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by rezonant 3y ago
So only people with role models close to them or in a place where inspiring things are happening should be inspired? Before YouTube and the Internet in general, only affluent people had these things, and we left behind a huge portion of the
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by rezonant 3y ago
You're free to not eat the chocolate, but are you suggesting that it's the chocolate's fault for existing, and that chocolate should go away so you aren't tempted? I'd assert that a lot of content on YouTube is not
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by rezonant 3y ago
Exactly right. I think we are incredibly far from that breaking point, and what Google is doing is chasing growth for their shareholders more than anything else, especially at the end of the free money era. The platform itself may be replac
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by rezonant 3y ago
Thanks for this- perhaps it's all too easy for both sides of the pond to look across and generalize that the other's problems aren't happening in their backyard. Because what you describe sounds quite complicated. Wouldn&#x27
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by rezonant 3y ago
iMessage is just the iOS texting app. When someone says "I'm having trouble getting Stranger Things to play on Netflix" you don't tell them "You should switch to Hulu". Netflix (iMessage / texting apps) ha
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by rezonant 3y ago
Just like how all we needed to do to replace Facebook in its heyday was to make a better Facebook! Remember Diaspora? Any day now its going to dethrone the king and I'll be able to see all my friends updates on Diaspora! The social gra
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by rezonant 3y ago
> and the overall quality (in terms of content value, not production value) would also probably be higher This is pretty questionable. Quality takes time. If you need an income to pay your rent, 40 hours or more of your work week are tak
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by rezonant 3y ago
> Nitpick, but I can text from my Mac laptop using the messages app. I haven't looked into exactly how exactly it works but I think it's somehow proxying/mirroring the messages through my iPhone. It's very smooth and
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by rezonant 3y ago
> I can leave my phone away in my pocket all day and still message anyone I please. I would hate it any other way. Why don't people in the US want that? I have that already via Google Messages, and iMessage already has that as well.
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by rezonant 3y ago
On Android there is no such thing as a default messaging app. There is such a thing as a default SMS app, but my point is that messaging and texting represent two different things (texting is a subset of messaging) which has an extremely ma
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by rezonant 3y ago
The confusion is that there is only one texting app on iPhone. Chat apps are done "over the top" and can be whatever you want. You or I can make one. There is only one texting app on iOS and most users in the US only use their p
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by rezonant 3y ago
Oh, so there's no builtin message filtering at all?? This explains some things. Why wouldn't they just add a spam filter. Is there still iCloud email addresses? Do they have spam filtering?
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by rezonant 3y ago
Texting is a feature of a phone. You cannot, without elaborate workarounds, text from a consumer computer, tablet or other device as if it was a phone. Texting requires a phone number and a phone plan. I understand that the distinction migh
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by rezonant 3y ago
If you think about it, it's actually not even a technological requirement. It's plenty possible to use an Android system service which maintains a connection for Beeper Mini persistently from the phone. After all that's what
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by rezonant 3y ago
Personally for me it's people who buy Frigidaire appliances. They are the worst!
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by rezonant 3y ago
Reddit and other social media platforms are at least an order of magnitude larger than HN. That's a good thing honestly.
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by rezonant 3y ago
The tools should exist and Google shouldn't fight them. But at least for me, I'm usually trying to remind people that the ad money is a large part of how the content creator survives too. If you block the ads, then please consider
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by rezonant 3y ago
Yes. I believe people are just saying that they assume unknown-contact SMS is spam and that sort of sounds like Apple's SMS spam filtering isn't very good.
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by rezonant 3y ago
This isn't a useful comment, you're just assuming your experience is valid and others who disagree aren't, and using it to sling accusations of dishonesty. If spam is really the problem Apple is worried about, then isn't
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by rezonant 3y ago
See my sibling comment for an explanation.
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by rezonant 3y ago
Only required when Mini isn't running.
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by rezonant 3y ago
The How It Works article is clear that BPNs is only used to serve push to your phone when the app isn't running. Disabling it would not cause send/receive failures.
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by rezonant 3y ago
In that very article they mention you can turn BPNs off, it is just used to listen to APNs when the app is not running. If that's what they blocked, Beeper Mini would still work while the app is running, or at least when that setting i
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by rezonant 3y ago
Only BPNs used Beeper hosted services, and this is an optional component of the app (which enables push notifications when Mini is not running). Otherwise the IP Apple sees is those of the individual handsets on whatever network they are on
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by rezonant 3y ago
The GP is using a euphemism popular in the US. Indeed, the sent messages are colored not the received ones, but the euphemism labels the cause of the color, not the person receiving the text. If you are not from the US I'm sure this is
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by rezonant 3y ago
I think you might be mistaking what monopoly/duopoly is being mentioned here. Those companies aren't phone manufacturers and they don't make phone texting apps. The distinction might not matter to you, but it's clearly t
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by rezonant 3y ago
> Signal, Telegram and others make you validate your cell phone number For what it's worth Beeper Mini did support using Apple's iMessage registration system to use your phone number.
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by rezonant 3y ago
Agreed with all of this. I'm happy to see others who care about these issues- all too often on HN that's not the case :-\
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by rezonant 3y ago
> This seems to be a great stop-gap with parsers for a LOT of different commands, but it relies on parsing text output that's not necessarily designed to be parsed True, and yet it's extremely common to parse output in bash scr
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by rezonant 3y ago
I agree that it's better than using multiple applications, but today I just use one (for personal conversations at least, Slack for business and Discord for communities is a bit different), which is texting.

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