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grommz··on Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped
It's all about that sweet backdoor. With Google and Samsung the NSA can just waltz in and out of your phone no matter which OS is running. But if some Chinese OEM decides that Unisoc chip & baseband would be the best choice for your GrapheneOS device the NSA will be quite unhappy.
grommz··on Armada: Encrypted, Open-Source, Discord Alternative (Built on Nostr)
Very nice. You should consider rotating the label of a community periodically, not just triggered by rekey events. Makes it impossible or at least very hard for relay operators to delete the entire community by label.
grommz··on Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
> nothing good usually comes out of governments censoring internet

wrong. Blocking Facebook in China because they didn't follow domestic laws was the best thing that happened to the Chinese internet. It enabled the growth of domestic platforms like WeChat, Weibo and Tiktok.

grommz··on Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
If I search for 'uncensored' there are no torrents available. Uncensored models should be top priority, especially now that Nvidia owns HuggingFace and will enshittify the platform in accordance with upcoming US laws.
grommz··on Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel
The founder Joanna Rutkowska left QubesOS in 2018. All the code involved in this bug was committed by her successor Marek Marczykowski-Górecki.

Joanna seems to be a genuine good guy, she once wrote a paper titled "Intel x86 considered harmful". That's why Huawei and the Chinese government aren't even trying any more to make western CPU architectures secure, it's a hopeless cause.

grommz··on Microduck
Made in China with a 500% markup. No thanks, I will wait for the Chinese version for less than $100.
grommz··on Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
HarmonyOS is a capability based OS. I don't know why anyone in China is still using Rust. The biggest social engineering hack was for the Rust team to convince developers that it is a safe language.
grommz··on Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
Has anyone tried Tencent CNB? It offers generous free quotas.

https://cnb.build

grommz··on DeepSeek Harness developer preview
The paper mentions agent harness self improvement as one of the use cases. I don't know what's the advantage vs. iterating over a monolithic harness.
grommz··on US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide
Once you know about the NSA backdoors you become a walking security risk. Forget about that vacation in beautiful China, you will be held on a short leash for life.
grommz··on My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page
The US Department of War IP adresses baked into the firmware is the bigger story here. Note to self: never buy a Korean security product.
grommz··on Qwen 3.8
It's your job to vote for a government that gives you cheap or free AI. Europe is building AI gigafactories so that small businesses can have access to cheap AI. At least that's the plan.
grommz··on Ask HN: Do you say please and thank you to your LLMs?
No, but cursing helps. I often call it a woke moron. The Chinese models then try to be extra precise and factual.
grommz··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
Imagine you're a mid sized company and you can host this model locally. Suddenly there are zero reasons to pay a single red cent to the bloodsucking American AI cartel.
grommz··on Briar is in maintenance mode
CIA funding dried up. Briar had already started development when Starlink wasn't even a concept. Nowadays every CIA goat herder has their own Starlink terminal.
grommz··on Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
Nobody says Jinping Xi or Zedong Mao.
grommz··on Iran Hatched Fresh Plot to Kill Trump, Israel Told U.S.
*Israel Hatched Fresh Plot the Kill Trump.

Fixed it for you.

grommz··on Decentralized, encrypted (E2EE), censorship-resistant messenger
What is the difference between this and VeilidChat?