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Thanks for the excellent article on Zano, and in general for the information you share. Keep up the weight loss! Share how you did it? Staying away from soft drinks was key for me, as well as cutting out all caffeine.

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Technical blog post: Self-hosting: Speed, decentralization and efficiency

Happy Cybersecurity Awareness Month!

* Personal Security Checklist

Technological Tyranny

* UK Government Dismisses Public Outcry, Pushes Ahead with Controversial Digital ID Plan

* ID cards: UK risks sleeping walking into pre-crime state

* We Don’t Want a “Papers, Please” Web

* Government needs to fix dangerous flaws in federal cybersecurity proposal

* Digital Threat Modeling Under Authoritarianism

Hope in a better digital future

* Taking the Hope Pill on Dead Internet Theory

* Democracy of Reach

* Chatterbox: Federated Chat that Doesn’t Suck

* FSF turns forty with a groundbreaking new project and a new president

* FLOSS 849 - Veilid: Be a Brick

* IMA: Free Speech or Limited Speech – There Are No Other Choices

Honorable mentions

* Hosting A Website On A Disposable Vape

* Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy

* Is it really FOSS?

* Spartacus: Conscientious Objection In The Digital Panopticon

* VPN Relationships

* Aegis Authenticator and Linux Authenticator

* Can Wearables Be Trusted?

Previous Recaps

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Trends to watch

The Future of Android

* Tech Google stock jumps 8% after search giant avoids worst-case penalties in antitrust case

* Google wants to make sideloading Android apps safer by verifying developers’ identities

* “Sideloading” is the rentseeker word for “being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased”.

* GrapheneOS not affected

Monero’s ‘Hashrate troubles’

* Researchers Debunk Alleged 51% Attack on Monero

* Hashrate Heist or Hype?

* The attacks on Monero’s POW consensus system continue + Price, News & More! | EPI 227

* Anti Moonboy News 40 - Well That Escalated Quickly

* The true target is consensus to change the PoW.

* Notice of delisting for Monero (XMR) in Canada

‘Growing pains’ in decentralized social media

* Some of the New US State Social Media Laws are Driving Away Small Social Media

* 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law

* Mastodon says it doesn’t ‘have the means’ to comply with age verification laws

* Technically, [fedi admins are] probably also breaking laws in Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea and so on.

* Are We Decentralized Yet? - Fediverse vs ‘The Atmosphere’

Notable items

* Biotechnology and the lifetime of technical civilizations

* Passkeys and Modern Authentication

* An “AI Sceptic” Tries Using Local Large Language Models: Blogust XXXI

* PinePhone Pro Linux smartphone has been discontinued

* We’ve started an organization to reform the DMCA - here’s why

* USIPS Urges Supreme Court to Rein in Overbroad Copyright Liability in Sony v. Cox

* Key Takeaways: How ChatGPT’s Design Led to a Teenager’s Death

* GrapheneOS calls out Sameer

* The Purism Librem 5 and the Six Year Refund

* [URGENT] DEF CON Researcher Exposes How Password Managers Betray Your Trust

* So.. I kind of Revived a Dead Game..

Appreciate the shout-outs!

As well, as Gabriel notes above, there’s also a sense of dehumanization at play. Many of us ‘non-normies’ have been dehumanized during the great gaslighting Covid campaign. To be misunderstood is one thing, but to be treated as someone undeserving of basic dignity is difficult to endure, even for the more mentally resilient

But I understand why Gabe would feel that taking time for himself was selfish or greedy. It’s crazy that doing nothing in a calm, peaceful place has been labeled an extravagance, a privilege or a luxury. Simply being is why we exist. It’s our Goddess-given right. The words health and self are similar. Whenever we do something for our own mental, spiritual or physical health, we’re giving that gift to everyone.

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Weight loss updates:

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Hello friends of the Libre Solutions Network,

It has been some time since I’ve published a video recap and I am pleased to finally bring one for the Summer. I hope you’ll enjoy this update on my latest initiatives and recent content.

