• @computergeek125
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    958 months ago

    No I can’t say I’m excited for an OS that will undoubtedly contain first-party spyware

  • Fake4000
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    408 months ago

    Wouldn’t never touch a Huawei phone.

  • Rikudou_Sage
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    268 months ago

    Why…? It’s obviously a tool to spy on their citizens even more effectively and very possibly to spy on western citizens as well.

    I’m all for alternatives to Android and iOS, but I’d rather be spied on by private companies than a country that pretty much plans to take over Asia and then the rest of the world in the coming decades (well, in my wet dreams SailfishOS matures as a real alternative and I don’t have to choose Android at all).

  • @[email protected]
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    258 months ago

    No thanks. I prefer my government mass surveillance and backdoors in the binary blob firmware layer. Separation of concerns and all that.

      • @[email protected]
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        98 months ago

        There is some open core, but system you recieve in the end device is going to be totally locked and without source code to see. The only component with available source will be Linux kernel, because of it’s user-friendly copyleft licence, but it is so much modified even on Android it’s basically useless.

        • @TheGrandNagus
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          38 months ago

          They don’t even do that.

          Android is fundamentally FOSS, but in reality Google has an additional proprietary layer over the top (that unfortunately is growing)

          HarmonyOS is fundamentally proprietary, but a few components are GPL licence so they’ve done the bare minimum in making that open to satisfy the law. And even those parts are being stripped out over time.

  • @silencioso
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    138 months ago

    At least now you can choose if you prefer to be spied by the US government or the Chinese government :D

    • @wikibotB
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      78 months ago

      Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

      Red Star OS (Korean: 붉은별; MR: Pulgŭnbyŏl) is a North Korean Linux distribution, with development first starting in 1998 at the Korea Computer Center (KCC). Prior to its release, computers in North Korea typically used Red Hat Linux, and later switched to modified versions of Microsoft Windows with North Korean language packs installed. Version 3. 0 was released in the summer of 2013, but as of 2014, version 1. 0 continues to be more widely used.

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      • plague-sapiens
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        78 months ago

        Not it’s Red Star OS!!! Looks like you don’t like communist leadership! To the gulag with him!

        • @Asudox
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          28 months ago

          blasphemy!

        • @NotMelon
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          28 months ago

          No, take him to naked island

        • @Asudox
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          18 months ago

          deleted by creator

  • GigglyBobble
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    58 months ago

    Oh man. By that headline I got my hopes up that Logitech came to their senses and renewed the Harmony Hub or even the glorious Harmony One.

  • @TheGrandNagus
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    8 months ago

    Break with the Linux ecosystem? No it doesn’t lol

    HarmonyOS is a multi-kernel system. It uses the Linux kernel and a modified LiteOS kernel. Unless they mean to eventually move past that, but idk, this article is trash and doesn’t say much, it just sucks Huawei’s dick.

    Nobody should care about some dodgy proprietary OS with CCP backing.