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.

[AirdropShitposts]

Louis Rossman may be a terrorist mastermind but it's not like he could record the conversation after it stopped taking place. Some things are even beyond his incredible capabilities.

 

[revenge of rebecca]

Daniel Micay spotted referring to this thread, which he refers to as being filled with "fabrications" and "doxing material" without actually addressing any of the content.



edit- zoomed in screenshot since I am bad at archiving things properly

 

[Short Circuit]

I completely forgot about this thread, I thought Daniel Micay was supposed to resign as a head of GrapheneOS, but he still seems to use the twitter account? Whats going on here?

Every time hes mad at someone its like a 40 tweet long spergfest holy shit stop writing so much, it does not make you look better.

 

[Draina]

Time to move back to stock

 

[Markass the Worst]

Rob Braxman (scamming grifter retard) made a video mentioning GrapheneOS the other day.

(Preservetube)
(0:30) "Now listen to what some so-called 'experts' have said about this. The maintainers of the GrapheneOS operating system [...] reiterated that SafetyCore doesn't provide client-side scanning. [...] I've never heard a more fake explanation than this."

Is he wrong? Yes.

So what's the best way to respond? Do you calmly explain how he is wrong, or do you write walls and walls of sperging and lump him in with Kiwi Farms?


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Here's the part accusing Rob Braxman of supporting "harassment from Kiwi Farms members" which is a blatant smear.

Even assuming there is harassment (there isn't), there is no evidence that Braxman supports it.

Over on the forums, moderator "ayaen" responds to people concerned that writing walls of text is a waste of development resources. Says that people should be their personal army and refute misinformation themselves if they don't want Daniel to do it.

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More Kiwi Farms sperging from other users:

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Unrelated to the above, Daniel smears a random Xitter user "hackerfantastic" as a Kiwi Farms "harassment" supporter.

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Apparently this user is named Matthew Hickey and he and his wife Jennifer Arcuri run some company called Hacker House which has been involved in a corruption/affair scandal with Boris Johnson.

Remember that Daniel Micay talking about Matthew's scandals is kosher, but Matthew talking about Daniel's scandals is harassment not to mention fabrication. Double standard.

 

[Manual Decay]

Is he wrong? Yes.

Strictly speaking, yes, Braxman is wrong. But I would tend to take his side on this argument.

What's being added is a system that can classify images, monitor conversations, and create summaries of just about everything you do. Does it communicate back to google or other third parties? No, but it's all sitting on your phone waiting to be reviewed by law enforcement. Or, if google gets a subpoena, could they secretly transfer an AI-based analysis of everything you are doing back to HQ? Possibly. It's also possible they could simply enable third-party communication with a later update.

From GrapheneOS on twitter:

Classifying things like this is not the same as trying to detect illegal content and reporting it to a service. That would greatly violate people's privacy in multiple ways and false positives would still exist. It's not what this is and it's not usable for it.

True, but it's laying the framework for doing it. Saying that SafetyCore isn't doing anything wrong is putting an awful lot of trust in big tech, and ignoring all of their previous malfeasance, most of which evolved in exactly the same way (introduce perfectly reasonable features, and then later modify them to be evil).

 

[Sprate Header]

I'm not in a good position to archive rn but Daniel has been sperging the hell out at Nostr devs and actively losing their support: https://gleasonator.dev/@vitorpampl...6c0c38cdf35ffd027258598846647a0554619c8b7634e

 

[Eternal Gopnik]

I'm not in a good position to archive rn but Daniel has been sperging the hell out at Nostr devs and actively losing their support: https://gleasonator.dev/@vitorpampl...6c0c38cdf35ffd027258598846647a0554619c8b7634e

Yeah unfortunately that site doesn't seem to be playing well with archives. https://archive.ph/VcB43 https://ghostarchive.org/archive/NcxWw https://web.archive.org/web/2025032...6c0c38cdf35ffd027258598846647a0554619c8b7634e

 

[spent-]

Rob Braxman (scamming grifter retard)

Is it possible to get a rundown on Braxman? I only know of him by watching one of his "Privacy" electronics videos, where he talks about how the Tesla is the best vehicle for privacy, meaning Tesla TOTALLY doesn't collect and then sell your driving data to insurance companies (They do).

 

[revenge of rebecca]

Is it possible to get a rundown on Braxman? I only know of him by watching one of his "Privacy" electronics videos, where he talks about how the Tesla is the best vehicle for privacy, meaning Tesla TOTALLY doesn't collect and then sell your driving data to insurance companies (They do).

In my opinion, he is not a scammer. He says many things that are true, as well as some things that are his opinion. However, he is known to make inferior products (or simply being sloppy). So you are advised not to buy his products.

 

[Manual Decay]

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Ah yes, the much-anticipated article that Micay has been working on for the last year. Given how he claims these "attacks" have been enormously harmful and are jeopardizing the whole project, you'd think he would make this a top priority.

Also, Micay is sperging out at the head of /e/ OS for claiming /e/ is "more usable" (an entirely subjective claim)

Can't link because Micay blocked me (lol)

Protip for business owners: constantly shitting on your competition makes you look like a loser (especially when the product is free)

 

[Chukipz]

I am not the only one whose interest in CopperHeadOS, and latterly GrapheneOS, has been completely quashed by the actions of Danny Boy.

Without :tmi:ing, my real first encounter of him (having been previously overall sympathetic to the reports of brigading etc) was him barging into someone's Xitter conversation he wasn't tagged or mentioned in and going full ad-hom attack via the "anonymity" of the Official GrapheneOS Xitter account.

