I'd also be surprised if they were using AWS in a way that their code remained easily portable to other providers.
Perhaps they really were keeping it portable, but I find AWS an odd choice in that case. From my perspective the whole point of AWS is to build with their APIs.
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I don't see how else you store 80TB+ of data on AWS without using S3.
Perhaps they built in abstractions for using other S3-like stores, but if they're going "bare metal", what are they going to do? Deploy something like Ceph or Minio on top of 80TB self-managed disks?
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Yeah, exactly. Since they were using AWS, I assume they were using assorted AWS APIs. They can't simply self-host their services and have it working again. There's a lot more involved than simply setting up some servers with standard services. They need a bunch of development.
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If I was building that kind of large platform, I'd want to do it on top of something that I could self-host. Thankfully, I don't work on anything like that and have no plans for it. The kinds of services we need are all static file servers or services without cross-account data.
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I don't think they ever seriously considered that it would be difficult to find hosting. Hosting user-generated content with nearly non-existent moderation is enough to make that a problem even without going out of the way to attract the audience that they brought over to it.
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They don't realize their party has gone completely off the rails. They genuinely see it as creating a social media platform for conservatives in the US. They don't realize that's not what they are anymore or what they created. So glad that I don't live in the US. It's unreal.
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GrapheneOS is open source.
See opensource.org/osd for more information on what that means.
Open source licensing permits anyone respecting requirements like attribution to use it:
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Can expect a further statement from about it. To be clear, we aren't working with them or supporting them. People being legally allowed to use the software is different from us wanting them to use it. They're hardly the first problematic company using our software.
No. Haven't contacted them at all. Maybe they saw those 3 tweets and realized that they shouldn't be calling it a phone running if it's running their own OS based on it. It's not clear to us what they are actually doing so we didn't specifically talk about them.
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