sebastiennight

One obvious challenge with the distribution is: would you want to buy a phone with pre-installed GrapheneOS?

This seems similar to wanting to follow the advice of "only buy bottled water on your trip to India", but the bottle you're buying has the cap removed so they could put a straw in it for your convenience.

F-Droid exists, and it seems quite a few people here would tell you it's a superior 3rd-party app store, in the sense of "if an equivalent app exists on F-droid, I'd install that one first, before even looking at whether there's a similar app on the Play store"

We have RIoTS already... two more letters and we get a Scrabble.

How hard is it to find some high-protein fruit juice these days?

Given that there's no strong regulation that forces fruit juice to be made from fruit, I'd wager that this is already a product line.

"zero value" would be neutral. Eg, if you tell someone, "Try DuskDozerIM, let's message on there! I like this thing where doubletapping the emojis plays a fun random little animation". Then maybe this is "zero value" to them and their response would be "whatever, sure, let's try it".

What I'm saying is if you go, "Try DuskDozerIM, let's message on there! It's private and secure, the government and large ad companies and data brokers can't read your messages and harvest your data" then you evoque a feeling of suspicion (negative value) and their response will be "look, I already have like a thousand apps, I don't really want one more".

One additional way you can confirm this hypothesis is that almost everybody has given WhatsApp access to { all contacts ; all notifications ; all permissions } but if you sell them Signal with the "privacy/security" angle and watch them install it, you will notice they hesitate for a sec and then reply "no" to contacts, notifications and permissions, as if they're suddenly trying to inhabit the conspiracy-theorist-cum-privacy-activist mindset. Which they're uncomfortable with, and don't like. Negative value.

> We're still not even sure if humans have thoughts.

Sorry, what? You don't think you have thoughts?

Descartes will want a chat about that.

I'll give you the strategy that works for me.

Do NOT talk about privacy, E2EE, or any of that. To regular people, "privacy" has negative value, so even if they wanted something, your talk of private communication and not being scanned by data brokers and governments will make them want it less.

So what to do then?

I present Signal as a novelty and focus on one single feature: "hey, video calls work much better than WhatsApp! Try it out!"

Bam, instant download.

That... is a great idea. Does the audio call go through your app? Or the regular network?

I love how your idea of the failed murder dinner party seems to still include an actual murder ; the problem is only the absence of an arrest.

I absolutely love this. I thought Tailscale was necessary to establish that kind of wireguard tunnel. Would you have a link to a tutorial or write-up on how you got this set up?

In this setup you're explaining, the phone is doing all the work though right? Filtering DNS and sending traffic to a wireguard VPN, is all done on the phone.

But it's not tunnelling traffic to a desktop station which then processes that traffic like its own (filters DNS as set up on the desktop, and forwards traffic through the same VPN that is set up on the desktop). Am I getting this right?

> My phone is always VPNed into my home network which has DNS-level ad and tracker blocking.

I've been looking to do this setup. Would you share a few details of which tools you've used?

A "prompt" is what goes into the LLM, so I'm not sure what you mean by "a final prompt HTML".

Monet's often been classified as A Genius Impressionist, so arguably one step above A.I.

If there were suddenly thousands of websites advertising "taking chemicals" as cure-all solutions, and a two-year fad where thousands of accounts advertised "chemicals" on social media, and vernacular use of "taking chemicals" meant "self-inject unregulated substances from unknown foreign manufacturers", then do you see how it would make no sense to make this pedantic point to dismiss any concern over the new "taking chemicals" craze?