That was an education and a half...

 

[revenge of rebecca]

I'm not in a good position to archive rn but Daniel has been sperging the hell out at Nostr devs and actively losing their support: https://gleasonator.dev/@vitorpampl...6c0c38cdf35ffd027258598846647a0554619c8b7634e

You can get it all on the mastodon side of things. https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114219855299173673. However, I do not recommend going to a GrapheneOS instance without a VPN or tor.

The archive site might work for this, but archive sites are a pain for me to use on tor. So...























There are other replies by other people, but I am not going to screenshot all of it.

Edit: I went and threw it into an archive anyway. https://web.archive.org/web/20250328200521/https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114219855299173673

 

[revenge of rebecca]

Can't link because Micay blocked me (lol)

You can just post xcancel.com links. It is safer and more accessible. You can even use tor browser with javascript disabled, as long as you are willing to type in a few numbers that they show you as an anti-ddos method.

In other news, Daniel Micay has spitefully decided to stop upstreaming security fixes to Google entirely.

https://fosstodon.org/@that_leaflet/114229460645786651

https://web.archive.org/web/20250328201148/https://fosstodon.org/@that_leaflet/114229460645786651

 

[Ed Special]

Let's be real - Daniel absolutely believes he's being gang-stalked.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Good news: There is new evidence that @larossmann does NOT use GrapheneOS. In a recent video (Preservetube) he shows the permissions screen for an app (timestamp 3:48):

Notice anything missing? GrapheneOS has Storage Scopes. If he was using the OS, it would say "Storage Scopes" somewhere on screen, but it doesn't. Here's an example (albeit somewhat outdated) of what this screen would look like on GrapheneOS:

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This should put to rest all the claims that Rossmann is still using GrapheneOS, but knowing Daniel and the people willing to believe his bullshit, it won't. So I will pre-emptively respond to any theories that Rossmann is just hiding it / this is a different phone / not his daily driver / he reflashed his phone before recording / etc, by saying that I won't believe any of them without good evidence provided.

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Bad news: postmarketOS has been compromised and they're in cahoots with the /e/OS harassers, who are also in cahoots with the Kiwi Farms harassers. Want proof? Just look at Daniel having to yell at defend himself from a random retard who happens to be a pmOS dev harasser named Clayton / craftyguy.


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According to Daniel Micay, Gael Duval and /e/OS "played a major role in killing off DivestOS" which is the sort of allegation that demands extraordinary evidence. Unfortunately, said evidence is not given. Micay also accuses Duval of "boosting harassment content" from "Kiwi Farms users and their supporters", and people unironically believe him when he says this.

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As usual, Micay rejects any advice to not engage with people who (he thinks) hate him.

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Anyways, it is true that Duval has stated he will make a post about GrapheneOS and Micay's behavior. So that's at least one truthful thing Micay has said in this entire episode.

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Meanwhile, the troops are rallied in the GrapheneOS chat rooms. They must deal with their leader sperging out on social media again an existential threat to their operating system.


Even the dicksuckers in Micay's chat have to mention how bad he is at providing any sort of evidence for his claims.



Time will tell if Daniel Micay and his supporters can put together a case for why it's perfectly acceptable to accuse people of doing, being responsible for, supporting or being complicit in heinous shit when they haven't done anything of the sort.

 

[Manual Decay]

Sigh... Micay threatening yet another blog post that will never appear. Maybe after he finishes the ones on CalyxOS and Louis Rossmann, which he's been working on for 2 years now.

The transparency issue is a big one. It's a mystery whether GrapheneOS has money or not. On X, Micay claimed he had plenty of money to hire a replacement developer once their senior dev gets fed into the Ukrainian meat grinder. On the other hand, just a few weeks before, he was scrambling to find servers that had uncapped bandwidth. Most VPS providers charge around $1/TB once you go over the bandwidth cap, so you're talking maybe $10k per year max assuming 250k GrapheneOS users. I can't see that being a major expense for a serious project.

Anyway, nice to see that Micay is waking up yet more people to the insanity of the GrapheneOS community. "Why can't you just ignore criticism?" You must be new around here.

 

[i440BX]

Since he started tard raging in public, I started to be suspicious of the GrapheneOS claim of being backdoor free.
Yes, GrapheneOS is pretty hardened compared to other OSes and has good protections, but I am very suspicious of highly praised status of the OS with no criticism (impossible to have perfect software, without bugs) and Micay shitting on other projects, like competition isn't good. He went after Bromite, F-Droid, etc.

 

[Gorbino]

One of the lead GrapheneOS devs was recently "bussyficated" (involuntary conscripted) and forcefully sent to the Ukrainian front to fight and die against Russia.
There is no personal information about the developer.
Source (russian): https://meduza.io/feature/2025/04/2...rinuditelno-mobilizovali-i-otpravili-na-voynu
Source #2 (english): https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114359660453627718

 

[Markass the Worst]

One of the lead GrapheneOS devs was recently "bussyficated" (involuntary conscripted) and forcefully sent to the Ukrainian front to fight and die against Russia.
There is no personal information about the developer.
Source (russian): https://meduza.io/feature/2025/04/2...rinuditelno-mobilizovali-i-otpravili-na-voynu
Source #2 (english): https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114359660453627718

It's most likely muhomorr (a). He's the only dev part of the GrapheneOS Github organization that was active until he suddenly wasn't, in mid-March. He also made a lot of contributions compared to the others, indicating senior status.

Anyway, they say he won't be sent to die but he's still conscripted and they still have to find a replacement.