trevor (he/they)

Checkmarx itself is associated with Israeli Occupation Forces, so it shouldn’t be used by anyone in the first place.

Yes, you can. It’s just an ARM64 computer. The only special consideration is that the kernel uses 16K pages instead of 4K pages, but that’s not something I’ve encountered problems with.

No. Even on standard Android, you must enter the password/PIN on first unlock because that is required to load the decryption keys that make biometric authentication worm.

On #3: every modern phone running encryption has a BFU (before-first-unlock) state where the data on the device is more secure than after its first unlock because you haven’t entered your password/PIN to decrypt the data. GrapheneOS also has this, but it is not unique to GOS.

He’s a self-described democratic socialist, which is different from a social democrat, as you labeled him. Yes, many of his proposed policies are steps toward social democracy, rather than actual socialism, but I can’t expect one mayor, even in one of the largest cities, to somehow enact real socialism.

That distinction aside: all we can do is apply pressure and hope that Mamdani doesn’t meaningfully sell-out the working class in NYC.

Pedophile defender, Ted Cruz, doesn’t want you or your children to have privacy. I wonder why…

Rapist’s mentality.

Nice! TIL. Do you have any info you could share about how Minnesota’s privacy legislation compares to California’s or the EU?

The EU governing bodies are speaking out of both sides of their mouths if they claim that they want data sovereignty while simultaneously relying on an evil, American company to verify your “integrity” 🤡

You’ll never be sovereign if you rely on a for-profit entity that makes money by spying on people and selling your data.

Yeah. I was annoyed by this, but wouldn’t assume bad faith on the part of the Fennec devs.

How would one DIY HDCP stripping? I’ve never looked into this.

The Windows Vista part of this is a complement. Software should be fun and colorful again. Apple’s design is lacking in color, but this feels like a step forward.

I also agree that throwing transparency everywhere is probably really bad for readability. I hope the high-contrast mode can correct for that.

Not really. IMO, the determining factor for this is how “sticky” a given service is.

Leta is a public search engine that you don’t have to pay for their VPN to use, and switching search engines is quite trivial, making this a very easy switch in the event that either service is unsatisfactory.

That said, I have no idea why anyone would want Google search results in 2025 because their search engine is terrible, but more power to anyone that does.

I use vertical tabs because horizontal tabs use more screen in wide aspect ratios (16:9 or greater) and I want to optimize my screen usage for the actual content, rather than the tabs.

Firefox’s version of MV3 explicitly supports the things that uBlock Origin needs to do. It’s not the same as Google’s malicious MV3 that was targeted at destroying adblockers.

It would be annoying if they removed MV2, but it wouldn’t break things like it did for Chromium.

I just cant wrap my head around why they’re willing to go so far to gain good will from people by having such a generous free tier, but somehow licensing the code under a FOSS license is out of the question??

Why not just go all the way and make sure everyone who cares about reading the souce could also give you free contributions?

Shouldn’t we also have the opposite list; a sort of name and shame or if you use these banks, you’re screwed list?

In part, because it can be more conclusive to take a bank that has consciously made the decision to block access, rather than having a list of banks that maybe just haven’t gotten around to it yet.

Is it? The FTL is restrictive about who is allowed to redistribute and modify anything covered by it. Is this data covered under a different license?

You can root on GrapheneOS. You do it exactly the same way you’d do it for the stock Google ROM:

1. Have an unlocked bootloader. Yes, this means that it “”“defeats the purpose of GrapheneOS”“”, if the purpose of GrapheneOS isn’t for you to avoid Google’s privacy nightmare. I use GrapheneOS for privacy moreso than security, and not being able to block ads properly is irritating.
2. Install the Magisk app.
3. Extract the boot.img from the GrapheneOS image and patch within Magisk.
4. Flash the patched boot image in the bootloader.

The main annoyance with this is that you’ll have to do that dance every month when a security patch gets released, but for me, it’s better than vomiting from exposure to ads on mobile.