all android devices have been using file based disk encryption since several Android versions now.

All Android devices are supposed to support it, but not all do. (or at least, not all do effectively without compromising the cryptographic root of trust by not implementing proper hardware security chips)

I’ll grant it to you on the scopes, PIN changes, etc, but realistically I just don’t think anyone can justify GrapheneOS being something that should be supported on Fairphone given how absolutely desolate the phone looks with regard to any attempt at all to hardware security.

It really depends on what security level you want out of a phone

It does, but that’s exactly my point. GrapheneOS will provide you essentially no more security than any other alternative Android operating system, should it have to operate on a Fairphone with all those features not supported by a Fairphone stripped away.

Unless Fairphone adds more hardware security features that are standard on most other phones, and highly supported on Pixels, installing a heavily crippled GrapheneOS on a Fairphone would get you essentially none of the benefits of GrapheneOS in the first place.

Entirely lacking disk encryption for typical users due to not having a secure element is a pretty major flaw.

It’s also missing hardware accelerated virtualization which is necessary for much of GrapheneOS’s sandboxing, has weak security for other keys in the OS keystore, is missing hardware memory tagging which makes it much easier for apps to use overflow attacks, doesn’t have proper verified boot support once a custom alternative OS is flashed, and leaves exposed debugging APIs even when the phone is locked.

This breaks:

• Secure app spawning
• Memory corruption protection
• Integer overflow protection
• Most of Graphene’s kernel hardening
• Much of Graphene’s attack surface reduction abilities
• Hardware-based attestation and security monitoring
• Quick tile protection pre-unlock
• Debugging access prevention
• Verified Boot
• The security of your PIN against any automated attack

At that point, GrapheneOS can’t physically provide you essentially any security anymore.

It wasn’t just the update cycle either, it’s that they don’t have the physical hardware chips to support Graphene’s minimum requirements for security, which would severely weaken any benefits you actually get from GrapheneOS.

If his life was on the line, you’d see him change his tune real quick, but it’s not, so he’ll sacrifice 114,000 people for the sake of his donors’ stock portfolios. Fuck you, Jeffries.

Especially given it has a similar effect to how spam emails are often deliberately bad so they just don’t waste their time with people that waste some of their time before wising up. If you only get the most easily duped people in the first place, that’s a lot less time wasted.

With LLMs, you’re explicitly targeting people that are less likely to strongly ideologically object to things (like LLMs, or genocide funding) on moral grounds, you’re getting the people that are willing to just get a quick answer without having to look into it deeply, and you’re getting the people who’s sole goal it is to flood the web with any SEO-optimized slop they can with the least effort possible.

LLMs self select for people not willing to put in cognitive effort, that are easily influenced and less careful about fact-checking things.

I love how the only arguments people have against them is “they’re ugly” and “they’ll take away parking spots” as if piles of trash bags look better, and NYC doesn’t already have an expansive public transit network with plans to increase bus service.

Yeah I totally get your initial assumption, but as far as I can tell this is basically just making fun of the “temporarily embarrassed millionaire” type of person who thinks that if they just vote against taxing the rich now, then when they inevitably become rich and successful one day, then they’ll benefit.

Yep. If you want to record everything going on from your POV, strap a GoPro to your head and see if people’s moods change about it. If they clearly don’t want that, they don’t want the “convenient” hidden cameras either. Simple as that.

As far as I’m aware, Redlib gets around blocks in two ways. The partially implemented client-side blocks I presume are by just stripping the code (e.g. seeing the post but it’s greyed out and has a popup saying “sign in” in front of it, or when your whole screen is a login page but all the actual content was already loaded in the background, deleting that code means you can read the post just fine)

And the rest is just tricking Reddit by mimicking the request format & behavior of the Android Reddit app, which tricks Reddit into believing the user is supposed to be allowed access or shouldn’t be rate limited, because obviously anybody using the app is a real signed-in user… I guess? (this information is from their GitHub page’s README but I’m not sure exactly how all this works under the hood)

Here’s a screenshot I just took without it looking like someone turned down the brightness lmao

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Fun fact, safereddit.com still works perfectly fine as a frontend in my experience! (not the only one out there, just an instance of redlib If you need to bypass the login requirement just add “safe” before “reddit” in the URL and it should let you in :)

As far as I know he’s just telling someone to pass along the messages and someone else is posting them on his behalf.

