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by Zak 2y ago
Did Samsung use a different SMS client by default? I had Nexus and Xperia devices at the time, and they defaulted to Hangouts. If Samsung didn't use it, that approach might not have had much chance of reaching critical mass.
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by Zak 2y ago
I'm sure that's in the prompt. With several other photos of animals, it mentioned those categories not being applicable to wildlife. With an image of a beverage on a railing and a landscape in the background with no visible humans
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by Zak 2y ago
End users are not the only customers for SMS. A large number of automated notifications, confirmations, and 2FA codes are sent that way, and carriers get paid for it.
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by Zak 2y ago
> The age and other details (racial characteristics, ethnicity, economic status, lifestyle) are impossible to ascertain regarding the swan . Emphasis added.
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by Zak 2y ago
I suppose none of the others, which could have leveraged their existing userbase chose to follow suit because the companies that owned them did not have a way to make money from them. WhatsApp didn't either, but startups weren't e
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by Zak 2y ago
Hangouts was the default SMS client in Android for a while, and it worked well enough as an SMS client that I never heard anybody complain about it. Much like iMessage, it could upgrade to internet-based messaging if both people in a conver
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by Zak 2y ago
Sure. Americans with close or many international contacts almost certainly use an internet-based chat/voice app with those contacts. That's not a large enough percentage than any one messaging app is a viable option for a group ch
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by Zak 2y ago
WhatsApp appears to support payments in India, and nowhere else.
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by Zak 2y ago
I found it surprising at the time that instant messaging apps that originated on PCs (ICQ, AIM, Skype, etc...) did not get widely adopted for this role despite most of the well-known ones releasing iOS and Android versions at the time.
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by Zak 2y ago
I'm reasonably confident WhatsApp never caught on in the USA because most American phone plans had unlimited SMS in the early 2010s when WhatsApp's popularity was growing elsewhere. International messaging was probably also a big
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by Zak 2y ago
Settings > Data and Storage on Android. Settings > Chats on desktop. It does have a 100mb limit though; you can't send long videos through chat.
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by Zak 2y ago
Given most messaging apps are pretty much interchangeable from a UX perspective, the main reason you would use it is that people you want to talk to are using it. If you live in the USA, that's probably not the case. If you live in Eur
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by Zak 2y ago
It's not. Whatsapp was popular in Europe before iMessage existed. The ubiquity of unlimited SMS on US phone plans in the early 2010s is probably the biggest factor.
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by Zak 2y ago
Most don't. The few who have international contacts tend to pick whatever their contact uses.
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by Zak 2y ago
Peertube has existed as web-based software for years; this post is about the addition of a mobile app. The linked project page has a search from the big "browse content" link at the top and a list of servers running Peertube, such
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by Zak 2y ago
Signal is a nonprofit; it does not have shareholders. It does, however have a mission to bring secure communication to a large audience. That means it will add features it expects will expand the audience. I don't like stories in gener
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by Zak 2y ago
I noticed last year it stopped allowing me to use location sharing if I have the permission set to ask every time. It wants the permission permanently enabled. It seems like they're trying to get people to enable extra permissions beyo
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by Zak 2y ago
For the vast majority of people, not enabling notifications in a messaging app is a mistake in the sense of something they do want to do but failed to because they're bad at technology or just distracted, not in the sense of an ill-adv
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by Zak 2y ago
Signal offers the option to scale images or not, which seems like the best option from a user perspective (maybe not from a service provider's cost perspective).
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by Zak 2y ago
I'm disappointed, but not really surprised that top American officials are having important conversations over unencrypted channels.
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by Zak 2y ago
When Microsoft first proposed attestation features in 2002 under the name Palladium, it was almost universally seen as a nightmare scenario. I don't understand why most of the tech world is OK with Apple and Google doing the same thing
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by Zak 2y ago
The cultural and legal expectations around photographing people are very different in Germany than in most English-speaking countries, and especially the USA. In Germany, taking photos of people without permission is socially unacceptable,
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by Zak 2y ago
Creating and maintaining popular open source software seems like a reasonable criterion for deciding between two otherwise-similar candidates for a software development role.
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by Zak 2y ago
I hadn't thought of that before reading this comment, and now it seems obvious.
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by Zak 2y ago
One could just as easily ask the inverse: why not use Ungoogled Chromium when it's readily available and easy to install? I can't speak for anyone else, but I favor things that are more removed from big tech.
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by Zak 2y ago
How am I supposed to break the back button, "improve" scrolling, and make links you can't open in a new tab without at least 5mb of Javascript?
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by Zak 2y ago
Developers should do at least some testing in every reasonably popular browser engine.
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by Zak 2y ago
I think I wasn't clear enough. Bluesky has a strong incentive to hide extremist content by default, but I do not claim their moderation service applies the intolerance label correctly .
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by Zak 2y ago
I think anyone who wants to make a social thing popular with a mainstream audience is strongly incentivized to ensure that newcomers don't encounter Nazi shit. I think most of us know the parable of the Nazi bar. Of course anyone who w
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by Zak 2y ago
I'm not sure I would describe that as a problem , just something people using federated networks should be aware of. It is inherent to any system that sends messages to a bunch of other peoples' computers unless it implements som

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