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by riscy 3y ago
The Play Store takes exactly same 15%/30% commission from their developers as the App Store that everyone here is venting about. The key thing is how their payment processing discounts work. The Play Store offers a 4% discount on the c
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by riscy 3y ago
> The reason I'd characterize it this way is that changing phone platforms is nontrivial. I'm sorry, but how is it "nontrivial" to change phone platforms? Google says it's easy and all you need is a cable to get
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by riscy 3y ago
Amazon forces their users to leave the app, not Apple.
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by riscy 3y ago
Then all it takes is one person with a guessable passcode for their apartment and strangers can get in and steal packages, etc.
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by riscy 3y ago
Yeah the "OS" appears to be their backend that boils down to your login credentials + something like Selenium WebDriver + ChatGPT. The R1 device is just a thin client.
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by riscy 3y ago
I'm sorry, but we're never going to fix unhappiness. Nor eliminate addiction entirely. Making it difficult to access the most dangerous, addictive drugs is the only practical method of harm reduction for drug users. I don't s
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by riscy 3y ago
I won't stand for your right to become a meth head or fentanyl addict. Addiction is a dangerous disease and we should protect everyone from falling into that trap and harming themselves and others around them. Living in a society is by
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by riscy 3y ago
Please explain how interoperability between messaging apps is possible if two different, proprietary E2EE schemes are used atop RCS. Google's interop "solution" with the Samsung messages app is by not using encryption. Apple
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by riscy 3y ago
I'm glad it's happening. RCS finally got widespread carrier adoption (minus encryption) and it's a big improvement over SMS!
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by riscy 3y ago
> One thing that isn’t part of the [RCS standard ratified by GSMA] is the encryption standard Google is adopting. It’s building it on top of RCS right into the Android Messages client. > If you are texting with somebody who isn’t usin
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by riscy 3y ago
Google's RCS encryption extensions are proprietary and not standardized. The limitations of "green bubbles" also apply to Google's actions. Apple has at least announced that they plan to develop a standardized end-to-end
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by riscy 3y ago
I don't see Google making it easier to communicate outside of their kingdom. AFAIK Google's RCS (with their encryption extensions) is not an industry standard or available for 3rd party apps to use. Why is the expectation only on
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by riscy 3y ago
Same reason I don't use Gmail: I don't want all of my emails on a big tech company's servers. I pay for Fastmail.
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by riscy 3y ago
I just want to know what Android friend groups are doing to talk to that one iPhone user? I get that iPhones are more popular in the US but in Europe where Android is dominant they (supposedly) all use WhatsApp, which is also not the defaul
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by riscy 3y ago
It’s not just that: for email providers, they’re responsible for storing messages that their customer has received. Your server you pay to maintain holds your messages. On iMessage, all messages are stored on Apple’s servers (at least in-tr
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by riscy 3y ago
Then Android users have to download a separate iMessage app for groups involving iPhone users, since they can’t use their default Messages app either and the cycle repeats. Why can’t everyone in these situations just ask everyone to use one
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by riscy 3y ago
That’s not how email works. Your email provider maintains servers to send and receive messages on your behalf, and your email client checks in with your provider for messages. iMessage not like email.
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by riscy 3y ago
I never said the Messages app was free from spam or bad actors, only you did. SMS and iMessage spam that is handled by the Messages app are considerably less of a problem precisely because they’re less open protocols. They’re not at all com
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by riscy 3y ago
> You could make a somewhat similar argument about an email provider sending emails to iCloud email addresses No. They don't work the same way. Your email provider has to maintain a mail server to send and receive emails on your beh
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by riscy 3y ago
Probably if people traveling for the Super Bowl in early February are happy with it. Might even be why they chose Las Vegas.
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by riscy 3y ago
Even if this bizarre claim were true, that wouldn’t make them “incels”, as they voluntarily chose to use Android. Desperate men blaming everyone and everything for their own dating shortcomings is nothing new.
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by riscy 3y ago
There is a lot more money to be made if you claim to have the secret formula for superconductivity, than discovering some evidence of ancient wooden tools/structure.
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by riscy 3y ago
That's exactly what the announced RCS support for iOS provides. Just not the blue color of iMessage.
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by riscy 3y ago
I was really hoping for a video with sound. I’d love to hear a cacophony of floppy drives saving that .mp3 !
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by riscy 3y ago
After reading this blog post, that hands-on video is just straight-up lying to people. For the boxcar example, the narrator in the video says to Gemini: > Narrator: "Based on their design, which of these would go faster?" With
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by riscy 3y ago
Before, there was an Apple ID or device that could be banned for spamming. Here, there is no account required at all, just a phone number.
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by riscy 3y ago
Surprised to see so much use of FPGAs and not ASICs for cheaper mass-production of the missiles. I wonder if they went with the FPGAs for secrecy reasons (no need to hand over chip designs) or if they simply wanted the ability to patch bugs
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by riscy 3y ago
Yes, they’re assuming electricity is free.
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by riscy 3y ago
This is the Washington Post saying they spoke to sources confirming these details. I do not think they are Russian propaganda media.
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by riscy 3y ago
arithmetic is implemented as bitwise operations so i’m still confused. the lower the precision / smaller range of values you choose to represent means fewer bitwise operations are required.

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