Daniel Micay / strcat / strncat / thestinger / GrapheneOS - Schizo software programmer and developer of GrapheneOS Android ROM. Starts drama with everyone and accuses them of harassment. Chronic brigader and bridge burner.

[Maniel Dicay]

I find it mildly amusing that spoonerizing Daniel Micay sounds like "manual decay" when said out loud.

thanks for the inspiration btw, been lurking for years without a good username idea

 

[Markass the Worst]

New schizo lore dropped today.

source: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

The GrapheneOS xitter account talks with some cryptofags.

• Claims they have six full time developers on the team. Not sure how to verify this.
• Claims that people are "targeting" a "single developer" (Daniel Micay) with "fabricated stories and misrepresentations aimed at directing harassment towards them and burning them out."
• Claims that this is because of "multiple organizations financially threatened by GrapheneOS", doesn't name who.
• Talks about Techlore, a "YouTuber who churns out low quality privacy content". I don't watch him so I can't say if he makes bad content but I can believe it. Hilarious either way.
• Pushes the lie that Techlore "developed a grudge" when he offered to be a community manager and was refused.
• Claims that he "targeted Daniel with a harassment campaign focused on baselessly claiming he's crazy."
• Talks about James Donaldson and CopperheadOS? Apparently "the person who co-founded a company with Daniel in 2015" was also the one who leaked his address in 2018.
• Claims that the Monero community has "multiple prominent influencers who are close with the YouTuber who started most of the harassment campaign targeting Daniel", possibly a reference to Seth Simmons (even though he's not involved with Techlore).
• Says Louis Rossmann "openly uses Kiwi Farms and tacitly supports bullying targeting people with fabrications, misrepresentations, swatting and other harassment", which couldn't possibly be further from the truth.
• Claims there has been "massively increased harassment" because of Rossmann.
• Claims that "Calyx employees/leadership are heavily involved in the harassment" and that Techlore "was closely working with them and supporting them", which is another lie.

Perhaps the most interesting is the admittance that Daniel Micay is still working on the project, as a full time developer, and the statement that the announcement of his step-down was "heavily misinterpreted/misrepresented".

Let's pull up his announcement:

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And the announcement from the GrapheneOS twitter:

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I've stepped down as lead developer of GrapheneOS and will be replaced as a GrapheneOS Foundation director.

It appears the wording above was unclear. I'm stepping down as a GrapheneOS Foundation director and as lead developer. I won't have any leadership role in the GrapheneOS project.

Daniel Micay has stepped down as lead developer and will be stepping down as a non-profit director.

It's up to him if stays as a developer.

So it seems like when he says he's stepping down as a "lead developer", he means he's stepping down as a lead developer and not as a lead developer. But everyone heard him say he's stepping down as a developer.

Extremely retarded weasel wording that can only come across as trying to salvage Graphene's image while actually doing nothing. In any case, it's pointless because the Graphene account is still spreading many of his lies like they did today, so he effectively still has major influence over the project.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

Claims that this is because of "multiple organizations financially threatened by GrapheneOS", doesn't name who

Aren’t GrapheneOS and it’s competitor CopperheadOS both free?

 

[Markass the Worst]

Aren’t GrapheneOS and it’s competitor CopperheadOS both free?

Actually, CopperheadOS is paid and closed source. Very gay, I know.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

CopperheadOS is paid

Seems like it’s free for personal use (which is where I assume they get their consumers from)

https://copperhead.co/android/docs/licensing/

 

[Markass the Worst]

Seems like it’s free for personal use (which is where I assume they get their consumers from)
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https://copperhead.co/android/docs/licensing/

Seems like that's for source code only. Even then, I can't find a public URL to the source. Then there's this:

https://copperhead.co/android/docs/faq/#is-copperheados-free

 

[Markass the Worst]

Double post because new content.

The GrapheneOS Xitter claims James Donaldson of Copperhead started all the (alleged) harassment.

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James finally fires back and counter-accuses Daniel of some serious allegations.

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The "destruction of signing keys" is well-documented on Wikipedia and in the lawsuit, but I don't know where "threats to life, hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages, defacement of Copperhead property, sockpuppet attacks" are documented. Far be it from me to defend James though, for all I care these two could be lolcows that deserve each other and this is cow-on-cow violence.

