Being honest, I would be surprised if there wasn’t malware there. The whole Telegram platform is kind of a nesting ground for it.

It’s russian spyware. Nothing else to be said.

It’s extremely clear to anyone who is not absolutely dumb that these installation restrictions have never been about addressing scams and malware but exclusively about enforcing control and ensuring their monopoly.

You won’t need to even do it in the first place if you upgrade your phone to GrapheneOS (or other non-gplay-forced-down-your-throat OS).

Me (installing Arch): Amateurs!

Finally some good use for AI! I’d still prefer the original GTK1.2 version, though.

^^^ this. And for older phones, if I remember correctly, I used something like this like 6 years ago: https://camo.com/camera. I’m afraid it’s not open source, but it looked trustworthy at that time, and I think it worked in Linux (as a standard webcam) but I might be mistaken. Take it with caution but from there you can start searching and maybe will find better alternatives.

It doesn’t really matter in the context of this particular topic. They’ve highlighted the problem and I think in here we should abstract from their personality and their conflicts with Murena & Co., and focus on the problem itself.

And the problem is that, regardless of who’s implementing the attestation technology and regardless of who is critizing it, the very concept of device attestation based on OEM/Google/Apple/Murena/GrapheneOS/whoever approval is harmful and anti-consumer at its core.

No matter who owns the authority to decide which devices are deemed “good” and which are deemed “bad”, this authority shouldn’t exist at all. Only the user should be in charge of the decision of which os to use — be it Google’s Android, GrapheneOS, MIUI, eOS, PostmarketOS or MS-DOS — OEMs/Google/Murena/etc should have no say in it.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116200110686604617

It’s literally the same crap, just “under the new management”.

Fuck Microslop and fuck Google.

It’s typical corporate marketing bullshit to cover up their real authoritarian censorship mechanism: https://keepandroidopen.org/

So, basically, nothing useful.

What a goddamn surprise! surprised_pikachu.jpg

Oh, they do: https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war/.

I think this is exactly the win-win situation from this possible partnership: Motorola makes secure hardware and firmware patches, GrapheneOS takes care of the whole software security and timely updates (they already do).

Fuck google.

And the strictest uBlock Origin’s policy possible. Don’t forget the strictest uBlock Origin’s policy. And Cookie AutoDelete too.

I’d like to know more about it too.

So far, from what I know, the main problem is the drivers for everything but CPU. Linux runs perfectly on ARM, be it Apple or not, but when it comes to something like a video adapter… with HW-accelerated video decoding and stuff… here’s where you start getting problems.

Regarding software, I run an ARM-based distro inside a VM on Apple for work and everything from what I need there exists and works.

Fuckers.

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