Why didn't they open the source themselves? What's the point of all this secrecy anyway?

Because they (apparently) keep a bunch of secret features and roadmap details in said source code.

Hey, the user doesn't need a Google account, that's good. Still a danger of frog boiling but not as bad as I was expecting.

Bring on the AI interviews. I can memorize all the trivia they want. At least then I have a fighting chance, otherwise it's no interview with no reason given. More productive to sweet talk clankers.

Looks like a shoo-in for my next phone!

I'd assume it's riffing on Java EE.

Assimil, L-R method (parallel texts w/audiobook), essentially redoing a grade school education, AJATT, ginormous Anki decks full of sentences...

Just like in Asimov's "Monkey's Finger".

Websites with poor SEO practice are often more trustworthy.

Friction hopefully means "you have to plug in a USB cable" and not "you have to associate your phone with a particular Google account, then go through a process with Google's customer service to approve your phone for sideloading" etc.

Captured? To do what with?

To remove, to prevent martyrdom in death, to force a change of government that sells them better oil. Same thing the US always does.

Tune in at the livestream 11am Mar-a-lago time :^)

My guess: he will be imprisoned in a 3rd country, he can't be allowed to move back to Venezuela