What’s the difference between God and Larry Ellison?

What’s the difference between Oracle and the Boy Scouts?

I have not one such mail even in my spam box

And the breakdown of international cooperation as USA implodes

There’s a commercial on the radio in GTA:VC. A baby is crying and the voiceover says, “This American baby is starving because you bought a cheaper, higher-quality Daihatsu!”

Now?

I remember using netgroups and UUCP in the early 90’s to piece together files from alt.binaries.pictures.erotica

Back then there were fewer financially/data-predatory websites, mostly because we didn’t have payment methods on the Internet yet (we were just getting websites as opposed to news and gopher), and it wasn’t yet practical for companies to scrape your data.

So instead we were inundated with viruses. Like every few weeks, somehow, a virus would eat your frickin’ files. It was more simply malicious, not even greedy. Not going to try and argue which is worse.

Point is that when graphene gets the distress code, it makes it really clear that it’s wiping the phone.

That’s the Stupid Part

No. If you make and distribute security-related software, you should consider the safety of your user.

Your threat model absolutely should include this exact scenario. And you should know enough to understand and implement principles like plausible deniability and repudiation.

If he hadn’t used duress and had just refused, he’d have been fine. Graphene is secure

Graphene devs fucked over this guy. They should apologize

When Graphene is serious, the duress passcode will QUIETLY wipe your phone and leave it looking normal, preferably with normal-looking innocuous photos, media, etc.

This is what happens when devs aren’t really thinking about the real world use case.

system accounts

or even better, fire up a disposable VM

Amnesia and extreme difficulty to install new software kills it for lots of people.

Whonix solves those (at the risk ofc that it’s persistent and you could install malware)

all its time buffering.

Could be a zillion reasons for this. Need an actual instance to debug

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Qubes requires a lot of configuring to be properly secure and you have to have a fair bit of understanding about virtualization.

I’d suggest starting with Whonix . It still uses some of the same virtualization technology, and like Tails routes everything over Tor, and provides excellent protection against threats on your local network (due to separating Gateway into its own VM)

Also Whonix is straightforward to set up. You first install VirtualBox, then literally just double-click the Whonix .OVA file to install. It fires up two virtual machines: Gateway and Workstation. You use the Workstation; the Gateway handles Internet traffic (and you generally don’t login to it)

You can save files, customize your desktop, use it like a normal computer.

EDIT: just noticed this

opening risky files

For that, your best bet is a burner laptop that you re-image regularly. Qubes is also a pretty good way to do this; you’d set up an extremely locked-down execution environment for the “risky file”.

But if the risky file attacks Linux-based OSes, you’re hosed even under Whonix or Tails.

Some channels use Ghost instead of Patreon, including one of my favorites Anders Puck

Even though it’s no longer tractable for the casual hobbyist (me) to run a node, Invidious is still usable thanks to absolutely heroic effort by the ~4 organizations still willing and able to invest the crazy infrastructure needed to prevent GOOG from blocking them.

https://docs.invidious.io/instances/

getting what I pay for

GOOG and all its affiliated advertisers – essentially, every corporation on this planet – now knows not only all your browsing and watching habits, but also that you are a likely good return on investment for more mining, more fine-grained targeting, more scrutiny.

What did you want it to do?

Did you set up a node? Did you promote it & grow a user base? Federate?

You can’t really monetize PeerTube

Lots of channels have a link to their Patreon or a tip jar; lots do live reads.

Or just use Whonix which is not amnesiac

all the talk about LLMs looking like they are “thinking” is based purely on vibes rather than reality

You seem to ignore the quantitative, evidence-based studies mentioned. Ex: https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.155.pdf