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I am a long term GrapheneOS user and would like to talk about it. r/privacy on the redditland blocks custom OS discussions which I think is very bad for user privacy, and I hope this post will be useful to anyone who are in the hunt for better privacy.

Nowadays smartphones are a much bigger threats to our privacy and Desktop systems, and unfortunately manufacturers has designed them to be locked down devices with no user freedom. You can't just "install Linux" on most smartphones and it is horrible. And most preloaded systems spy on us like crazy. That was why I specifically bought a pixel and loaded GOS onto it.

According to https://grapheneos.org/features , they start from base AOSP's latest version, imptoves upon it's security and significantly hardens it. There's hardened_malloc to.prevent against exploitation, disabling lots of debugging features, disabling USB-c data, hardening the Linux kernel and system apps etc. They even block accessing the hardware identifiers of the phone so that apps cannot detect whqt phone you're using. That means with Tor and zero permissions given, apps are anonymous.

Compatibility with apps are best in Custom ROMs but there are still that can't work, especially if they enforce device integrity. Very few apps usually enforce that tho. Also their community isn't the friendliest but you can get help. Just don't try and engage too much or have too many debates.

Anyone else here use GrapheneOS, or any other privacy ROMs? What is your experience? Do you disagree on any point? Let's have a discussion!

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/5082530

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On the two-year anniversary of Chinese authorities’ crackdown on the peaceful “Blank Paper” demonstrations, Chinese Human Rights Defenders calls on Beijing to release all wrongfully detained protesters.

"We urge the international human rights community to press the Chinese government to fulfill its human rights obligations to protect freedom of peaceful assembly, expression, and the right to fair trials," the organization writes on its websites.

In late November 2022, people across China, outraged by a deadly fire in Urumqi and frustrated by strict COVID-19 lockdown measures, took to the streets in cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and Wuhan. Demonstrators held up blank sheets of paper, symbolizing censorship and their inability to express dissent openly. They chanted various slogans, including “End zero-COVID.” Some even called for “Down with Xi Jinping” and “Down with the Communist Party!”

The protests represented a rare instance of spontaneous demonstrations across multiple Chinese cities since the Tiananmen pro-democracy protests in 1989, with citizens openly expressing dissent in public space. Authorities responded with widespread detentions of students, journalists and other citizens across the country.

Two years ago, Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) tracked the names of more than 30 people who were taken into custody and estimated that at least 100 people had been detained. No official figures of arrests have been released. Some people were released shortly after their arrests. However, others faced harsher punishments, including imprisonment and enforced disappearances

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The ongoing prosecution of participants and supporters of the Blank Paper protests underscores the urgent need to hold the Chinese government accountable and to put an end to its impunity for repeated and ongoing violations of its obligations to protect human rights.

Die AfD behauptet, deren Wahlkampfstand am Neuen Rathaus sei am Samstag (23. November) durch Angehörige der Antifa angegriffen worden.

Nur die Polizei habe Schlimmeres verhindern können, heißt es in einem Statement des stellvertretenden Vorsitzenden der AfD, Maximilian Kneller. Die Polizei dementiert die Darstellung der Partei.

Die AfD beklagt unter anderem, ein Aufsteller sei massiv beschädigt worden, ein AfD-Mitglied, das diesen schützen wollte, sei zu Boden geworfen, von Vermummten umringt und seiner Mütze beraubt worden. Die Bielefelder Polizei stellte klar, dass sie beide Parteien nach verbalen Streitigkeiten voneinander trennen konnte. Mitglieder der AfD seien nicht körperlich angegriffen worden.

He's doing it through the Gunroad store. The discount code is HDG4FREE.

It'll ask you to enter an email address, but only to send you a receipt -- even if you put a fake one it, it'll take you directly to the download page.

The Thai Army has reportedly ordered the withdrawal of United Wa State Army (UWSA) forces from Thai territory in Mae Hong Son, with artillery units on standby to strike if the UWSA does not comply by December 18.

The UWSA is estimated to have up to 30,000 armed soldiers, approximately 10,000 of whom are based in southern Shan State along the border with Chiang Mai and Mae Hong Son.

Călin Georgescu, a critic of Nato, says people have ‘cried out for peace’ after he heads into runoff with 22.9% of vote

Sorry about the unorthodox link, Soundclound's offering is region-locked, the Bandcamp version I owned is apparently no longer in their database, and the music video is age restricted on YT...

Leaving the music video here though, I find it really fits the song.

Raiders quarterback Gardner Minshew suffered a season-ending broken collarbone Sunday against the Broncos, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter, confirming an NFL Network report.

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