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They submitted kernel patches for (at least some) support of the FP6 the day it released. The preinstalled OS isn’t FOSS though a good few FOSS OSs/distros support their older phones (and presumably the FP6 eventually).

So the answer is… sort of? Personally I just think they’re just FOSS-friendly

If anyone still has a Reddit account, ask them to hold an AMA on here too.

Also, the irony of having a BuyFromEU space on a USA-run and -funded website is fun.

Wouldn’t that rule also necessarily have to change to allow browsers? Unless Apple wants to continue its malicious compliance by forcing other browsers to disable JavaScript.

There’s at least two limitations that they’ve mentioned before with shipping outside of Europe.

First is they need extra certifications (e.g. FCC ones for selling to the USA), which are expensive and basically redundant. Probably not worth the business cost to do it and maintain it.

Second is they do carbon neutral shipping, which is hard to do when you have to cross an ocean. I know in Canada our national postal service can do carbon neutral for packages, but figuring that out for every country and the international legs of the shipping is a lot of work.

Part of the cost of being ethical is being at a disadvantage with capitalism, so while they’re doing pretty alright they aren’t going to grow like big tech did.

They only used a weird chip for one generation (the last generation; 5)

I’ve got a backup of it, as others should too if they’ve got their own git forge https://git.ngram.ca/mirrors/lapd-face-search

Yup, this is open weights just like DeepSeek. Open source should mean their source data is also openly available, but we all know companies won’t do that until they stop violating copyright to train these things.

You say you’re open source but don’t link to the open source code. Nothing more

Their source code: https://github.com/silexlabs

there’s a lot of mention about being FOSS but they never actually prove it, which is funny to me

Thanks for letting us know to delete Telegram!

Is Revolt federated? I thought it was only FOSS

If you’re going to misinterpret the scope of “whatever they want” at least be creative about it. I think they meant they wanted to be able to install tractors on their iPhone. Bonus points if it made cool transformer noises.

Clearly they actually meant any iPhone program/app.

That’s quite compelling but I still can’t find any official confirmation of that information. The BashSquare website doesn’t mention any employees but does mention the app (and their website is on the G Play store). IMO the information you’ve provided is enough to confirm it uses some of the public boycott list, but could still be omitting things (though very unlikely; that would be a wild Israeli misinformation campaign).

The boycott website doesn’t provide barcode prefixes for companies to boycott, which means there is still some information that isn’t verifiable, and it’s one of the more crucial parts of the app’s functionality (if you’re not scanning barcodes you could just use the website). I did manage to find a way to look up barcode prefixes but there was no mention of a public API so it makes me think that either they’re part of the app (see qualms about open/verifiable dataset) or the app is using some proprietary API/scraper to get that info.

Thanks for the info!

Unfortunately that has no bearing on whether the tracking is active

I’d be inclined to agree if it wasn’t broken down into more detail than what I actually shared. The app includes ads and one of the trackers is Google AdMob, so that’s definitely not anonymous tracking. It’s also impossible* to be sure whether the other two trackers, Google Crashlytics and Firebase Analytics, are anonymous.

*without reading the source code, at least

Edit to add the report that Aurora Store used

Depends on what you define as “meaningful”, but lots of things have already reached that threshold in my opinion. Travel into the US has dropped by up to 50% in some cases, which severely hurts their tourism industry, especially in northern parts of the USA. US politicians are talking about it, claiming outrageous things like “Canada has banned US goods”. Canadians stores are struggling to sell some USA products, being forced to put discounts on them and stopping or postponing the order of replacement stock.

Anyway, symbols are only worth something if they mean something.

The Canadian movement to not buy from the USA is already showing some economic impact (though it’s hard to see through all of the other self-inflicted economic problems the USA has caused). It doesn’t even take that much time to have a real economic impact.

This is the sort of app that really needs to be open source or at least open dataset. Right now there’s no way to see if their data is reliable. Aurora Store tells me that app has tracking in it (minor, but still, ewww), which is also concerning, so I’m not going to install it to find out if that information is at least provided in-app.

Oh also it’s developed by this super generic-looking company BashSquare. Overall not very confidence-inspiring.

Being against your work supporting genocide seems pretty work-related to me. At best, it’ll just destroy their company culture (not that I’m convinced it’s good to start with). Optimistically, I hope everyone who’s hard to replace quits and finds a better job somewhere that cares about more than infinite financial growth.

I’ve mirrored it to my own git server too https://git.ngram.ca/mirrors/cdrm-project I will ignore DCMAs because I (and the server) don’t live in the USA.