Matrix

Qubes OS?

No, poor man's Qubes with manually assembled VMs. I keep meaning to take the plunge, but have been too lazy to rebuild my system.

Install a Matrix client and run a WhatsApp bridge and you can.

Is it trivial? No.

Is it possible? Yes, I do it.

In a roundabout way, you can.

Today, I could write a Python script to connect to my Matrix Synapse server and send a message to rooms bridged to WhatsApp via the `mautrix-whatsapp` bridge.

Despite the opt in limitation, I wonder if this interop capability will allow a bridge that doesn't require you to install whatsapp apk on a real device (unfortunately signal has the same problem). I fortunately kept an old android whose sole purpose is to keep these 2 apps installed. Not ideal, but works well.

Even better if we could ditch the phone number requirement. Many have said to me things like "I use whatsapp not SMS because I am not American", but of course everyone on WhatsApp uses SMS. To stay logged into WhatsApp you necessessarily must have an SMS enabled non-VOIP phone number that you are regularly paying a telecom provider for to receive auth codes.

Encrypted metadata is in the works.

This is an S4, though.

Belay that. The G-value was high too.

This was an S4 event, however.

Belay that. The G-value was high too.

Then they'll just set up a proxy on their home domain.

Not clothing

I have family in the US but there's no way I'm visiting them for the foreseeable future.

The US is quickly sliding into the thing they claim to despise: a dictatorship with a populace cowering for their safety and lacking general human rights.

Good luck, America.