Some of the underlying libaries are in C, but yes; there was some discussion on their IRC about potentially using Rust instead.

Nope, just a Graphene user, and in case it wasn’t clear to you; I meant “linked us” as in you put a hyperlink into this Lemmy thread to give to us.

Funny how you instantly recognised the “group account”, when it is run by Micay himself

I think it’s reasonable to presume that the founder of GrapheneOS would own the official GrapheneOS account on reddit. You’re the one that literally linked us to the discussion, so I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make with this.

Well, one of my friends owns a Fairphone, and they told me that the worst thing about it is that Android updates take a age to be released: https://forum.fairphone.com/t/android-11-has-arrived-when-will-we-see-it-on-our-3s-and-3-s/64273/6

Whereas I had Android 11 on my graphene phone a few weeks after it was released by Google.

Ignore them, they don’t have a clue what they’re talking about.

The Graphene group account actually gave some good replies to that thread - you just don’t have a clue what you are talking about. The dev doesn’t solely trust Google just because - as they’ve stated many times - there just aren’t good alternative phones with decent security baselines.

I’m not even sure what you mean by “technical support for custom firmware” - Graphene pushes firmware updates with their OTAs.

I have a 4a, which is supported until fall 2023. The newer 5 model doesn’t give you much more time.

Yes, Graphene is only officially supported on Pixels at this time.

You can say that for absolutely any phone/device in existence. As for Graphene, I’ve ran tcpdump on my router for a week against the device’s IP and confirmed that it only talks to the documented default connections on their site.

matrix is self hostable, while signal isn’t

You can indeed self-host your own Signal server, it’s just that the effort required to do so is significant and it doesn’t federate. Far easier to just use XMPP/Matrix.

This is closer to https://git-annex.branchable.com/

The closest thing to what you’re describing is https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs

However they’re right now in the middle of a Python 2 to Python 3 port, have to keep an eye on github for a new release.

Here’s a good video on the technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xdEyquCl2I