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Rolling Resistance

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  • Privacy-focused Whatsapp mods?

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  • I guess the stuff I was worried about was contact list sharing, Google Advertising ID, installed app list, and who knows what else a native app can access. Good to know that Graphene has that protection, I guess I'll worry less about using WA.

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  • This is a good little story, I enjoyed reading it :)

    Yes, having message history and a good desktop client are great benefits of a bridge.

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  • Look up “Beeper”. It's not about privacy, rather about convenience. They run bridges for you. Nothing went through the main app, but I had to authorize Beeper through WA as a separate session. It would die in 2 weeks with WA disabled, like I said, but I guess if I kept WA enabled this wouldn't have happened.

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  • I've seen WA mods (basically rebuilt .apk files), but I don't know much about them, and therefore they seem shady.

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  • This summer? I disabled the WA app on my phone, though, so there was no background activity.

    My matrix app (an Element fork) had several bridges and multiple chats, I feel like they were all synching in the background. I haven't noticed that when I was at home, but when I was camping, battery going from 100% in the evening down to 70% in the morning was a problem.

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  • I used a setup like that, but there were 2 things that I didn't like

    • I had to keep Whatsapp on my phone and open it every 2 weeks, because without it the bridge would just die (so why not just use it anyway?).
    • The app I had used a lot off battery, which was a dealbreaker for bike/backpacking trips.

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  • Unlike some of you here, I actually do.

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  • I was not asking for advice.

    What I find really annoying about this community, is that no matter what you do, for some people it just won't be good enough, and they will throw it in your face.

  • Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers

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  • You are talking about hypothetical situations in the organization with around 2694 maintainers. What I find interesting, is that no one in this thread thought it would be good to check if these 11 already contributed something harmful. Instead, it's just “good, we prevented a bad thing”.

    Anyway, your extreme take “ban all Russians because what if” goes much further than what happened in reality (“ban Russians working for companies under sanctions”): https://social.kernel.org/objects/860ef93c-229b-4070-8ee6-cb80d1f51337

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  • I have no problem collaborating with people from any of those countries we should hesitate to put them into influential positions

    “I'm an American, and therefore I'm better”

    where the government has a larger influence

    We're literally talking about Linux Foundation making these changes to comply with requirements of your government.

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  • But someone from the US is fine?

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  • Should we exclude people from states actively fueling a genocide?

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  • One of the mainrainers had a gmail.

  • Paris SUV driver charged with murder after cyclist run over

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  • Why not banning both.

  • US to probe Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system after pedestrian killed in low visibility conditions

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  • It's the same issue, although the seeds are unlikely to harm you.

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    Spotify criticized for letting fake albums appear on real artist pages

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  • It does, thank you for the tips!

  • Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more

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  • This might be true, but I'm talking about passkeys, that never work :(

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    Spotify criticized for letting fake albums appear on real artist pages

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  • Cool, thanks for sharing! I'll check them out.

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  • No-no, I'm not asking about how you get the files, I'm asking about how you find new music (e.g. a song of an artist you don't know that is similar to the ones you listen to, or a new album of one of the bands you like).