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by palata 1mo ago
> Nobody ever promises you any specific valuation or fraction of the company Would you mind asking before saying what I have been promised? Also it feels like you have never been in a startup. The whole language of growth everywhere, the
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by palata 1mo ago
I really want to insist on this: when someone develops software, you don't get to choose what they develop. That's just life. If they make their software open source, you get to fork it (sometimes contribute to it) and this is alr
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by palata 1mo ago
Yeah people tend to downvote for "I disagree", which is... not how I believe it should be used.
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by palata 1mo ago
> The question is then why aren't we all getting behind a solid OSS browser? Like Firefox or Chromium? Seems like we aren't, for some reason.
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by palata 1mo ago
So fundamentally, "everyone else" is scammed. Unless the class A scammers get so, so rich that everyone else gets rich as well. In which case it's still a scam, but the "everyone else" are happy anyway.
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by palata 1mo ago
I don't treat OSes like costumes, but I don't see the problem with people doing it? Many times it feels like it's people being enthusiastic about Linux, jumping from one distro to the other, and commenting on which one they p
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by palata 1mo ago
Right. So I say "people don't care", and you say "they do: look at the 3% of people who use Firefox!". Can we agree on "the vast majority of people don't care", then? Does 97% or even 93% qualify for
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by palata 1mo ago
I am confused, why were your messages flagged? I disagreed with you, but I didn't see a reason to flag them? Also I don't know how to flag a message, but that's another topic.
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by palata 1mo ago
Let's keep praying for fewer and fewer regulations, it's going great! I didn't know that VCs were ever "not cancer", I've always known them like that. Also my experience with startups is that it is a big scam f
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by palata 1mo ago
Not sure if you're trying to offend me or not. But it seems like you agree with me: people don't care. You just somehow wanted to call me a weirdo on the way.
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by palata 1mo ago
I feel like we are nitpicking here. Would you say that Google actually cares about those 3%? When you have 97% of the market, you own the market, right? It's actually problematic to own 100% because then it's strictly a monopoly.
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by palata 1mo ago
> You can't use the software in the way you want if it uses hardware backed cryptography to block you from doing so. You can use the software the way you want, from sources . If I run an open source server at home, it does not gi
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by palata 1mo ago
Not sure what your point is. My comparison was not made to be stretched infinitely. Next question may be "does your kernel render web pages?", but I don't see where it is going. But to give an answer: if you wanted to bake an
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by palata 1mo ago
> My Linux kernel is not riddled with ads? And Firefox is not riddled with ads. The websites it loads are. If you run a program that shows ads on your Linux distro, the Linux kernel won't block them, will it?
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by palata 1mo ago
> The userbase of Firefox existing is obvious signs of caring. And that's pretty much a rounding error, getting smaller every year, right? Or would you say that "most people don't care" does not apply when it's o
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by palata 1mo ago
> I think it's fair to say that that's at least borderline anti software freedom Then you don't understand software freedom either. Software freedom doesn't mean AT ALL that random projects on the Internet MUST im
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by palata 1mo ago
> Which is very much contrary to software freedom I believe you misunderstand what "software freedom" means. You can compile and install GrapheneOS yourself, and you can grant yourself admin access. This is software freedom. So
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by palata 1mo ago
Better security, for once. You get (security) updates a lot faster with GrapheneOS. Also on GrapheneOS, Play Services and Play Store come unprivileged, sandboxed like any other app. So Google is not an admin on your phone, which I would a
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by palata 1mo ago
Doesn't AppVerifier allow you to do just that?
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by palata 1mo ago
People just don't care. They are happy with monopolies and surveillance capitalism. Once in a while someone talks about digital sovereignty, but much like climate change, nothing will be done (successfully) about it. That's how it
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by palata 1mo ago
Genuinely interested: is there any kind of interest in using Edge? I would have guess that either people don't care and they use Google Chrome, or they do and use... well I guess not Edge? I am still on Firefox, so I'm genuinely c
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by palata 1mo ago
What a weird idea. It's not like there was a shortage of walled gardens to go bury yourself in.
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by palata 1mo ago
Isn't it the case for all bugs? If they appear in the production software, it means that they passed the review. And obviously bugs shouldn't pass the review, but that's easier said than done.
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by palata 1mo ago
Sure. But we're talking about a phone with GrapheneOS. If I need to choose a phone with GrapheneOS, there are cheap to expensive Pixels, and it is not clear at all if there will ever be cheap Motorolas. The Signature is very expensive,
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by palata 1mo ago
The thing is, you can buy a Pixel 8a or 9 for a fraction of the price. With Motorola at first it will only be the expensive flagship. My hope is that Motorola will have cheaper phones that work with GrapheneOS.
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by palata 1mo ago
Oh that makes sense. What about e.g. Fairphone?
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by palata 1mo ago
I just don't get why smaller OEMs don't seem to care about meeting Graphene's requirements. GrapheneOS has 500k users and growing, and most GrapheneOS users would be more than happy to leave the Pixels because of Google'
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by palata 1mo ago
> Anyone who values Graphene's work will purchase one of their Motorola devices, whatever the cost Well the current Motorola Signature (2026) is 3 times the price of a Pixel. Not everyone can afford "whatever the cost". I
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by palata 1mo ago
> People who have used Apple’s anti-nausea dots have reported that the feature works wonders in reducing motion sickness. Now I'm curious: what does it mean to "work wonders in reducing"? I would expect wonders to complete
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by palata 2mo ago
And does it count as "self-hosting"? You're connecting to smtp2go, right? I mean, the setup is pretty cool, I wish more people did something like that (I do) and it's a nice post to serve as inspiration for others. But I

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