Updates

Website

* New vanity address for the Tor hidden service lsnonion2dv35xqlfv2batqdhyasi7oa734h7t4z2py43de4wb6jlyad.onion

* I would recommend bookmarking the new address via the Tor Browser.

RSS Reader project

I really would like your feedback on what features are essential for a desktop RSS reader to have in 2025! I am not a designer, so UX suggestions are very much valued. I want this project to be built for making the open web a first-class contender with other media systems. The more feedback I get early on, the better this can be in the long run.

Help me build the best desktop RSS client!

XMRchat

You can now leave tip messages via XMRChat Feel free to browse the repository for XMRchat. XMRchats will be read and answered in the next relevant piece or recap, whichever comes first!

Collaboration Announcement

“Gabriel has been a close friend and collaborator for years now, and I'm honoured to make official the outsized role he's played in shaping the vision of White Rose Intelligence,” said Sturgess. “We and everyone in the civil liberties space will benefit greatly from Gabriel's passion and commitment to digital autonomy as we build tools to empower citizens to advocate for their own liberty.”

Personal note

I’ve hit a major weight loss milestone of 200lbs down from my high of over 570. That mission has definitely impacted the Libre Solutions Network as a project, but I’m grateful to have made so much progress. I am optimistic that with enough support, I can really go full-throttle into making the Libre Solutions Network an impactful project for digital autonomy.

Items of Interest

GiveWP Data leak

* Data Leak at Corbett Report (and Many Other Sites)!

* Compromised Donor Emails: A post-mortem What Information Was Exposed (and What Was Not)

* Troy hunt on GiveWP

* Github Discussion

* Email aliasing guides:

* Privacy Guides

* The New Oil

ID verification and Digital ID

* EU Digital ID - Do not add Google Play Integrity integration

* EU Age Verification App Repository

* Discussion

* Age Verification Laws: Privacy Trojan Horse

* Privacy Guard: You Don’t Need to Scan My Drivers License

The Fine Details

* GrapheneOS - Devices lacking standard privacy/security patches and protections aren’t private

* The Future is NOT Self-Hosted

* I’m never going back to Matrix

Notable Mentions

* ChatGPT-Induced Psychosis

* For privacy and security, think twice before granting AI access to your personal data

* Amazon Acquires Bee, the AI Wearable That Hears Everything You Say

* Fair Access to Banking: Why do Banks get to decide what you can buy?

* EFF: Atlas of Surveillance

* Samourai Wallet Developers Plead Guilty To Unlicensed Money Transmission

* Curate your own newspaper with RSS

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This is a great conversation with Anti Moonboy a highly knowledgeable Monero advocate also known as Xenu on X. It was a pleasure to be joined by a knowledgeable and passionate cyber rebel to discuss many things including his latest manifesto Darknet Market Maximalism. In our conversation we touch on the wider cryptocurrency discussion as well as the finer points of decentralization and privacy.

If you’re interested in staying up to date on Monero and other topics Anti Moonboy News is a phenomenal resource. Please consider following Anti Moonboy through his site’s RSS feed, but you can also check out his channels on YouTube, Rumble, and Odysee.

Related

Links & Resources:

* Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data and are demanding $20 million ransom

* ‘Wrench attacks’ subject some cryptocurrency holders to violence, kidnapping

* Self-hosting tools:

* YunoHost

* LibreServer

* Start9

* Michael Saylor suggests selling kidneys as bitcoin dips below $80K

* Attacked of the Poisoned Outputs

* Geopolitics & Empire: Bitcoin’s Rise & Its Future Role…Tulip Mania or Digital Gold?

* Sam Bankman Fried and his empty boxes.

* The Zano Conspiracy: Hijacking Privacy | Notes

* Anti Moonboy News 32 - Spy Nodes

* Anti Moonboy News 9 - “How is Zano being used today?”

* XMRChat

* Nostr

* XMRBazaar

* Mitra | Repository

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This conversation is an opportunity to learn from Simplified Privacy, an organization that works to put decentralization in practice. It was a pleasure to talk with Shadow from the team to dig deep into the challenges involved with privacy for fun and profit. This was a great opportunity to compare notes on the bleeding edge of decentralization and privacy tools and the practical realities of putting it to use. There are a lot of important questions to ask and lots of fine points to consider.

