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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by tshaddox on Monday November 29, 2021 @07:05PM (#29387081)
And for the precisely the same reason, I hope the privacy-conscious people who are compiling it from source aren't downloading their compilers as binary blobs!
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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by pabs3 on Monday November 29, 2021 @08:24PM (#29387642)
There is a project to solve that, they aim to bootstrap an entire Linux distro from under 1K of machine code plus all the necessary source code.

https://bootstrappable.org/

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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by moffkalast on Monday November 29, 2021 @07:34PM (#29387295)
And I sure hope they didn't download and install their OS from a premade image too, you really can't trust canonical and the rest of those gangs these days!
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