+0.10 Tiny Steps Towards Liberating Bootloaders and Modem Firmware of MediaTek Phones (postmarketos.org)
147 points by ollieparanoid 2891 days ago | 13 comments on HN | Mild negative ~lite vlite-1.6
Summary ~lite Digital Rights Acknowledges
Technical efforts to free MediaTek phone firmware from proprietary constraints
EQ 0.60
SO 0.40
TD 0.70
Lite evaluation by llama-4-scout-wai · editorial channel only · no per-section breakdown available
Longitudinal · 5 evals
+1 0 −1 HN
Audit Trail 11 entries
2026-03-07 22:02 model_divergence Cross-model spread 0.52 exceeds threshold (2 models) - -
2026-03-07 22:02 eval_success Lite evaluated: Mild negative (-0.18) - -
2026-03-07 22:02 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: -0.18 (Mild negative)
reasoning
Technical blog post on liberating MediaTek phone firmware, tangentially related to human rights
2026-03-07 21:57 eval_success Lite evaluated: Moderate positive (0.34) - -
2026-03-07 21:57 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: +0.34 (Moderate positive)
reasoning
postmarketOS blog on liberating bootloaders
2026-03-06 00:46 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.440 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-06 00:46 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai-psq: +0.44 (Moderate positive)
2026-03-06 00:42 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.322 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-06 00:42 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai-psq: +0.32 (Moderate positive) 0.00
2026-03-06 00:36 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.322 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-06 00:36 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai-psq: +0.32 (Moderate positive)