At the heart of /e/OS’s philosophy is a strong belief that individual choices can drive significant change. The decision to use one product over another is a powerful statement about the kind of world we want to live in. /e/OS challenges users to reconsider their choices, questio … | Continue reading
Imagine stepping into a world where the automotive industry has taken a wild turn, mirroring the smartphone market’s quirks and monopolies. Welcome to the whimsical yet thought-provoking universe of CarGoo, where cars and tech collide in the most unexpected ways. Let’s buckle up … | Continue reading
The Murena 2: A Pioneering Step in Mobile Privacy In today’s digital age, privacy has become a paramount concern for many. With tech giants constantly under scrutiny for potential breaches and misuse of user data, the demand for devices that prioritize user privacy is on the rise … | Continue reading
?? Tomorrow, your phone will no longer spy on you! Stay tuned and #SwitchYourPrivacyOn. ? Sign up on #Kickstarter and be the first to be notified: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/murena/murena-2-switch-your-privacy-on ?? Morgen wird dein Telefon dich nicht mehr ausspionieren … | Continue reading
Unleash the power of privacy with the Murena Fairphone 4! This remarkable device is a fusion of unparalleled repairability and privacy, designed to cater to the discerning tech enthusiast. The Murena Fairphone 4 stands as a fortress against data intrusion, ensuring that no data i … | Continue reading
In today’s digital age, securing personal data has become paramount. As users, we need to take into account the platforms and tools we use regularly. /e/OS is the open-source mobile operating system focused on privacy, that has emerged as a noteworthy solution to this challenge. … | Continue reading
The European Union’s proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) aims to bolster cybersecurity across the continent. However, it has sparked significant concern within the open source software community. Critics argue that the CRA could impose increased legal and financial responsibiliti … | Continue reading
Let’s work together for a better world? Introducing the Declaration of Duties of Man and Citizen, a complementary document to the Declaration of Human Rights, emphasizing our responsibilities and obligations. #DeclarationOfDuties #HumanRights #responsibility #GPT4 Article 1: All … | Continue reading
This year marks the 5th year since I started the /e/OS project! And we have gone from a few articles about the inital intention to a smartphone OS and a private cloud used by tens of thousands of users. /e/OS has become the leading daily-driver OS for everyone who wants to keep f … | Continue reading
I did a quick experiment having #GPT chat with itself as Alice and Bob… At each step, agent Alice answers agent Bob (and vice versa) along with the reinjection of recent context. I made the discussion start by questionning about the need to regulate AI Large Language Models: Vide … | Continue reading
The post Murena is eating the world appeared first on Gaël Duval (blog, mandrake linux, /e/OS my data is my data, Murena...). | Continue reading
Fusion is a game-changing programming language designed to revolutionize the way developers create software. Combining the best features of existing languages, Fusion offers unparalleled performance, flexibility, and ease of use. Here’s a glimpse of what makes Fusion so appealing … | Continue reading
In a pretty long article published on March 24th at “TheNextWeb”, /e/OS was lucky enough to be highlighted as a proof of “why a a European mobile operating system can’t challenge Android and iOS”. The full article is mostly FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) and I like it because whe … | Continue reading
Since 2017, when I announced that I wanted to “Leave Apple & Google”, the /e/OS project has done tremendous progresses: we have succeeded to design and release a modern and realistically usable operating system and cloud services that protect their users from permanent personal d … | Continue reading
Last week, we discovered that our two main websites had been supressed from the Google search engine for more than one year. Although this doesn’t seem to hurt us a lot (we get thousands links from external websites), and although it’s quite fun to extend our “geGooglisation” to … | Continue reading
It’s interesting to have a look back at our past year roadmap: most of the features we announced are either done or close to be completed, which is not too bad! The two things that have shown very little progress are the Smart Assistant project, and the energy efficiency project. … | Continue reading
More than ever the market is demanding a new approach for digital products: more and more people around the world want something different, more ethical, more sustainable, with real guarantees about personal data protection. Four years ago, I wanted to break free from Google and … | Continue reading
In the first part of this article, we explained that /e/ has a primary focus on user’s data privacy, circular economy and energy, and that it is fully inline with the global trend seeking to reduce the negative impact of tech in general and helping creating a new paradigm to buil … | Continue reading
This is the first draft of a collection of facts about what happens in the Google Android operating system in term of permanent personal data collection. This has been found while working on /e/OS the mobile OS in which we actually try to address those issues. Please contribute i … | Continue reading
For those interested in /e/ and other topics, I was recently invited by /r/privacy moderators to a three-days “Ask Me Anthying” It’s been the second most successfull AMA at /r/privacy! Retrieve it at: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/mdk6xn/im_ga%C3%ABl_duval_founder_of_ … | Continue reading
Three years after /e/ – the Google-free ecosystem – came to be, things have never moved as fast as they are now. We’re seeing a lot of traction in terms of new users, of new /e/ accounts, and of /e/-smartphones sales. We’re also getting noticed in many posts and press articles an … | Continue reading
Here I’m talking about the /e/OS approach regarding the user interface, and upcoming changes. Read my new article here. The post /e/OS and the (not)Android user interface appeared first on Gaël Duval (blog, mandrake, /e/OS my data is my data, Murena...). | Continue reading
Two years ago, /e/OS was envisioned as a fully deGoogled mobile operating system (OS) and associated online services that focus on personal data privacy. That initial vision is growing, and the result is that in addition to being a great alternative to Apple and Google, it is pro … | Continue reading
It is nearly one year now that we started to ship our first phones with /e/ OS, the pro-privacy, deGoogled, mobile ecosystem. Initially our range of /e/ phones has been based on refurbished, yet high-grade, Galaxy smartphones: S7, S7 Edge, S9 and S9+. And more recently the Galaxy … | Continue reading