You can follow Simplified Privacy on Nostr to get connected.They also have podcasts and videos on a variety of privacy & decentralization topics.For those looking to peer deeper into the systems, you can also browse their public code repositories.

Relevant links:

* New Canadian Legislation against privacy

* Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (Updated)

* YouTube Considers This Software “Harmful or Dangerous”

* Fight the System? Or Exit the System?

* AKSHUALLY! You Should ALWAYS Use A VPN! - The Hated One

* Researchers catch Meta apps abusing Android to track sensitive browsing history

* On the jabber.ru MITM attack

* Critical MOVEit vulnerability puts huge swaths of the Internet at severe risk

* The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked

Related

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We return to the Digital Autonomy series to take a close look at our role in participating in today’s information landscape. It is an honor and a pleasure to be joined by James Corbett of the Corbett Report to dig into this topic in detail. James brings his vast experience as an independent researcher and alternative media voice. We discuss the evolving digital landscape as well as the pressing concerns around artificial intelligence tools. Independent voices and audiences themselves face unprecedented challenges to make the most of the opportunities of our time.

Consider taking this as an opportunity to reevaluate how you want to engage online. It has never been more clear that our time on corporate platforms is on borrowed time. You can consider trying out decentralized discovery like the Fediverse or nostr, but you can even just bookmark sites you find important and valuable. We all have a role to play in shaping the future of the information landscape, and our choices matter.

Learn more

Links discussed:

* CIA mines ‘rich’ content from blogs

* Open Source Journalism

* Mission Un-Accomplished? The Corbett Report Back on YouTube

* AntennaPod

* The Corbett Report . . . Now on IPFS!

* No, RSS isn’t dead!

* Twitter founder Jack Dorsey said he’s ‘partially to blame’ for centralizing the Internet and that he regrets it

* Decentralization in Action: Odysee Welcomes the Independent Media Alliance to Portal

* Independent Media Alliance.opml

* A Grayjay Review

* Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated)

* YouTube Considers This Software “Harmful or Dangerous”

* The Internet Is Dead. Long Live the Internet.

* We Need To Talk About AI

* Neil Postman on Technopoly (1992)

* Shopify CEO says AI use for work a ‘fundamental expectation’ for all employees

* The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity

* Can AI be Aligned with Human Values?

* AI Mania - Nobody Special

* Roko’s Basilisk: The “Banned” Thought Experiment You Might Regret Reading About

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I would like to introduce you to Zachary Boissinot. A great Canadian who is passionate about health and people’s autonomy. I joined Zach to discuss what it’s been like for him a personal trainer and owner of a gym. Recently I’ve begun to make progress on my own weight loss journey thanks in big part to his instruction. We touch on some of the recent challenges people are facing, as well as potential concerns of how health data can be misused. I hope you’ll find our conversation worth diving into.

The Digital Autonomy Series is where I try to have conversations to ‘bridge the gap’ between technical minds and the real concerns people have in their daily lives. The goal is to build some understanding of the pressing issues related to how our digital experience impacts different domains of life. By learning from others with a solid understanding in one of those areas, we can begin to imagine how a better digital future would actually work.

Zachary runs A Foot Above Fitness a gym with an excellent community and it’s a pleasure to be a part of it. There’s something uniquely inspiring about a community of people being so forthcoming with kindness and encouragement. Even if you’re not local, there’s a lot that can be learned from his example. You can also get connected through either Facebook or Instagram.

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Welcome to a the first (of many) iteration of Tool Tuesday, a new format where I show off a free and open source tool I actually use and find useful. Today’s episode is about Logseq, a knowledge management tool. Logseq is fully Free Software. Logseq is a great privacy-first option that supports all the major platforms; Windows, MacOS, Linux, as well as Android & iOS. I’ve only scratched the surface of what makes it useful, so I hope you feel enticed to dive in.