Over on Mastoshit, the Graphene account threatens to defederate users because they don't agree with Daniel's narrative.
Disclaimer: The initial argument was over a phone company named Purism which by all accounts (including Louis Rossmann) try to shut down criticism, so fuck them too. But the GrapheneOS account very quickly veers to something wholly unrelated to Purism.

Seems like any time Rossmann is brought up, it's a trigger button for Daniel (or whoever runs the account) to sperg out about how he's a Kiwi Farms member and he and Techlore are doing harassment, even though they aren't, and Louis only uses his account to post in his own thread. You might as well accuse @Near Throwaway and @Wayne Beckett of harassing people.

90% of this is lies but let's look at the most egregious ones including the ones directly mentioning me:

Go look at the site and in particular the thread about Daniel collecting years of misrepresentations and fabrications about him.

What misrepresentations? What fabrications? 99% of the OP is archives of Daniel's own words. That means they cannot be misrepresented, because the archives include context, and they cannot be fabrications.

Rossman is active on the site and friendly with the person who made it.

No, he is not. Once in a while he logs on and posts in his own thread. That's it.
And fuck off with this "friendly" shit. I have NEVER spoken with Rossmann. He does NOT give a shit about me. I AM NOT HIS FUCKING FRIEND IN ANY WAY. At best I posted something in the thread and he responded to it, but that's only a """friend""" in the parasocial sense, and I am not deluded enough to think that a parasocial relationship is a real fucking relationship.

The thread was made in sync with him publishing his dishonest video making himself out to be a victim for being told he'd be banned.

A baseless conspiracy theory. Rossmann did not tell me to make the thread, I did it all on my own. And what an egregious lie by omission. Yes, he was told he'd be banned... and accused of attempted murder... for making a Youtube comment. That's literally what that whole thing was, you couldn't let one single measly Youtube comment go, Daniel. Don't threaten people with publishing allegations of attempted murder and then be surprised when they panic and do something that doesn't go in your favor.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

A baseless conspiracy theory. Rossmann did not tell me to make the thread, I did it all on my own. And what an egregious lie by omission. Yes, he was told he'd be banned... and accused of attempted murder... for making a Youtube comment. That's literally what that whole thing was, you couldn't let one single measly Youtube comment go, Daniel. Don't threaten people with publishing allegations of attempted murder and then be surprised when they panic and do something that doesn't go in your favor.

Wouldn't "in sync" imply "at the same time"? You made your thread after the video, and it was moved even later still

 

[Markass the Worst]

Wouldn't "in sync" imply "at the same time"? You made your thread after the video, and it was moved even later still

Almost like I didn't even know about DM until LR's video was published and it took me some time to do research to put together the OP.

 

[Billions Must Force SSL]

Have you seen this message chain on the Tor Project's tor-dev mailing list?

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2019-August/013977.html

Daniel Micay joins the mailing list only after the mails about his hardened_malloc were made, contributes in a discussion with a Mozilla dev (Tom Ritter), and then his typical behavior is unleashed despite being unprovoked and starts bashing at him and saying that Mozilla is an unethical organization that inflicted damages on him.

Expect to hear more about this in the future, because I'll be contacting
Mozilla about the fact that you're spreading dishonest attacks and
misinformation about my work, which is a continuation of past harm
inflicted on me by Mozilla employees. You're digging up a past conflict
that was supposed to be put aside, so nice work with that. It's nice to
have another example to point to about damages inflicted by Mozilla. I
expect this to be made right just like the past attacks by Mozilla. I
want a retraction and an apology, but either way this is being included
in documentation on damages.

[...]

Maybe if you didn't spend your time trying to inflict harm on other
projects and individuals, people would be more interested in helping. I
highly recommend that no one contributes any time to Mozilla, which has
a history of taking advantage of contributors, lying to them and abusing
them. Mozilla is built on abusing volunteer labour, and your post here
is just a continuation of that. It's a thoroughly unethical company with
disgusting, unethical people like yourself at the forefront of it. I
have no idea why anyone would want to help scumbags like you.

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2019-August/013990.html

You can read the entire discussion in that thread: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2019-August/thread.html#13977

But it follows Daniel Micay's typical pipeline and pattern of behavior.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Have you seen this message chain on the Tor Project's tor-dev mailing list?

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2019-August/013977.html

Daniel Micay joins the mailing list only after the mails about his hardened_malloc were made, contributes in a discussion with a Mozilla dev (Tom Ritter), and then his typical behavior is unleashed despite being unprovoked and starts bashing at him and saying that Mozilla is an unethical organization that inflicted damages on him.



