danhakimi

Android has an easy remote backup system built in. You can save a file to any location, including cloud locations, as long as the cloud service provider plugs into the API. Signal actively disables this feature because they would rather spite users than risk even the shadow of a chance that a user upload an encrytped backup to an internet service that could theoretically then be hacked and hypothetically maybe one day decrypted.

Matrix doesn’t have this issue, it just stores encrypted messages on servers.

in other words: the default messaging protocol is imessage, unless that’s impossible, in which case it falls back to sms.

Apple’s biggest crimes here are creating a proprietary platform with an exclusive protocol and making it the default messaging protocol on their devices. None of this is really new, though. All that shit is common. We need Signal or Matrix to improve in user-friendliness and even do some marketing to the point where they become viable solutions.

So… Updates to Google messages, updates to WearOS, an update to AndroidTV, a few updates to Google proprietary apps, and one or two updates to the actual Android operating system.

there’s an “RCS Test App” in AOSP that nobody has managed to transform into a practical piece of software…

You’re trying to “correct” the correct usage of vernacular English because you feel like reinventing the language to suit your personal idea of what it should be. English is bigger than you. The phrase “private messaging” has meaning, and it’s not up to you to decide what that meaning is.

nobody thinks discord is e2ee. “private messages” usually means the same thing as “direct messages” – messages between a defined set of people as opposed to an open group. You know and understand this term, you’re just being a dick because you think that’s an effective way to convince people to stop using proprietary software without basic features like e2ee. You’re wrong.

but they weren’t offering money for platform exclusivity, they were offering money for store exclusivity on the platform

Except Google is framing the Apple App store as an alternative to the Google Play store, which… doesn’t really make sense… Especially in this context, they weren’t offering money to release fortnite on the Play store over the App store, they were offering money to release on the play store instead of as a standalone or in a competing store.

it would be weird if you didn’t.

what horse shit. He knows nobody in Ashkelon is following Hamas, he just loves the way extremists (and scammers) go on IG and Twitter and every other platform spamming “Join my telegram channel, install the app now!”

I don’t understand how people can be okay with Telegram openly supporting the al-Qasam Brigades.

Fun fact, Element / Matrix have had this covered for ages.

alright, well that seems to be working for now, thanks.

now to figure out how tf RSAF works…

Something about Obtainium sketches me out, is it really safe?

I installed it and got a note that it’s not compatible with the latest version of android… is it?

or f-droid… I’d love something like this, but I ain’t compiling shit from source for android, not nearly worth the hassle

I have a pixel 6. In addition to the occasional missed swipes in general, which are annoying and count for something compared to the 100% instant unlock rate I had with my rear scanner, I feel like if I’m not careful about the exact angle at which I tap my thumb, or the exact position where I center my thumb, it registers wrong. When I hold my phone naturally, my thumb is positioned wrong, it comes in a little too sideways to register. So after I get it wrong a couple of times, I need to carefully hold my phone in an awkward position or bend my thumb in a weird way to make sure I hit the exact right spot at the exact right angle. And then sometimes it’s still wrong, so I try to change the position and use a different finger. And with all that effort, I’ve still gotten locked out of my phone a couple of times.

None of that shit with the rear scanner, it just works, my phone is always unlocked before I see it.

the technology my device uses to communicate with services, including self-hosted services, is known as the internet. local area networks only work in the local area, which frustrates the purpose of a mobile phone—being mobile, and all.

both the server and the client must be connected to the internet to communicate with one another across significant distances.

you’re right, this is a textbook problem.

Why would I bother? Why would I want GPT-4 to attempt to explain a joke to me? I’m an adult.

If you care, if you think that’s a feature, you can go ahead and ask it to try to explain this, it’s a very simple joke, it wouldn’t be hard for a human without a sense of humor to explain, so certainly a half-cocked algorithm should be able to manage. But don’t bother telling me what happens, I couldn’t care less.

Many people tend to use their phones even when they’re not at home.