7/1/2026 at 10:12:27 PM
by g-b-r
7/1/2026 at 11:11:45 PM
Decompiling binary blobs is a strong suit for LLM AI, right? Maybe progress on this will be faster than I expect? Does the FSF spend money on non-free AI services? That is, do they have ethical issues with that? Or do they only use AGPL licensed services (or similar)?by floxy
7/2/2026 at 12:41:22 AM
I imagine that they're wildly less effective at reverse engineering firmware for random chips than software for common platformsby g-b-r
7/1/2026 at 11:36:53 PM
I don't understand why they wouldn't try to further liberate the phone that already runs an FSF-endorsed operating system, Librem 5. Perhaps one argument is to support more phones - but instead they could demonstrate a proof of concept for the most free phone, which is what I would expect from the FSF.Also, AOSP obeys Google's development strategy, so even though it's free software, it is not a good bet long term.
by fsflover
7/2/2026 at 12:38:49 AM
> Also, AOSP obeys Google's development strategy, so even though it's free software, it is not a good bet long term.Check https://librephone.fsf.org :
«This is not another Android distribution, but a long-term effort to understand and reverse-engineer the nonfree components used in nearly all SoCs today»
by g-b-r
7/1/2026 at 11:51:02 PM
> I don't understand why they wouldn't try to further liberate the phone that already runs an FSF-endorsed operating system, Librem 5. Perhaps one argument is to support more phones - but instead they could demonstrate a proof of concept for the most free phone, which is what I would expect from the FSF.A cynical take would be that they're trying to sabotage the concept so it's unusable for non-techies.
A slightly more realistic take is that having their own phone is better PR than supporting someone else's, even if it is just a custom Android ROM instead of an actual Linux distro.
by RunningDroid
7/2/2026 at 5:46:06 PM
> having their own phone is better PRFairphone isn't their own phone.
by fsflover