"Not great" is quite an understatement from a European perspective.
We're talking about a state-issued digital identity system, the European equivalent of your ID card, that cannot function without accounts at two US corporations. That's not a UX limitation. That's a structural dependency on foreign infrastructure for core state sovereignty.
The concerns aren't abstract.
The US has a documented history of mass surveillance programs (PRISM, XKeyscore) that directly targeted European citizens and governments.
Both Apple and Google operate under US jurisdiction, which means CLOUD Act requests, national security letters, and executive pressure are all legal avenues for US government access.
PlayIntegrity is explicitly described in your own architecture docs as a black box: "we do not know what they are actually doing in their backend." A critical security component of a state identity system, and you don't know what it does. That's not an engineering trade-off, that's an accountability gap.
GrapheneOS being "on the list" is not reassuring. It means the system launches in a state where European citizens who have actively chosen to reduce their dependence on US Big Tech are excluded from their own national digital identity infrastructure.
The EU passed GDPR to establish digital sovereignty. It's building eIDAS to establish identity sovereignty. Baking in a hard dependency on Google and Apple at the attestation layer undermines both, by design, at launch.
This is really cool. But showing Fahrenheit, despite everything else is perfectly localized, for my home town Hamburg in Germany, is somewhat useless. Guys from the US, we use Celcius here! :-P
Ah, nice, thank you very much. But it is impossible to reach the countdown page once you are in. So it is almost impossible to make the switch, because you notice the Fahrenheit thing only if it is too late. And it looses the setting after a reload..
Which community? Organic traffic to your GitHub exclusively coming from external references and links. There is no reason the same isn't working with Codeberg. If you link to Codeberg instead of GitHub it still works the same.
I recently produced a tape. 60 minutes of hand-made synth wave. 150 pieces made at a production site here in Germany. Only 20 left now! So, there a people who like this! Tape is not dead. And played back with a good tape deck, at least with my production, it has a very high sound quality. Much more organic and not that sterile then the Spotify version.
Exclusively alongside digital formats. You can also get the FLACs on Bandcamp or listen to it on Spotify (but that is boring and doesn't sound organic).
That's a great analogy and is something I experience every second day. Once a week I do a full second pass of a manual review on the generate AI code. Very often I find myself in a situation were I do not really understand the recently AI generated code anymore or find it hard to read, so I either rewrite it manually or tell the LLM to make it more readable. And this is just one part. If you really would like to get a long-term maintainable software product, AI code suddenly isn't that much of a speed boost anymore. Maybe a little bit, but the initial wow effect is very ephemeral.
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