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smileyhead , 4 months ago to technology in Menstruation cycle tracking app breached users' privacy, B.C. class-action lawsuit alleges

Unless:

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smileyhead , 4 months ago to technology in Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025

There are a hell lot of other problems.

smileyhead , 4 months ago to technology in To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol

If you did root your phone, you can turn RCS back on with the standard Magisk hiding procedures

I really do not want to use hacks like that in order to send a text message.
It reminds me of the:

• Voting in elections now requires buying a Big Mac and having receipt for verification, I don’t want that.
• No problem with that, just ask a friend to buy it for you. Or you can just fake

A messaging standard that requires carrier, phone modem and phone operating system all implementing in order for it to work is outdated mindset from the era of flip-phones. We have Internet now, which allows sending any data to any device and we have installable apps that can send anything through it. Implementing an awful and already outdated standard in a most user freedom unfriendly manner just to replace even more outdated standard is not great.
Imagine if Google now started promoting a FAX 2.0 protocol for fax machines, which would implement some of basic email features already being in email for 20. No, just use email and if your friends do not have it show them how to use it.

smileyhead , 4 months ago to technology in To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol

Apple can implement RCS, but what then? Currently people not using Apple approved device in US can be marginalized. After RCS people not using Apple or Google approved device are going to be marginalized. And they both have wide requirements in order to be approved, recently Google started requiring Play Integrity check. So no RCS after you get rid of YouTube app for example.

This is the same discussion all over about defaults like if this was LibreOffice vs MS Office debate.

smileyhead , 4 months ago to technology in To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol

Specification may be not controlled by Google, but the single available client implementation is controlled by Google and almost all carriers are delegating managing their RCS servers to Google.

While XMPP or Matrix server you can host even on your LAN network between two computers.

smileyhead , 4 months ago to technology in To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol

maybe they could convince meta to use it

I think he/she meant convincing Meta to use MLS, not Matrix.

smileyhead , 4 months ago to technology in To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol

At least we know that this won’t be open federation. But still maybe some company could bridge them or at least could become a JMP.chat like service for WhatsApp.

Element wrote a first look summary on this: element.io/…/the-eu-digital-markets-act-is-here/

smileyhead , 4 months ago to technology in To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol

Signal encryption can be taken out of the app and applied elsewhere, because it has been already done. SimpleX is nice but this is single app single implementation thing.

smileyhead , 4 months ago to piracy in GOG basically acknowledges piracy in a meme

Just type any game title to the torrent tracker and you’ll find you this is only for the first crack. After game is cracked by just one person, everybody can pirate it just like if there was no DRM.

DRM-free is exactly the reason I buy on GOG and would never pirate a game that exists on GOG.

smileyhead , 4 months ago to technology in Sweeping EU rules for tech giants take effect today. Here’s what’s changing | CNN Business

Voice is also debatable.

VoLTE is such a mess. It requires OS, modem and phone operator to all work together, where I heard none of them is often to the spec. As of now voice calling should be a simple Internet based app, maybe with autoconfiguration to not break “inset SIM and done” habits.

smileyhead , 4 months ago to linux in Droidian on OnePlus 8!

It basically is, but this kernel is much modified by modem maker, SoC maker and device and component manufacturers. They almost always do dirty low quality patches just to make one device work with Android and not care about sending them to upstream (mainline) kernel or even about compatibility with anything but their Android version.

not.mainline.space - example of OnePlus 6 having more than 5,600,000 lines of code difference from normal Linux kernel. And is still considered pretty close compared to most phones.

smileyhead , 4 months ago to technology in The EU Digital Markets Act is here.

Discord would need to be willing to accept interoperability and make an agreement with WhatsApp. There is a chance, but personally I doubt they will do it.

smileyhead , 4 months ago to technology in Is the Fediverse truly decentralized? Not exactly.

I always see ActivityPub as a simple glue to existing model of social media networks.

If we want to decentralize further and further the end goal would be a serverless message format with public/private key cryptography build on something like Yggdrasil or GnuNET network.

smileyhead , 4 months ago to linux in Droidian on OnePlus 8!

No available port for 8T yet.

smileyhead , 4 months ago to linux in Droidian on OnePlus 8!

Worth it to try out and see the current state. The ecosystem is close to daily usage if you mind some bugs and use only standardized FOSS things. There are bugs here and there like GNOME Web crashing on more load that definetly can be a turn off for many to switch now, but it is worth trying out especially when going back is easy on OnePlus phones.