Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•I was a week away from buying a Pixel Pro 10 for GrapheneOSEnglish
8·1 day agoA Motorola phone soon shipping with GrapheneOS isn’t just a rumor but it doesn’t help with the problem of Google making their very popular robot detection service classify deGoogled Android users as non-human.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
World News@lemmy.ml•Filmmakers slam BBC after Gaza documentary wins award despite being droppedEnglish
5·1 day agosome more coverage of this:
- https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/baftas-gaza-doctors-under-attack-speech-b2973944.html
- https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/05/11/768412/‘We-refuse-to-be-silenced’--Gaza-doctors-documentary-team-denounces-BBC-After-BAFTA-win
- excerpt of the acceptance speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq90Tzwmpxo
Yep, Fastly the CDN company (doing HTTPS mitm-as-a-service for millions of websites) which Apple also uses (along with CloudFlare) for their similar iCloud Private Relay feature.
Unlike Apple though, Firefox’s new “built-in VPN” does not claim (falsely) to use different providers for ingress and egress.
You don’t need tone for sarcasm, because it can be inferred from context. Check out British (“dry”) sarcasm.
you’re being sarcastic here, right? /s
iiuc Firefox uses Mullvad for original paid VPN service but their new freemium one is through Fastly (?)
(as i wrote last time this was posted here)
he followed up to simultaneously say he was joking while also doubling down 🤦

https://xcancel.com/theronster/status/1538239717032042497
also… blurring his name was really not necessary; he’s so proud of this that a screenshot of his reddit comment about it is still his pinned tweet four years later.
and it's also his twitter bio now:

groot is this real?
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•There is a Gangnam Style statue in Seoul dedicated to the viral sensationEnglish
281·25 days agoPsy went from singing “Kill those fucking Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives / Kill those fucking Yankees who ordered them to torture / Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law and fathers / Kill them all slowly and painfully” to having UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hail him as “a force for world peace” (and do his horse dance with him at a press conference) 😂
sorry to be a party pooper, but
in the video of him sitting down and standing back up it’s pretty clear that it’s just a shadow
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Someone just released 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐫: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐢𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 movie, before it's official October release on Paramount+English
24·25 days agotwitter (via cloudflare) is serving HTTP 403
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Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPto
Android@lemmy.ml•GraphiteOS is an unofficial, unaffiliated fork of GrapheneOS packaged as a Generic System Image (GSI) for Project Treble devices
1·26 days agoAre there tradeoffs?
there are many, and the README lists far more now than it did 10 days ago when I first posted this.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPto
Android@lemmy.ml•GraphiteOS is an unofficial, unaffiliated fork of GrapheneOS packaged as a Generic System Image (GSI) for Project Treble devices
1·26 days agoit’s for devices which Graphene doesn’t support
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
World News@lemmy.ml•White House Knew About Pakistan’s Cease-Fire Post on X Before It Was SentEnglish
4·1 month agothe edit history on Shehbaz Sharif’s tweet shows that it began with “Draft - Pakistan’s PM Message on X” when it was first posted 😭
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What actually is the 10-point proposal from Iran which Trump said is a "workable basis on which to negotiate"?English
12·1 month agoYou asked a question and answered it yourself?
I posted the 10 points according to one source and then said
There are many varied but similar versions of these points circulating elsewhere
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPto
Android@lemmy.world•GraphiteOS is an unofficial, unaffiliated fork of GrapheneOS packaged as a Generic System Image (GSI) for Project Treble devicesEnglish
101·1 month agothose benefits rely on the Pixel’s hardware
Doesn’t GrapheneOS have a lot of benefits besides the 3 pixel-requiring hardening features which are removed in Graphite (and the 3 others which are disabled by default but can be re-enabled on some devices)?
I’m not disputing that those hardening features are worthwhile! Pixels with Graphene are obviously much more difficult to exploit than phones without those features.
But there are billions of non-Pixel phones in the world which aren’t about to be thrown away, and the vast majority of phone users absolutely cannot afford a Pixel. GraphiteOS (if it actually works?) seems to me like it is probably a major improvement over the other options available for them.






























but why should/would they give up any uranium, especially after the US has just demonstrated that they can’t actually take it from them?
see also https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/05/10/768371/how-iran-uses-nuclear-tech-prevent-metabolic-dosorders-newborns