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> the sponsorship is the string. If you're mentioning who's giving you money (because they're a sponsor AKA they want you to mention it) you are boosting their profile using yours.

Mullvad didn't request anything in exchange for their sponsorship. None of the social media posts we've made about our server sponsors were requested. ReliableSite and IPinfo mainly wanted links to their sites on ours. IPinfo also wanted us to provide an explanation of how we used it.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... There has always been fully open source kernel driver code.

Pixels made a lot of progress towards open sourcing a large portion of the userspace driver code for nearly everything not coming from external parties (Mali GPU, Exynos cellular, etc.). Pixels had also moved to using open source code as the basis for a lot of the firmware. Their awful change of direction for this last year directly led to our OEM partnership.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... GrapheneOS isn't a modification of the stock OS but rather is a fork of the Android Open Source Project. The only proprietary code it uses is firmware and userspace driver code for Pixel hardware support. That won't be present for other devices. Every device has proprietary firmware in practice but we can work towards replacing all of the proprietary userspace driver code over the long term for future Qualcomm devices.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... GrapheneOS isn't a modification of the stock OS but rather is a fork of the Android Open Source Project. The only proprietary code are firmware and userspace driver code for Pixel hardware support. That won't be present for other devices. Every device has proprietary firmware in practice but we can work towards replacing all of the proprietary userspace driver code over the long term for future Qualcomm devices.

@nprofile1q... We aren't interested in rejecting or returning donations unless those were sent fraudulently or someone who sent us money desperately needs it back within a short period of time.

Several years ago, we received a $40,000 donation from a company. One of the main people involved in it ended up attacking us repeatedly and then used their large platform to cause an immense amount of harm to our project and founder. In hindsight, it was silly to have considered returning the money due to it.

@nprofile1q... GrapheneOS is an open source project which owns a non-profit organization. It has a total of around 30 project members where around half are being paid to work on it. There are people on our team who are various kinds of anarchists, libertarians, social democrats and more. We're not left, centrist or right as a group. We're not going to do more than label ourselves as anti-authoritarian. That is a core value of the project and that's who is attracted to work on it in practice.

@nprofile1q... If a fascist or tankie donates to GrapheneOS via Wise, Monero or another method, that's our money now and we're spending it to oppose authoritarianism.

We see all of the work we're doing improving the usability, compatibility, privacy and security of GrapheneOS as opposing authoritarianism. It's far more useful to people defending themselves from abuse by states than it to states. In practice, dissidents aren't exploiting a dictator's smartphone but rather it's the other way around.

@nprofile1q... GrapheneOS is an anti-fascist project that's strongly opposed to all other forms of authoritarianism too.

GrapheneOS is entirely funded by donations. Donations can be sent to GrapheneOS from anywhere in the world. We don't know the names of nearly anyone donating via Wise and we don't know anything about people donating via Monero.

There isn't an identification and vetting process for people making donations. It would be highly unusual even if a project not based on privacy did that.

@nprofile1q... We've made it entirely clear we define the GrapheneOS project as being anti-authoritarian and as part of that it's opposed to ethnonationalism. These are shared values for people working on GrapheneOS. We aren't going to define the project as being anti-statist or anarchist since only some people working on it are.

> plus you're saying all this fascist shit

This is an outrageous lie.

> the money/support you receive is NEVER apolitical

We don't take money with strings attached.

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> Oh, so dictatorships are left? Giving no liberties to the population is left?

No, it's neither left or right. There are many current and historical examples of it across left, center and right. None of those means anti-authoritarian.

@nprofile1q... It's a virtual machine management app which includes support for audio and graphics. It doesn't have proper permission management yet including providing access to all of the profile's home directory.

@nprofile1q... It supports audio recording and it now requests the permissions it knows how to use. It will work without it granted though. It does need Nearby Devices for local network access until it's moved away from the current internal local network for talking to the VM since Android 17 requires that permission for local network access and there isn't a special exception for this.