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it misses software that was a violation of the senses and that was like 50% virus and 50% working software
07:45 this morning, on the coast road to Applecross. Looking across the Inner Sound towards Rona, Raasay, with Skye behind.
Wishing everyone a great time at Cables of Resistance by Movements starting today in tba in #Berlin, #Germany
Find out more on
https://foss.events/2026/04-10-cables-of-resistance.html
/e/ and Murena have been been promoting their products by misleading people about GrapheneOS for years. This has turned into an all out war on GrapheneOS by their company and supporters. We began regularly debunking their inaccurate claims and they try to frame it as aggression.
@GrapheneOS
STOP BASHING OTHER ALTERNATIVE ANDROID ROMS
Youre telling the wrong android project this. GOS hasnt bashed anyone.
...Huh?
@HybridStaticAnimate
"GrapheneOS hasn't bashed anyone" BWAHAHAHA 🤣
They did more than once.
@GrapheneOS
No, they havent. You havent been reading anything thats been going on if thats the conclusion you came to. They defend themselves. Why dont you direct your comments to the groups actually bashing other android projects? They keep initiating these attacks and GOS is retaliating defensively. Not the other way around. The evidence of this has been posted numerous times.
@niavy These threads are a direct response to attacks on our project and exist to address the inaccurate claims made about the GrapheneOS project and our team. We're defending ourselves from /e/ and Murena along with their supporters continuing to mislead people about GrapheneOS.
We're going to address the fact that their supporters use the tactic of portraying our threads addressing their inaccurate claims to falsely present us as the aggressor. It's another of their inaccurate talking points.
@GrapheneOS
Look, I am following both. GrapheneOS AND /e/.
I've NEVER read GrapheneOS-bashing logorrhea like yours towards main LineageOS-based ROMs.
Really, stop victimising yourself and start acknowledging that every Google-shipped alternative ROM is a step towards better. Let users pick what they want.
You havent read GrapheneOS bashing anyone. Its far easier to make an incorrect claim with the intent to harm than it is to refute it with evidence. Refuting with accurate info inherently needs more words. You have not seen any bashing from GOS, you made that up.
They are victims. Victims of actual crimes and abuse. Many android OSs are massive steps backward and end up hurting the ecosystem. Users are allowed to pick what they want and GrapheneOS never once said they couldnt, but that does not mean users should make uneducated decisions due to scammers taking advantage of them. You are pushing for scams and ignorance.
@GrapheneOS
As for me, I chose to degoogle my life BUT to a certain extent only. I will not get rid of my Chromecast, neither of my unlimited Google Photos. I know there may be better choices, but these are mine. My LineageOS-based ROM is cool for me. Your ROM may be a better choice, but STOP criticising other ones. This is COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.
You say that like GOS forces you to degoogle completely, they dont. GOS has a wider range of using google than other OSs do.
GOS never said you werent allowed to mke choices, you completely missed the point. GOS is saying they are being attacked and harmed by other projects.
"Stop criticising other ones", are you serious? Is that really something you thought and then put into text form? First of all, no one is above criticism. That is a disgusting thing to say. Second, GOS is pointing out actual crimes. This isnt criticism, its defense. You are telling a victim to disregard abuse. I cannot fathom how you read all of this and decided GOS was the problem. You seriously need to rethink your choices.
@GrapheneOS It's great you're taking time to clear up factually incorrect claims, whether they're made out of maliciousness or naivety. Constructive community engagement is great!
But please, for the love of god, this information only belongs A) in the threads where factually incorrect claims are being made and B) on your website in the FAQ section.
I know it's not intuitive, but pushing conflict into everyone's face again and again makes your project seem *less* trustworthy, not more.
Those who spread misinfo make individual posts and shove it in peoples faces. GOS is allowed to make posts about topics that pertain to them, especially if they are to point out harm and abuse.
I'd add that I've recently unfollowed GOS precisely because almost every single interaction of theirs seems to have been negative. Even if it's correcting misinformation.
Now every time I see a GOS toot I think to myself "great, GOS drama again." I don't need that in my life.
@tastyraspberry@mastodon.online's suggestions were on point. I suggest you take them to heart.
P.S.: thanks for making GOS :)
~happy GOS user
CC: @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social @HybridStaticAnimate@infosec.exchange
@me @tastyraspberry @GrapheneOS
What a horribly apathetic thing to say. They wouldnt respond to abuse if they werent being abused.
