sounds like a great way to DoS people's accounts, especially if you don't want them to be able to see what you're doing
refalo
joined 2 years ago
I don't have a precise answer as I'm not from that team, but as a developer I think I have a decent idea as to why, and it's mostly political.
First, I don't think it's necessarily the ability to install Play Services that makes them think it's not FOSS, but that they distribute non-free firmware blobs which are necessary to make practically any modern phone function properly, that's just the unfortunate reality because "we live in a society" that enables it. By that logic, I think they believe the vast majority of running Linux kernels on the planet are not FOSS. GNU would rather have things that are not practical and don't exist today... their stance is not currently realistic in our capitalist society IMO. They hope for things to change, but hope doesn't make change.
I also think some people look down on the Play Services thing merely because they went out of their way to explicitly support it in the OS, and basically nothing else. They disagree ideologically with F-Droid and they don't offer any other app stores by default to my knowledge.
Even still,
Even if only 51% of the SSNs exposed hold a minimal quality to be used in identity attacks, this translates to added risk to an unprecedented 138 million people.
Plus, identity attacks are not the only risk of this data being exposed. Stalkers, violent offenders etc. now have addresses/phone numbers and other info they can use as well. Their definition of identity attack also may not be the same as yours. Even if it's just a name and SSN, that may not qualify to them, but could be useful to someone else in a negative way.
Biggest lie of the year award... it's trivially easy to check how many unique SSNs are in the leak, and it's 272 million.
I don't think it's about FOSS-ness as to why they don't like F-Droid, but security and privacy. They don't want to give up signing keys and compilation duties to F-Droid, and I don't blame them. Even with reproducible builds, almost nobody is publicly verifying projects that claim to have them (Signal anyone?).
Mac OS 9 and BeOS/Haiku
Development restarted this year, the 2024 version will be out soon, it's in RC phase.
That's interesting, I've never heard of anyone actually concerned about the power consumption of their PC before, but I guess it makes sense if you live somewhere that it's quite expensive or just don't have much money... or want to be greener I guess.
retro enthusiast community has been growing a lot in recent years, especially with youtube channels like 8-bit guy, LGR, MVG and such
"Ok, pull down your pants and hand me your unlocked phone."