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Does anyone build GrapheneOS "from scratch"?

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The fact that devs sign the builds doesn't protect you from a Jia Tan type of actor. Jia Tan had social-engineered they way to a maintainer and then dropped their backdoor in the .tar releases. If you had compiled from the tree you couldn't be affected. It's possible to fail to review malicious commits even in this case, but it is still more transparent than pre-packaged releases. And there's no point to reproducible builds if no one actually reproduces them.

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I feel like posts need to age quicker

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Like, posts are old because there’s little new content

Yeah, but you could be underestimating the effect of the Active sorting bumping old posts, which leads to a few posts threads rising over and over. Perhaps there's more eagerness to make new threads than you can see, because most of those new threads don't spark the fire of discussion and get quickly buried.

Active sorting is more like 4chan, Hot sorting is like Reddit or HN.

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What do you currently use IPFS for?

I think IPFS alternatives to the services below would improve their reliability, I would use them right now if they exist.

  • IPFS alternative to archive.org and web.archive.org (Wayback machine)
  • IPFS alternative to torrent trackers for pirated media, such as nyaa.si. The file transfers are decentralized but the content index (tracker) itself is centralized. Which is a pretty critical flaw, recently made apparent with RARBG's takedown.
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What do you currently use IPFS for?

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*programmatically

You could put the copy of the password generator on a server owned by you to almost equivalent results, but IPFS is useful here because I can use the copy you've made (after checking once it's not malicious) and keep safely using it knowing nobody has the power to swap it for something malicious, or the hash would be different.

Should we practice what we preach here? Wanna post the address here?

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Pavel Durov arrested in France over allowing untrammelled unmoderated criminality on Telegram

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I’m pretty sure that if everything would have been EE2E on Telegram it would never have reached the size and popularity that it has.

I don't know what you're saying here because it makes no sense. No one who uses or shills for Telegram thinks lack of EE2E is a good thing, absolutely no one. They use it despite of lack of EE2E (ignorance or ideologically-flavored ignorance).