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by drnick1 8mo ago
The GrapheneOS community maintains a list of banking apps compatibility. In a nutshell, most banking apps that haven't been infected by Play Integrity work just fine.I have yet to find a US app that does not work, but some European ban
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by drnick1 8mo ago
The best phone experience, by far, if you hate bloat and spyware is GrapheneOS on a Pixel. No accounts, no logins, no restrictions on side loading, and most Android apps that aren't affected by the Play Integrity cancer just work. You
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by drnick1 8mo ago
> very deadly Covid wasn't "very deadly" at all.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Half-assed reimplementations of existing software (often in the name of "memory safety") is what the Rust community is best known for.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Yes, and that is precisely why I have no qualms about piracy, especially considering that buying isn't owing when it comes to these platforms.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
> The problem is that people want a "free internet" without ads Just run an ad blocker and be done with it. The business model of the website is not my problem; if websites cannot cover their costs without printing ads that I d
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by drnick1 8mo ago
It is very easy to get rid of Google, at least for the kind of person on HN. Search -> DuckDuckGo Drive -> Own networked file server Phone -> Flash Graphene on your Pixel Browser -> Firefox Email -> Host your own (this is the
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Ultimately, it does not matter. This legal notice is just theater, as anyone from CA or CO can still download, build and use the program. Linux distributions will just do the same.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
The law is irrelevant when it comes to open source. There is no one to turn to and bully for compliance. A government could presumably request that GitHub delete the repo, but the software will then simply move somewhere else, in a jurisdi
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Clickbait title, the legal notice explicitly states that an open source project cannot and will not implement age verification.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Yes, if you want full degoogling you need a custom ROM like Graphene on Pixels or Lineage. The main issue these days is that bootloaders are locked. Phone manufacturers mostly refuse to give you control over your own hardware.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Pixels only make sense if you are going to install Graphene. The Google OS is bloated with spyware.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
What makes you say that? It does not seem trivial at all to guess a valid MAC.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
It is hard to disagree with this approach. While I still use WiFi, it is a separate subnet and only whitelisted MACs are allowed to use it. Cameras and microphones are always unplugged when not in use, and my phone runs GrapheneOS. I also r
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by drnick1 8mo ago
64GB RAM, zero swap. Until recently RAM was cheap so swap made little sense when you could simply buy more RAM.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
What about crypto payments? How does this compare to silent.link?
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Is using a cheap Android device (the cheapest Android phones are less than $100 on Amazon) an option? The idea is to use that phone for 2FA or whatever is app is necessary for, and use a degoogled device for your other day-to-day activities
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Isn't the obvious solution to use an AOSP fork that does not have to comply with the registration requirements? Distributions like Graphene and Lineage are completely unaffected.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
This may help: https://www.kianiroforum.com/threads/how-to-remove-head-unit...
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by drnick1 8mo ago
I mean you can build and try Ladybird for yourself. I posted on HN from it a while back.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
> Your mobile provider knows your exact location at any point in time, and the NSA probably has access to most big tech data. I can choose whether to carry a cell phone. I can control what data I share with big tech (very little here sin
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Same thing here. I don't use that malware at all.
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> While some communities are calling on their cities to end their contracts with Flock, others are taking matters into their own hands. This is absolutely the right thing to do. Remove and smash the cellular modem in your car while you a
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by drnick1 8mo ago
> even allowing to connect your phone will require full certification I am not sure I understand this. I am aware that manufacturers benefit from spying on people through car telemetry, or else they would not shoulder the cost of providi
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Maybe, but it's certainly possible to write memory safe code in C++. It may be more or less difficult, but it isn't typically the ONLY objective of a project. C++ has other advantages too, such as seamless integration with C APIs
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by drnick1 8mo ago
No, it's about corporate and government control. Thankfully, the UK government is clueless about tech, which means these controls can be bypassed relatively easily by using your own DNS or a public DNS server like Quad9.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
I wonder what is gained by this port though, if the C++ codebase already employed modern approaches to memory management. It's entirely possible that the Rust version will perform worse too as compilers are less mature.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
> US now requires cars to report data, which was optional before (e.g. onstar) and china joined on this since the ev boom. This isn't true, there is no federal requirement for a cellular modem in cars. Most modern cars have one, but
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Yet, your ISPs don't give you access to the full Internet. First it's porn (age verification), then it's soccer, then it's social media (ID verification), then it's libraries. Soon, you even stuff that you take for
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by drnick1 8mo ago
It's sad to see that, in Spain, the soccer mafia controls the country.

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