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

A 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.

some 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.

groot is this real?

Psy 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) 😂

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Are there tradeoffs?

there are many, and the README lists far more now than it did 10 days ago when I first posted this.

it’s for devices which Graphene doesn’t support

the edit history on Shehbaz Sharif’s tweet shows that it began with “Draft - Pakistan’s PM Message on X” when it was first posted 😭

anyone dry behind the ears knows to wash there

You 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

those 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.