As long as its a legit number that uses a popular carrier that supports modern protocols they should come through. I'd test it out yourself if you have any concerns.
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Use Carrion from F-Droid and make it your screening app. Numbers that call you have to go through a verification that is mandated in the US & Canada. Numbers that fail this handshake verification will be rejected.
I've been using that bad boy for about 3 years continuously in my server and 1 year in my desktop. Surprised it hasn't died on me yet, lol.
I do recall the thread linked and I think a few individuals whose sole purpose on the Gnome GitLab was insulting the Gnome maintainers were banned. Sometimes Gnome's obsession with polish can be a double edged sword. I don't think anyone on the Gnome team let's merge requests die on purpose its just a lack of communication from them. Wish Gnome would take some risks with the DE with new features in the future.
I'm guessing you're talking about something specific and if so could you link the pull requests or repository?
Last I checked the Flatpak is an old version of Proton VPN. Look up how to get the beta release for your distro to get the latest features.
Revolt and Mastodon aren't even in the same ball park.
GrapheneOS?
Most defining characteristic of race is different skin tones. Literally what racism is about. You don't see people referring to races as their historical decent.
How are you supposed to know someones skin color from an IP? The word you're looking for is xenophobic.
Compiling anything is a minority group even in the Linux community. Sounds like a massive headache.
I have never seen this pop up with UBO