You can always use the appimage. But the functionality of the desktop app is very limited. There is no autofill on Linux (sidenode: I’d love to see a xdg-portal for that) so I just use the browser extension.

It’s not a problem if you’re into

• (leftist) US politics
• Linux and other IT topics
• Star Trek
• German Memes

As soon as you try to talk anybody else, you might find you struggle to have a community large enough to sustain a conversation

You could add UV lights to it to blind the camera. But you are right these don’t have that. This is just a (I think very funny) marketing stunt.

and Qobuz prohibits AI songs completely.

Not quite. The article linked above doesn’t mention it because it conflates the use of unconstitutional symbols and Volksverhetzung (hate speech targeted at an ethnic group) but the court commented on the latter as well. Here is the relevant excerpt from the ruling:

18 a) Im Hinblick auf § 130 Abs. 1 und 2 StGB liegt bereits das Tatbestandsmerkmal „Teile der Bevölkerung“ nicht vor. Der vorliegende Post soll offensichtlich Kritik am Staat Israel sowie dessen militärischem Vorgehen üben und richtet sich nicht an die Bevölkerungsgruppe der Israeliten oder der Juden. Allein gemeinsame politische oder wirtschaftliche Interessen lassen jedoch keine Gruppe zustande kommen. Staaten werden somit von der Norm nicht erfasst. Durch Beschimpfung fremder Staaten sind nämlich weder deren in Deutschland lebende Staatsangehörige (schon) als Gruppe oder Teil der (hiesigen) Bevölkerung angegriffen noch Teile der deutschen Bevölkerung, die sich dem anderen Staat besonders verbunden fühlen.

18 a) With regard to Section 130(1) and (2) of the German Criminal Code (StGB), the element of “sections of the population” is not met. The post in question is clearly intended to criticise the State of Israel and its military actions and is not directed at the population group of Israelis or Jews. However, shared political or economic interests alone are not sufficient to constitute a group. States are therefore not covered by the provision. This is because insulting foreign states does not (already) constitute an attack on their nationals living in Germany as a group or as part of the (local) population, nor does it constitute an attack on segments of the German population who feel a particular connection to the other state.

where are you getting this from? dislikes where? because youtube doesn’t show dislikes. yes, there are extensions that restore that function. but those extensions are extremely imprecise, because they project the numbers based on the like to dislike ratio of their users. But even if I grant you that there where a lot of dislikes, why would you disable dislikes, if they where never displayed in the first place?

All of which brings me to believe that you are lying.

The US copyright office for one

https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2025/02/copyright-office-publishes-report

Human authorship is a bedrock of copyrightability, and thus works entirely generated by AI are not copyrightable. (…) Where a work includes both human and AI-generated content, only the human contributions are potentially copyrightable.

From what ive seen the phone providers are using googles backend software called “Google Jibe”

A lot of them are. But Google is not the only option. There are carriers that roll their own solution, rater than using googles white label solution. Chinese carriers are for example offering RCS under the name of 5GMessaging and they aren’t using Jibe.

Also by the fact that it doesnt work on degoogled phones you can surmise that google has the ability to disable or limit the feature on any device with google play services.

but that’s a client problem, not a server problem. There are providers in some regions who offer their own apps that still work with custom roms. It’s just the Google Messaging app that does play services attestation. Almost everyone uses this client, but it is only almost everyone.

I don’t disagree that there is some open washing going on, but that wasn’t your original claim. You stated that Google needs to approve any client and that’s just factually wrong.

No it doesn’t. It’s a federated service that’s controlled by the GSMA. Services are either provided by your phone provider or Google. As far as I know it’s not an open standard, meaning that you need a licence to develop a client. But the licencing is not controlled by Google but by the GSM Alliance (the same organisation that controls the GSM cell standard)

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I’m not sure, if there is a true beginners guide, as stress testing is generally considered at least slightly advanced stuff. But the Ubuntu Wiki has this guide that comes close: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Reference/stress-ng

To be fair, the system in question does the math for you. It is still contra to European tipping culture though.

The circus maximus (the big hippodrome in Rome) also hosted gladiatorial fights and athletics competitions. The meme is misleading in the way it selects the venues.

It (potentially) allows them to charge at both ends. I don’t know if that’s what happens in Brasil specifically but it happens in a couple of countries.

The providers charge the users for the data use and the services for being exempt from the data caps.

It’s just AI doing AI things

The vote was framed as stopping the automated renewal of an existing law.

So in favour means “in favour of not having mass surveillance”

My guess (which I admittedly haven’t checked) is that that’s also why a simple majority wasn’t enough (because they essentially would have been overturning law)

I mean, we don’t know for sure since WA is closed source. But group chats are supposed to be encrypted. You’re thinking of Telegram.

If I read the documentation correctly then the bridge uses WA Web. That means you still need an Android or iOS device to act as the primary phone. Or am I wrong?

Side note: I wonder how practical it would be to build a bridge that uses the DMA mandated interop instead. I would donate a couple of € to such a project.

Signal instead of WhatsApp is generally a good idea, but WA is not covered by this law as they are end to end encrypting all messages. Switching to Proton Mail would help, using a VPN (most likely) would not.

What changes with the return of Chat Control 1.0—and what stays the same:

• What is coming back: US tech companies are once again allowed to scan private messages without a warrant or prior suspicion. This affects direct messages on platforms like Instagram, Discord, Snapchat, Skype, and Xbox, as well as emails via Google’s Gmail and Apple’s iCloud.
• What remains unchanged: Public social media posts and files hosted in cloud storage could already be scanned without this law. Furthermore, private messages can always be reported by users, or monitored by authorities using targeted, court-ordered wiretapping.
• What is still NOT being scanned: End-to-end encrypted chats, such as those on WhatsApp, have always been exempt from these scans. Additionally, European providers of messaging and email services have never implemented chat control measures.