Notices by GrapheneOS (grapheneos@grapheneos.social), page 4

@aral Buying used devices is already an option. Pixel 8 and later have 7 years of support from launch so it's a better time than ever to get the devices used rather than new.

7 years means something different for a Pixel 8 than many other devices advertising similar support. A Fairphone 5 already has an end-of-life 5.4 kernel and gets both OS updates and partial security backports to older releases very late. Shipping updates years late is portrayed as years of extra support vs. other devices.

@neil @aerion @danieldk The partnership is being announced in March 2026. The devices are planned for 2027. You'll need to replace your Pixel 6 prior to the devices launching. We don't recommend using end-of-life devices and don't expect Pixel 6 support to be extended. We may keep releasing basic updates for the Pixel 6 for a while but we won't pretend that applying AOSP backports and Linux kernel LTS revisions is enough. No more driver/firmware support will be the end of it being safe to use.

We need more 10Gbps or higher dedicated servers for hosting our OS and app updates. We have North America covered well enough via sponsored servers from ReliableSite in both Miami and Los Angeles and a sponsored server from Xenyth in Toronto but no longer have any left in Europe.

Existing implementations of text-to-speech and speech-to-text didn't meet our functionality or usability requirements. We want at least very high quality, low latency and robust implementations of both for English included in the OS. It will help make GrapheneOS more accessible.

We're going to build our own speech-to-text implementation to go along with this too. We're starting with an English model for both but we can add other languages which have high quality training data available. English and Mandarin have by far the most training data available.

We've built our own text-to-speech system with an initial English language model we trained ourselves with fully open source data. It will be added to our App Store soon and then included in GrapheneOS as a default enabled TTS backend once some more improvements are made to it.

@Tutanota Every option you're promoting has atrocious privacy and security. Each one lacks the most basic privacy and security patches/protections.

You're also making highly inaccurate and misleading claims about GrapheneOS. This has been a repeated issue with Tuta. It's not surprising considering you're supporting groups not only scamming people but actively spreading misinformation about GrapheneOS and attacking our team with harassment.

We're going to be publishing a response to Tuta.

@Tutanota @PaintedDurian It's not a misunderstanding. You're choosing to promote unsafe products from companies heavily involved in attacks on GrapheneOS while misleading people about those and about GrapheneOS. You've been making inaccurate claims about GrapheneOS as part of your marketing for a long time now. Our community and project has repeatedly replied to the posts but yet you've doubled down on it and continue. We'll be asking our userbase to cancel their Tuta subs to support us today.

@Tutanota @PaintedDurian Murena has spent years misleading people about GrapheneOS and attacking our team including directly engaging in libel and harassment. Here's an example of the founder of /e/ spreading a link to a neo-nazi conspiracy site attacking our founder with libel and harassment based around fabricated stories:

https://archive.is/SWXPJ
https://archive.is/n4yTO

Most alternate mobile OS projects are part of this for self-benefit. They feel threatened by GrapheneOS so they attack it.

@giorgiopasqualini @Tutanota @PaintedDurian They're not genuine privacy products despite how they're marketed. These are for-profit companies using privacy as a branding/marketing focus to earn money because without it they'd have little reason to justify the devices existing. Reality is that they're providing worse privacy than Apple and dramatically worse security. They're not doing the bare minimum of providing standard privacy/security patches/protections let alone making hardened devices.

@giorgiopasqualini @Tutanota @PaintedDurian Murena's products are a scam with extraordinarily poor privacy and security. They actively mislead people about what they provide to profit from it. Murena's services are also immensely problematic too. The lack of reliability for their operating system and services is far less of an issue than the lack of privacy and security.

Why would we help a for-profit company which has spent years attacking GrapheneOS and trying to direct harassment towards us?

@giorgiopasqualini @Tutanota @PaintedDurian We posted a clear example above of Gaël Duval directly linking to egregious harassment content on a neo-nazi conspiracy site. He posted that in multiple places as part of him trying to take advantage of the French government attacks on GrapheneOS. He has repeatedly engaged in libel towards our team and has supported/soread Kiwi Farms harassment content. Why do you think we should help someone scamming people and attacking us earn more money?

@giorgiopasqualini @Tutanota @PaintedDurian Murena's products and services are a scam. They do not provide what they claim. They're wrongly getting EU funding for their supposed non-profit which exists to build products for their for-profit company. /e/ includes Murena's for-profit services and is mainly used via Murena selling devices, yet this is where EU funding is going. It's a form of corruption that's all too common. Governments should not be choosing companies to enrich this way.

@giorgiopasqualini @Tutanota @PaintedDurian GrapheneOS is a privacy and security project which exists to defend users not only from corporations but also from authoritarian states. Why would we work with increasingly authoritarian governments? We won't accept government funding or support. It's not something we want or are trying to obtain. We explicitly don't want it. Governments are welcome to use GrapheneOS and we do want that but we do not want their money which comes with strings attached.

@giorgiopasqualini @Tutanota @PaintedDurian Murena's products are the direct opposite of bringing people better privacy. They're extremely insecure and non-private without even the basics including important standard privacy/security patches and protections. You should read the information which has been linked. Murena's goal is earning as much money as possible for the investors. Privacy is very clearly a branding/marketing tool to do that rather than their actual goal.

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134-devices-lacking-standard-privacysecurity-patches-and-protections-arent-private

@giorgiopasqualini @Tutanota @PaintedDurian Murena's products are far worse for privacy and security than iPhones. They're massively rolling those back, not improving them. Their products are outright unsafe and not fit for purpose. It's not compromise but rather scamming people. Murena provides far less stability and app compatibility than GrapheneOS. They're not more aimed at regular people than GrapheneOS. Doing things properly especially with privacy and security as a focus takes more time.

@giorgiopasqualini @Tutanota @PaintedDurian Murena builds in a bunch of big tech services with privileged access, sends them sensitive data from your device and fails to provide even the standard Android privacy patches/protections needed to protect privacy from apps. They're definitely not doing a reasonable job at protecting user privacy from corporations.

Not clear why you would trust governments which wants mass surveillance to respect your privacy but that's a much separate issue...

Jolla has spent years disparaging projects based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) for marketing. SailfishOS has a largely closed source user interface and application layer with no equivalent to the open source AOSP. It's far less private and secure than AOSP or iOS too.

Jolla recently launched a new product so their supporters are understandably trying to promote it. As part of that, they've been posting about it in replies to posts about GrapheneOS. We've replied to some of it with our perspective within threads originally about GrapheneOS.

Vanadium version 143.0.7499.52.0 released:

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/releases/tag/143.0.7499.52.0

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/28639-vanadium-version-14307499520-released

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