@HybridStaticAnimate @me @tastyraspberry @GrapheneOS
The same here, I only scroll my home feed till the first of 30 posts clarifying again that eOS is bad. This should be considered spam. I don’t even know what is GOS referencing at this point. Is it new eOS attack every time? Is their CEO constantly posting shit about GOS?
@dwaem @me @tastyraspberry @GrapheneOS
Its really hard to cram technical refutation into Mastodons comically small default word limit, thats all.
GOS has long-form posts on Twitter. Mastodon should make an easy way to increase the limit.
A lot of projects do, unprovoked, make attacks at GOS. Its not drama or beef, its malice. This is what causes GOS to defend themselves. Its very unfortunate GOS is subjected to this abuse and it should stop.
Well, there are Mastodon forks, like glitch-soc or hometown, which do indeed have a modifiable character limit. And it seems that migrating to one isn't too difficult.
So there's a solution. Either GOS is unaware of it, or they chose not to go this route.
@HybridStaticAnimate @dwaem @me @tastyraspberry @GrapheneOS No need for longer posts on Mastodon, just have a blog post or several, link liberally.
@richlv @dwaem @me @tastyraspberry @GrapheneOS
The issue is that puts the corrections and refutations in a place people are explicitly being conditioned to avoid with the misinformation. A mix of both a post on the GOS discussion forum and refutations on Mastodon seem to work the best. But writing up a huge response on the forum takes a lot of time, and many replies have to be context specific.
@HybridStaticAnimate @dwaem @me @tastyraspberry @GrapheneOS No need for a huge post. If there was a smaller one that could be amended over time. A generic overview, that does not have to be context specific down to every last message somewhere.
@richlv @dwaem @me @tastyraspberry @GrapheneOS
Lying is so much easier than telling the truth. Its also easier to trick someone than to convince them they have been tricked. Large posts are needed because much of what GrapheneOS does is very technical and/or very involved, on the tech side, or an issue needing a ton of context and evidence on the community/social side. There isnt much of a choice other than huge post.
I don’t even know what is GOS referencing at this point.Exactly! It's hard to find the source of the issue amongst the tens (if not hundreds) of toots which all sound like "We are being attacked," "$PROJECT has worse security than GOS," etc.
Perhaps a FAQ site/thread on the forum could go a long way in making it easier to grasp the situation? Instead of writing 10 posts in response, you write one and attach a link to the site/forum.
That way, people could stay informed, and actually useful information would not be lost in the shit storm.
CC: @HybridStaticAnimate@infosec.exchange @tastyraspberry@mastodon.online @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social
@me @dwaem @tastyraspberry @GrapheneOS
The issue is people tend to believe the first thing they see if there is no counter. Making a FAQ entry on the site someone is being conditioned to avoid is... unhelpful. Counters are often context specific and need to be in the same place. Of course GOS would rather none of this happen at all but they are given very little choice in the matter.
Its as extreme as you describe because thats how extreme the situation they are forced to be in is.
@me @dwaem @HybridStaticAnimate @tastyraspberry @GrapheneOS Same. This pops up frequently. No clue what’s going on. No links to articles like Signal does or FAQ.
Nothing learned, a bit of time wasted.
@richlv @me @dwaem @tastyraspberry @GrapheneOS
GOS regularly posts evidence with their claims.
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116388159407099477
Heres more info.
They've created widespread misconceptions about the GrapheneOS project with inaccurate claims about the purpose of the project and what it provides to users. Many people incorrectly believe they aren't our target audience or that it wouldn't be a good fit for them due to this.
GrapheneOS is a privacy project which is intended to be usable by everyone. Usability and app compatibility are top priorities. Our userbase largely isn't highly technical. It's very easy to install and use. Devices can be purchased around the world with GrapheneOS preinstalled.
There's a comparison between operating systems based on the Android Open Source Project at https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm which provides a good overview of how GrapheneOS compares to other options. GrapheneOS is clearly a privacy project and is a major innovator in privacy protections.
GrapheneOS has an extremely high level of app compatibility. Nearly every Android app can be used on it which is crucial for broad usability. A tiny subset of Android apps banning using an alternate OS which we haven't yet worked around or convinced to allow it are incompatible.
Our primary focus is improving the usability and out-of-the-box experience of GrapheneOS. We're continuing to add own privacy and security focused implementations of functionality normally provided by Google apps/services. The user-facing apps are being overhauled and replaced.
