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2026-07-25 10:57 UTC
at this point i see what they are trying to do. they just want people to use grapheneos and dont really care about other projects! that is a good example of how not to encourage people to try your product. some time ago i was considering buying a pixel to install grapheneos (or some other rom as pixels are good for roms, but i was specifically interested in graphene), and im glad my money didnt come to google and my time to this project that doesnt seem to know what a healthy collaboration should look like. i am not saying pixel phones are trash or grapheneos is garbage - it may be achieving its purpose well in terms of privacy and everything, but how they position themself, i dont see much of free software spirit in that. trying to become an alternative to google they inherit too much from that google that should not have been inherited. i will never use grapheneos personally nor recommend it to a free software enthusiast
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116975915281766580
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@parzivalwolfram@infosec.exchange 2026-07-25 16:33
@ralen@social.ralen.top "The POSIX APIs are insecure and outdated..." [citation needed] "...and we don't even want them anyway..." because you're not allowed at the cool kids table? "...but we can't invent a new OS ourselves, so we'll just invent a new kernel with a POSIX shim." no, you won't, because then you won't benefit from free Android security patches and infinitely less people will want to write drivers for your shitass custom kernel.