Unfortunately, not all government apps are open source.

On a recent story there was a similar reference to this comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31432573#31432743

I'm on android.. phone app is great

So we are talking about Samsung because they spy to much on us and the phone you recommend is the one from Google? Interesting...

Any Android phone will be spied on by Google so long as Play Services are installed with elevated privileges(aka 99.9% of phones being commerically sold). At least with Pixels you don't have OEM bloatware on top of that.

For those inclined for more privacy, Pixels are one of the only phones that allow you to install de-googled Custom Roms without compromising the Android security model.

note that i said "doesn't come loaded with trash spyware"

Google might have some spyware (e.g. play store). But it's not trash. I trust them to not get hacked (definitely more than Samsung or Huawei)

They also afaik have better support for replacing the stock firmware (although I've never done that)

Check out https://nandgame.com/ if you want to apply some of your knowledge from the videos on youtube.

This looks super accessible and low-investment. Thanks!

In that case it would be useful to see which components could still be optimized on the level overview :)

The article's date is "November 11, 2020". Is the author a time traveller? :)

March 3rd, August 8th, January 1st, I can see a pattern here...

Ah thanks for the catch! I also just switched over to a new SSG for my site, must have missed this :)

That's still more like a couple of hours :)

There is already an issue[1] on GitHub regarding this...

[1] https://github.com/Externalizable/bongo.cat/issues/144

Didn't see them either. Firefox blocked the images (tracking)