We already shipped our own network-based location and geocoding implementations which we'll be making more discoverable. Our high quality local text-to-speech implementation is shipping soon and we'll also be providing a local speech-to-text implementation. A lot more is coming.
/e/ bundles many privacy invasive apps/services. That includes adding a bunch of Google services not present in AOSP with privileged access. They implement speech-to-text by sending user data to OpenAI without informing users about it. We cannot do that.
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114880528716479708
Apple and Google both provide support for offline speech-to-text using local models. Users can configure it to be fully offline.
The Murena Voice to Text service in /e/OS sends the user's audio to OpenAI which is hidden away in their terms of service:
https://community.e.foundation/t/voice-to-text-feature-using-open-ai/70509
Providing users with privacy requires ongoing work to address privacy vulnerabilities. GrapheneOS keeps up with the standard Android privacy patches. We also fix many Android privacy issues ourselves including VPN leaks. We're actively working on fixing remaining VPN issues.
Privacy heavily depends on security. Security vulnerabilities are widely exploited to obtain user data. State actors aren't the only ones exploiting vulnerabilities and it's not at all limited to targeted attacks. Privacy depends on fixing both privacy and security flaws.
Commercially developed exploits are widely deployed against users both online and in the physical world. Broadly using exploits against many people at a protest, crossing a border or visiting a high traffic website is not a small scale targeted attack. This is not going away.
/e/ and Murena have repeatedly repeated attacks by authoritarians on privacy technology by claiming without basis that GrapheneOS is mainly useful to criminals and used by criminals. They're claiming it about hardening against vulnerabilities in general:
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116353973732143171
Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. Duval and his organizations have consistently taken a stance against protecting users from exploits. In this video, he once again claims protecting against exploits is only useful for pedophiles and spies.
Translation to English:
> There's the attack surface, on that front we're not security specialists here, so I couldn't answer you precisely, but from the discussions I've had, it seems that everything
These inaccurate talking points used by /e/ and Murena to mislead people about the purpose of GrapheneOS, what it provides and who uses it are heavily propagated by their supporters to harm GrapheneOS in podcasts, blog posts, forums, social media and elsewhere. It's pervasive.
/e/ and Murena are based in France. Recently, France's national law enforcement has been smearing GrapheneOS, Signal and other privacy projects. They've heavily pushed the same false narrative as /e/ and Murena claiming GrapheneOS primarily benefits and is used by criminals.
Both state and corporate media in France repeated inaccurate claims from their nationa law enforcement without questioning it. They presented false claims about the features, distribution, marketing and userbase. They conflated it with sketchy products which aren't GrapheneOS.
/e/ and Murena are aligning themselves with these false narratives about genuine privacy and security projects. Their supporters are also aligning themselves with this. Their concept of privacy is control and surveillance by EU corporations and governments instead of the US.
Podcast Projets Libres heavily promotes /e/ and Murena. They've consistently misrepresented the GrapheneOS project to promote those. Our corrections have consistently been ignored. They recently published an episode heavily pushing many of these false narratives about GrapheneOS.
The /e/ enthusiast interviewed in the podcast replied twice to our thread from 4 days earlier addressing Duval's claims about hardening being for pedophiles and GrapheneOS somehow not being a privacy project. This is exactly the narrative which was heavily pushed in the episode.
After our response to their post promoted the podcast episode was once again ignored, we posted https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116380872236123594 as a top-level thread addressing it. Following this, they made one minor correction while keeping the outrageous claim we aren't a privacy project fully intact.
Podcast Projets Libres and Framasoft have closely worked with /e/ to promite it. /e/ is not a legitimate privacy project but rather one which fails to provide basic standard patches and protections while adding invasive services. These people are not legitimate privacy advocates.
/e/ isn't a privacy project but rather a digital sovereignty project. It receives millions of euros in funding from the EU with the goal of moving technology within the control of the EU. /e/ supports violating people's right to privacy as long as it's France and the EU doing it.
https://www.projets-libres.org/en/podcast/e-os-a-degoogled-android-gael-duval-e-foundation-murena/
> The European Union has subsidized us to the tune of several million for this project.
Murena sells products largely built with funding received from the EU. It's government funding being used to heavily enrich the shareholders of the Murena company.
Many European countries have a major issue with Apple preventing them from accessing user data by implementing strong security protections and strong end-to-end encryption. /e/ provides an option within their control which fails to keep up with basic privacy and security patches.
France's government and law enforcement have become extremely hostile towards disk encryption, end-to-end encryption and secure devices. Murena is trying to differentiate themselves from projects providing strong privacy and security while deriding those as being for criminals.
People shouldn't underestimate the harm which is going to be caused by them repeatedly telling people serious privacy and security are for pedophiles, criminals and spies. It's not a one time statement but rather a consistent narrative in years of their posts. This is a problem.
Murena and /e/ have been largely successful in how they've branded themselves despite lack of substance. Many people believe their false marketing. Governments now have an ally accepted within a lot of the privacy community which is saying strong privacy only helps pedophiles.
You are oversimplifying things.
When you read Gaël Duval’s interview, that’s not what he’s saying at all.
He draws a distinction between data protection and data security (with which I disagree) by giving a crude example.
If you have to quote him because he's talking nonsense, at least quote something he actually said.
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Do you realize that you spend more time posting messages here about the crap other people do than sharing information about GOS ?
😮💨
@mas @GrapheneOS The quote was exact and the meaning is clear. GOS wouldnt be posting so much about this if it wasnt happening. Youre trying to downplay it.
@HybridStaticAnimate @GrapheneOS
Read the article please :
"/e/OS permet à ses utilisateurs d’échapper à la collecte massive de données personnelles qui s’opère dans les smartphones du marché, pas d’aider les pédocriminels à passer sous les radars de la justice. Autrement dit : /e/OS n’est pas un système avec un objectif de sécurité durcie et qui serait utile seulement à des personnes ciblées"
or use another translation if need.
https://www.clubic.com/actualite-604786-murena-e-os-interview.html
If you wanted to make high-impact fediverse software, I would recommend making a simple daemon that does the following:
- Consumes RSS/Atom feeds
- Posts them as subscribable feeds over activitypub
- So dead easy you can host it yourself as a simple daemon on your server
- Optionally: collects replies as a comment section with a way to render them inline, a-la disqus, with some simple moderation tools. Simplest way to reduce spam would be to make it approve-only to show up on the feed.
You could extend this to allow posting on other servers etc. But, in other words, let more people use the static site generator they already have
computers don't do the thing where they start breaking and then you move the window and it smears all over the screen anymore. it's too bad really
RE: https://wikis.world/@legoktm/116365775366782119
Incredible, someone at Red Hat is apparently reading my toots and slowly scrubbing their website of references to their "compressing the kill cycle" project.
Here's the file they don't want you to read: https://web.archive.org/web/20260402155236/https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/ve-compress-the-kill-cycle-detail-693397pr-202402-en_3.pdf
p.s. if you work at Red Hat and have inside info on what's going on, my Signal is "@legoktm.12345" - happy to protect you.
Marika boostedRE: https://hachyderm.io/@nathandyer/116353464692290660
Red Hat has since removed their war crime-supporting "Compress the kill cycle" marketing page from their website but left other references up, e.g. https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/ve-compress-the-kill-cycle-detail-693397pr-202402-en_3.pdf (also saved on IA now)
A really good summary of what compressing the kill cycle means in practical terms was recently published in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying
in reply to »@swick @decathorpe I'm afraid I don't, but https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/ve-compress-the-kill-cycle-detail-693397pr-202402-en_3.pdf is still up (and @legoktm saved it on IA just in case it "disappears" too)
#OH: i don’t think my soldering is space-grade…
@domi IT'S NOT STUPID IF IT WORKS
@j-g00da@donotsta.re @s0up@chaos.social @famfo@frogs.lgbt the 4052 is perfect for multiplexing uarts. I even cascaded them to get enough channels.
Zapraszamy już w tę sobotę 2026/04/11 o 10:00 na Linux Presentation Day w Warszawie! Tym razem nie u nas, a w Domu Kultury Kadr.
Prezentować między innymi będą nasi członkowie @enkiusz i @steelman .
https://pl.linux-presentation-day.org/
Do zobaczenia wkrótce!
As punishment for using GenAI cat tail for April Fools',
we made our marketing guy draw it by hand.
😈 Manual mode, Viktors, no more AI toys for you!