Can be done during any form of visitation, bribing guards… or I suppose just having someone make up plausible sounding tweets you’d write 😭

Well… yeah?

For people with ADHD, you’re just effectively bringing certain brain chemical levels (or your brain’s response to existing chemicals) to a more typically normal baseline.

For people without ADHD, your levels are already typically normal, so now you’re just getting high as fuck.

To me it seems like they’re really pushing for mass-market appeal right now compared to just maintaining or slowly growing their existing more dedicated/niche base.

You can see it with them adding widgets, a free VPN, more visibly advertising trackers blocked (at least on Android, not sure about iOS), rebranding with a new mascot, and now going back to a platform that still has a ton of user lock-in keeping people there. They’re trying to pull in regular people, I presume so they don’t become as dependent on a base that has more strongly held convictions that Mozilla has to comply with to keep its users.

If it works out for them, it’ll be good for their long-term funding and security, market appeal, etc, but bad for users that care a lot more about fundamental principles.

Of course!

For the USB one I don’t think it even has the ability to use WiFi in any way, but it seems you might need to install their drivers to then locally be able to set the label size within a system dialog. In my experience, at least for the wireless one, it doesn’t necessarily require its own drivers to work, as it works with Windows’ built-in printer drivers, and worked well enough for me on Fedora Linux. (But you might have issues with stuff printing in the wrong orientation and have to account for that by rotating your files before printing)

For the wireless one, I think you’ll need at least some form of network no matter what, at least for setup. (I do want to clarify though that you can still use the wireless one with a wired cable to send files to print to it, and as far as I can tell that works even if WiFi is off) They really want you to use the app, but since it really is just another way to access the web UI, they do also just have a guide on how to do it without the app.

I set mine up on my WiFi network that does have internet access, but theoretically since the UI is on a local IP it should be able to work on an isolated VLAN or something similar where no actual link to the Internet exists and it’s just a LAN, but I have no clue if it tries to connect to a server anywhere on startup before allowing anything else to happen, so your mileage may vary. It’s unfortunately not something I’ve tested for.

It also has an option to check for updates, I presume to fix any bugs or future potential exploits, but I’ve never seen my printer update once in nearly a year of owning it. (As far as I can tell this setting can’t be disabled, all you can change is if it prints a label to tell you when it updates)

Regardless, as mentioned previously, it should be able to function in terms of just the printing itself with just a cable and no access to the internet afterwards, so you could always set it up on WiFi, add all the page sizes you want, then disconnect it from your network and only use it over USB and it should work fine :)

You can change its IPv4 and IPv6 address/netmask/gateway/prefix length, DNS servers, and hostname in settings, install a custom TLS certificate, etc if any of that helps.

Also, you can change the default print settings, which I personally very much recommend. Depending on what you’re printing, you might want to increase the print quality or darkness, particularly if you print a lot of labels in succession that might otherwise start printing a little more faded on the lighter settings.

That’s all the info I can think of that would probably be relevant, but if you’ve got any more questions that I somehow missed I’m happy to answer them too lmao

It’s a Rollo! (refurbished)

I have the white wireless-capable one, but the USB-only model should theoretically operate the same in all other respects.

To manage the wireless one you use the app, or just go to the web URL for the management portal… because all the app does is just redirect you to that exact URL in-app 💀

I know a lot of cheaper models do still work well, but Rollo is just a much larger, more well known brand that also just has a lot more troubleshooting info behind it. (not to mention better printer driver compatibility)

Definitely don’t buy the overpriced official Rollo labels, though. They’re no better than any other thermal labels on the market!

I’ve found https://megalodon.jp/ to work similarly. Japanese site, and has some quirks with how large of a page it will archive before only saving a screenshot, but it works.

Unlike the communistic system where the political leaders use the system to enrich themselves?

An actually communist system would not have leaders that could enrich themselves, because communism entails the absence of private property. (including money, owning means of production that aren’t directly from solely your own efforts, etc)

I wouldn’t call myself a communist, but even I know this.