In the very first section, "you're", "you're" and "your". The first two used correctly and the third incorrectly.

LGTM stack?

Isn't Waze owned, operated and share infrastructure with Google Maps?

It has hard sarcasm my part: Waze is google, whatsapp is meta, and phones are uploading all your data by default

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.