You can read the entire discussion in that thread: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2019-August/thread.html#13977

But it follows Daniel Micay's typical pipeline and pattern of behavior.

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The most Daniel Micay part is when he starts personally attacking Tom Ritter and accusing him of bad faith just because he got some facts wrong. Also, the part where he claims Tom is "digging up a past conflict" even though I can find no mention of this in Tom's email. (a)

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The Xitter cow-on-cow slapfight continues. Daniel directly names James as the guy who allegedly first doxed him (where did he publish the dox?), along with accusing him of more serious allegations like that he just steals Graphene's latest source code and repackages it in Copperhead (sounds very illegal, why hasn't he sued Copperhead yet?)


sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

• Claims that James "created" (whatever that means) "most of the attacks being used by people harassing Daniel" and apparently has "directly" "supported" Kiwi Farms too. This is false on both counts because the "attacks" are just Daniel's own words and James has nothing to do with us.
• Notes that James has "explicitly voiced support for the YouTuber who recently began attacking GrapheneOS in May" (Louis Rossmann), incorrectly implying that James and Louis have anything to do with each other. Then continues on sperging about Rossmann's KF account. So I guess now James Donaldson is an evil Kiwi Farmer too. Welcome to the club, James!
• Claims that James made sockpuppets to edit Wikipedia and one of these has been banned. I can't find this, but friendly reminder, Daniel Micay and his fellow developer Anupritaisno1 were caught editing Copperhead's article and nothing similar has happened for Graphene's article.
• Claims that Copperhead made deals with organised crime phone companies named Phantom Secure and MPC. As "proof", he links to two VICE articles, which don't mention Copperhead at all. In fact, another VICE article (a) I've found alleges that, on the contrary, MPC stole Copperhead's code instead, and Copperhead wants nothing to do with them anymore.
• General vague claims about James being responsible for harassment, libel and doxing with no evidence.

I'd love to ridicule James Donaldson as a faggot too but Daniel Micay is the worst person to make these claims.. At best a broken clock being right twice a day. Especially since he keeps lying about how unrelated people like Louis Rossmann and Kiwi Farms are somehow connected to him and each other when they are not.

As it stands, the most damning things I can agree with so far is that Copperhead sent a bogus legal threat to a university student for no reason and filed a lawsuit against Graphene (both covered in the OP). To reiterate: James can eat shit too but he's less of a spastic than Daniel.

 

[clipartfan92]

Talk of the GrapheneOS Foundation, harassment, and a certain unnamed user of the named Kiwi Farms.

Spoiler: Links/Archives

https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1708035525372727760 (archive.ph)
https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1708037855275073544 (archive.ph)
https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1708039521797877817 (archive.ph)
https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1708040762582073577 (archive.ph)
https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1708041645394993236 (archive.ph)
https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1708041908088344872 (archive.ph)
https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1708044777445306668 (archive.ph)
https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1708047248838320332 (archive.ph)

GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS) · Sep 30, 2023 · 9:12 AM UTC
Being distressed about having people repeatedly trying to have you killed by the police isn't insanity. An influencer who openly uses Kiwi Farms and made no secret of their support for harassment trying to portray themselves as a victim for being privately confronted is nonsense.

Daniel (or whoever runs the account)

Got to be him, with the seething about Rossman and I'm fairly certain I've seen him use the same "killed by the police" phrasing in past messages he's posted under his own account. Here's some other info posted today about the GrapheneOS Foundation:

Spoiler: Links/Archives

https://x.com/JapanAnon/status/1708044770717659394 (archive.ph)
https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1708049352562717134 (archive.ph)
https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1708049899990695962 (archive.ph)
https://x.com/JapanAnon/status/1708054555123179674 (archive.ph)
https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1708057964924334318 (archive.ph)
https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1708058223704494164 (archive.ph)
https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1708058366205980777 (archive.ph)

 

[Useful_Mistake]

Talk of the GrapheneOS Foundation, harassment, and a certain unnamed user of the named Kiwi Farms.

When every single thread you make gets "misunderstood and misrepresented" the issue might be you. Not always, of course, but seems to be the case here too.

 

[Maniel Dicay]

Got to be him, with the seething about Rossman and I'm fairly certain I've seen him use the same "killed by the police" phrasing in past messages he's posted under his own account. Here's some other info posted today about the GrapheneOS Foundation:

Definitely him. Considering the fact he only stepped down as lead developer and not down as lead *developer* makes one almost certain he would never willingly give up control of the socials. And especially, as you mentioned, talking about Rossmann, "harassment", and "extreme" attacks. All of it sounds like the way he usually communicates.

