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by strcat 1y ago
> For those of us who aren't ready to cut the umbilical cord to the mothership You can use Google apps and apps depending on them on GrapheneOS via sandboxed Google Play. The vast majority of Android apps can be used. You don't
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by strcat 1y ago
> If they are selling off their device business Android and Chrome are potentially going to be split from Google: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/technology/google-search-... ( https://ar
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by strcat 1y ago
Android 16 no longer provides device trees for Pixels as part of the Android Open Source Project. It's important to note it doesn't provide those for any other devices. There are no other OEMs providing similar AOSP support. A few
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by strcat 1y ago
GrapheneOS supports E911. It doesn't have Google's proprietary Emergency Location Services implemented as part of Google Play services which some countries depend on. We plan to implement the same standard it does for regions with
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by strcat 1y ago
It sounds like you're in a region not supporting E911 but rather depending on Google's proprietary Emergency Location Service. We plan to make our own implementation of what that provides: https://github.com/Graphe
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by strcat 1y ago
Fairphone devices have 1-2 month delays for partial security patches. They have a year or more of delays for new major releases. Their recent Fairphone 5 uses the Linux 5.4 LTS branch going end-of-life in December 2025 with no plan to port
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by strcat 1y ago
> Is this like a fine-grained version of mprotect, i.e. associated permissions with each tag? It provides the ability to tag 16 byte granules of memory with 4-bit tags where only pointers with the correct tag can access the memory. This
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by strcat 1y ago
We've said they're Ukrainian in several places. We avoided being explicit about it for the initial announcement to focus on getting help. We avoided specifying it to avoid our post being perceived as a political statement against
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by strcat 1y ago
This was not an attack on GrapheneOS. Our lead developer is Ukrainian and his country is being invaded so there's ongoing forced conscription of men aged 25 through 60.
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by strcat 1y ago
> Why do people jump to conclusion that he is necessarily sent right into the meat grinder? He was assigned to being infantry since that's the default. Due to our public post on X specifically, he ended up being transferred to doing
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by strcat 1y ago
> 1/ One Google Android phone for my banking app with Google Integrity API working Most banks permit using GrapheneOS. It's also possible to do most things via online banking. Generally only a fcertain things like cashing a che
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by strcat 1y ago
> I don't think GrapheneOS supports it, but back in the day I dual-booted my Oneplus One at some point. That solution worked on Windows with DRM and anti-cheat, so it may be a partial solution on Android too. It's not compatibl
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by strcat 1y ago
Our lead developer wasn't conscripted by Russia and I wanted to make sure that was clear to everyone.
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by strcat 1y ago
He was originally assigned to an infantry role and we made it public in the first place with the goal of getting that changed. The primary audience for what we posted was Ukrainian military leadership. It was clear to Ukrainians we were tal
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by strcat 1y ago
> The GrapheneOS author frequently claims to be targeted by many actors, governments, other open source projects... GrapheneOS is an open source project with many project members including many developers. It isn't one person as you
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by strcat 1y ago
He was conscripted in April and the project successfully continued on and ported to Android 16 in June. It's doing fine. It was a massive hit to the project but it won't die because of it.
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by strcat 1y ago
> In wartime, militaries face horrific allocation decisions. There was no decision made on where to assign him based on his skills prior to our intervention. People are assigned to infantry by default. > While it is sensible to use sk
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by strcat 1y ago
> It is blatantly immoral to say that a person's life should be valued more because of they are a software developer or because of the software they produce, or that it should be protected more than the lives of other people. We nev
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by strcat 1y ago
> But the Graphene OS commenter seems to be making a moral, not utilitarian, argument, which is both odd and somewhat reprehensible. We posted an appeal to Ukraine's military leadership which was obviously not a moral argument about
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by strcat 1y ago
It would be quite stupid to send one of the most talented security engineers/researchers in their country and beyond to fight as infantry in trench warfare. Our thread was posted as an appeal to Ukraine's military leadership. The
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by strcat 1y ago
We made it obvious we were talking about Ukraine and have since explicitly confirmed it due to lack of further need to avoid specifying it. See the response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583672 .
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by strcat 1y ago
When we initially made it public, we avoided stating the country but it was heavily implied. The goal was getting help while explicitly avoiding taking a political stance on their use of conscription. The final paragraph was added later aft
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by strcat 1y ago
It has nothing to do with Israel. See the response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583672 .
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by strcat 1y ago
See the response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583672 .
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by strcat 1y ago
See the response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583672 .
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by strcat 1y ago
See the response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583672 .
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by strcat 1y ago
See the response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583672 .
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by strcat 1y ago
See the response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583672 .
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by strcat 1y ago
See the response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583672 .
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by strcat 1y ago
See the response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583672 .

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