avidamoeba

Geohot has always struck me as a bit of a blowhard.

Chromium was created by the KDE community which needed HTML rendering in.. the 90s? Then it was taken up by MS competitors who wanted to make a rival of Internet Explorer and they "created" WebKit. Nokia, Apple, BlackBerry, later Google and many others contributed to WebKit which became Safari and eventually Chrome. At one point Google broke off from that codebase to create Blink.

I'll give you that you've got a decent narrative and I wouldn't have objected much if Google was the "Don't be evil" company it used to be in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Which is also when they acquired Danger and released their src as Android. We're not in that world anymore. I don't give a flying fuck where the innovation is because I can rely on GCC being here 50 years from now, when the current corporate players be long gone.

Again, I really wish we lived in 2015 when people (and I) trusted Google enough to make it trivial for me to advocate for their projects and products.

So one of them can be always fucking blocked.

Kinda. But also kinda not. The cost of getting a phone made has decreased and there are many, many manufacturers who can make one for you these days. From that perspective, if you have small niche where people are alright with paying a bit of a premium, it may in fact be easier to make a phone for them than say in 2012.

The total device cost will be 499 EUR or 599~699 EUR as the "normal" price with the voucher deducting from the phone's cost if/when available.

This price for a low volume device would have been completely unachievable in 2012.

Indeed. The hard lesson that I learned over my 20 years of experience with FOSS is that the social infrastructure around a piece of software is more important than the exact details of the technology itself such as programming languages, frameworks, patterns, etc. And the license is a part of that social infrastructure.

On a technical level, that's cool.

On a practical level MIT-licensed OS better not get much mindshare. Cue everything that happened with important projects under permissive licenses over the last decade. E.g. Android, Chromium. I used to dgaf and was even quite excited about stuff like Fuscia OS. Boy did we dodge a bullet there with Google abandoning it.

Has been for a long time with Waydroid. This is probably gonna make it easier to use.

Link to audio: https://coywolf.com/news/social-media/mastodon-creator-shares-what-went-wrong-with-threads-and-ponders-the-future-of-the-fediverse/#h-listen-to-the-full-interview

Ubuntu

Fun fact, Igalia is a worker co-op that does open source development for hire.

The Israelis have no idea what's coming for them. They've gotten themselves into this right wing stasis and they seem to have become oblivious to the domestic dangers posed by the tools and tactics they've developed for "external use." This shit is coming home and I'm guessing any dissent over expansionist policy will be the first to get repressed.

Pinokio is a 1-click launcher for any open-source project. Think of it as a terminal application with a user-friendly interface that can programmatically interact with scripts.

A web UI that runs scripts. Cool I guess. If you're into that kind of thing. There's no way I'd use this instead of docker compose and Ansible/SaltStack. And yes I realize you probably could use compose from a Pinokio script.