Too bad google stopped shipping pixel specific code in the AOSP tree. Maybe they wouldn't be contemplating dropping the pixel 11 if that was still the case.
That would be nice but I do wonder how much the Graphene project is going to be involved in hardware decisions if it is a major OEM. Sounds like it'll be more just a phone where the OEM provides support of bootloader unlocks and installation of graphene
Is the new official VPN project any different from Orbot? I don't know much about it. I would assume not as anything more elaborate would require changes to the tor protocol. Either way you aren't wrong. You can pretty much get by on the modern internet with TCP alone, it does mean no HTTP/3 but that's not a big deal and outside of games very few other things in the wild use UDP. Never mind the other even less used L4 protos like SCTP.
Calling Tor a VPN is a bit scuffed. Yeah you can kinda use it as one but ultimately it's really a TCP proxy and has a lot of limitations because of that which traditional VPNs don't. There are some ways to make a VPN out of Tor but it doesn't change the fact that it ultimately isn't one.
Also I might add that in 2025 whether or not a VPN has IPv6 support should be relevant.
I think the real problem here is politicians are some of the most technically illiterate people on the planet. They think they can legislate away problems that they can't...while ignoring the root cause of the issue (I'm mostly referring to the age gating of services, banning porn and VPNs isn't even trying to solve a problem, it's moronic)
What would likely happen is VPN providers would be IP banned but people could still setup their own custom VPN solutions as that's hard to ban without banning corporate VPNs? Of course my fear is as this idea spreads VPNs and even Tor will become increasingly useless as all exits will be age gated and censored as well. This is something where technical work arounds will only work in the short term, laws like this are a slippery slope that we seem to be sliding down.
I'd love to think you're right but there are bills in blue states for age verification too. It's nice to think that partisan politics will kill it in Michigan...and maybe it will but this is so much more than a one party problem IMO. Both parties seem complicit.
My fear is that even Tor won't help, if every exit node is censored then where do you go? Also it's not like you can't fairly easily detect exits. Sure hidden services are exempt but the amount of services there are tiny compared to the internet. I really feel like we as the citizens have to convince the governments to not do this. Otherwise things will only get worse.
Huh, good to know...either way the UK seems to have restarted it...at least I hadn't heard much about any of this until they did it and now half the states and a bunch of EU countries are doing it
The UK started it and now the rest of the western world is falling like dominos and the worst part is it's both sides of the politicial isle doing it which means it's even more difficult to shoot down
You're from lemmygrad, everything looks right of center to you. Labour is literally described as center left, and the main opposition to the conservative party on Wikipedia. Like, no it isn't hard left, but that wasn't my point. My point was all governments across the political spectrum are doing this now and this is too important to be made politicial, whether you like it or not apolitical movements get the most support and these laws stand to completely demolish freedom of speech and put us into one hell of a dystopia across all western countries.
