They are not. The traffic between your phone and the tower is encrypted but beyond that it’s available to anyone who can plug directly into your operator’s systems e.g. the government.

It does.

Should have checked all the repos beforehand 🤦‍♂️. I use Aurora Store when Play Store is the only option (available in F-Droid). With the anonymous option of course.

How about Filen? They are a zero knowledge E2EE service. I use them personally. They have a pay once option as well. Their clients are open source. Source available in GitHub.

Louis Rossmann made a video about this (again): https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/sony-stole-what-you-purchased-again:a

From the post description this made it obvious it’s an ad for something. Otherwise it sounded like someone actually made reasearch on the subject.

This came out of building a monitor for exactly these repo-setting changes.

Use Mullvad’s dns servers https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls#android. Their vpn also has dns blocking capabilities.

In contrast, GrapheneOS, a security-focused Android-based OS, quickly patched the issue in its codebase.

Good that I use GrapheneOS.

Until your distro releases a fixed kernel add initcall_blacklist=algif_aead_init to your boot parameters and reboot. Problem gone. Source https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/116503656052666960

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This a very good book on algorithms. Another good one is “The art of computer programming” by Donald Knuth. He also created Tex.

It is said in the development community that as a junior you write more code and think less, and when you become more senior you think more and write less code.

It’s an old meme but checks out.

Even with ublock-origin with quite extensive blocking rules and browsers enhanced tracking protection the ny times website was 10 MB to load.

“Slippery slope” does not apply here

Most definitely applies here. Who determines what is not appropriate for children? Today it’s sex, drugs and rock’n’roll. Tomorrow it could be helpful information related to LGBTQ+++ subjects. And so on.

Computer systems have had parental controls forever already. They are the once that should be used. Not to implement another expansion of surveillance.

About 20 years ago it was terrorism. Now it’s “think of the children” as terrorism went out of fashion as a reason to implement fascist surveillance state.

In the civilized Europe ambulance rides are free or cost next to nothing.

This is the way.

Based on the readme this basically brings some Kotlin null handling and immutability as an add-on to Java projects. For a fresh project I recommend Kotlin. For an existing project this might add some value.

As for immutability Java already has options for that like the final keyword or immutable collections.

Overall an interesting idea. NPEs are way too common in Java code. Even the original creator of null feels it was a mistake to begin with.

Not all built-in apps had that option but for everything else you can.

block them from accessing the Internet on non-GrapheneOS phones

This is an important feature in GrapheneOS. You can deny network access for any app.