FSF Librephone update: Ensuring freedom, one blob at a time

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)?

	▲	g-b-r 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I imagine that they're wildly less effective at reverse engineering firmware for random chips than software for common platforms

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fsflover 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

	▲	RunningDroid 10 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> 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.
	▲	g-b-r 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> 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»