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You can taste the palpable salty feeling from the US Federal Government having to tell citizens they should use encrypted communications. After ages of fighting citizen’s right to private communications from the very beginning, it seems that desperate measures must be taken to prevent foreign adversaries from having access to sensitive information. This is a radical departure from the top-down message of “nothing to hide, nothing to fear.”

Telecommunications Breach

Since 2022, a hacking group presumably linked to the Chinese government categorized as “Salt Typhoon” have gained incredibly sensitive access to telecommunications infrastructure all over the world. This has recently escalated, to there being evidence of targeted spying on both 2024 presidential candidates.

What’s most troubling about this breach, is that it also included the “lawful access” backdoor wiretaps. So not only are everyone’s sensitive communications vulnerable in specific contexts, but also by anyone with the capabilities of leveraging Salt Typhoon’s intrusion. Currently, there is no announced timeline for this being addressed. There’s not a whole lot of reason to be optimistic. Last month, a Senate Judiciary Committee discussed just how logistically challenging it is to address this issue.

Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste

Naturally this kind of disaster is a great pretext for governments to push sweeping changes in impacted industries. At minimum, we can expect massive changes to be driven in cybersecurity, telecommunications, and hardware manufacturers. While many of these changes are long overdue, with security professionals rejoicing, others are not so benign.

This massive breach itself can be used as a rallying cry to consolidate control over digital products, companies, and even entire digital ecosystems. As the cyber security industry has advanced, the line between “cyber” and human problems becomes quite blurry. Serious concerns, like transnational repression can potentially be weaponized against subsets of the population. What’s more is that almost any aspect of what people currently take for granted as “digital freedom” can evaporate away as ’national security’ interests take priority.

I am not so naive to believe this is the long-overdue wake-up-call to governments that their citizen’s security matters. If anything, this is a rallying cry for control freaks to demand more top-down micromanagement of all things technological. Instead of working on strategies from the ground up to create a truly resilient and secure digital landscape, these concerns will be leveraged to seize even more control over the World Wide Web. We have the opportunity to push for a different direction, but time is vanishingly short.

Re-Introducing Civilian-based Cyber Defense

Originally, I introduced the idea in Good Governance in Cyberspace: Digital Freedom Policy Framework for Policies for the People. The idea is inspired by the idea of Civilian-Based Defense, which is a fascinating model for society-wide resilience and freedom. Bringing civilian-based defense to cyberspace is likely to be much more effective than any top-down approach and can radically transform our digital landscape for the better.

The Structural Basis of Freedom

When power is effectively diffused throughout the society among strong loci, the rulers’ power is most likely subjected to controls and limits, thus enabling the society to resist oppression, usurpation, and aggression. This condition is associated with political “freedom” When, on the other hand, such loci have been seriously weakened or their independence of action has been destroyed, when the subjects are all equally impotent and the society’s power has become highly centralized, then the rulers’ power will most likely be uncontrolled. This condition is associated with “tyranny.”

It is no accident that past totalitarian systems have attempted either to eliminate all independent groups or to subject them to full control by the party or state. Ultimately therefore, freedom is not something that rulers “give” their subjects. Nor, in the long run, do the formal institutional structures and procedures of the government (as, for example, may be laid out in the constitution) by themselves determine the degree of freedom or the limits of the rulers’ power.

A society may in fact be more free or more oppressed than the formal constitutional or legal arrangements would indicate. Instead, the extent and intensity of the rulers’ power and the actual degree of freedom of the society will be set by the strength of the subjects and the condition of: the institutions of the whole society. The rulers’ power and the degree of the society’s freedom may in turn, be expanded or contracted by the interplay between the actions of the rulers and those of the subjects: some rulers may choose not to be as oppressive as the structural condition permits, and other rulers may receive more support than the structural condition requires, making them more powerful.

Increases in the rulers’ power are directly or indirectly determined, on the one hand, by the willingness of the subjects to accept the rulers, to obey to cooperate and to carry out their orders and wishes. On the other hand, reductions in the rulers’ power are determined by the subjects’ unwillingness to accept the rulers, coupled with their ability to disobey, to withhold cooperation, to defy orders, and to refuse demands made upon them.

