It's too slow which results in poor usability especially for blind users depending on TalkBack where it adds a lot of latency to every request. We already have an all around better implementation.

There will likely be an announcement from the OEM within the next couple months. The devices themselves are planned for 2027.

Vanadium version 145.0.7632.26.0 released:

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/releases/tag/145.0.7632.26.0

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/31313-vanadium-version-14507632260-released

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security #browser

It implements the Android text-to-speech API for use as an Android text-to-speech backend.

Is GrapheneOS showing a Play Integrity API notice when trying to use it?

It's an extremely bad time to build new workstations or servers due to the extreme RAM prices which are 500% what they were in mid-2025 which is an actual value and not an exaggeration.

It's theoretically an issue but not one we expect to be a problem for us in practice especially on a provider like Xenyth. The same theoretical issue would exist buying used server hardware too. None of that hardware has good security in practice even if it's brand new. The CPUs might have reasonable security but the motherboards from ASRock, Supermicro, etc. definitely lack it. We plan to do colocation in the future but we're not ready to deal with that yet.

LiberaPay isn't used much based on https://en.liberapay.com/explore/recipients. GrapheneOS likely receives more monthly donations than the total amount going through LiberaPay based on past numbers they've given on the total going through it. We were setting up Open Collective at one point prior to having our non-profit but ended up just using our own non-profit instead of needing a fiscal host to handle it. We're on Benevity already because some people can only donate through that but we prefer Wise.

ARIN has an IPv4 /10 dedicated to IPv6 enablement with NRPM 4.10 being the policy for how that works. Both of our IPv4 /24 blocks are from NRPM 4.10. None of the other RIRs have a similar program. RIPE still theoretically gives a /24 to new organizations but it's only a single /24 compared to ARIN where you can get a /22 and then apply for more. ARIN's waitlist also moves faster since most of the legacy IP space which can be reclaimed was given t o North American organizations.

We only own 2x IPv4 /24 right now which are both for anycast DNS so we have an IPv4 /24 that's loaned to us by a Romanian LIR until we get more space from ARIN which has been approved but takes a long time due to IPv4 exhaustion. ARIN gradually reclaims space from organjizations not paying their fees or not using the space where leasing it out to others would count as using it. The 2x IPv4 /24 they gave us are pristine space never used before from ARIN's final /8 from IANA.

We're going to be using the IP space we're announcing from Xenyth for multiple purposes including email. Our current plan for email is moving to an on-premises server connected to a Xenyth server via something like WireGuard to use our own IP space and AS for it. This will allow us to use our own clean IP space and clean ASN which aren't sending any spam to have very good IP reputation for email where we can avoid the issues we've had with service provider IP space / ASNs.

We also host our own email and need to move to using our own AS and IP space to avoid being negatively impacted by spam sent by other customers in the same IPv4 /24 or even the same AS. Providers offering VPS instances generally have terrible IP reputation especially for IP space they use for floating IPs but the instance IPs have bad reputation too. A floating IP is needed to avoid losing positive IP reputation and work done to undo inclusion in blocklists for an email IP though.