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App.

The website, https://vanillaos.org(/index.html) is empty page.

First aid pack in their car.

You can do it as a some form of a protest or just not wanting to get used to Google.

Google still would have higher privilages on the phone than you. Remember to disable location scanning in location's settings.

Lemmy is free software licenced under AGPL and that's what matters.

I wouldn't use proprietary app myself, but this is individual choice and those apps won't hurt the ecosystem because they can't break the server's code.

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.

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.

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 Xiaomi phones have this: