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

floxy · 2026-07-01T23:11:45 1782947505

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 · 2026-07-02T00:41:22 1782952882

I imagine that they're wildly less effective at reverse engineering firmware for random chips than software for common platforms

fsflover · 2026-07-01T23:36:53 1782949013

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g-b-r · 2026-07-02T00:38:49 1782952729

> 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»

RunningDroid · 2026-07-01T23:51:02 1782949862

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fsflover · 2026-07-02T17:46:06 1783014366

> having their own phone is better PR

Fairphone isn't their own phone.