Do you have a WiFi 6E or 7 router with 2.5Gbit ports? 6Ghz also preferred 🙂🤷♂️
Real code written by real programmers running in real systems in real time
func (m *SyncMap[K, V]) Range(f func(key K, value V) bool) {
m.m.Range(func(key, value any) bool {
return f(key.(K), value.(V))
})
}
Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-Starts-Codeberg-Use
This happens more frequently than you might think. Whenever a vendor says that it has invented its own proprietary, highly secure encryption techniques, run. Run quickly. While the security of "open code" versus "closed code" may be debatable, the security of "open crypto" versus "closed crypto" most certainly is not.
If you put your SSH CA in /etc/ssh, the Sysadmin Code declares that your co-workers are allowed to beat you with a spiked club, provided the spikes are no longer than four inches and not coated with neurotoxin. Local law may vary.
ok so . i have skalibs, execline and mdevd packaged . now , mdevd is actually a lie because i dont have a service for it , so i will have to include that one . but then i think its all good ? after this im pretty sure the gardendevd package should be .. fairly trivial ?
also skarnet are CHUDS i was getting weird errors and realized they wanted me to statically link everything and HELL NO death by one billion shared objects . also what the hell is execline bro be for real . also also maybe if you need kernel headers to build maybe you should tell me in the dependency list . just maybe .
@fiore i think execline is his custom shell thing bc shell is too fucked (understandable)
@SRAZKVT yea that s why i find it cursed 😭
@fiore honestly imo it's one of the least bad parts of skarnet (i agree with a lot of his points, but not how he solves them. also a bunch of his code reads as uselessly obtuse to me)
@SRAZKVT in what way obtuse ?
@fiore unclear abbreviations, single letter variables and severe lack of documentation
@SRAZKVT yeaowwwch
@SRAZKVT i hate that theres no manpages tbh . im gonna have to include the friggin html pages that are in doc/
@fiore honestly yea i hate that. it's readable html without a browser, thank god, but the unix doc system is man. not gnu help (which is why i dislike coreutils' reliance on help), and not a web browser
@SRAZKVT yea . manpages are just so nice 😭
@fiore they're not
but they are what is standard on unix like system, so they're what should be provided
There is hidden softcore furry pornography in MacPaint 2.0.
*Why* is there hidden softcore furry pornography in MacPaint 2.0.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116369793687490139
"jailbreak" your kindles, install the google app store, install a PDF reader, install firefox and ublock origin, and be free.
I'm not sure if the E-ink devices support this, but the el-cheapo tablets should support this.
Starting in May, pre-2013 Kindles won't be able to buy or download new books
Post-2013 Kindles will continue to work, even if they no longer receive updates.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/starting-in-may-pre-2013-kindles-wont-be-able-to-buy-or-download-new-books/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
I use #KOReader (https://koreader.rocks/) on my Kindle, and I like it far more than Kindle's native interface.
KOReader is also available on other platforms (e.g., Android, Linux) so you can try it there first!
It can even synchronise reading progress between devices, so I can resume reading on my tablet/phone. :)
(yes, I shill koreader. its awesome)

this would not be possible in snac2 on the default web UI because the client is meant to work without JavaScript enabled (unless someone else adds this functionality as optional addon requiring minimal JavaScript to work)
yeah, but this isn't a real c2s architecture as it still uses a server in between to talk to other servers in order to render HTML unlike a direct web client with JavaScript where the browser does the hard work for you
CC: @mateusz6768@esp32fedi.cjdgrevival.com @rose@snac.pinkro.se
unfortunately, afaik you don't get push notifs via the masto api, so you either have to poll, or get them via ntfy.sh/telegram/email
Tokodon has some problems here and there, but I'm not entirely sure if it's a snac/mastoAPI problem or just a Tokodon bug.
I'll let you know if I find anything better, lol.
ig snac's interface it is :p
(I like it, but I prefer to use my browser strictly for, well, browsing the web, not apps/"social media")
\o/ VLC in space
also i’m pretty sure this is KDE… not 100% positive, but that taskbar…
@me depends what you consider ‘modern’ I suppose, and this is almost certainly an enterprise managed deployment, so whatever shipped with whatever generation they are using (and I'd guess they probably aren't using the latest) is largely moot.
Sad it's not something more exciting, and less Microsoft, but for NASA's constraints this is probably reasonable :/
@simonzerafa @domi @videolan not more than it seems they use Windows 10/11 machines onboard and #curl is part of that...
