That’s the problem with Netflix.

You open a browser. Because Netflix app is just a webapp anyway.

Powershell. I checked and the command is like PS > [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString([System.Convert]::FromBase64String(“YmxhaGJsYWg=”))

Noone is going to actually use this. Why it can’t be just “base64 -d” like on *nix?

For whois in Windows 11 search results points to a .exe program to download manually from Microsoft site. I didn’t know they included recorder recently, my bad. FTP client I didn’t know too, still it’s a console client and no integration in Explorer.

Office365 in the menu is just a webview.

It need to talk RCS first, then it could encrypt with MLS.

Like web browser that needs to speak http and then encrypts the traffic via TLS.

Oh but average person don’t care about C compiler, torrent client, blah blah blah.

Yes, they care. When they need help with their computer, call me and I have to install 10 different programs to do basic stuff. And I can’t just type names of programs into package manager and install all at once, no no no.

Yes! Really, how do you even calculate base64 using Windows? With freakn Microsoft Edge!

Windows don’t have preinstalled git, torrent, PDF reader, stresstest, whois tool, FTP client, C compiler, screen recorder, disk imager, markdown editor, 7zip/RAR/tar opener. Most Linux distros have it out-of-the-box and with smaller footprint.

Even Office. Office suite is not preinstalled on Windows, but on Linux is! But what is preinstalled is TikTok and Netflix download shortcut.

Isn’t dMLS just MLS but adopted for multiple servers?

Nope. This is standard purely for encrypting messages, nothing to do with open APIs or formatting messages themselfs. Basically TLS but for E2EE instead of SSL.

Only if Signal developers want to swap their Signal encryption protocol for MLS. And I doubt they will for next years, as MLS is not as battle tested yet. Signal is laser focus on security for “normies”, not interoperability or free software.

Good to remind that MLS is just an end2end encryption standard, not whole messaging standard. And like TLS is useless on it’s own and needs content protocol like HTTP to combine it with.

Stil really good, since this means bridges between networks adopting MLS, like XMPP, Matrix and RCS could work with full E2EE.

Some manufacturers, like Samsung, lock up their devices more.

Sealed up phones with no way to open the case are a little harder to tinker with especially when something goes wrong.

Years ago custom ROMs was used for having more features, but stock systems matured and it’s the other way around. Now customs are mostly limited to privacy and freedom community.

And a personal opinion from me, Android is now just boring. I loved trying custom ROMs, but there is nothing more to explore with monolithic, hard to bend nature of Android. I flashed plain old LineageOS on my main device and for playing around I am about to buy a Linux Mobile phone.

Even if I don’t like my apps to contain any additional propietary binaries, I wouldn’t call this one spyware. Because of the intention, there is intention to place ads from the company that has monopoly to serve working ads on Android.

Wallabag is nice, you share a link and it archives it’s content like in reader view.

I see that initial setup require using Beeper’s desktop client.

Interpersonal communication is too important to use a closed apps, better to wait for those convinient features to arrive at free ones.

Yes, 100% propietary client.

You cannot see how the app works, cannot change how it works, cannot tell anyone how it works…

Huge deal for something as basic and important as interpersonal communication.

I’m glad for their work for the ecosystem. But when user respecting alternative is available, a propietary app should be thrown in a trash bin.

And the fact it’s clients are propietary is not making it better.

Beeper is a Matrix client that have easy bridging interface.