, closed Git issue that ends with this: Resolved in CalyxOS 4.9.4, June 2023 Feature Update.

Please go spread your FUD someplace else.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this project was involved in some way.

You still don’t elaborate why you wouldn’t be surprised. Have you seen something suspicious from the GrapheneOS people? Evidence of shenanigans?

If GrapheneOS is sketchy, I’d really love to know. Honest. Even if whoever makes the allegations is clutching as straws: as least there are straws.

Or can we safely assume it’s just a vague feeling you have for no particular reason?

Care to elaborate?

complement

compliment.

But hey, on the plus side, now I’m 100% sure you’re not an AI 🙂

As a CalyxOS user myself, I was about to reply with some comparison points, and then I thought… Why bother. I’ll just get downmodded and dragged into another pointless argument with people who think it’s vitally important that they should be right and I’m wrong.

So my take is this: whatever works for you.

You like GrapheneOS? More power to you.
You like CalyxOS? You’re a rockstar.
You like IodéOS, LineageOS or /e/? Cool!

What matters is not to run Google’s surveillance stack. That’s what’s important! Even if your deGoogled OS of choice isn’t quite entreprise-grade, it’s still 95% safer and 200% more honest than anything with straight Google on it.

I am doubly pissed off:

• Mozilla opts me into an analytics scheme without requiring my permission. That’s bad.
• Mozilla partners with fucking FACEBOOK to spring this shit on me? Now THAT takes the cake!

But… I would be pissed off if I used straight Firefox, and I don’t: I use LibreWolf, and I have no doubt they’ll strip this latest round of Mozilla nonsense from the LibreWolf browser.

I don’t know… I have a love/hate relationship with Mozilla: on the one hand, they’re pretty much the only thing that stands between the final overrun of the web by the Google monoculture and still having some kind of a choice what you use to hit the internet, and they make one of the only email clients worth its salt in Linux. On the other hand, every time they decide to do something, it’s always a screw-up, and it’s been like that for decades. Surely in their position, they should know what not to do to piss off everybody all the time, and yet… What a weird bunch.

The problem with pulling Betteridge is that this isn’t a headline: this is one person asking a genuine question in a Lemmy community.

Works fine on my end. No issues whatsoever.

AdvanceD.

Advance computing means it’s computing performed ahead of time - if it means anything at all.

Too bad about the typo on the sign…

<quote>hair-brained</quote>

Harebrained.

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Some players seem to be unaffected by Google’s latest latest round of shenanigans. For example, NewPipe with MX Player as an external player works fine for me, both from home and from work, while NewPipe’s internal player doesn’t.

Also, remember that possibly only half of everybody is affected, as Google is probably still A/B testing their new nasties.

Comparing a scorpion to a tech bro… Have you no shame? It’s insulting to the scorpion.

No.

In fact, generally speaking, if you use anything from Big Tech and it’s connected to the internet, assume it’s adversarial and doing things behind your back that are not in your best interest.

How to swim without getting wet without a websuit?

Keep nefarious apps in your work profile and don’t store any files in your work profile. Turn on the work profile only when you use the app, then freeze it again as soon as you’re done. Regularly clear the apps’ caches. This will limit what the spyware can spy on and how long they can spy on you.