Happy cake day! Unfortunately, nothing good can come from surveillance, besides slightly better AI models. The way I see it, privacy is not paranoia, but a modern day revolution.

I knew Instagram was privacy invasive long before I ever started using it. Still decided to use it for some reason. Anyways, glad to have my dopamine receptors back.

You don’t have to switch services based on political affiliation. If the only difference is whether or not the company is public about it, there should be no issues with the software itself. It makes it far less exhausting to use a service. Just my two cents.

I did some research. Joplin is not encrypted at rest (but it is encrypted during transit). The TL;DR is that they see no point in at-rest encryption, because disk encryption should already managed by the OS itself.

Sources:

https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/requesting-encryption-of-local-joplin-data-at-rest-encryption/15145

https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/289

This video seemed to have been the start of an anti-GrapheneOS movement. I won’t get into details, because it’s been explained to death, but it’s here for your convenience.

I use and love GrapheneOS as well.

+1 for Joplin. It’s the best in my opinion. I started with Standard Notes, but immediately ditched it after I found out Joplin provides the same (and more) functionality for free.

I will continue to use Proton and their services, not because I support or endorse any political decisions from the CEO/board members (and I don’t), but because they provide open source, secure, and private software that I love.

This is no different than arguing about using GrapheneOS based on the behavior of the maintainers.

Ideally, you would have zero iOS or Android devices in your household

*besides custom Android distributions that respect privacy ;)

I know Proton VPN offers NetShield to its paid users. I forgot about DNS filtering because GrapheneOS doesn’t recommend using it over a VPN and the filters can make you stand out, but that’s just me. Good gift idea!

I may mirror it to Codeberg in the future. The honest answer is that I was in a panic and needed somewhere to quickly get the project back up in case GitHub never resolved itself. GitLab was a good choice since it’s open source and has a lot of other big open source projects on there.