IM FUCKING TIRED OF BOYCOTTING SHIT I ENJOY USING. FUCK ALL THIS. THE NO-AI COMPLEMENT OF MY ACTIVITY FLOW IS TO LIVE ON A FUCKING BALLPOINT PEN AND NOTEBOOK. MAYBE ILL STOCK UP ON THOSE BLACK AND WHITE PATTERNED COMPOSITION NOTEBOOKS SO I CAN LOOK EXTRA CREEPY PSYCHO.
@hyperreal if you look at the list, it includes everyone who even sneezed in direction of LLMs. I don't think I would put curl on the list, for example.
Also, e.g. booklore is very much NOT a "no AI" alternative to calibre.
What I'm saying is, this list can be both overly sensitive in some areas, and inaccurate in others, so the despair is not necessarily warranted.
@viq I mean I breathed in the direction of LLMs before. If I were a software I should be on the list too.
But in all sincerity, I agree. I will not stop using Neovim, Just, or Linux or BSD unless they become severely enshittified or sloppified.
Nevertheless, I respect people who don't want to be tainted by LLMs, so I think it's important to have a list of software to avoid and alternatives to them. The list can always be refined to be more accurate, of course.
I wonder if at some point it will eventually include every single goddamn software project that is still maintained.
@hyperreal an example of trying to figure out where the lines are, in a thread:
https://infosec.exchange/@wikiyu/116256419160886251
Regardless, I'm tired, too. I can definitely relate. guhhh... –_–
I can make some of these changes. To be honest, though, some of these come across like "Eww LLM cooties!"
I've never heard of Nebula before and apparently it's pretty popular. I can look into it as an alternative to Tailscale.
If the reason for not using Just is simply because it documents a way to use it with an MCP server, then, yeah, no, that doesn't square enough with me.
Python, systemd, Vim, Linux, and FreeBSD: Lmao, okay I guess I'll go on a paleo gluten-free vegan diet too.
@hyperreal apparently no, not nebula:
https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/commit/f8587956babc28da162afaba9861c282dc90a90e
@hyperreal not that surprising, seeing how much "AI" is getting pushed into Slack by Salesforce, the owners
Trump administration undoes civil rights settlements that found discrimination against trans students
https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-trans-student-settlements-reversed
宮城巴惠 [he/him/she/her/they/them/whatever] » 🌐
@KitsuneofInari@mastodon.sakura-star.net
Krita’s Maintainer is awesome!
@hacks4pancakes I still remember "Congress will keep him in check". 🥴
@ApostateEnglishman @hacks4pancakes
"The courts will stop him"
"Adults in the room..."
"He won't sick ICE on US citizens"
🔐 Introducing: Unified Attestation
An open-source project for verifying the integrity of Android apps—as an alternative to Google's Play Integrity.
The goal is to make apps such as banking and payment apps usable on independent Android systems without relying on Google services.
We invite developers, ROM projects, and app providers to get involved.
#Volla #VollaOS #OpenSource #software #hardware #Privacy #Security #DeGoogle
@volla looks very promising !! 👍
@lascapi Android already has a hardware attestation system open to everyone unlike this centralized system. Volla, Murena and iodé made a centralized system on top of the Android hardware attestation API to permit their own products while forbidding others. They're not enabling anything which wasn't already possible and are fully dependent on standard Android hardware attestation. Unified Attestation is anti-competitive and it clearly isn't legal.
Hi @GrapheneOS, you said :
> Unified Attestation is anti-competitive and it clearly isn't legal.
I don't get your point with this argument.
If I understand well, Unified Attestation is a competitor of Google Play Integrity. And everyone can try to setup another competitor.
How can you say that it's not legal?
@lascapi Multiple companies collaborating together to make a system which permits their products and forbids using alternatives isn't legal. The whole point of Unified Attestation is that it's a centralized system on top of Android hardware attestation putting these companies in control of which devices and operating systems are allowed. Companies making the products being certified should not be the ones deciding what's allowed. It's clearly not legal for them to be forbidding alternatives.
@lascapi They're pushing for banking and government apps to adopt a system which they control what's allowed to be used. They're going to be permitting their own products without reasonable security standards while locking out anything not participating in it. That's an anti-competitive cartel and not legal. We're not only going to heavily advocate against it but will file a lawsuit against Volla and the other companies involved as soon as there are apps using it while not permitting GrapheneOS.
@volla thanks. Your approach is better than google having a monopoly on device attestation.