The sad thing is I think the vast majority of the community, including myself, would absolutely not give a single flying shit about M*cay had he not explosively exaggerated mild critiques and not played the victimiest of all victim cards.

I just wish for GrapheneOS to return to a normal, boring, alternative phone OS project, with no drama or spergs.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Talk of the GrapheneOS Foundation, harassment, and a certain unnamed user of the named Kiwi Farms.

I've updated the OP to clarify he's still working on GrapheneOS and made a thread in TTS to change the subtitle.

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Over on Mastodon, the GrapheneOS account claims that they're trying to get the swatting call audio and the police reports, implying they've been trying all this time since said alleged attack in April (does anyone know if Toronto Police Services usually takes so long to respond to requests like this?)

They also claim that a "Techlore supporter" spammed gore and CSAM in their chat rooms. No evidence provided as to this person actually supporting Techlore. I'm sure if you named them, Techlore would immediately ban them from his communities.

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And they claim Techlore "spent months targeting Daniel" before making his video, "has a significant portion of his community brainwashed into doing harassment", and "doubled down on the harassment after the swatting attacks" along with Louis Rossmann (who is, according to them, "an even bigger source of harassment").

This is a boldfaced lie, as far as I'm aware Techlore has said absolutely nothing about Daniel or GrapheneOS ever since Daniel flagged him and got his account suspended from Twitter (same for Rossmann after he made his video deleting Graphene). Neither did either of the two say anything negative of Graphene before their informative and unfortunate videos were made.

source (a)

 

[Unknown Recipient #12]

The Iron Law of Kiwi Farms holds true once again: the only people loudly crying about the Kiwi Farms are creeps who are hiding something. I immediately knew to type "GrapheneOS" into the search bar to find information on why a supposedly reputable and privacy focused android fork sounds like its run by a catty high school girl.

Thanks for helping me find your thread, Daniel.

 

[Markass the Worst]

More sperging about Louis Rossmann. Almost every sentence is completely incorrect.


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>Rossman's video is thoroughly dishonest and is part of his participation in a harassment campaign targeting one of our team members.
There's nothing in his video that is dishonest and he is not participating in a "harassment campaign".
>He proved that himself through leaking and misrepresenting private discussions to harm our project.
Nothing in the discussion was misrepresented. You, Daniel Micay, threatened to publicly accuse him of being complicit in attempted murder for making a YouTube comment. If you don't want people to leak private discussions then don't make them panic by threatening to ruin their reputation with allegations of attempted murder.
>Rossman has a verified account on Kiwi Farms and is buddies with people who dedicate their lives to extreme harassment.
He is "buddies" with precisely no one here, and no one here does harassment of any kind.
>Rossman knew about the swatting attacks and the other existing harassment and his video clearly aimed to appeal to those people and escalate things far more.
No, he didn't know. You were the one who escalated things by threatening him with accusations of attempted murder.
>Rossman was upset one of our developers had an issue with his involvement in harassment.
His "involvement" in "harassment" is posting a YouTube comment on Techlore's video. That's it. That's literally all it was! That's what you were so fucking upset at him over and threatened to publish allegations of attempted murder for!
>His response was to engage in far more extreme harassment based on lying about them, baselessly claiming they're insane and leaking private discussions which he completely misrepresented.
Nothing he said was a lie, it is insane to accuse him of being complicit in attempted murder for a YouTube comment, don't accuse people of things they haven't done if you don't want them to leak private discussions, and nothing he said was a misrepresentation.
>A YouTuber who uses Kiwi Farms trying to destroy the project with fabrications and harassment isn't going to work.
He's not trying to destroy the project. He's not "harassing" you either and nothing he said was fabricated.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Okay, but why would Louis Rossman want to murder Daniel Micay? To the extent that he would spend all his time establishing a YouTube channel as plausible deniability to later send secret messages to a forum that he can just post on to order them to carry out the tasks they have previously carried out in the zero instances of murder by police.

 

[clipartfan92]

At this point, I hope someone really does murder Daniel Micay, just to shut him up.

 

[indomitable snowman]

I was thinking of using/installing graphene on my pixel 7. However Daniels insane rants about made up harassment and weird hatred towards Luis gives me pause and I probably won't.

Is cyanogen still a OS I can use?