Voyager and Photon

It looks like you are on Lemmy so I’m surprised they showed at all. It may take some time for them to be indexed if you’re the first person to subscribe to them on your server.

It just prompts me to send an email 🤔

I think you missed a key 😅

The Birdy app requires a work email, which then gets you on a wait list, so that you can subject yourself to their data mining:

Data Categories:

• The email address you use as username on BirdyChat network;

• Your messages and media within messages;

• User identifiers for blocked WhatsApp users;

• Usage information including timestamps related to your communication with WhatsApp users;

• Device and connection information such as IP address, operating system information and the BirdyChat version you are using;

• General location information using your IP address;

• Authentication information including encryption keys that WhatsApp encryption protocol uses;

• WhatsApp user reports in case a WhatsApp user chooses to share this information with WhatsApp.

As they should, considering Meta would then have access to all that user data. They’re just fundamentally different systems.

Have anybody found any news about when serious alternatives will be integrated?

…never? They’re not integrated because they don’t want them integrated. This is malicious compliance. Even if they were, the opt-in nature would make it completely useless. Much like Apple’s RCS integration.

This isn’t really a security issue as much as it is a DDOS issue.

Imagine you own a brick and mortar store. And periodically one thousand fucking people sprint into your store and start recording the UPCs on all the products, knocking over every product in the store along the way. They don’t buy anything, they’re exclusively there to collect information from your store which they can use to grift investors and burn precious resources, and if they fuck your shit up in the process, that’s your problem.

This bot just sits at the door and ensures the people coming in there are actually shoppers interested in the content of some items of your store.

You could skip the detour through hashes/electricity and do something with a proof-of-stake cryptocurrency, and just pay for access. The site owner actually gets compensated instead of burning dead dinosaurs.

Maybe if the act of transferring crypto didn’t use a comparable or greater amount of energy…

I don’t know what any of that is, sorry.

I recommend Zorin. It helps you to find the best way to install the apps you need. It also includes a WINE integration that greatly simplifies the process of using Windows apps on Linux. It’s built on Ubuntu, meaning it’s stable, has wide hardware compatibility, will run pretty much anything that works on Linux, and all the Ubuntu commands will work on it. It looks a lot nicer than Mint (Cinnamon). And supports lots of super useful trackpad gestures for laptops. It includes a version of Brave out of the box, stripped of all their BS.

Open-Source-Software builds the foundations of digital infrastructure in big parts - in administration, economy, science and daily life. Even the current coalition agreement of the Federal Government mentions Open-Source-Software as a fundamental building block for the achievement of digital sovereignty.

However, the work done by thousands of volunteers for this goal is not recognised as volunteering, neither fiscally nor in terms of funding. This imbalance between societal importance and legal status has to be corrected.

Therefore, as an active contributor to Open-Source-Projects, I call for work on Open-Source to be recognised as volunteering for the common good – of equal rank as volunteer work for associations, youth work or ambulance service.

They are only interested in retail, anonymizing VPNs

Okay, and how will they know which ones those are?

If you spin up your own VPN you are still 1:1 linked to that IP address

I don’t think you read that entire sentence. I wasn’t talking about spinning one up for my personal use.

I use someone else’s domain for privacy reasons. Any email with your personal domain in it can be traced back to you.

How about get her Steam Deck and then don’t worry about emulation? Just let her use it the way Gaben intended.

I remember when OEMs just didn’t rape you on RAM and storage.

I’d be doing everything you can to move any and all emails out of outlook.

Block the ads and you don’t support them.

nono, I mean the Android Desktop mode

Oh. The Linux thing doesn’t work on my phone anyway. And last I heard they didn’t have any support for graphical applications. And also, that’s still 2 devices since it’s essentially a VM that doesn’t run my Android apps or have access to my Android files.