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Wait, so it wasn’t aliens?

It was dinosaurs all along?!?

It was 4 July, and we discussed why our country didn’t celebrate its national day as fervently as Americans. No fireworks, no parades – how come?

“Well, it would be fairly embarrassing wouldn’t it?” she said. “All that self-celebration. It’s a bit over-the-top,”

I’m from the US and I feel this.

I don’t think you need to be taught it. It seems natural (at least for someone who is neurodivergent)

It has access to your phone’s fingerprint, which is then linked to all your other activity that you do on the phone, because it has the same fingerprint.

It doesn’t need access to the phone data. All it needs is the fingerprint.

The phone number part significantly degrades your privacy and security

Also the signal app depends on non free software blobs, which is a huge risk to security. Claiming that Signal is open source is disingenuous. Parts of it are open source. As a whole, it is not.

No phone number needed. Can run directly on a non-phone server.

Also more secure and trustworthy because it’s open source.

If you manage to make an account on WhatsApp and move it to waydroid, they’ll ban you.

Meta’s game is (meta)data collection and selling your data. They’ll delete your account if they can’t get all your phone’s data (eg if it’s an emulator then they can’t uniquely identify you)

Doesn’t the bridge require you to run whatsapp on a phone anyway?

God that sucks.

Why not use SimpleX or Wire or Matrix?

What do you mean? Crotalus or Sistrurus?

It makes sense if you own a huge company that’s on top of all competitors, and you don’t want any new competition.

It’s very short term economic thinking.

Did you read the article?

Most of these projects are run by 1 or a few volunteers who have day jobs

Lots of of old men on this list.

Do young (wo)men not create/maintain foss?

Image isn’t great, but the article is fantastic

Brian Drain initiative

Wasn’t there an RCE recently discovered with AI?

I go the easy route with munin and wazuh. It comes with a ton of stuff preconfigured

Is there a list of these asshole backers anywhere, so we all know who to boycott?

Did you ever try not saying it?

They don’t tell you, but it’s actually optional. You get dirty looks, but they don’t actually force you to recite it. That’s just peer pressure.