The bloat and complexity was a feature.

Demand your white friends show them their green card or birth certificate.

If you think that’s a joke, ask around. I’ve been asked that twice in my life. But because I’m not Default American™, I have to prove a lot harder that I was born here.

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Wow, this is big news. My feelings are very conflicted on this.

I think it is important to recognize both that:

1. He has (and hopefully will continue to) contribute greatly and meaningfully to privacy, security, and user control/autonomy over our devices and our data greatly. More than most people ever will. The work he has done with Graphene and with Copperhead before that have benefited us all. He has made great technical contributions to Privacy on Android and is a talented developer and deserves recognition and respect for that, I’m certain it was not always easy and often very thankless job. If he chooses to leave the project, losing his experience, knowledge, and dedication is a huge loss.

2. And at the same time, he often behaved in unacceptable ways, is an extremely socially abrasive and often acted in ways that were not stable nor constructive, and saw anyone that wasn’t 100% deferential to him as an enemy out to get him and get grapheneOS. Many of us have personal experiences with this, and there are a couple well documented controversies as well. He did a lot for the project technically speaking and its existence is thanks mostly to him, but he also did a lot to push people away and alienate and bully people for the small things, perceived slights, or even technical disagreements, and overall contributed to a toxic and hostile culture in the sub community that harmed both the project and his own mental health. We all struggle in certain regards, and I truly and earnestly hope that he seeks the help he needs, or just takes a breather, and re-engages with the project in a more positive and healthy way. None of us are defined by just one aspect of ourselves, we are the sum of all parts, some good, some bad.

We should be able to acknowledge the good and the bad and not rush to paint a black and white picture in either extreme.

But he has absolutely no reason to do so. That’s like VPNs bowing to Trump.

The lack of risk, especially when the average Proton user is actively looking for privacy/security from tech companies who bow to government, makes this endorsement even more sinister than it should be.

Let’s watch it play out.

id find it interesting. Whenever I see someone say X prompt doesn’t work, I try it out on random LLMs.

This is what frustrates me about all the backlash with the “censorship” of DeepSeek.

Oh wow, the Chinese AI refuses to Tiananmen Square?

I can’t even ask OpenAI’s ChatGPT about a lot of things. I asked it to show me A recreation of artistic nudity and it broke.

In an effort to show my wife the things I loved as a kid, I put on Eddie Murphy’s stand up. The intro was brutal.

After about 15 minutes, she asked me if we can stop watching.

I just watched some show from the 90s where the punchline is that the character was going to get sexually molested in a dark room. I can’t believe that got a thumbs up.

Those who need it the most. Imagine them just asking questions about what this Linux thing is to their friends.