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GrapheneOS has fixed the Android 17 QPR1 kernel performance regression

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  1. mmooss · · focus · HN ↗

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    1. palata · · focus · HN ↗
      > But they often choose to denigrate others, which is destructive, damages relationships

      It used to be like that (and to be fair, all the similar communities were contributing to the drama, not just GOS), I agree, but I genuinely feel like it has become a lot more professional lately. Like I haven't seen drama in... at least 6 months?

      Now I almost exclusively see them explain their technical decisions, which is very interesting.

      1. mmooss · · focus · HN ↗
        The OP denigrates Google.
        1. grapheneos · · focus · HN ↗
          Google has been increasingly hostile towards GrapheneOS over the past several years despite our substantial contributions upstream. We've spent years helping Google with vulnerability reports, improvements submitted upstream and multiple proposals for security protections which were implemented for both Android and Pixels. We've been treated incredibly poorly by Google despite our contributions.

          They're trying to limit how many devices can be sold with GrapheneOS by Android OEMs, reduced the number of AOSP releases from 12 to 2 per year with 10 of those now being Pixel exclusive, removed Pixel support from AOSP, unsuccessfully tried to cut us off from early access to security patches which are now allowed to be shipped early by OEMs while under embargo (which we do), are trying to convince app developers to ban using GrapheneOS via the Play Integrity API and even recently funded an AI slop paper with misinformation about GrapheneOS falsely claiming it missed security patches that it did not based on an entirely false premise that it has diverged from AOSP in a way that it hasn't and has to port patches to a diverged fork of the OS which isn't how it works.

          Many of the things Google has done to hinder open source projects based on Android are illegal and they continue doubling down on it despite a lot of regulatory and legal actions already taken against them.

          More info at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;edit?id=49946698">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;edit?id=49946698.

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