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Given the recent gripe that Bun/Anthropic indicated regarding compile times with Zig (i.e. that their vibe-coded 4x compilation speedup PR wasn't accepted), it appears to me as an "interesting" move to switch to a language that probably delivers 4x longer compilations than even vanilla Zig.

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This is honestly the first thing I look for with anything new claiming "CAD".

Roughly every other week there is a new "The (programmable) CAD that fixes everything!" post on the front page, just for me to open them up excitedly and noticing that they use a mesh kernel and will thus never be able to provide fillets and chamfers painlessly (for the user). All while they are absolutely essential for a lot of designs, especially in 3D-printing, a well-placed fillet/chamfer can make the difference between an object that breaks upon looking at it funny and one that can bear significant load.

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Just tried it out with GrapheneOS on my Pixel 7 and the eBay app works fine.

Generally I think the marketing of GraphenOS is interesting. They are usually positioned as the "Absolute security. No compromises." ROM, but in my personal experience, they are the "It must work. No compromises. Then make the rest as safe as possible"-option, given aspects like using the "real" Google Play Services (if desired), but sandboxed, instead of MicroG or unrestricted Google Play, which pretty much all other ROMs roll with.

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I mean, GrapheneOS hits at least 2/3 of your demands pretty well. The Play services are "regular" apps with permissions that you can take away. For contacts and files you get "scopes", i.e. you decide what the app can see, while the app is left to believe that it can see everything there is.

That said, I think the marketing of GrapheneOS could be better. Every introduction of GrapheneOS I've seen paints the image of Graphene being "Absolute security, no compromises", whereas in reality GrapheneOS is the most "Things need to work, no compromises. Then make the rest as safe as possible" custom ROM that I've used thus far (in particular regarding them allowing you to install Google Play, rather than using MicroG).

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There is the option to register the signing key of the ROM with the bootloader and then relocking it, thereby making those apps happy again.

The biggest issue is that there is a different way to do this for every device, so most custom ROMs don't bother. It's relatively simple and automatable for Pixel devices, so the GrapheneOS installer takes care of it. e/OS/, which is based on Lineage, allows this for some devices, iirc.

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That's pretty much my impression of the post, too.

It has a spark of profound thought "Generative AI will obscure the path to truth" combined with a lot of conspiracy-theory-grade, flimsy analysis.

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There is no legislation here. CUII is a private organization that generates lists of domains that contain copyright violations. ISPs voluntarily choose to block those.

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For that reason, the usual trick is to use asymmetric encryption to protect a symmetric key (a fresh one per payload) that is then used for the actual payload. That way you get the speed of symmetric encryption with the benefits of asymmetric ones. (Though evidently that's not what the PS5 uses here, otherwise it would be useless to read out one symmetric key).

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