@lutindiscret Android already has a hardware attestation system open to everyone unlike this centralized system. Volla, Murena and iodé made a centralized system on top of the Android hardware attestation API to permit their own products while forbidding others. They're not enabling anything which wasn't already possible and are fully dependent on standard Android hardware attestation. Unified Attestation is anti-competitive and it clearly isn't legal.
@circus_maximus @downey @Torx Android already has a hardware attestation system open to everyone unlike this centralized system. Volla, Murena and iodé made a centralized system on top of the Android hardware attestation API to permit their own products while forbidding others. They're not enabling anything which wasn't already possible and are fully dependent on standard Android hardware attestation. Unified Attestation is anti-competitive and it clearly isn't legal.
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116239523775374959
Android provides a standard hardware attestation system with support for alternate operating systems via allowing their verified boot key fingerprints. It's mainly used with Google's root of trust and remote key provisioning service but the API supports alternative roots of trust.
Volla's Unified Attestation is fully built on Android's hardware attestation API. It solely exists to create a centralized authority and service determining what's allowed under their control.
https://mastodon.social/@volla/116238706890314617
🔐 Introducing: Unified Attestation
An open-source project for verifying the integrity of Android apps—as an alternative to Google's Play Integrity.The goal is to make apps such as banking and payment apps usable on independent Android systems without relying on Google services.
We invite developers, ROM projects, and app providers to get involved.
#Volla #VollaOS #OpenSource #software #hardware #Privacy #Security #DeGoogle
@volla Interesting approach, but: How does #unifiedattestation ensure every interested other and secure alternative ROM can also pass the test?
@GrapheneOS does heavily criticize your approach. They claim it puts you (your project) in charge of controlling which ROMs pass attestation and which do not.
Is there any room for a collaboration? It sounds as if #GrapheneOS rules this out, how about you guys from @volla? Any negotiations possible? Any common ground?
I, as a user, would just like to use those banking apps without worrying they might stop functioning anytime with any updates. Those banking-app-devs are the real culprits IMHO, to rely on something like Integritycheck theater.
@volla is your secret that you will convince banking-app-devs to open up their checks?
@Torx Android already has a hardware attestation system open to everyone unlike this centralized system. Volla, Murena and iodé made a centralized system on top of the Android hardware attestation API to permit their own products while forbidding others. They're not enabling anything which wasn't already possible and are fully dependent on standard Android hardware attestation. Unified Attestation is anti-competitive and it clearly isn't legal.
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116239523775374959
Android provides a standard hardware attestation system with support for alternate operating systems via allowing their verified boot key fingerprints. It's mainly used with Google's root of trust and remote key provisioning service but the API supports alternative roots of trust.
Volla's Unified Attestation is fully built on Android's hardware attestation API. It solely exists to create a centralized authority and service determining what's allowed under their control.
https://mastodon.social/@volla/116238706890314617
🔐 Introducing: Unified Attestation
An open-source project for verifying the integrity of Android apps—as an alternative to Google's Play Integrity.The goal is to make apps such as banking and payment apps usable on independent Android systems without relying on Google services.
We invite developers, ROM projects, and app providers to get involved.
#Volla #VollaOS #OpenSource #software #hardware #Privacy #Security #DeGoogle
@Torx We're completely willing to file a lawsuit against @volla over this as soon as there are apps permitting their products through their system while disallowing GrapheneOS. It's not legal for Volla and multiple other companies to get together to implement a system banning using anything other than their products. We aren't going to participate is an illegal anti-competitive cartel. It's clearly against the law and should be stopped now prior to it causing clear damages to GrapheneOS.
@Torx @volla Devices and operating systems providing an alternative to Google's ecosystem based on AOSP is a distinct space from the broader Android app ecosystem. Companies trying to give themselves an advantage through banning arbitrary options other than their own products/services is clearly an illegal anti-competitive tactic within that space. This should be halted before it causes harm to GrapheneOS. We will not tolerate apps permitting their products through it and banning GrapheneOS.
@Torx @volla Volla and these other companies do not get to coerce us into participating in an illegal anti-competitive cartel where app compatibility would be harmed if we didn't participate. They do not get to coerce us into following their arbitrary demands and giving themselves veto power over GrapheneOS app compatibilities. Both Murena and iodé hostile towards GrapheneOS including spreading endless misinformation and direct involvement in spreading/supporting libel/harassment content.