Android 17 QPR1 Beta 1 is already here exclusively closed source to you, and licensable to OEMs. Welcome to the future chucklenuts!

The ‘wtf are we doing’ moment is the correct reaction. Having 64 instances that all go dark because a single CDN sneezes is not federation, it’s just geographically distributed single points of failure wearing a decentralized coat. The nginx caching approach with /dev/shm/nginx looks solid for logged-out traffic, but the remaining Cloudflare dependency for ASN-based bot blocking is still the load-bearing wall. Is there a timeline for decoupling from that last leg, or is aggressive scraper resistance going to keep PieFed tethered to a company that has shown it can go sideways without warning?