{"title": "How I am fighting the WhatsApp monopoly", "timestamp": 1791442838.7747362, "description": "WhatsApp, fucking WhatsApp. The app that everybody uses without thinking twice, that makes no sense being used in places that I have seen it being used. Fucking police officers share police-work-related stuff via WhatsApp groups for the entire user-data department of Meta ( and their data-brokers ) to see. This has to stop! WhatsApp has to be defeated!\r\n\r\nSo I made a bridge.", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film \"Moria's Race\" and the lead developer of it's game sequel \"Dani's Race\".\r\n\r\n[My Story](/about/who_is_blender_dumbass_)\r\n\r\nMore links to me ( view page source to see how I did those ):\r\n\r\n![internetarchive](https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22J.Y.Amihud%22) ![imdb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm15214305) ![notabug](http://notabug.org/jyamihud) ![odysee](https://odysee.com/@blenderdumbass:f) ![codeberg](https://codeberg.org/blenderdumbass/)", "invited": ["AngryAlien", "Erwinjitsu", "trueauracoral", "Cricetus", "elban", "Troler", "johny", "RowdyJoe", "adgbeveridge", "doublelion", "alkyilcycloalke", "jedi66", "WanchaiMike", "Trolli123", "ddd", "ByteBlast", "dolphinana", "Madiator2011", "Uriel_Cohen", "mk-la", "TestUser", "Mr._MotherFucker", "MorsMortium", "cptbichez", "dbbs", "Xavi", "test", "Ozoned", "Tcll", "FranzoPow"], "invited_by": "blenderdumbass", "title": "Blender Dumbass", "website": "blenderdumbass.org", "mastodon": "@blenderdumbass@mastodon.online", "username": "blenderdumbass", "activity_pub": {"pub": "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAupr+zzHFZXpPvayAbk8R\na3Yp2k+ymoI6IbfMkekWv5rTjrCBQRa1tcoy8o1cgxdFo/QYPb++s8+q4R/Xl4zV\nvSp40z1M6tI7zDQZv4BGInEqKgLpR5ahjqYVL4GVpYaw+FfQ3tc0J9Ui8/y/3HBX\nN5YzyaOpp0oxEW+tnnDHhHZSQ7G32MMWVL5DIZZKEAqxdgtw1s3sa2iAqcb3TSib\nCA1OvYQmPOicQS07/CVY+1OwKVKKV7CPNFk4SBYyCZ/CyC3Uujngl05jw9TpVR7T\n0WwVFijfMSSVFiBQmOQLFG0e4g8/XP+HvKDD8dB1PwreEAq+jrOBv6GvOgMOlGxi\nOQIDAQAB\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n", "followers": ["https://mastodon.world/users/lesmccann", "https://mstdn.social/users/gwendolenau", "https://cupoftea.social/users/magnetichuman"]}, "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/account/blenderdumbass"}, "thumbnail": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/thumbs/whatsapp_no.jpg", "license": "cc-by-sa", "views": {"amount": 4, "dates": {"2026-10-08": 3, "2026-10-09": 1}}, "recording": "", "comments": {"comments": [{"text": "> WhatsApp, fucking WhatsApp. The app that everybody uses without thinking twice, that makes no sense being used in places that I have seen it being used. Fucking police officers share police-work-related stuff via WhatsApp groups for the entire user-data department of Meta ( and their data-brokers ) to see. This has to stop! WhatsApp has to be defeated!\r\n\r\nBut 'tis encrypted by Facebook servers, so it is secure!!!", "username": "Troler", "id": 0, "timestamp": 1791445996.8788083}, {"text": "> In any case, working with WhatsApp directly didn't feel right. And the boss of the boss demanded me to take the store-phone home as if it is mine. But I'm not going to sit with an active Meta spy in my house. Are you fucking kidding me?\r\n\r\nAlso you self-host the website, so the Death (pun on Meta = \u05de\u05d9\u05ea\u05d4) could see all the network traffic? That's just plain stupid.", "username": "Troler", "id": 1, "timestamp": 1791446181.4909217}, {"text": "> Fuck asyncio!\r\n\r\nThis is why _threads (not threads) are better. The most supreme solution is to pass manual syscalls and create your own threads, but don't use fork, that will overcomplicate it.", "username": "Troler", "id": 2, "timestamp": 1791446980.9859102}, {"text": "> Happy Hacking!!!\r\n\r\nThis time, the interjection makes sense.", "username": "Troler", "id": 3, "timestamp": 1791448236.8214605}]}, "collections": [], "languages": {}, "hashtags": ["whatsapp", "matrix", "whatsapptomatrixbridge", "bridge", "freesoftware", "opensource"], "not_ai_proof": "", "warning": "", "lemmy": [""], "tab": "articles", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/how_i_am_fighting_the_whatsapp_monopoly", "likes": ["blenderdumbass"]}