Really? How do I tell the right people?

It’s completely written by AI, but ChatGPT makes a good point.

How certain are you Tor Browser can be fingerprinted and do you have any sources or information about that?

This is a really cool idea. Any work in the direction of more linux phone technology is always good. There are some linux phones out there already, and these devices have had some problems which is why there hasn’t been more adoption. If there is a way to do this with RISC and have decent battery life, that would be really exciting. Have you tried installing Phosh on it?

The newest, and most exciting, option right now is flx1s (https://furilabs.com/flx1s-update-2/).

One of the biggest problems is that, to my knowledge, there is no standard linux mobile App standard or, if there is, it’s not often used. There is a group working on this issue right now (https://www.fierce-network.com/wireless/mobile-linux-standards-group-formed).

For example, if I am using mobian or something similar and download thunar using sudo apt install thunar, then if I run thunar, it will run, but certain menus won’t display easily. In phosh, any sub-menu boxes will also pop up as a smaller pop-up box and to close it, you have to scroll through Apps to find the pop-up box and then close it. Generally I may be able to see the file structure on the left in Thunar but have a hard time seeing what’s on the right.

There are also things that can happen in which default panels (like the side panel) take up so much room that you can’t see what’s going on. For instance, if you try running gimp in phosh, you can barely see the image panel by default.

There are some Apps designated as mobile-friendly but even these sometimes don’t display correctly. Perhaps there should be a way to make it harder for Apps to be installed that don’t meet mobile standards and have weird menu glitches, such as making it harder to download Apps from repositories that are not mobile.

I’d really like to be able to run something like “flatpak-mobile install librewolf” and just get something that at least had a file with it to tell phosh how to display menus in the best way, if not a slightly altered librewolf.

Many people who used phosh would say “well just use waydroid” but the problem is that with play integrity api, many of those Apps won’t work.

In order for banking Apps and other Apps to run on linux and people to develop software, there really needs to be more adoption of mobile linux.

And yes, battery life was atrociously bad and completely unusable on the linux mobile devices I tested, which were a few years ago. It also got way too hot when just not doing anything, which was terrible. (In other words, if I took the device with me to Starbucks and got a coffee, it might get way too hot in my pocket; if I took it out and used the Internet for 20 minutes, the battery could die, and even if it didn’t, if I were waiting for a call during that time there was a good chance I wouldn’t get it. After getting back home, it would be totally dead and need a full recharge.)

Right now also, the main competitor to linux phones is Graphene OS with FOSS Apps and Graphene OS has better security features if someone is worried about their phone being stolen or seized. Data security is important to me and Graphene OS has a rate-limiting throttle to the password entry that even cellebrite can’t easily bypass and a function to auto-reboot. If the political situation in my country deteriorated even more, and arbitrary arrests started to happen more often, I would much rather be arrested with a Graphene phone than a typical linux mobile phone. Mobile linux for certain distros such as Mobian still offers robust encryption in before first unlock (bfu) if the password can withstand brute force attempts, but since there’s no hardware rate-limiter, the password has to be much more complex. Also, most people who use their phone frequently are not in BFU mode.

Graphene OS also requires a Pixel which does not have hardware switches and so a person must trust that there’s no exploit allowing certain components to be turned on or off which can be concerning when there is no way to definitively measure what the cellular modem is transmitting. Call me paranoid, but given what I know about how easy it is for someone smart to exploit computers, I actually don’t want a cell phone microphone to have power when I am talking about sensitive things or inputting passwords into computer systems and I do not want a camera that is built into the lcd part of the glass screen and can’t be easily covered because of the need to swipe up nor turned off without a switch, even if the cell phone has an incredible operating system that is very secure. Graphene, unlike most mobile linux distributions, is mostly very usable with no battery life issues, no weird display problems where Apps don’t display correctly and menus don’t work correctly, and no random reliability problems, mostly. I understand not wanting to rely on anything involving Android, however, given Google’s recent aggressive anti-privacy stances.

I’m excited about FuriPhone (https://furilabs.com/) and Purism’s Librem 5v2.

The thing that I believe would help Mobile Linux most right now is people having conferences and getting to know each other and discussing standards, specifically on user experience, linux mobile app standards, battery life, and reliability.

There are so many smart people in mobile linux and eventually it will get great but right now there are major problems with the user experience because of how Apps are displayed and battery life as well as things like reliability.

So any way to gather people to discuss the mobile linux user experience and to come up with standards to reduce these issues would help, or even to help list all the different problems so that they can just be enumerated and acknowledged and worked on would help.

Another way that would help is to have a mobile linux security group or conference to discuss things like standards for making mobile linux more secure from brute-force attacks if stolen or seized after being unlocked.

It’s important to realize that many of these people are free masons and they vote as a block.

So when you see the retiring Democrats agreeing to fuck over the poor, and the remaining Democrats not, and wonder how it could happen, the answer is likely that the orders come from the Masonic Lodge.

If a senator ranks at a certain level, and is outranked by other Masons, and the Masons make a decision, that senator is going to do as the Masons say because their wealth, power, and position come from the Masons and the Masons keep tabs on their families, supposedly to help them out if things are needed, such as when a Mason passes.

See something in politics that makes absolutely no sense? The answer is almost always Free Masons.

The idea that politicians are completely democratically elected is questionable. I would bet Gavin Newsom is a free mason and has already essentially been selected President, unfortunately, and will be pushed on the public through a combination of campaign donations and media coverage, ensuring that other candidates who could be better are eclipsed.

The problem now is that the clear desires of regular folks who vote for either Democrats or Republicans are not aligning with what is best for Masons… which is how you get bizarre outcomes like this in which politicians make decisions that the entire country hates and you would expect the Democrats to stick it to the Republicans but instead they are just rolling over for no apparent reason.

Then again, the Masons previously gave America a choice, a black women who would be fair to the lower and middle classes, or some rich guy who would take away programs from poor white America (and everyone), and white America voted to choose racism. Perhaps we all deserve this?

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It wouldn’t surprise me if it were true. There’s no transparency with where people are going, right? Some person (whose name we don’t know) gets picked up, we have no idea who they are in the system, they end up who knows where. How would anyone even know if they were dropped into the ocean?

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Do local response teams have use for people with extremely limited Spanish? I’ll try to find out. It’s a good idea.

For all I know, the website could be a honeypot, although I have no reason to suspect that. But I don’t know who the developer is, I don’t know what Vercel is, I don’t know why Anubis isn’t sufficient.

https://www.iceinmyarea.org/ wouldn’t let me on the website because I’m using Tor Browser in safer mode and WebGL is blocked (Vercel Security Checkpoint Failed to verify your browser Code 11) and I’m not willing to go on a website like that without using Tor Browser. I really don’t trust anything that doesn’t trust Tor Browser.

At this point, ICE is just a group of people who harass Latinos based on racist criteria. It doesn’t even have to do with immigration.

As a white person, I think of the German people who did nothing when Jewish people were gradually stripped of rights, before the eventual death camps, and I’m not actually sure of what to do. I also am not really convinced that there are no Latinos being sent to death camps right now. If there were, would I know somehow?

My political views are somewhat moderate. I just don’t like racism.

Is there anything I can do that will have any meaningful impact on protecting Latinos from this racism? I do not consider protests to be meaningful and I am not asking for any suggestions that are illegal, especially since the government probably trolls these posts. I feel like I’m being a bad person by doing nothing.