Your keyboard sees every password, message, and search.

Gboard and SwiftKey send that somewhere. FUTO does not.

Swipe, autocorrect, voice input. All on-device. No network permission. No account. No telemetry.

This is one of the easiest privacy upgrades on Android.

https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard

His facial expression changed immedialy.

found out that disabling Secure App Spawning is the fix.

California just carved Linux out of its age-check law.

AB 1856 passed both houses with zero no votes. If Newsom signs it, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch and other GPL/MIT/BSD/Apache systems skip the Jan 2027 “how old are you?” prompt at setup. Windows, macOS, iOS and Android stay in.

Open source won because you can’t bolt a state ID gate onto code anyone can fork. Proprietary stacks can’t dodge it.

Free software stays free. The rest collect birthdays.

GrapheneOS may skip the Pixel 11.

Google cut the security feature that stops a huge class of exploits.

ARM memory tagging (MTE) is on Pixel 8, 9, and 10. GrapheneOS uses it across the OS. Pixel 11 appears to drop it.

They added a few upgrades. They removed the one that actually matters after unlock.

GrapheneOS: do not buy a Pixel 11. Stick with 8, 9, or 10. Pixel 11 support is still undecided.

Better hardware is coming on Motorola. That is the next bet.

Privacy is a right.

other Opus models are affected.

OpenAI, Claude, Grok, Gemini are all experiencing a severe outage.

Someone escaped their sandboxed environment.

GM privacy lovers!

Why Posting Your Kids Online Is More Risky Than You Think

Atomic Mail is private where Gmail is nosy. It is not invisible.

No phone. No recovery email. No ads mining your inbox. Sign up, get a seed phrase, encrypt on the device. For encrypted mail they claim zero access. That part is real, and it is the whole reason this product exists.

Now the honest part.

They keep logs for 7 days. IPs. SMTP sender and recipient addresses. That is not a no-logs service. Estonia plus GDPR is a better courtroom than Silicon Valley. It is still a courtroom. Closed source. No named public audit. Android’s Play listing is sloppier than Apple’s “data not collected” label. Deliverability has been messy for some people.

So use it like this:

Treat it as a clean alias machine. Ten free aliases. Hide the real address. Encrypt anything that would hurt if leaked.

If you want audited, open-source, IMAP-ready privacy mail, Tuta or a self-hosted email still win. If you want a free second identity that does not demand your phone number, Atomic Mail earns a seat.

What kind of YouTube user are you?

Brave still ships wallet, rewards, Leo, and crypto clutter by default.

They sell Brave Origin for about $60 to strip it.
Linux gets Origin free. Windows and Mac pay.

@oxcipity’s BraveDebloater does the desktop strip with enterprise policies.
Current-user mode. No admin.
Dry-run first. Hash-check the zip. Then -Apply. Backups. Shields stay. Free.

Paying for a cleaner Brave is optional if you can run a script.

Remember 2020.
Brave auto-filled affiliate codes on crypto URLs you typed.
Binance. Coinbase. Ledger. Trezor.
They called it a mistake. The trust dent stayed.

Keep Brave? Strip it.
Want less theater: Vivaldi (privacy focused, no AI push) or Firefox climbing back.

https://github.com/osfv/BraveDebloater

Telegram is dumb