The degree of liberty or tyranny in any political society is, it follows, largely a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free, of their willingness and ability to organize themselves to live in freedom and, very importantly, their ability to resist any efforts to dominate or enslave them. In other words, the population can use the society itself as the means to establish and defend its freedom. Social power, not technological means of destruction, is the strongest guarantor of human freedom.

Civilian-based Defense - A Post-Military Weapons System: Page 32

This maps directly onto our digital experience. The Free Software movement has demonstrated the incredible potential of building solutions that put power in the hands of the user. By building verifiable, open and transparent systems more people can collaborate to innovate on genuine solutions to pressing problems. The Open Source model of development has been so powerful that even giant mega-corporations have adopted it (in part or in full) for their needs. True digital decentralization requires a hard look at how our devices are manufactured, built, and repaired. The entire “lifecycle” of the devices we use is filled with opportunities for genuine advancement.

Devices and software built with this in consideration can radically lower the “technical knowledge” barrier required for everyone to comfortably navigate. Many of our current challenges are precisely caused by the present condition of so much consolidated control over digital technology. I would encourage the future cyber rebels in our midst to consider building for the future we all want. Instead of corporate or state requirements driving innovation in this space, people can take on the challenge of learning to construct within new paradigms and discover novel approaches. The beauty of programmable circuits is that their potential is very often more constrained by our imagination than physics.

Everyone needs to consider who we are empowering when we allow nations to seize control over the digital landscape in the name of keeping us safe. Are we truly protecting ourselves from digital threats when we accept governments and corporations dictating our digital futures to us? If we do accept ceding more and more control in the name of safety, how can that control inevitably be abused? What should we focus on when it seems that our entire future is highly intertwined with present changes in the digital landscape?

I ask these questions aloud because there are no simple answers, only urgent …

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GrapheneOS writes to Unplugged: (Emphasis mine)

No, you created it to make money. You do not believe in anything beyond making money. You’ve marketed your products with highly inaccurate privacy and security claims including claiming it’s impenetrable.

You are scamming people, and spreading misinformation about an open source project further contributes to it.

The past history of many of the people involved in your company didn’t get erased through creating a new one.

You aren’t on the same side as us and the deeper you dig, the more of a response there’s going to be from us. You are not our allies, and you are not bringing people privacy and security. You’re grifters.

What?

Alright, let’s rewind a bit. GrapheneOS is an open source custom operating system for Android devices (in the Pixel line) that “de-googles” the device and provides a wide variety of security and privacy features. Unplugged is a “private smartphone” company founded by the Blackwater founder Erik Prince.

The above exchange began when Pierre Chang on X asked Unplugged what makes their phone more secure than GrapheneOS, tagging them.

GrapheneOS then replied with:

Where do they make any claim about GrapheneOS?

It’s an ARMv8.2 MediaTek Dimensity 1200 SoC device running a non-hardened fork of the Android Open Source Project. The hardware/firmware doesn’t come close to meeting our security requirements, and it’s not a hardened OS.

To translate this a bit. Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is the base foundation that all android-based systems are built on top of. It initially doesn’t include Google and other bloatware, but vendors tend to add that on. As GrapheneOS states, hardware and firmware matter a great deal when it comes to security, so getting it right is important. They also claim that the Unplugged phone’s operating system LibertOS isn’t hardened. In this context hardened means making specific modifications to improve security.

What’s interesting to note is that in this exchange, Unplugged doesn’t attack GrapheneOS in their weakest point: dependence on Google manufactured hardware. It’s possible that they don’t do this because they don’t want people taking too close a look at their own hardware choices.

They get close in this exchange where GrapheneOS replies to Unplugged defending their firmware.

When using GrapheneOS (or any other custom ROM), Google driver binaries are required, but Google does not provide any commitments regarding data collection or privacy in this code.

This claim about data collection / privacy for the firmware or drivers isn’t accurate. Additionally, you use a MediaTek SoC device with proprietary MediaTek firmware and drivers, and they aren’t known for having good security. The hardware, firmware and driver security of the devices we’re supporting is much better, not worse as you’re making it seem.

