alt Hacker NewsUgh. This 100% shows how janky and unmaintained their setup is.
All the hand waving and excuses around global supply chains, quotes, etc...it took pretty long for them to acquire commodity hardware and shove it in a special someone's basement and they're trying to make it seem like a good thing?
F-Droid is often discussed in the GrapheneOS community, the concerns around centralization and signing are valid.
I understand this is a volunteer effort, but it's not a good look.
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"I understand this is a volunteer effort, but it's not a good look."
I would agree, that it is not a good look for this society, to lament so much about the big evil corporations and invest so little in the free alternatives.
It's like ya'll are so eager to crap on a thing that you don't even read tfa.
> this server is physically held by a long time contributor with a proven track record of securely hosting services.
So you are assuming it's a rando's basement when they never said anything like that.
If their way of doing business is so offensive either don't use them, disrupt them or pitch in and help.
> I understand this is a volunteer effort, but it's not a good look.
What does make a "good look" for a volunteer project?
Graphene is a great product but their incessant mud slinging at any service that isn't theirs is tiresome at best.
Some of their points are valid but way too often they're unable to accept that different services aren't always trying to solve the same problem.
> F-Droid is often discussed in the GrapheneOS community, the concerns around centralization and signing are valid.
Clearly the GrapheneOS community is clueless then.
You can host F-Droid yourself, which is the opposite of centralized. If the GrapheneOS community actually is concerned about centralization they can host an instance as well.
Futhermore, each author signs their own software, which again is the opposite of centralized. One authority signing everything would be centralized.
So F-Droid is decentralized in authorship and distribution. Google store is only decentralized in authorship.
> commodity hardware
Apart from the "someone's basement", as objected to in this thread, it also doesn't say they acquired "commodity hardware"; I took it to suggest the opposite, presumably for good reason.
> shove it in a special someone's basement
They didn't say what conditions it's held in. You're just adding FUD, please stop. It could be under the bed, it could be in a professional server room of the company ran by the mentioned contributor.
I read it a bit differently: you don't need to be a mega-corp with millions of servers to actually make a difference for the better. It really doesn't take much!
Also, even 12-year-old hardware is wicked fast.
As someone that has run many volunteer open source communities and projects for more than 2 decades, I totally get how big "small" wins like this are.
The internet is run on binaries compiled in servers in random basements and you should be thankful for those basements because the corpos are never going to actually help fund any of it.