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Notes on Geiger Counters(divested.dev)
10 points by _rdvw 1y ago|1 comments
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by _rdvw 1y ago
Please note that their GitHub releases are not libre and contain proprietary Google Play Services libraries.
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Google Aiming for Gold(divested.dev)
4 points by _rdvw 1y ago|0 comments
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by _rdvw 1y ago
Having to click "Verify you are a human" every single time is still awful.
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Show HN: Simple TTS augmentative and alternative communication app(udderance.app)
2 points by _rdvw 1y ago|0 comments
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by _rdvw 1y ago
/e/OS ranks poorly and is consistently months behind security updates: https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm Also visual voicemail should actually work just fine on select carriers.
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by _rdvw 1y ago
Back when I was developing my DivestOS project, test calling 911 was actually a thing I tried to do each month for this reason. There was one time where I did ship an update that broke select calls but I had it fixed on all devices in under
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Show HN: Client side mental health screeners(kairoscope.org)
1 points by _rdvw 1y ago|0 comments
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by _rdvw 1y ago
The oneplus3 cannot be relocked as it wrongly trusts test-keys. It also has public EDL firehose files available allowing anyone to flash it arbitrarily even when locked or further dump ram or userdata. I previously documented this here: ht
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by _rdvw 2y ago
Briar started in 2011: https://sourceforge.net/p/briar/mailman/message/27393146/
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by _rdvw 2y ago
Briar is actually even older than that! 2011: https://sourceforge.net/p/briar/mailman/message/27393146/
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by _rdvw 2y ago
interesting! I suppose a sufficiently older agesa may actually load the newer microcode then if that was a recent addition in preparation for this
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by _rdvw 2y ago
recent microcode appears to be rejected by older agesa in my testing, so it is very possible it is more than an implementation issue under agesa 1.2.0.2b > microcode: CPU1: update failed for patch_level=0x0a60120c under agesa 1.2.0.3a Pa
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by _rdvw 2y ago
Reminder that AMD has stopped providing microcode updates for consumer platforms via linux-firmware. index of linux-firmware, 41 cpus supported: https://github.com/divestedcg/real-ucode/blob/master/index-
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by _rdvw 2y ago
the updates were all on time: https://divestos.org/misc/ffa-dates.txt
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by _rdvw 2y ago
the 21 port was actually largely complete: https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/DivestOS-Build/blob/maste...
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by _rdvw 2y ago
it did https://divestos.org/pages/faq#microgEnable
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by _rdvw 2y ago
ECH can be used regardless of DoT, DoH, dnscrypt, or plain as long as your resolver passes HTTPS queries. You can easily test this: dig @8.8.8.8 https pq.cloudflareresearch.com
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by _rdvw 2y ago
Please see https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm
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by _rdvw 2y ago
Firefox 128.0.3 and higher has this globally disabled for Android.
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Chrome for Android and Friends: Version History, Security Fix, and Payout Counts(divestos.org)
1 points by _rdvw 2y ago|1 comments
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by _rdvw 2y ago
I added payout counts after seeing a comment on a recent thread here. Script here: https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/DivestOS-Website/blob/mas... There is also a Firefox version here: https://dive
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by _rdvw 2y ago
Also if you don't have a bios update available for that newer microcode, give my real-ucode package a try: https://github.com/divestedcg/real-ucode The linux-firmware repo does not provide AMD microcode updates to
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by _rdvw 2y ago
KPTI won't be default enabled on Linux on AMD CPUs is the issue here. Yet it provides valuable separation between kernel and userspace address ranges. iirc the predecessor to KPTI was made before these hw flaws were announced as a gene
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by _rdvw 2y ago
That row covers whether or not the opt-in/out is provided during setup wizard, not post install. If there is such an option then you can report it here: https://github.com/eylenburg/eylenburg.github.io/issues
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by _rdvw 2y ago
Most "degoogled" systems are not degoolged: https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm
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by _rdvw 2y ago
Google Play System updates provide very few security patches and this only applies to devices with Android 10 and higher and most APEX modules are only updatable in later versions. I track security patch counts of monthly Android Security B
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by _rdvw 2y ago
I document this more in depth here https://divestos.org/misc/gnss.txt
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by _rdvw 2y ago
My Mull disables WASM by default, please see the documented workarounds here: https://divestos.org/pages/broken#mull
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by _rdvw 3y ago
> can’t ensure security features They are indeed different projects. GrapheneOS is maximum security possible. DivestOS is best effort security of old/EOL devices to prevent them from being completely e-waste. > so one is limited

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