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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
Ironically, I think regulation is what keeps them in power. They are major companies that comply with government regulations. Why would the government regulate to allow people to have devices that forgo government regulations? If you want a
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
Right. Phones won’t be built open for consumers because they aren’t built by consumers. They’re built by corporations for consumers. The software may be built by consumers for consumers, e.g., AOSP distros. But, the hardware and mobile infr
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
I’d say that it’s more of a cartel. The mobile network operators, the mobile device manufacturers, the mobile OS developers. They all work together in their consortiums to make money together. It’s a bit obvious when you look at the supply
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
I don’t know what you’re going on about “rewriting history”. I never mentioned the history of open source. From the Open Handset Alliance: “The Android platform will be made available under one of the most progressive, developer-friendly op
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
> We are not on a normies forum but on HN. Being on HN does not mean that you are familiar with the intricacies of hardware and low-level software. > I only say, that if you want to have a third option, you can have it today. There wi
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
> Fortunately I do not open random websites on my phone That's the main use for almost everyone. You're suggesting people use a less secure device and are stating that it's more secure if they don't use it in the way
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
I'll take his word that no blobs are running on the main CPU. But the process itself is error prone. It's mounting flash storage with blobs into the filesystem of the OS. The OS can load modules directly from the storage. > The
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
> The kill switches will work independently on a compromise. Why are they moot? Kill switches only work as a security feature when you activate them before you know you're compromised. But that's impossible. It's a reactiv
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
Not OP, but > This is false. Please stop writing false statements without any links. NXP promises to produce the i.MX 8M Quad until Jan. 2033. The support will be even longer. I think they meant that the processor itself is old. It suppo
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
> Which blobs are running on the Librem 5 CPU? https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/fw https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/fw/firmware-librem5-nonfree https://source.puri.sm/Librem5&#
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
> When a platform ditches openness, you lose more than a seemingly insignificant market segment that makes no money. Openness for users/consumers was never a goal for the Open Handset Alliance. > Using money as the only metric is
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
I think the common masses just expect it in the first place. If you told someone that leaving their phone unattended could lead them to getting their data stolen, they would probably be surprised. I know this isn't a surprise to the HN
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
>> An important consideration for consumers is that their data is secure if they lose their phone > Well, it's a good thing that PureOS is LUKS-encrypted by default then. My bad, I meant leave their phone unattended. Wherein s
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
I see. So it is better in the sense that the drivers are open-source. Though the drivers in Android/GrapheneOS are not open-source, I believe the drivers are also isolated from full kernel-level access. But it still brings the point th
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
> Just consider how many features stop working or get severely degraded on various phones when you use a clean AOSP build on them. That's mainly because of device trees. The firmware also isn't distributed via separate flash st
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
Ah. I see. So the blobs are loaded into the separate microprocessors. Either way, it's the same as pretty much any modern phone, where the modem (and other secondary processors) are running some proprietary firmware and is communicatin
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
A GrapheneOS phone is just as open as the Librem 5. They both use proprietary blobs and hardware. Librem just tries to hide that fact. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935853#47943179 GrapheneOS is probably more secur
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
I think you misunderstand what the Purism Firmware Jail is. I don't blame you though. They seem to make it purposefully misleading. It doesn't isolate what runs in the OS. It just isolates the OS updates from the non-free blob upd
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
It does. They obscure the usage of non-free hardware/firmware by not shipping it as part of the OS, but as a bundle on separate flash storage that is loaded into the OS by initrd. That blob is updatable as "firmware". The 100
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
I think it’s because the Microsoft Store barely has any apps that users use. The Microsoft Store didn't support the Win32 API, so developers had to rewrite their apps. iOS was a new SDK from the start.
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
Android is developed by the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of mobile industry giants . https://web.archive.org/web/20260420021444/https://www.openh... Openness for end-users was never a tenet. It i
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
People forget how much the mobile hardware industry relies on non-free infrastructure. Infrastructure developed by companies that make the standards. You really can't make a good open-source phone because you, pretty much, have to play
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
This is the initial press release for the Open Handset Alliance, the collaborators for the creation of Android: https://web.archive.org/web/20260420021444/https://www.openh... Nowhere is their goal to al
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
The vendor lock-in scenario for desktop hardware already exists with the latest x86 generation of gaming consoles. Gaming consoles are locked down because the hardware is subsidized with the expectation of revenue from the digital marketpla
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
This is a very HN view of Android. The "openness" of Android was for mobile device manufacturers, not app developers and end-users. Android's prominence was driven by the myriad of low-cost Android devices by multiple device
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by kuhsaft 5mo ago
Sandboxing and permissions provide a different type of security than application signatures. Sandboxing can limit app capabilities, but it doesn't change the fact that you can accidentally grant a malicious application permissions. App
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by kuhsaft 6mo ago
It seems that the majority of the skepticism comes from the classical understanding of magnetism and magnetic fields. It seems incredulous that you can detect the magnetic dipole of a heartbeat at distance because the magnetic field generat
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by kuhsaft 6mo ago
You’re calculating based on classical mechanics. The sensors are optical-atomic magnetometers, using quantum mechanics to measure magnetic vector potentials (MVP), which behave differently and can produce seemingly non-local effects (Aharon
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by kuhsaft 6mo ago
> How do you distinguish a heart of a human and the heart of a rat with at that distance and that noise level? A rat has a resting heart rate above 200bpm. The only thing similar to a human heart beat would be of a dog, pig, goat, or she
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by kuhsaft 6mo ago
I don't think it's too misleading. There have been atomic-optical magnetometers developed with sensitivity of 10s of fT/√Hz, so approaching the quantum noise limit. The issue seems to be SNR to a certain extent. In an ideal s

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