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New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "GrapheneOS says Revolut is blocking its users over Google Play checks"

Itoldmyselfso — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:52:32 +0000

More apps starting to ban GrapheneOS in the guise of "security" is becoming increasingly worrying. Legal action in the EU may be the only option to stop this trend.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Darktable"

Itoldmyselfso — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:25:21 +0000

Pirated copies seem like a blackbox of potential malware, even if virus scans fail to find any problems (and they often give 10-30% false positives on most keygens/cracks). Even if the code is hosted in github, there has been plenty of cases of malware/viruses being hosted there too.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Donate to GrapheneOS"

Itoldmyselfso — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:28:16 +0000

You can install GOS via another Android phone...

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Donate to GrapheneOS"

Itoldmyselfso — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:24:56 +0000

You can always buy an used Pixel. GOS only supports phones with hardware that they deem secure enough, and Google is currently the only manufacturer that makes phones that match their requirements[1], with upcoming Motorola phones that also support or even come with GOS installed coming out next year. I find this point so obvious that I can't understand people making comments like "can't take them seriously": you make security/privacy OS, having insecure hardware that compromises the whole project would simply not make any sense. Ask other manufacturers to do better.

1: https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

Itoldmyselfso — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:37:35 +0000

Many cars already have internal/cabin view camera. I'd imagine it will sooner or later get detection for potential theft and kidnapping situations, where it can simply detect the driver by face and prevent driving if it doesn't recognize the invidual as one granted driving privileges.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

Itoldmyselfso — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:37:08 +0000

I was referring to confusion experienced by people new to the passkeys creating passkeys for the first time ("Where am I saving this to?", "How do I store this in my password manager?").

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

Itoldmyselfso — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:39:03 +0000

The anti-phising benefits are still very much there even if you sync them to pw manager. Yes it introduces single point of failure (pw manager), but at the same time you no longer need to go reset all your passwords to every service you use if you happen to lose that device. Tradeoffs.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

Itoldmyselfso — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:29:42 +0000

Passkey comprises of public key that the website you created it on holds, and the private key you store on your pw manager or in the TPM/secure element. As long as you can copy the private key to the new device, you don't need to recreate the whole passkey. In your case, you would just need access to a backup of the Keepass database in case you lose the device.

The biggest point of confusion in my opinion comes from Windows especially having lacked a way (and kind of still does) to save the private key of a passkey to your password manager, defaulting to saving it to Windows Hello, which saves the private key to your PC's TPM. In this scenario you can no longer easily copy the private key to other devices, and if you lose that Windows PC, you also lose the private key and the whole passkey as a result.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Orion Browser by Kagi"

Itoldmyselfso — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:54:54 +0000

Paywalling with extremely easy, one-click payment of very small amount might work. Paywalling does still incentivize things like misleading, sensationalized click-bait titles, but that's pretty much the norm everywhere.

Alternatively, if there was a subscription that covered a massive amount of blogs/news bundled into one low-cost subscription, that might also work. What I heavily doubt is if donation-based micropayments will ever find enough users to remain profitable.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims"

Itoldmyselfso — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:38:43 +0000

Time estimate depends heavily on the apps you use (data migration in them) and maybe some features that don't easily work out-of-the-box in GOS like Google's find my device, where you'd ideally migrate to use foss alternatives like FMD[1]. For the easiest setup by far just install the sandboxed Google Play Store and get your apps from there. In general the more additional security features you enable, the more issues you may face, so I'd recommend leaving everything to GOS default, like leaving Sensors permission ON by default. There are a few gotchas that may not be mentioned in GOS official documentation or elsewhere such as BT tracker devices not being supported for the most part, requiring workarounds. There are also few apps that don't currently support GOS [2][3], so be sure to check them out beforehand.

1: https://gitlab.com/fmd-foss/fmd-android

2: https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-gu...

3: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Firefox 12.58% for Desktop Browser Market Share in North America June 2026"

Itoldmyselfso — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:50:23 +0000

That's ublock origin preinstalled, not internal/built-in adblocking.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Jolla Phone (October 2026)"

Itoldmyselfso — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:55:33 +0000

You're accusing them of ties to Russia... based on their names?

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates"

Itoldmyselfso — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:38:20 +0000

You can install MS store (not sure about the login though) on ltsc with one command: wsreset -i

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July"

Itoldmyselfso — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:56:24 +0000

How can you be so sure they have never been used in the wild? Surely not all uses of them get reported...

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

Itoldmyselfso — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:37:50 +0000

It's valid question for people unfamiliar with the project, but it is the AOSP in terms of looks, GrapheneOS does not customize the UI in any way beyond what their own features require as additions. Note that Pixel OS is not AOSP. The default home app of course also influences the experience quite the bit unless you replace it, which is what I'd personally recommend everyone to do as it's so incredibly barebones. Lawnchair is already a big step up as an open source alternative.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

Itoldmyselfso — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:42:57 +0000

It works exactly the same as in the original "Pixel OS", you just install the same camera app from Play store.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

Itoldmyselfso — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:31:24 +0000

Do you refer to app-accessible root or user root access? The former is absolutely inherently insecure and compromises the security model of Android/GOS.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

Itoldmyselfso — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:36:28 +0000

There's nobody gatekeeping what can be studied and what can't. You claim millions are being wasted; by who? Is the goverment funding the studies you deem as wasted? If so you'd think that rather than making up a study you'd be able to give a single example. Should be very easy if millions are being wasted on these what I'd assume you'd call "bogus" studies.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow"

Itoldmyselfso — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:32:42 +0000

There's also Simple tab groups which allows creation of file backups at regular intervals https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr...

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

Itoldmyselfso — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:46:36 +0000

What bugs have you found with Tresorit? Has worked great for my company so far.