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  • WhatsApp "interoperability"

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  • 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.

  • WhatsApp "interoperability"

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

  • WhatsApp "interoperability"

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  • 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.

  • Anubis is awesome and I want to talk about it

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  • 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.

  • Anubis is awesome and I want to talk about it

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  • 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...

  • LTT Guesses price, 699USD, eats whole cake if hes 60USD off

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  • Nope.

  • Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany

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  • 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.

  • Could VPNs Be 'Banned'?

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  • 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.

  • Using a custom domain with two seprate email accounts.

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

  • Which of the two would you purchase for someone who’s not so technical?

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

  • Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers

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

  • LTT Guesses price, 699USD, eats whole cake if hes 60USD off

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  • It's so terrible that one of his employees volunteered to throw themselves on the proverbial grenade and help him eat the cake.

  • LTT Guesses price, 699USD, eats whole cake if hes 60USD off

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  • I'm so tired of the thousand videos and articles speculating on price. Why? What's the point? Just relax.

  • Using a custom domain with two seprate email accounts.

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

  • Is there any search engine which is able to recognise and not index any website that uses ads?

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  • Block the ads and you don't support them.

  • Could VPNs Be 'Banned'?

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  • Lots of places are applying that sort of regulation already. Problem is, how do you know which IPs are VPNs? There are some obvious ways, and many people block some VPNs already but you can't block every VPN. I can spin up a VPN right now and open it up to users in other countries. It's impossible.

    The gov could theoretically maintain a repository of "known" VPNs that they could require sites to block, though. They could even force them to be blocked at the DNS level. This would probably be fairly effective.

    But that's also most certainly going to be abused as well.

  • My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones.

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  • ...and? Do you think lemon laws were created before or after Tesla?

  • Is there any search engine which is able to recognise and not index any website that uses ads?

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  • Not an ADblock, the issue isn't ads, the issue is how the web is TAILORED towards ads, and how that makes shitty web.

    I don't understand the difference.

  • Epic CEO [Tim Sweeney] says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development

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  • If it's available in "nearly all" development then you can switch the tag to say "no AI" and then I can continue discovering and buying games that don't have that BS.

    But we all know, as does Sweeney, that that's a lie. And also that I wouldn't shop for games on Epic Store anyway, for reasons just like this.

  • Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week

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  • Oh shut up, you pedantic ass

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Orion Browser for Linux (Webkit-based) Alpha available by end of year "if all goes well"

    orionfeedback.org /d/6363-orion-for-linux/248
  • Steam Hardware @sopuli.xyz
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    JSAUX teases aftermarket mods for Steam Machine

  • PC Gaming @lemmy.ca
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    Valve reveals new Steam Hardware for Early 2026

    store.steampowered.com /sale/hardware
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Why do so many services require email configuration?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Texas is the 3rd state to require app store age verification

    www.cnn.com /2025/05/28/tech/texas-apple-google-app-store-age-verification-law