Why do people jump to conclusion that he is necessarily sent right into the meat grinder?
Army is not only generals and meat waves.
Army is not only generals and meat waves.
> We've used our available connections to try to keep them safe. There's no way to get them out of the conscription. However, they're an incredibly talented security researcher and engineer and it would be extraordinarily misguided to send them to front line combat. This seems to be understood now.
He was assigned to being infantry since that's the default. Due to our public post on X specifically, he ended up being transferred to doing development work instead. That transfer was only finalized in the past couple days.
He's safe but we're still down our most important developer. We successfully migrated to Android 16 despite this combined with Android 16 no longer providing Pixel device repositories in the Android Open Source Project but it took a lot longer than usual. We're currently recovering from the massive amount of work we had to do for the Android 16 port so development is going fairly slowly right now. We plan to hire more experienced developers.