Yeah, they must work then.

If it’s those pay-per-ride city bikes, then you bet your ass they are tracked.

Oh my bad. English is not my first language, so I thought it was 100 years and not 1000 years.

It’s no surprise that European cars are the best and have been for centuries.

It also makes sense they have the capital to make the best EVs and software, but they are also expensive.

Chinese cars are cheap, but they are probably worth it if you do the pros and cons.

It’s about the software. If the software is American, like iOS or Android, all your data goes to the US government.

Read the US Cloud Act. They literally have access to everything and they dont hide it.

“I love how libs”

And there we have tribalism. You no better mate.

Ofc it’s a net positive. This guy has a hard on for what-about-ism.

You and I cant sign trading deals, but we can stop buying US products. Wtf are we supposed to do more?

Seems like China knows what AI needs to do to get economic growth, while the US develops stronger population controlling AI like Palantir and LLMs, which also can be tuned for controlling.

This article is just idiotic. You are right - the US is working very fast towards controlling the population.

ICE and Palantir???

The core issue stems from the US CLOUD Act of 2018, which allows American authorities to access data held by US companies regardless of location

Tell me how the US is not what they blame China to be.

Lol, it’s like this with everything.

USA is tracking every single movement in your house, and throws a fit when China collects some meta data.

They just act like the survelliance is bad by blaming a foregin state, then doing something way worse.

(it won’t be, it’s an EU law, so will be the same in all EU countries)

This is not true btw. It’s not a mandatory law, and if you read the news about this the last 3 weeks, you would know that.

EU laws are not automatically mandatory. That’s not how it works at all.

https://developers.facebook.com/messaging-interoperability

Again, I dont think you can access it unless you follow the rules.

I guess it’s not true public, but you can if you meet the requirements.

It’s not, but they made a WhatsApp API for the DMA. There’s a Matrix bridge to WhatsApp.

Signal wont do it because they cant use their own protocol. You still have to use WhatsApps, which makes it flawed.

I also hope for good clients, but maybe the rules will change further before there’s any real use case for it. Maybe it’s too expensive compared to making your own?

apperently meta gets to pick it, and it is not a public api.

No they dont, and it’s a public modified Matrix-protocol. Why would you lie about that?

The problem is that WhatsApp can demand third parties to meet very high standards, making it impossible for independent actors to gain access to this.

You need a pretty well run machinery to live up to the standard, but if they do, WhatApps can legally not deny access.

If they do, it’s in violation of the DMA, which gives you a 10% of all global income in fees.

These has been used against Meta and Google before, and there’s no reason to believe they wont do it again. They actually live up to it.

Obligatory Welcome to Linux comment

Money throws logic out the window 10/10 times cant recommend.

They do it because there are so few alternatives out there, that the difference between them are greater than the average customer would want.

Break them up. If you are too big to fail, you are too big to exist.

If only there was a way to fund open source projects so we both could have better software for the world and paid employees…

I think you can guess which government body already do this. Just take a shot.