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GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account. GrapheneOS and our services will remain available internationally. If GrapheneOS devices can't be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.

Bora M. Alper 5d ago

Celebrating Saint Patrick's Day in Ireland on the 17th followed by 18 March Çanakkale Victory in Turkey.

Kladderadatsch, 14 May 1916
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.2296

Bora M. Alper Mar 17

RE: https://mastodon.social/@boramalper/116241202716335854

Trump predicts US will have ‘honour of taking Cuba’ amid power blackout

> “I do believe I’ll be … having the honour of taking Cuba,” Trump added. “Whether I free it, take it – think I could do anything I want with it. You want to know the truth. They’re a very weakened nation right now.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/17/donald-trump-can-take-cuba-oil

Bora M. Alper Mar 16

Cuba’s electrical grid collapses amid US oil blockade

> Cuba’s national electric grid has collapsed, the country’s grid operator has said, leaving approximately 10 million people without power amid a US-imposed oil blockade that has crippled the island’s already obsolete generation system.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/16/cuba-electrical-grid-collapses-amid-us-oil-blockade

Cuba’s electrical grid collapses amid US oil blockade

Ten million people left without power in latest of outages that sparked violent protest last weekend

The Guardian

Bora M. Alper Mar 15

Ian Betteridge Mar 15

I am VERY tempted to write another long post about how the decision in the 1970s not to establish a Norway-style sovereign wealth fund in favour of simply using the oil money to prop up finances at the time, has done more damage to the UK than any other decision in history. LONG THREAD, SORRY.

Bora M. Alper Mar 10

Joy Mar 10

Some of my first cat sketches with my fude nib fountain pen!

#fountainpen #cat #art #sketch

Bora M. Alper Mar 6

Gabriele Svelto Mar 4

A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is sound and a lot of the crashes we see are from users with bad memory or similarly flaky hardware. Here's a few numbers to give you an idea of how large the problem is. 🧵 1/5

Bora M. Alper Mar 4

GrapheneOS Mar 2

We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/

Motorola News | Motorola's new partnership with GrapheneOS

Motorola announces three new B2B solutions at MWC 2026, including GrapheneOS partnership, Moto Analytics and more.

Global Blog

Bora M. Alper Feb 24

LibreOffice Feb 24

Another update for today: We're planning to revive LibreOffice Online, a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/24/libreoffice-online-a-fresh-start/

Bora M. Alper Feb 18

RE: https://indieweb.social/@tg/116086401953523135

Just finished reading it and I already love it so much 😍

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