Welcome to Techlore Office Hours - your weekly chance to get privacy, security, and digital rights questions answered live! This is unscripted, real-time discussion about what you're dealing with, so welcome in and bring any questions you have! 🎯 HOW IT WORKS: 1. Submit questions in advance: https://techlore.palform.app/ask 2. Techlorians (members) get questions answered first 3. Everyone can watch and participate in live chat 4. Questions answered live every Friday at 10am PT 💬 BECOME A TECHLORIAN: Get priority answers + Signal community access + my private RSS feed + more: https://techlore.tech/#/portal ⏰ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro & light week 2:28 How the Techlore site got so custom (Ghost) 6:46 How Henry developed his interview skills 10:57 Tuta 11:37 Intel ME & AMD PSP 12:42 GrapheneOS Pixel 11 news 13:22 Brave Speed Reader vs. NYT lawsuit 14:29 Proton controversy breakdown 18:11 Buying a GrapheneOS phone to signal demand 21:01 Staying with Proton: leverage as a paying customer 25:04 New unaudited encrypted services & "AI doesn't change fundamentals" 28:16 Fighting back against COSA / age verification laws 30:56 Will Motorola bring GrapheneOS to cheaper phones? 32:07 Brave Origin & AI browsers (Dia) 33:41 Techlore SPA quiz updates 36:53 Distributing open source on macOS without paid signing 38:25 Is open source necessary? Signal's server code 41:29 Dia, Zen & Firefox's redesign and sync 47:52 Server-side tracking from small brand sites 52:28 Fingerprinting even with Brave/Firefox + VPN 55:02 Starlink 56:34 Privacy policies, LLMs & local models on a Mac mini 1:05:56 Email aliases & using your real name 1:08:09 Matrix clients 1:10:11 Coffee grind troubleshooting 1:13:26 Local LLMs (Qwen) & RAM prices 1:18:41 Video idea: the real difference between privacy tools 1:23:20 Swedish police & GrapheneOS Pixels 1:23:50 Push notification privacy (FCM, APNs, UnifiedPush) 1:28:08 Multiple phones vs. consolidating 1:29:42 Espresso, Americano, pour over & decaf 1:32:17 Tea & matcha 1:35:30 Cape vs. other carriers 1:41:45 macOS 27 & the Apple Intelligence rant 1:48:12 Apple vs. Linux for work 1:54:21 Fairphone in the US, Calyx & Framework 1:57:03 Last calls & supporting Techlore 1:59:41 Surveillance Report update 2:02:51 Closing: Go Incognito free version #techlore #OfficeHours #LiveQA