No, what are you talking about?

Never really was

uMatrix has been depreceated for several years now sadly

This was posted on Mastodon today: https://epicenter.works/en/content/finally-a-no-to-overreaching-id-systems

Looks like they didn’t expect it to pass a vote, just like with chat control, and postponed it indefinitely.

They will surely bring it back for discussion in a few months/years though, just like with chat control.

EU fines take way longer then that, give it a couple years of data collection and if we’re lucky they get fined

Works great until some hikers take a photo with you in the background, that gets backed up to iCloud, then they want to show the photo to a friend, download it to their computer, open it and BOOM, Microsoft AI knows your face

As someone working with both VoIP and Fax, all I can say is that both are horrible, and expect the worst from each when putting those 2 things together.

Since my work is a large org (they still use fax officially) I mostly work with enterprise software from Cisco, Oracle, etc. so I cannot help here in detail, start learning about SIP (abd RTP if you want to handle calls too) with FreePBX. There is a Fax plugin for FreePBX: https://github.com/FreePBX/fax but I could not find any documentation so far.

The world would be great if we started developing new digital solutions to analog problems instead of forcing the digital replacement to mimic its analog original

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I recently bought a Pixel 8 for 500€, they got cheaper since the Pixel 9 was just released. If you want to save some money you could probably just buy a Pixel 7a which will get updates until May 2028 (vs October 2030 for the Pixel 8). Supposedly the 7 has better battery life than the 8, but in the end it comes down to how long you want to use it.