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You can communicate via SMS with users of WhatsApp too genius. Do you think it's encrypted in any way?

The silly names for "work apps" has been a meme since at least 2022. https://x.com/gossipbabies/status/1487161069143576576

Because a pun on "What's Up?" and "App" is so professional? Maybe I'm old but I remember a time when I though WhatsApp was an extremely silly name for a SMS replacement.

By following the same protocol... This has been done for ages. PGP and GPG for example.

Wrong, wrong and wrong. If an app does real E2EE (not "marketing E2EE"), then the servers should have no control over the encryption. Otherwise it's not end-to-end, by definition. …

Call it what you want but the fact remains that they can write a lot of laws the member countries must follow, for better or worse. GDPR, Chat Control, etc.

Sorry to be "that guy", because I don't know the details of how WhatsApp does E2EE, but in any proper (as in secure and private) implementation the only thing that should matter is…

What's wrong with the name? Some cultural reference I'm not getting?

Actually, the linked university page [1] does claim that the "cash rent equivalent" is $274 per acre. Surprising, but I suppose farmland isn't that expensive. But unfortunately the…

I don't know anything about farming, but the budget seems extremely dubious. 1370 on the lease, 350 on "IoT sensors" and "soil testing" (why?), but only 800 on "Custom Operator", w…

I mean, it hasn't even "decided" whether it's going for "Iowa, Texas or Cordoba, Argentina". Just look at the files in the repo, it's looking an awful lot like those AI transcripts…

Remember the website is entirely AI-built; it's not surprising it's promising a bunch of stuff it's not actually delivering.

I mean, it's probably worse to pretend to be an actual customer, rather than sending some random message. The AI's obviously never going to actually lease any land, so all its doin…

I mean, nobody needs LLMs to program. Being banned may be a blessing in disguise, like being cut off at a bar, or banned from a casino.

> How is thinking different from electricity? ...

Well yes, but that accomplishes the goal of not working for free. Either you get money for your work, or your users move on, freeing you of the burden of supporting the software.

> That 20ms is a smoking gun - it lines up perfectly with the mysterious pattern we saw earlier! Speaking of smoking guns, anybody else reckon Claude overuses that term a lot? Seem…

> This is software support, it is a job, it should be paid. What's stopping any open source maintainer from charging for their work?

It's a neat program, but what's the use for JPGs and PNGs?

It's a cool publicity stunt for Anna's, and perhaps the hackers responsible for getting the data simply wanted to show it off and leave Spotify with some egg on their face. I know …

> They're claiming that the archive would have released all the material publicly if they were allowed to know an injunction was about to be filed against them. I mean, the archive…

> think is related to some undetermined future nebulously bad thing for their business The thing in question being "we copied all your data and are now gonna release it for free". …

Yeah I'm not saying my friends who cancelled are going to torrent music like it's the 2000's, but when so much music is freely available on the web, why pay? For me it was mainly t…

Since they don't "own" the data they lost, only "rent" it, they probably have to be seen doing something about it, lest they face the wrath of record companies.

Many people are cancelling Spotify among my friends, even very "non-technical" folks. For me I've just gone back to radio or Youtube:ing a few songs for free here and there. Paying…