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)

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

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

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.

They have. But he isn’t talking about the banking bit. He is talking about 2FA. Banks all over Europe have all but dropped SMSTan in favour of app based solutions. You need your banks app to authorise any transaction.

The upside for this is (other than that the communication is encryted now while SMSs are not) that you see the transaction details on your phone while authorising which prevents certain types of scam.

The problem is that this isn’t a standardised solution. Instead every bank either built its own thing or bought a white label solution from a different vendor. There is some EU legislation that would allow a motivated developer to built a banking app for your phone (and if you’re German then Saldo already exists) but that doesn’t matter because the 2FA problem means that you still need an Android or iOS device.

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It certainly doesn’t hurt. But no you don’t. Google will give you an opt out. It’s a stupid system that still gives Google too much power over the Android ecosystem, but it is there

Google is rolling out their new app verification scheme first in those counties and then later in the rest of the world.

The counties in question are basically beta testing the system in production for a year and then everyone else gets locked down as well

Some countries even explicitly allow you to break DRM to make a backup copy of your physical media.

To pick one country, Germany for example: There it’s called the “right to make a security copy”. Paragraph 69d (nice) of the copyright law states:

The creation of a backup copy by a person authorised to use the programme may not be prohibited by contract if it is necessary to ensure future use.

That means physical copies have, legally speaking, an endless shelf life.

Flatpak

It would help if you provided a link or something. Because I have no idea what darling is.

“They” maintain it in the same way that they “maintain” Linux Mint. Which is to say technically they operate the repository that the OS is built from. But that’s misleading as the main OS is built by the German foundation as an immutable OS. That means that the OS packages are tested by the foundation and you can’t install everything else from the repo. Additional software comes in the form of click packages, which as you might have noticed, isn’t snap. Snap support is very much in development at the moment, but only as an additional package manager. Snaps are also mostly open source. The client, the thing that runs on your hardware is free software. It’s the server that’s proprietary.

It’s not just crazy. It is itself arguably advocating for genocide

There’s also SoftMaker Office

It’s not open source and it costs money, but it’s European (German) and it has really good MS office compatibility

Sort of… It’s a different company that bought the name years ago when the old Atari went bankrupt. Technically it’s a French publisher formerly known as Infogrames.

Blizzard’s position is that the subscription is for the use of the client as well as their server. A private server allows you to play without an active subscription, thus piracy.