> there has been recently numerous experiments which challenge this premise

I've seen Sabine Hossenfelder mentioning some papers but without the gory details.

But she also notably said:

>> A lot of research [in] the foundations of physics is now pseudocience. It hasn’t followed the scientific method for decades.

What experiments you're talking about?

I see the passive aggressiveness only in your response, not the parent.

Hetzner?! No, I would never use them if I wanted to host a pirate proxy myself. Very crude, trigger happy, operating in a country very cosy with all the police organisations.

100% this. Pirating in Germany is probably the stupidest thing one can do, because enforcement is done by individual lawyers via a process called Abmahnung. Courts (and therefore providers) are very friendly to those. Everyone knows someone who got "the letter".

I stopped preferring British produce when I read about the farmers cheerfully using toxic industrial sludge on their fields: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3e5y85p488o

I guess others are no angels either, but at least they have regulations with teeth and less corrupt politicians.

Just buy what you want and certainly do not _prefer_ British. If they don't care about your health why should you care about their bottom line....

I am a parent and I'm grossly offended by the thin veil of fake excuses in the effort to normalise staggering invasion of privacy.

For my kids.

This effort trains them to expose their full name and home address and their real face to all the sites and services that request it. Predators dream, really.

If the age verification was done in the privacy-preserving ways, it would be okay, but already several high profile leaks and scandals proved this is the exercise in data collection and deanonymisaiton.

It's maybe $250 for someone's old phone.

Other than that -- next year. And this is other companies' choice, not GrapheneOS team, to fix on releasing grossly insecure hardware or NOT releasing patches and fixes.

> Messaging, high impact.

Messaging can be replaced with one of the hundreds decent messaging apps.

Unlike the backup app which is utterly unusable, untrustworthy and frankly crap. And CANNOT be replaced by anything else.

As it stands it's impossible to have reliable backups in GOS.

I know this isn't the solution you are looking for, but there is a fairly simple workaround and IMO it is superior: set up a Samba server or a Nextcloud instance, either at home or in the cloud, place it with behind a Wireguard tunnel, and don't store anything on the phone itself other than apps and things like maps for OsmAnd that can be redownloaded if lost. The Nextcloud app can automatically sync photos or other files too.

If my phone were lost, stolen or destroyed, I would simply revoke its Wireguard key, buy a new Pixel, flash Graphene, and provision a new Wireguard key. Essentially no data of value would be lost, and restoring my apps and settings manually would take an hour tops. Admittedly, I don't use many apps, so YMMV.

You're right, this is not a solution.

And I'm syncing some of the app data already, but that is not a replacement for the OS apps.

Most of the data cannot be synced like this.

> Most of the data cannot be synced like this.

Isn't it because of lack of the root access?

You could say that.

The lack of root is only significant because unlike in other vendors the built-in backup doesn't work reliably, and you can't use third party software.

But I'm very hopeful, recently they released this Messages update, they're working on introducing native RCS somehow (no idea how but I wish them well), and they recently made a first-class automated call recording.

Very few of them will support RCS (I think currently only Google Messages?), which GrapheneOS also wants to support.

I agree that a new backup system is also high impact, but there can be more than one high-impact thing, and the Message app is really low-hanging fruit.

GrapheneOS already supports using Google Messages with RCS. Google Messages is essentially the only RCS app for Android and it's the only one supporting end-to-end encryption. There were other apps such as a Samsung one but they died out and are nearly entirely only still around on outdated devices as a legacy app. We don't want people to need to use Google Messages for RCS and plan to add it to our Messaging app.

Currently only Google Messages supports RCS indeed, so Messages is not a replacement yet.

Personally I don't need RCS so I simply use Textra since forever as it's far better than Messages, but lack of backup is impacting everyone much more - no other app can be used to back up the OS.

What? :)

You mean the perfectly functional (if barebones) AOSP call app? :)

It will get ported to kotlin, material 3, and jetpack compose, just like Messaging.

The one with the terrible UI, yes.

Investigated, prosecuted and jailed (if necessary).

So all the people companies are better off, not just you and other shareholders.

You know, the opposite of two-tier justice system.

In the longstanding tradition of leading on the forefront safety, we introduce Engine Check coming up after mysterious, unaccounted for, unsigned voltage drops.

Can't be too safe if it could be a short, right?

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