There are countries where a government ID is needed from opening a bank account to buying even prepaid Sim cards to LPG, electricity connection and everything in between and this ID requires you to give your all 10 fingerprints, iris scan and photo from all 3 angles. And to top it all off this data is leaked multiple times.
OK First thing GOS team is currently assuming that Pixel 10+ won’t meet their requirements. But for older Pixels it’s tough. Google just stopped sharing vendor blob, device tree, and instead of openly developing AOSP now it is fully behind close doors only releasing source later with full update. But I have hope. I’ve been daily driving custom ROMs for 10+ years and before I could afford Pixel I had cheap phones which also didn’t share any of these things but custom ROMs were very much thriving and they will always. Yes there may be a little more delay for new devices. All the new features may take longer but GOS already has a lot of security and privacy stuff figured out.
I think we should all support however we can to not just GOS but also other Custom ROMs. Because there will always be those who’ll stop society from progressing and all we can do is fight back with donations, our time, and resources.
Google used to share the complete device tree and vendor blobs. And full commit history for kernel.
Without device tree they have to reverse engineer it which is very complicated and if it is wrong your device won’t even boot
Without vendor blobs they have to have every pixel phone with stock android update it and extract them from phone again slow and painful process
Without commit history for kernel GOS devs don’t know what change is needed to fix a particular security issue or a bug so they can’t easily back port. And also the AOSP 16 source code wasn’t released to public until full launch so it again slows things down.
I know google was never obligated to share those things but they have been doing it since forever. And to stop this now when in reality the number of ppl using custom ROMs is at it’s lowest is bad it is not affecting their bottom line but they still choose to do this.
There are only 2 types of people. Who hate systemd and those who don’t know what systemd is. \s
Hey we need a little bit of spam on the internet to filter out bots who write elaborate garbage from GPT and humans who write simple msgs.
The profile just says 2 years ago. How do you know this is the cake day? I don’t even know when I joined so maybe it is who knows.
OK at least it didn’t create functions for everything. ChatGPT had a function to kinit, to rename and to upload to hdfs. And each function had 2-3 line comments. I mean for a single command how can you put 3 lines of comments.
Check if a CSV exists and if it does rename to the filename_date.CSV and upload to hdfs
Yeah AI is really stupid especially when it comes to bash. Once one of my colleague came to me asking a bash script not working that they got from ChatGPT. It was 20-30 lines with function and everything was a variable even the commands. I didn’t even bother reading, asked them what they were trying to do and wrote a simple one liner and it did exactly what they wanted in first try…
We were fucked a long time ago it’s just the effects showing now. But I hope the rebels at Graphene OS and other custom ROMs will find a way.
So no difference from current situation we are in.
From technical point of view it is possible. eBPF already has almost everything needed for doing that. And I think it can be done with a simple LKM but if they want it included in the main tree I’m sure they’ll get some colorful email from Linus.
I wonder how many merge conflicts there will be.
OK make a graph of swear words used by Linus and all others against Linus’s age. I’ve a theory.