As a side note, GrapheneOS is an operating system. The term ROM isn’t accurate and we don’t want it to be referred to as such. It’s a fork of the Android Open Source Project like the stock OS on any Android device.

Unplugged makes the argument that their product is important because the GrapheneOS web installer is too difficult for much of the general population. You can watch Mental Outlaw demonstrate the process and judge for yourself. Regardless of the overall difficulty, would it not be better to have a trusted friend or relative give you assistance rather than settle for a potentially inferior product? In fact if one wants the privacy and security guarantees of GrapheneOS, you can always buy a pre-flashed version from a provider like Above Phone …but that does require putting trust in that provider.

Back in July in response to a podcast, GrapheneOS wrote:

Unplugged has simply doubled down on false claims about GrapheneOS security, pretending people cannot buy devices with GrapheneOS installed and pretending it’s hard to install along with promoting their blatantly insecure products with false marketing.

…

They keep pushing the false claim that Pixels supporting using another OS makes them less secure. The reality is that it’s properly implemented in a secure way without adding any significant attack surface. The bottom of the barrel MediaTek Unplugged devices have awful security.

They still haven’t ported to the initial release of Android 14 with Android 15 right around the corner. This means they’re missing at least around a year of Moderate severity privacy/security patches and huge privacy/security improvements from the past year of Android releases.

Unplugged is using an SoC from MediaTek, a company known to have poor security practices, which fares poorly against real attackers and which has a history of repeatedly shipping actual backdoors. They’re trying to portray that as more trustworthy and more secure hardware. Nope.

Unplugged was founded by Erik Prince, noted war criminal and illegal arms dealer. They make a point in talking about the involvement of their employees in enabling these kinds of operations

That doesn’t imply competence, but explains the lack of ethics.

They’re trying to present themselves as if they were leaders in the field and switched sides, but they never were and simply want money.

Unplugged is an affinity scam in the same vein as the Freedom Phone. At least Freedom Phone doesn’t seem to try to harm open source projects.

Unplugged has built their product out of open source projects, but without complying with the licenses from projects like DivestOS and while trying to harm open source. Claiming to be in the process of replacing some of the code they were caught stealing doesn’t change much…

Now that’s the root of the teachable moment here. What is an affinity scam? In short, it’s when people create a scheme to profit off values without actually “walking the walk”. At worst, it is a deliberate attack on a particular group of people that masquerades as “one of them”. It happens to all kinds of groups and movements, and the privacy and security space is no exception.

It’s really worth asking why so many targeted operations end up having severe data breaches. Is it really too crazy to believe that in this day and age, cyberwarfare is just part of politics? Even Exxon is being investigated for allegedly hiring hackers to go after environmentalists.

We are in serious trouble if we can expect huge amounts of money to go into undermining people’s security. At minimum, it means everyone has to be a lot more careful about recommendations from media figures and personalities. This is one of the major reasons I am in no rush to sell any products. I don’t inherently believe that commercial success is impossible while providing good security, but I consider that bar extremely high.

This is largely because nothing exists in a vacuum. If one company does everything they can to be the best they can be, they can still lose. We don’t have a “perfect market” when it comes to digital security. Because a large portion of the public aren’t very knowledgeable about the issues, it creates opportunities for them to be taken advantage of. A company that spends a majority of it’s time buying PR and marketing will inherently out-compete one that actually invests in the technical merits, all else being equal. But all things aren’t equal, many institutions and private interests have a great deal to gain from undermining people’s security.

This is why Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is a pre-requisite for genuine advancements in privacy & security. By delivering solid software or hardware as a public good, it is much easier for more parties to test and validate any claims, especially security. Despite what many believe, refusing to compromise on Software & Hardware freedom doesn’t mean making money is impossible, it just means you have to take a radically different approach. My personal suspicion these days, is that the “Unix Philosophy” of “Do one thing, and do it well” can do a lot of good. Instead of single-handedly trying to completely transform the smartphone market all at on…

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