I'm not sure of the answer. There are some good suggestions other people gave.
I guess to me, passing this seemed like a no-brainer and there isn't any amount of propaganda that could sway me on that. How people are so confused about voting in their interests is surprising to me. But I think you have an interesting point.
I'm not bootlicking anything. I have no relationship with the Graphene project and the only time I tried to find out more about the project I was quickly banned for some reason. I think being pissed at open source developers who give away software for free is crazy as fuck.
So many of you are being so irrational and ungrateful. Do you know how much work the Graphene team likely did to make this happen? This means Graphene is less dependent on Google hardware in order to exist (ie, if Google decides to lock bootloaders in future Pixel models it won't end the project). An expensive high-end phone brings along rich people and corporate users who will hopefully donate to the project. The engineers at the Graphene project work so much and it would be nice to see more appreciation.
No one is being forced to buy this highest end model. There are plenty of Pixels they support and will continue to support and they likely they will support other models that will be much cheaper over time. If you don't want to buy a $2K phone, don't buy this model. Problem solved! Or wait for more people to be selling this phone used and buy a used version of this model. Also, having this much RAM means that it's more likely this can run virtualized ARM operating systems and can work like a desktop when plugged in, although I am not sure if it can do that.
(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_California_Proposition_40)
As tv ads continued to play, it affected how people thought about the proposition. Remember, people are really stupid and it's really easy to change their opinions on things.
https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/cbc-tutanota-tuta-is-a-honeypot/14978/9
Why would a government employee, being charged with a crime, randomly make up lies about tutanota, now Tuta?
The likely answer is he didn't make up lies and wanted to expose an operation as revenge for them charging him with a crime, which he thought he would likely be convicted of.
Cameron Ortis did actually get 14 years in prison. So if this were merely a disinformation campaign, why did he end up in prison?
For this accusation to be false, you need it to be true that Ortis randomly decided to lie about Tutanota (now Tuta) during a trial or had some incentive to lie during trial to spread misinformation about Tuta. However, there was no plea deal in this case. He was granted day parole in September of 2026, but I don't know that much about Canadian prisons or law and if this would be considered unusual.
The fact that Tutanota rebranded to Tuta nearly immediately after this (to make it harder for regular people searching for this to discover it) is also suspicious.
This is a good point. AI vibe-coded stuff that hasn't been pentested being pushed in a product promising security and privacy is genuinely terrible. Perhaps that one thing is so terrible it should rightfully overshadow everything else because of the risks involved.
This is terrible and really bad news. They are trying to make it impossible for people to only exist with a flip phone.
If this gets implemented and sites start using it, I hope that someone creates a DNS blocklist of any site that uses it so it can just be avoided.
This really is bad news! Unless you like the police state. Then it's fucking awesome!
I sort of get where he is coming from. AI has made shockingly fast rapid advances in being able to code. AI code should definitely be pentested, even if it's just with more AI.
There are many developers and tech privacy enthusiasts who hate AI coding for whatever reason, and I get his perspective. He just isn't being very strategic because he's acting like a normal CEO and not caring that much about emotional impact because he's in a leadership position, forgetting that a privacy-focused user base will not tolerate typical CEO behavior.
I already have real fears regarding Proton. What sort of privacy company doesn't accept Monero?????? What sort of privacy company uses US-based Zendesk which could be required to cooperate with a police state with a secret dragnet warrant???? Proton has a very active fraud/abuse detection system. Even if it is necessary, how could that be technically possible if messages are encrypted???
But we should also remember that if you are a poor person in a repressed regime, you can get free Proton services to help get you more access to information. They are very nice about that. Who made that choice so that a poor person in a poor country can get these services for free if they are poor? Andy Yen made that decision.
People make mistakes and if Andy Yen realizes he needs to be more emotionally intelligent and aware and tries to change, perhaps people should be willing to forgive him. Proton does a lot of good overall despite recent concerning behavior.
I will also add that it's concerning that their AI Lumo is integrated into so much potentially and it's not clear where the processing occurs, if the processing itself is encrypted during the processing, and what models are used. For example, if Lumo is using US-based company data centers in the US and the model has to be given unencrypted data to process, then in theory if there's a gag-order demand on the data center, all of that information can be extracted. I see very little information about that, which is concerning.
There's only 1 solution: Persona
Also google Play Integrity API, shutting down old.reddit.com for some reason and blocking all browsers except Chrome and Safari. Also retinal scans for new accounts, karma farming bots only allowed for old accounts with stolen credentials, and blocking anyone who refers to war crimes against Palestinians as genocide.
Also, a new helpful AI assistant called Reddy that replaces interacting with other users and recommends products and collects user data.
Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones
(lemmy.today)
Github has made it impossible to create an account when using a VPN and a privacy browser with fully spoofed hardware identifiers. (Use Firefox or Firefox-based Privacy Browser, VPN, install Canvasblocker to test this.) I create an account with Google or Apple (both requiring hardware identifiers and numbers and birthdates) or I can use an email. When I use an email, it comes back with this horrible test, and even if I do it completely correctly, it tells me after I didn't do the test right, gaslighting me with a picture of what I chose (which I didn't choose) and showing me the correct picture (which I did choose and it claims I didn't select).
It's fucking bullshit and it's more corporate control of open source software. For people who have their discussion or issue tracker, I can't even participate without hardware identifiers likely linked to me some other way and phone numbers. It's fucking bullshit. If anyone from Microsoft is reading this, FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
I am so tired of this bullshit. I just want to post an issue about a piece of software. You don't need my fingerprint, hardware or personal, or biometric shit. This is a slippery slope. Fuck them.
I really hope more developers just get the fuck off Github. Honestly, if you are developing privacy-oriented software and using github, there's a mistmatch and it's bullshit, and I know it's time consuming and annoying to move, but please do. This is fucking bullshit and it's not like it's going to become LESS annoying over time. FUCK THIS.
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