Q: Whatever happened to our promised Signal - WhatsApp compatibility?
https://lemmy.world/post/44302406
Q: Whatever happened to our promised Signal - WhatsApp compatibility? - Lemmy.World
The news first came in 2024
[https://www.techspot.com/news/102165-whatsapp-messenger-become-interoperable-third-party-chat-apps.html],
but it’s been very quiet since. I’ve been waiting this whole time to jettison
WhatsApp from my phone. Is it available only in some parts of the world? If so
can I spoof it? We know that adversarial interoperability
[https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability] works, so
why have we not been able to make this work? All else failing, are there any
unofficial WhatsApp clients I can use to preserve my privacy?
Q: Whatever Happened to our promised Signal - WhatsApp compatibility?
https://lemmy.world/post/44302194
A good explanation of the religious extremism of Pete Hegseth and the GOP
https://lemmy.world/post/44157465
A good explanation of the religious extremism of Pete Hegseth and the GOP - Lemmy.World
Sorry for the YouTube link, I realise Lemmy doesn’t like that format much. This
is a video trying to explain the bathshit crazy views of Pete Hegseth, the GOP
and the rest of its Christian Nationalist followers. Not to excuse them, but to
help understand what they will do next and what their goals are. As to many of
us, myself included, it sometimes seems like random chaos.
NHS bans trans healthcare for 16-17 year-olds
https://lemmy.world/post/44045539
NHS bans trans healthcare for 16-17 year-olds - Lemmy.World
This is a follow-up to banning puberty blockers for children under 16 in 2023,
pausing or cancelling all trials recently, and the banning of trans people from
gendered bathrooms this year. It’s a progressive attack on trans rights, where
evidence of the safety and benefits of trans healthcare is ignored and decisions
is taken out of the hands of trans people, trans children and their parents.
They’re treated as people unable to make decisions for themselves. A tactic
often used against women, disabled people and black people historically. In this
particular case, it’s still breaking news but I’ve heard the way they fit the
data to their desired result was to make the filters on what was to be accepted
as evidence extremely narrow. Things like “all subjects in the study must have
never taken puberty blockers, but must be on hormones”. When they find that no
study exactly matches their criteria, they throw up their hands and say “we just
don’t know if it’s safe” and ban all healthcare. It doesn’t matter how many
experts criticise these choices and peer-review the reports. We’ve been shown by
the Cass Review (still referenced in these decisions, despite its provably
terrible quality) that all evidence outside the transphobic agenda will be
ignored and every possible side-effect of treatment will be used as
justification to eradicate trans people.
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
https://lemmy.world/post/43862202
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow - Lemmy.World
I came across this article because of a rabbit hole I fell down where: - I was
looking for an ebook reader. - The ebook reader came with a free ebook from Cory
Doctorow. - The premise of his book sounded interesting so I looked him up. -
Found out he was anti-copyright and pro free books. - Was curious about his
views on AI + copyright. - Found this article on the AI bubble and found it
interesting.
Refugee status becomes temporary in asylum shake-up
https://lemmy.world/post/43813574
UK: Refugee status becomes temporary in asylum shake-up - Lemmy.World
More pointlessly cruel policy changes from the UK’s Labour government. This
won’t even be taken to a parliamentary vote because the party knows it wouldn’t
pass.
This Billionaire Landlord Bullied Journalists Into Deleting Negative Coverage of Him
https://lemmy.world/post/41839871
This Billionaire Landlord Bullied Journalists Into Deleting Negative Coverage of Him - Lemmy.World
Let’s make sure the Streisand Effect goes into full-swing here. Personal Note:
Landlords, especially those owning more than two houses, are a cancer on society
and their existence should be banned.
I wonder who the mystery man might be in the Epstein Files
https://lemmy.world/post/41339480
Nationwide Trans Youth Care Ban Incoming As Trump Admin Announces "Nuclear Option" Federal Rule
https://lemmy.world/post/40500288
Nationwide Trans Youth Care Ban Incoming As Trump Admin Announces "Nuclear Option" Federal Rule - Lemmy.World
> Rather than directly banning Medicaid reimbursement for transgender care, the
rule would bar any hospital that accepts Medicaid funding from providing
gender-affirming care for trans youth at all, regardless of whether that care is
paid for by Medicaid. > The new rule contains no exceptions for patients already
receiving care… For many, this would amount to forced medical detransition. >
This rule appears to violate multiple U.S. statutes and constitutional limits on
federal authority. > The government attempts to get around this by stating that
gender affirming care is not part of “the practice of medicine.”
How a Palestine Action hunger striker was denied an ambulance for hours
https://lemmy.world/post/40207658
How a Palestine Action hunger striker was denied an ambulance for hours - Lemmy.World
A harrowing story of the kind of treatment Palestine Action hunger strikers
experience in UK prisons. > “Can you ring an ambulance? I’m scared”. They hung
up on her. > [hours later] the nurse returned and informed her that “you don’t
decide if you go to hospital, I do”.
